The cassette’s cover is a dream for the crate-digging exoticist. A bearded man in glasses stands at the center of the frame, wearing the black eksorasson and kamilavka of the Greek Orthodox church. He angles a matching obsidian seven-string guitar skyward, the Greek Orthodox cross painted in gold just beneath the bridge. The letters around it abbreviate a mighty message, “Jesus Christ Conquers.” Only his beard breaks the blackness, the white cascading down his vestments. He looks like a hesher but also, of course, a priest, a binary complicated by the rectangle of 36 red roses that surround him, all set against a backdrop of cloud-dappled sky. The title, typed in black across the bottom, summarizes this tension between heaven and hell, earth and ascension: Paradise Metal . It is a record that, if you see, you sample, plucking it from dollar-bin obscurity for at least a chuckle, maybe an epiphany.…