Black vinyl including lyric sheet and photo card. Speed metal evolved out of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal movement. There is not a shadow of a doubt about that. So if the question comes to the first speed metal song in history, there could only be two contenders. Either it's Raven's furious 'Faster Than The Speed Of Light' from their second landmark album 'Wiped Out' (issued in 1982 on Neat Records) or it's 'Axe Crazy' by Bristol's most famous sons Jaguar (released as a 7" single also by Neat Records the same year). Jaguar released their first single 'Back Street Woman' in 1981 via Heavy Metal Records. But before that they had already recorded a highly praised demo cassette.