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Has anyone around here heard much Budgie or Diamond Head?

I've never gotten around to hearing either band, but have been curious about them on and off for years. I know them from the covers that Metallica did in their early days like "Breadfan" and "Crash Course in Brain Surgery" by Budgie and "Am I Evil" by Diamond Head.

What albums are worth hearing, if worth hearing?

If there are other good records by similar groups, feel free to drop a few words about them.

― earlnash, Thursday, 24 July 2003 21:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

Both bands rule

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

I was just listening to Squawk yesterday! I was in a rocking mood; great record. I threw on May Blitz' 2nd of May as well, another fine record. I'd say the first five Budgie albums (s/t, Squawk, Never Turn Your Back on a Friend, In For the Kill, Bandolier) are all worthwhile.

POX: Budgie

Heavy Riffage - s/d

(darnit, I just realized I've been owing a reply to that latter thread)

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 25 July 2003 00:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

budgie were amazing (although the releases post '78 when they jumped on the nwobhm bandwagon aren't up to scratch). if yr on a tight budg(i)et, get 'best of budgie'.

other records in that vein from the nwobhm era you might like are the various artists comps 'metal for muthas vol. 1' and to a lesser degree, vol. 2, anything by the tygers of pan tang, holocaust, sledgehammer and witchfynde.

― stirmonster, Friday, 25 July 2003 01:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

Diamond Head - "Behold the Beginning" compiles their amazing first album plus a single

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 25 July 2003 02:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

This two bands rule, but I basically know them more from the artists who covered them, like Metallica and Soundgarden, who covered Budgie's "Homicidal Suicidal". Budgie is sort of a la doom metal-Sabbath and Diamond Head is more of NWOBHM, also not exactly. God Budgie songs are, as mentioned, Homicidal Suicidal and In for the Kill.

― Cacaman Flores (Siñor N.K. Loveless), Friday, 25 July 2003 02:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

i've been listening to budgie constantly lately - the quality declines slightly starting with "in for the kill" but it isn't bad by any stretch of the imagination. the most common comparison i see for budgie is early rush and early sabbath, though i don't know if i agree with that.

and coincidentally i broke out "behold the beginning" by diamond head last night, which is pretty great - must look into more NWOBHM when i have a full wallet and some time to research.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Friday, 25 July 2003 02:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

Well the early Rush comparison actually works because they were both power trios, and Geddy sounds quite a bit like Burke. And early Sabbath = early Budgie as both groups were produced by Rodger Bain, so the records have a similarly sludgy sonic patina.

Actually, in listening to that Squawk last night, one thing that struck me was that - on that record, anyway - they really weren't as rhythmically lithe as I'd remembered. The structures are rhythmically creative sure; but Burke and Phillips at times sound a little stiff, like they really don't take enough advantage of the restless compositions - or perhaps it's just that they're a bit constrained by them.

ALso, to follow on what Stirmonster said - yeah, Tygers of Pan Tang were good, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend picking up "anything" by them; certainly the records made after John Sykes left are largely worthless (well, I've only heard The Cage, but it blows).

Best NWOBHM single ever might be "Rocks Off" / "Ride into the Sun" by Def Leppard.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 25 July 2003 03:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

I've come full circle on alot of things and have been listening to my old Iron Maiden, Metallica, Motorhead and Sabbath records/cds/tapes quite a bit.

Listening to the old tapes of "Kill Em All" with the Diamond Head cover and "Garage Days Re-Revisited" got me thinking about these couple of bands.

With Budgie, should I check the two CD compilation or go for the albums? At least from the reviews, the second disc on the Budgie collection isn't that great, but the first one is ace. Would I be better suited just checking out "In for the Kill" & "Never Turn Your Back on a Friend".

I'm also curious about Judas Priest records before "British Steel". Never heard any of their early records, I had on "British Steel", "Defenders of the Faith" & "Screaming for Vengence" on tape when I was a teenager.

