Raging Fire reunites for new album

In 1986, Nashville rockers Raging Fire (Michael Godsey, Melora Zaner, Mark Medley and Les Shields) released their first LP, "Faith Love Was Made Of." This spring, they're releasing their second.

"These Teeth Are Sharp" is due out May 12. On Record Store Day (Apr. 22) the band will perform the new album in its entirety at Grimey's (1604 8th Ave. S). Listen to the title track below: 

Three decades ago, Raging Fire earned comparisons to punk bands X and The Gun Club and were named one of America's best unsigned bands in a "College Music Journal" poll before breaking up in 1989.

Godsey and Medley had begun discussing ideas for a reunion in 2012, but those plans were put on hold after Godsey unexpectedly passed away in 2012.

In his honor, the band released the retrospective compilation "Everything is Roses" in 2015.  They celebrated the record with an Exit/In show that featured a supersized lineup of former band members and friends from Nashville's '80s rock scene.

“At first, getting on stage and doing a reunion was something that I wasn’t sure I could do,” Zaner said. “It was incredibly emotional for all of us. But when we walked off the stage, Mark and I both said, ‘We’re not done.’ We were always about the art of the song and the stories underneath. There were more stories to tell and some stories to fix.”

The new lineup from the Exit/In show assembled at County Q studios in Berry Hill and began cutting songs with engineer/producer Mike Purcell.

The title track dates back to the band's early days, when they were still known as Ring of Fire.

"This 1984 song was one of the band’s first and would have been lost except for an old cassette demo that surfaced last year," Medley explained. "We knew we had to cut it and were knocked out by the results....A true story of love, heartache, revenge and redemption that only took 33 years to get right."