Can I tempt/challenge somebody to listen to some Belgian trash metal. Channel Zero in their latter years are a fairly mainstream metal band (well: not completely) but this first album of 1992 is pure trash metal:
They are in no way original, the riffing comes right out of the riff book of Metallica, but it all sounds great and there's not a weaker track here.
This is great! Reminds me of a cross between Spreading The Disease era Anthrax (drumming, vocals, riffs) & Master Of Puppets era Metallica (riffs). There's also hints of groove here way before Metallica would attempt that style on Load.
Since we're promoting local scenes, I thought I'd share this link. There's a bit of history if you're interested (very brief), and a lot of great ex-Yugoslavian bands. I think Evil Blood are an essential listen.
I would love to listen to this if u can hook a brother up. ๐
I couldn't find anything online but their early stuff sounds like something I should be checking out!
Here's their demo from 1988, which contains songs written from 82' to 88'. The track listing is incorrect though. There's another demo from 82' which featured 2 covers (Motorhead and Venom) and one original song, but it's not online. The best material is on The Best of Djinn / Evil Blood -83'-86' which is also not online.
I find that band pretty extraordinary, since the local scene in Croatia (and Yugoslavia) was naturally always behind the times. But Evil Blood played speed/thrash proto black as early as 1982. Mostly thrash music and black metal imagery and lyrics. That means they were one of the first thrash bands, as well as one of the first proto black bands. Just to put that in perspective, Metallica recorded Hit the Lights in 1981, Mercyful Fate had some demos in 1981 and Slayer played covers until the late 1982. Imagine being mentioned in the same sentence as those guys.
They have a pretty rough sound and a bit lousy production, but it's very much listenable. Some very solid songwriting too.
Another interesting thing is that their original bassist was Siniลกa Vuco, who later became one of the most controversial and infamous (and also successful) turbofolk singers in Croatia during the 90s. Pretty much everyone in the country knows who he is, but no one knows the band where he started. If you don't know what turbofolk is, please don't bother googling, it's not worth your time. _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
Judas Priest owned 1978 with Stained Glass and Killing Machine.
Motorhead owned 1979 with Overkill and Bomber.
And Saxon unequivocally owned 1980.
Wheels Of Steel and Strong Arm Of The Law are probably the best albums to define NWOBHM, and every serious metal collection needs them. They're perfect. You honestly cannot get a better representation of heavy metal in 1980 (besides maybe Maiden's s/t. But that's debatable.)
But the rot, cheese rot to be precise, set in quickly with Saxon beginning even with the highly respected, but honestly merely adequate and rather staid Denim & Leather. Just listen to tracks like "Rough & Ready," and "Play It Loud" (which sounds like generic AC/DC without the balls!) to reveal a band that was riding on fumes at this point in their bid to crack the States. And then in 1983 we got the mixed bag & frustratingly imperfect Power & The Glory. So frustrating! Because Power & The Glory starts off with a bang with three killer pulse quickening numbers in the title track, "Redline" & "Warrior" before slipping & stalling in the most generic & downright laughable "This Town Rocks. " And then with Crusader in 1984, which again has a killer title track, Saxon's "Sail To America" officially sinks.
tldr: There are TWO albums by Saxon that I feel are ESSENTIAL for the metal canon. AND they both came during 1980 when Saxon were easily one of the top and most influential metal bands on the planet ...
THE TWO U NEED
1. Wheels Of Steel (1980)
2. Strong Arm Of The Law (1980)
But, for one year, they were the biggest, most important band in metal. And to see what all the fuss & promise was all about, you need to check out....
I know you're not to this point in metal yet, but I wanted to tell you about this album, because I just found it again today while I was going through my music stuff.
Believe it or not, I found this at an antique store in my small college town of Pittsburg, Kansas. I knew it had to be something good, so I picked it up on cassette, and it's a real doozy of a crossover thrash album. Messy and amateur in the best ways.
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It's the best album the band has to offer. It's a slow-moving hour of darkness made of the most diaturbingly beautiful doom and gothic combination one could ask for.
We've all heard the story. How punk injected new life into staid hard rock in the late 70s giving birth to NWOBHM which gave birth to thrash which in turn gave birth to a gazillion metal subgenres that no-one can even keep track of. You know. That story.
But, it's still pretty easy to tell a NWOBHM album from an early 80s punk album, right? Turns out not so easy! (although still pretty easy! lol. Gotta have something to write about, guys!) Anyways, Holocaust were such a band. Reminding me at times of High Time- era MC5, Orange County surf punk legends Agent Orange, and Portlandia Gawds The Wipers (especially the production and the vocals).
BUT, the album it is most genetically linked to is Ace Frehley's solo Kiss album from 1978. Those in the know, realize that that is not a diss, but insanely high praise. In fact, if you want a tell tale sign of a kickass punk club, just check it's jukebox for a copy. It should be right there next to The Stooges. It's a highly esteemed cult classic, and probably my second favorite Kiss album (after their debut of course).
In fact, due to its intelligence, flat out fun and lo-fi punk feel, this may be my favorite album of the entire NWOBHM movement excluding Maiden's two albums with Di'anno!
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