― earlnash, Friday, 25 July 2003 03:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

Budgie is still the best thing to ever come out of Cardiff, in my opinion. Yes, the vocals are a bit Rushesque - they're not quite as evil as their monstrous reputation.

I'm a bit of an obscure metal aficianao - don't forget the Tygers of Pan-Tang. But for PURE FUCKING EVIL, PLEASE check out Relapse Records compilation of rare PENTAGRAM songs, circa '72-'76, which came out about a year ago. Long-haired freaks from Baltimore, and every song makes some passing reference to Satan or evil women... lot's of B-Movie imagery, pitchforks and hellfire...

(Speaking of which, what was the huge deal with Judas Priest backwards masking of evil messages in the Eighties? Driving kids to do wrong through subliminal coaxings? What about Black Sabbath, who sang "My name is Lucifer, please take my hand..." - FORWARDS... or: "Satan laughing spreads his wings...")

― Andy, Friday, 25 July 2003 15:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

george smith on budgie (and two other bands) in the voice:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0030/smith.php

― chuck, Friday, 25 July 2003 18:12 (9 years ago) Permalink

Budgie were great, and r0x0r3d, I think. "Best of Budgie" is a good starter. Lots of people I know just stick with that title.

Diamond Head were awesome. I saw them live at this tiny venue in Sunderland, tyne & wear, where they played because they were on the way down - they'd sold like 1/10 of the city hall in newcastle, so they "downsized" haha. It's one of the best gigs i ever saw. I'm going to have to get the 1st album comp referred to earlier, and see if "Canterbury" has been reissued.

What about Demon? IIRC they were NWOBHM verging on prog, and they did this really great album called "the plague" which i haven't heard in a long long time. Any opinions, or recommendations w/r/t them?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 25 July 2003 18:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

What about Demon?

Some Demon stuff is reissued. It's absence did not make
my heart grow as fond as I had previously thought. "Night of
the Demon" is my favorite. It was their first and the most
direct. They were always on the light side -- false metal,
obviously, heh -- but the reissue has a number of bonus cuts
that were cut from the original.

These numbers should have stayed on. One or two sound like
sessions recorded with Elmer Gantry of Stretch on vocals.
They're great.

Although uncredited, I'm positive it had to be him
or an exacting imitation.

After that, Demon became progressively airier, "The Plague"
being the high point or the low, depending on your taste.

― George Smith, Friday, 25 July 2003 20:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

for PURE FUCKING EVIL, PLEASE check out Relapse Records compilation of rare PENTAGRAM

"Review Your Choices" from a few years back is good, too. Or
"Sub-basement" which came out a little before the Relapse thing.
These are recent recordings but Pentagram has been nothing if not
rigidly consistent for decades.

And Peaceville released a Pentagram anthology, "Turn to Stone"
which doesn't trample on anything in the previously mentioned.

It's literally a time of Pentagram bonanza.

And if five Pentagram CDs don't float your boat, there is always
Penance from Pennsylvania.

Can a Count Raven revival be far behind?

― George Smith, Friday, 25 July 2003 20:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'm also curious about Judas Priest records before "British Steel"

No Priest fan can do without "Sad Wings of Destiny." "Tyrant" is
on that recording and it is perfect. The invocation of "the
Destructor" in it as a monstrous fear comes straight from a
World War I reference to a mythical thing that ground up people and boiled them down into tallow. Or maybe Halford just liked the sound of the word.

"Hell Bent for Leather" is good and "Stained Class" is in the same
league as "Sad Wings." It has the song Priest was prosecuted over
in America, a cover of Spooky Tooth's "Better By You, Better By Me."

Two idiots decided to commit suicide to the song by shotgun blast
to the mouth, supposedly because Priest had embedded a subvocal
recommendation to "Do it!" in one of the choruses. One died
instantly, the other botched the job and succeeded in making himself
into a grotesque monster without a jaw. He died years later but
was the primary basis for the legal attack on the band.

