“I thought we were going to die every time we hit the road. There were a lot of short fuses in the band”: The rise, fall and resurrection of Armored Saint, the cult metal band who should have been as big as Metallica

Armored Saint posing for a photograph in the mid-80s.

Peers of Metallica who never quite scaled the same heights as James Hetfield and co, LA’s Armored Saint were one of the great cult bands of the 1980s. In 2017, Metal Hammer sat down with frontman John Bush to hear tales of triumph, tragedy and thwarted ambition.