“Fake Healer” by Metal Church

"Fake Healer" rides on Blessing in Disguise, Metal Church's third studio album, released on February 7, 1989, and their last for Elektra. It was a changing-of-the-guard record: David Wayne had gone off to form Reverend, so new singer Mike Howe, who came over from Heretic, takes the lead, and John Marshall joins Craig Wells on guitar, with Duke Erickson on bass and Kirk Arrington on drums.

The writing credits tell the rest. Kurdt Vanderhoof, the guitarist Marshall replaced, was no longer officially in the band but still wrote most of the album, and here he wrote the words and shares the music with Wells. Terry Date, who had produced their 1984 debut, produced, engineered and mixed it, with Joe Alexander also on the mix, in what turned out to be his second and last job with them.

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