If you listen carefully to the song, you can hear the part that is
referred to. It's some kind of random studio noise or vagary in
the master tape that, if you use a little imagination, sounds like
two one syllable words.

I was reviewing records at a daily newspaper when Priest's
"Painkiller" was issued. At the time, I wrote, "music to blow
your jaw off to" which seemed appropriate given the flavor of the
times and circumstances.

With fans like me, who needs enemies, eh?

― George Smith, Friday, 25 July 2003 20:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

But for PURE FUCKING EVIL, PLEASE check out Relapse Records compilation of rare PENTAGRAM songs, circa '72-'76, which came out about a year ago.

that is definitely a great album, it actually lives up to all the vague mumbling about pentagram being great 'even in the 70s' and so on. at least two songs feature newly overdubbed guitar and second vocal tracks (and i suspect there might be a few more that aren't credited) and i would actually say it's well done. and i hate that kind of "hey, let's ADD some stuff" mentality, usually. there's also a vinyl version with a bonus 7" of the original versions of "lazy lady" and "be forewarned" (without the overdubs), originally recorded when they were called macabre. i _really_ want to know about the seemingly related band bedemon.

pentagram isn't really NWOBHM sounding at all though - total sabbath/blue cheer action.

well, i have _sub-basement_ and it's strong musically but there are some rather...odd...choices with the vocals. singing like mississippi gary on "drive me to the grave," for example. but they are definitely almost entirely overlooked, it seems, which is a shame.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Friday, 25 July 2003 23:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

I heard "Am I Evil?" a few times on a local radio station back in the day, and last year, for no apparent reason, its chorus began bubbling up from my subconcious with increasing regularity.
There was nothing for it but to feed the beast. I bought this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005IB6Z/ref=sr_aps_music_1_1/202-4245033-2483045

Strangely, Amazon claim this CD is a live album, although it's actually not. It's just their debut, remastered, with a couple of extra tracks tagged on.
Personally speaking, I find myself weary of the vocalist's mannerisms by the time I'm two-thirds of the way through listening to the album, but I will certainly allow that he was precociously talented - I think he was 19 or thereabouts at the time of the recording. And the guitar performances throughout are phenomenal - a real pleasure.
As for "Am I Evil?", I must say that it's even more remarkable than I remembered, and gives absolutely nothing away to the Metallica cover in terms of menace or musicianship.

― Palomino (Palomino), Saturday, 26 July 2003 12:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

Best NWOBHM single ever might be "Rocks Off" / "Ride into the Sun" by Def Leppard.

True enough, but "Buried Alive" / "Blitzkrieg" by Blitzkrieg should also be in the running for best NWOBHM single. The vocals are so weirdly nasal and laid back it sounds like midwest punk or something.

Does Venom count? Their best song is "Angel Dust".

― Kris (aqueduct), Saturday, 26 July 2003 17:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

One of my first bands was a power trio, the drummer introduced me to budgie.We did a pretty reasonable version of crash course I've been listening to them on and off since.a lot of people are drawn to the earlier stuff in for the kill etc, great stuff i agree. But for a really in your face sound "Power supply" is worth a listen.
in particular the first track "Forearm Smash"
you know they still ply in europe and the states.
wish they come here

― Reg Thornhill, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 05:29 (9 years ago) Permalink

Never heard Diamond Head (and have little use for the NWOBHM, aside from pre-dismemberment Def Leppard and a handful of Iron Maiden tracks), but the first three Budgie LPs (the only ones I presently own) are great! Budgie, Dust, Bang, Sir Lord Baltimore, etc.: 1970-72 metal was untouchable, even tho the stuff barely even had a name at that point. Metal Mike Saunders would rectify that, of course.

I've gotta check out that Pentagram stuff...

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 06:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

4 weeks pass...

