Were it not for the fortuitous clueless-ness of Tipper Gore and her fellow, misinformed "Washington Wives" in the Parents Music Resource Center, who placed them on their notorious "offensive albums" list alongside , , and , St. Paul, MN's Impaler would likely be a long forgotten footnote in the back pages of '80s heavy metal. Instead, the until then relatively obscure speed punk-metal ensemble led by vocalist and disciple Bill Lindsey saw their self-financed 1985 EP, Rise of the Mutants, and its 1986 full-length follow-up, If We Had Brains...We'd Be Dangerous, lifted out of their underground indie metal obscurity and blamed for widespread corruption of the nation's youth -- talk about a dream come true!