Here they are at the beginning of their career. Baby Balsac! I love how they haven’t changed AT ALL in the past 25 years – no Pantera-style we’re-glam-no-whoops-we’re-badass image whiplashing here – just adding more and more and MORE to the original stage show. They’re like 45 now, major major props for sticking this long with an idea they had when they were teenagers. And I don’t know who that is on the right (Beefcake the Mighty, with really tiny gladiator spikes?) but in terms of feral shirtlessness, Taylor Lautner, eat your heart out.

And this clip claims to be their first TV appearance, a news crew happened to run across them while they were shooting a video. In the snow. The quality is not great, but it’s wonderful to behold six or seven friends who are all passionately committed to the same delightfully ridiculous heavy metal vision. As well as their burgeoning media savvy, long before they refined themselves for the talk show circuit.