It took me awhile, but I finally picked up some Budgie. They were playing "In for the Kill" before Nashville Pussy played at a show a few weeks back and I was liking what I heard.

I went ahead and got "In for the Kill" and "Never Turn Your Back on a Friend" and have really enjoyed them both. Budgie had a pretty wide sound, the acoustic and slower numbers are just as good as the big riff tunes. I'm definitely going to check out the first two albums sometime soon.

I also picked up the Sir Lord Baltimore CD, but it hasn't gotten to me yet. The riffs and music is pretty good, but the vocals bother me. On another thread someone said that these guys were a grower and it took a few listens before they really started liking the band.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 00:42 (9 years ago) Permalink

Diamond Head's actually a lot more antiseptic than their Metallica and Megadeth covers would lead you to believe. The next really big gems you could root from NWOBHM dustbin for your collection are Savage, Angel Witch, and Witchfinder General. Then press copy and multiply and there are another 1,000 stones to overturn.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 01:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

Jive Time records, my neighborhoos record store, has recently become Jive Metal records recently, because the main buyer there bought an entire vinyl catalog of probably every Combat/Enigma/Metal Blade album that ever existed. That one Halix record (the one where Humpty Dumpty is getting massacre by crossbow arrows) is for sale there right now.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 01:23 (9 years ago) Permalink

That said.. for really well done 80s thrash metal with really shrilly vocals, Toxik's World Circus from 1988 is pretty underrated...

"Social OverLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAA-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-AD"

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 01:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

so, anyone like cloven hoof? i picked up the neat/sanctuary reissue of their s/t album. i get the impression they weren't taken seriously because of their stage names (fire, water, earth, air) and 'image,' but s'a pretty solid album, with only one really weak song.

also saxon, witchfinder general, blitzkrieg, etc. i gotta get those 'neat records singles' comps.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

4 years pass...

revive

i am going to post about OBSCURE HEAVY METAL in this thread because that is mostly what i've been downloading.

lately i've been digging:

MERCY - WITCHBURNER (1985)
a little bit of vitus, a little bit of mercyful fate or something, with messiah marcolin singing. their first album had a pretty hilariously awful cover

and was more NWOBHMish.

NIGRO MANTIA - POETRY OF SUBCULTURE (demo 1984)
MANILLA ROAD - (ALL)
LAZARUS SIN - INTERCRANIAL MASS

all "epic" (DIS IS CODE FOR POWER METAL W/O OVERDUBBING AND LAME JOURNEY HARMONIES) 80s heavy metal stuff. the nigro mantia demo is pretty amazing and they never got around to doing an album. there are bands trying to play this style now (isen torr, atlantean kodex) but it doesn't really come off as well. ironsword is good, though.

SATAN'S HOST - METAL FROM HELL
these guys got back together again and signed to moribund and are pretty terrible death metal by all accounts. but they had vocalist from JAG PANZER and were TOTALLY INTO SATAN FOR REAL.

VARIOUS - HEAVY METAL MADE IN ITALY
pretty garden variety heavy metal stuff but none of these bands did anything better than the songs here (in fact the ones that did albums wound up being horrible, from what i've listened to). elektradrive sound like iron maiden w/keyboards, but in a good way. shining blade rock the fuck out, total street metal. black evil have a song called "hell's rats" and looked like this:

DARTHS!

oh hey, black evil's demo was called GRAVY LUST. GRAVY.

― like burning a swan (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 10 November 2008 17:29 (4 years ago) Permalink

also LORD RYUR from canada, their 45 was ace. when the hell are we going to get a pebbles of obscure metal 45-only bands?!

― like burning a swan (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 10 November 2008 17:35 (4 years ago) Permalink

Black Evil are my new favourite band!

