BREAKING THE CHAINS.

Feast your eyes at the exceedingly rare, never-before-seen, highly coveted album cover from Uncle TNUC’s heavy metal record that never came to be. (Yes, that’s him chained and greased on the cover). Back in 1985, the band was poised to release our self-titled album after 10 agonizing years of cutting our teeth on the mean streets of Canoga Park, California. Young, hungry and coked up, we were voted best band to come out of Canoga Park from ’84 – ’85. The band signed a lucrative record contract with one of those corporate pig music business executives. A fat cat with a cheap suit and greasy ponytail who promised us the world.

The world was ours. Right up until the rest of the band found out Uncle T was hustling money on the side after not showing up to recording sessions. At this infant stage in their career, before even releasing their first album, Uncle T was stricken with a ruthless Quaalude addiction. His decent into ‘ludes began after attending too many backyard Longbutt parties in Southern California during the summer of ’85. This lead to him starting a side hustle of modeling for album artwork to support the addiction. With a few gallons of body oil a trunkful of chains in the back of his Pontiac Fiero, he spent most of his time driving around (half-awake) to different studios and posing for band’s album covers for a cheap rate. *See some of the albums he was involved with below*.

Don’t act like you’re not impressed. Also don’t ask us to explain why the “chains” theme was so wildly used during those days. Many will tell you that Uncle T was hanging around with Tim Cappello, the oily-chained warrior from The Lost Boys at the time. If that’s true, it would explain a lot of things.

*UPDATE* Minutes after revealing the lost album artwork, we were approached by a German fan who told us the album had been stolen and released over three decades ago by a band called “Black Tears”.

Appalled and feeling violated, Uncle T is immediately contacting his team of attorneys to take action. But for now, we urge you to listen to these 10 tracks and tell us what you think.