― WoW... An Online RPG Funeral Gets Ambushed (gnarly sceptre), Monday, 10 November 2008 18:02 (4 years ago) Permalink

Seriously though, I've also been wondering about compilations of this kind of stuff. I posted over on the metal thread about the NWOBHM FOR FREAKS cassette comp. Think it was put together by one of the dudes from Funerot. Five bucks postage paid in the US. Contains the classic 'Dreamers of Fortune' by Mithrandir!

― WoW... An Online RPG Funeral Gets Ambushed (gnarly sceptre), Monday, 10 November 2008 18:10 (4 years ago) Permalink

Not sure how new it is, but I've also seen a compilation called 'Live to Ride' on the aptly titled Heavy Metal records. Tracks by AGONY BAG, GEMAGE, LEFT HAND DRIVE, GROUND ATTACK, SATANIC RITES, STORMTROOPER, TORTURE, LIGHTNING RAIDERS, SILVER WING, MUTANTS, ROX and MARSEILLE.

― WoW... An Online RPG Funeral Gets Ambushed (gnarly sceptre), Monday, 10 November 2008 18:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

― Nate Carson, Monday, 10 November 2008 23:26 (4 years ago) Permalink

Two of my favorite discoveries in recent years.

― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 00:57 (4 years ago) Permalink

Italian metal is so goddamn great.

― J0hn D., Tuesday, 11 November 2008 01:17 (4 years ago) Permalink

"these guys got back together again and signed to moribund and are pretty terrible death metal by all accounts."

i like the new satan's host stuff! it's definitely still got that old school spirit.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 02:48 (4 years ago) Permalink

"Italian metal is so goddamn great."

A really excellent Italian doom album from 2002 fell in my lap recently. It's the band Thunderstorm and the album is called Witchunter Tales.

Very strong Candlemass/Solitude Aeturnus classic doom with strong vocals and production. It's even got rain, thunder, lightning, church bells, and a cover of Electric Funeral.

And the singer's name is Fabio and he's written me back on myspace. :)

― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 04:18 (4 years ago) Permalink

Italian metal is so goddamn great.

recommendations please! i'm familiar with bulldozer/fingernails type venom-y stuff and black hole... some thrash bands. but that's about it. gonna look for that thunderstorm album.

i like the new satan's host stuff! it's definitely still got that old school spirit.

given the omnipresence of moribund promos for like 50 cents, i'll probably give them a chance at some point... but you gotta hear their first one if you haven't.

Contains the classic 'Dreamers of Fortune' by Mithrandir!

that song is awesome. http://liveandotherwise.blogspot.com/ has turned me on to tons of these super-obscure 45-only (or excellent single followed by dismal album) metal bands. was just listening to silver mountain's first 7" and a band called shakespeare, who sounded like a ghetto mercyful fate with a singer who sounded vaguely like dave mustaine doing a king diamond impersonation.

don't guess this is really this thread but holy shit, why did i just discover grand magus yesterday?!

― like burning a swan (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

oh! and speaking of italians, early death ss and paul chain stuff is sooooooooo great.

― like burning a swan (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

paul chain is like psychedelic gothic doom metal. like, back when i rocked "only theatre of pain" constantly i would've been very, very happy finding his early records.

― like burning a swan (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 17:46 (4 years ago) Permalink

The Darths on the photo above are Hungarian band Pokolgep actually. From circa 1985. Their first lp Totalis Metal is a real classic of Priest/Accept style riff metal.

― brrrzzzz, Thursday, 13 November 2008 09:46 (4 years ago) Permalink

well, i'm going to write an angry letter to metal-archives... misreppin' black evil like that, they should be ashamed.

― like burning a swan (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 13 November 2008 10:04 (4 years ago) Permalink

but it gave me the opportunity to attach one of my favourite album covers! i love the crow in the corner struck by thunder. a fantastic little detail imho.

― brrrzzzz, Thursday, 13 November 2008 10:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

struck by lightning. it is different isn't it? sorry for my english.

― brrrzzzz, Thursday, 13 November 2008 11:32 (4 years ago) Permalink

― WoW... An Online RPG Funeral Gets Ambushed (gnarly sceptre), Thursday, 13 November 2008 13:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

what am i supposed to be seeing, gnarly?

― open the BLOOD gates! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 13 November 2008 13:19 (4 years ago) Permalink

For some reason my album art disappeared.

More - Blood & Thunder (Atlantic) 82

Overdrive - Swords and Axes (Metal for Muthas) 84

― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:49 (4 years ago) Permalink

i've got to at least check out that more album. anyone with the balls to put that guy on the cover has gotta rock.

― open the BLOOD gates! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 14 November 2008 04:32 (4 years ago) Permalink

recommendations please!

can't go wrong with this one:

― J0hn D., Friday, 14 November 2008 07:49 (4 years ago) Permalink

XPOST II HAWKWINDZ:
Does the image not show for you? It's Syar's bodacious "Death Before Dishonour" sleeve, which I'll readily admit to buying for the outstanding artwork alone. It came out on Mausoleum records, which seems to be a gold mine for similarly inept metal artwork.

http://www.geocities.com/minormind/Mausoleum/mausobqframe.html

Unfortunately, I know nothing of any of these bands!

― WoW... An Online RPG Funeral Gets Ambushed (gnarly sceptre), Friday, 14 November 2008 12:20 (4 years ago) Permalink

doesn't show, no, but wow that's a hell of an album cover.

only one of those bands i've heard is cutty sark, who are okay. okay enough to be covered by deceased, i guess. but they were a little less RAAARGH than i was hoping for. i think i might need to check out ostrogoth...

also, SAINTS ANGER!

everyone knows about VIBRATIONS OF DOOM, right? they've got realaudio of a lot of superobscure old metal albums. not that realaudio is ideal, but i've used it many times before buying (or not) some overpriced LP.

― open the BLOOD gates! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 14 November 2008 12:47 (4 years ago) Permalink

ha, i spoke too soon - i have that tyrant LP on mausoleum, pretty cool almost-speed metal like IRON ANGEL or something. and i saw that tox LP once, it was a little more than i wanted to spend. but that fucking album cover...

― open the BLOOD gates! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 14 November 2008 12:49 (4 years ago) Permalink

Vibrations of Doom is cool. That and Spirit of Metal seem to be the only point of information for so many of these bands, save for the near-formulaic Geocities pages giving the same sad story about how band x was tragically misunderstood, screwed over, etc.

― WoW... An Online RPG Funeral Gets Ambushed (gnarly sceptre), Friday, 14 November 2008 13:57 (4 years ago) Permalink

i have nothing to contribute here

except to say

my mum introduced me to budgie and i still think they rule

― fantasimundo, Friday, 14 November 2008 14:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

your mom rules.

also, ay mr fastnbulbous thanks for pointing out MORE, that shit is great. kind of scratches the same itch as the first fastway album but way harder.

― open the BLOOD gates! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 16 November 2008 09:47 (4 years ago) Permalink

AWESOME.

― wind and wtfering (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 23 November 2008 13:39 (4 years ago) Permalink

been listening to lots of swedish 80s heavy metal this week. i am really digging arrows - wounded in love/i want to give you rock 'n' roll, dudes sound like they're 13 or something, outrageously scratchy yelping vocals and the songs are only like two minutes each. awesome. you could probably put them on back from the grave vol. 9 without raising too many eyebrows.

also excellent eps by: hels, silver mountain, the wagabond (yep, wagabond), faith, 200 volt, crystal pride, shakespeare, maninnya blade, behemoth (uk), e.f. band, dark knight, rex begonia, grave (swe), jeremiah... man. so many awesome singles.

― wind and wtfering (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 11:40 (4 years ago) Permalink

― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 11:50 (4 years ago) Permalink

I picked up that Live to Ride compilation I mentioned up thread. Cool stuff. The hit is Agony Bag's "Rabies is a Killer", which is great chugging party track with a synthy sounding guitar solo which sort of recycles the Stones' Satisfaction.

And this will likely be meaningless to non-Britishers, but the lead guitar on the track by MARSEILLE features none other than Art Attack's Neil Buchanan!! There's a pic of him all punked up 'n all. Awww.

― Brad Overturf (gnarly sceptre), Tuesday, 2 December 2008 13:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

HEATHER LEATHER!

Love how she totally fails to hit the high notes around the chorus.

― H.M.S. HIMSHITTER (gnarly sceptre), Thursday, 5 February 2009 23:02 (4 years ago) Permalink

Love how someone, presumably a fan, can't spell the name correctly even when it's printed in huge letters on the back wall. Doh!

― Gorge, Thursday, 5 February 2009 23:13 (4 years ago) Permalink

I finally heard that Black Hole record recently. WAY cool stuff.

― Nate Carson, Friday, 6 February 2009 01:51 (4 years ago) Permalink

― Nate Carson, Friday, 6 February 2009 02:11 (4 years ago) Permalink

hell yeah. the unreleased thing that the same label put out is even weirder. less metal though.

heather leather rules too.

― GOTT GOTT ELEKTRON (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 6 February 2009 09:50 (4 years ago) Permalink

What's the label and what's the other release? Thanks.

― Nate Carson, Friday, 6 February 2009 10:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

the label is andromeda, the album's called living mask.

http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=45261

― GOTT GOTT ELEKTRON (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 6 February 2009 12:20 (4 years ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

REALLY liking mistreater lately. very 70s sound with vocals that are kinda charmingly amateurish and not too dramatic. the "hell's fire" album is absolutely worth DLing.

― her appendix were out (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 28 November 2009 14:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

also, Dark Quarterer for ever and ever...

... but put on a shirt, dude.

― her appendix were out (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 28 November 2009 14:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

for the artwork's sake:

― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 18:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

A WHERRWOLF?

― Gorgeous Ladies Of Curling (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 4 March 2010 09:49 (3 years ago) Permalink

The lady in that last one looks like Prince; the purple top only enhances the connection.

― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Thursday, 4 March 2010 11:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

i have a tshirt with a cartoon of prince on it, looks exactly like that

― straightola, Thursday, 4 March 2010 13:54 (3 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

― gnarly sceptre, Sunday, 28 March 2010 19:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

Wow, how are they English? That vocalist is nuts.

I don't appear to have mentioned this blog yet on this thread, soooo:

http://strappadometalblog.blogspot.com/

It's a goldmine. A tinmine, too, but there's a lot of gold.

― drinkin a carton of peace juice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 29 March 2010 07:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

That's a cool site, thanks for that. It has Moose Molten Metal Vol 1! I still have the cassettes of both volumes. Plus it has the very odd Quebec band Eudoxis:

― A. Begrand, Monday, 29 March 2010 08:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

I still have that Eudoxis album on cassette! Couldn't tell you where I bought it, or if I got a copy to review back in the day or what, but pretty cool stuff.

― drinkin a carton of peace juice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 29 March 2010 08:55 (3 years ago) Permalink

They played that video on Much Music so often to fill out the mandatory Canadian content quota, that I got so sick of that song.

― A. Begrand, Monday, 29 March 2010 09:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

I was nuts about this song back in 1985. Warriors were a Serbian band that signed to Attic Records in Canada, and came off as a combination of Scorpions and Accept, really melodic but damn heavy at times too. I loved the theatricality of this track in particular:

― A. Begrand, Monday, 29 March 2010 09:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

man that is a solid track

― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Monday, 29 March 2010 13:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

li'l bit of "the passion of lovers" in the riff imo

― Twink Will Ferrell (J0hn D.), Monday, 29 March 2010 13:09 (3 years ago) Permalink

Yeah that's pretty dope, also love the same synth-chimes that Samhain used.

― drinkin a carton of peace juice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 29 March 2010 13:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

This is a great thread. Listening to Diamond Head at the moment. "Sucking My Love" is repetitive as hell but damn if last two minutes don't make the whole thing worthwhile.

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 16:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

What got you back into budgie recently? Just a whim? I'm curious because my friend mentioned them yesterday and the last time I heard about them before that I was looking at the birdman records Japan website five years ago.

― bamcquern, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm a huge Budgie fan. And we are going to be main support to Diamondhead here in Portland in August at the nicest theater in town. Psyched!

― Nate Carson, Thursday, 30 June 2011 23:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

Sweet Nate! Where's the show?

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 30 June 2011 23:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

I see on Facebook - The Aladdin! Swanky digs are gonna spoil you.

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 30 June 2011 23:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah. I've always wanted to play the Aladdin. And aside from being the Dj at the Stryper show, I never had the opportunity until now. Stoked!

― Nate Carson, Friday, 1 July 2011 11:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Hey this just got reissued

Doom/heavy metal, with one song ("Kiss Me With Blood") that sounds like attempted death rock.

― Blind, Pregnant, Gay, Royal (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 4 August 2012 04:22 (10 months ago) Permalink

I had this compilation on vinyl back when I picked up all metal compilations... This song stuck out since it was the oldest (the back of the sleeve had the years) and this one dated back to 1978 or 79 I think. It also stood out because it boogied.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 4 August 2012 22:20 (10 months ago) Permalink

This is another song I got on an old Neat compilation. I love this song, I can see a young Lars and James digging this and I also can envision what it would have sounde dlike had they rightfully included it on the Garage Days EP.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 4 August 2012 22:23 (10 months ago) Permalink

I always had a soft spot for the second Metal Massacre disc... Loved the cheesy synth during the chorus.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 4 August 2012 22:32 (10 months ago) Permalink

Warfare, who borrowed a lot more punk than most of their peers...

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 4 August 2012 22:37 (10 months ago) Permalink

Actually that Axe cut was culled from the "Lead Weight" Neat compilation:

Here is the back:

I assume Axe and Fist were the same band, kinda...

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 4 August 2012 22:40 (10 months ago) Permalink

Demon came up above.. I still have this debut on cassette. It's a lot more raw and decidedly non-proggy unlike the several hundred albums that the band would eventually churn out.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 4 August 2012 22:44 (10 months ago) Permalink

Another old compilation I used to own before the great flood of 2011. It had this, what I think is the oldest version of a song that has appeared in many places. It was made "popular" by Black Widow; here it is credited to Widow:

Funny story about this one... I made a post about the track in a thread here called Answering Machine about what one would put on one's answering machine.

Showing the power of ILM, a dude FROM the band actually sent me an email joking asking me for royalties from my answering machine and thanking me for the reference.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 4 August 2012 22:52 (10 months ago) Permalink

Here is a link where those Lead Weight images aren't loading...

http://www.goodbadmusic.com/2008/03/29/va-lead-weight-compilation-lp-neat-records-uk-1981/

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 4 August 2012 22:54 (10 months ago) Permalink

Gotta let the makeup-encrusted types get some props... This track reminds me of early Leppard, really heavy with a great guitar tone and not one, no0t two, but THREE choruses, each of which gets progressively more awesome.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 4 August 2012 22:58 (10 months ago) Permalink

Glam bands used to sound like Motorhead...

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 4 August 2012 23:09 (10 months ago) Permalink

Got into these from the actually quite good NWOBHM double-disc that Lars Ulrich compiled for Metal Blade...

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 4 August 2012 23:26 (10 months ago) Permalink

Just perfect...

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 4 August 2012 23:33 (10 months ago) Permalink

Massively underrated band...

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 4 August 2012 23:35 (10 months ago) Permalink

Had completely forgotten about Heavy Pettin' & AIIZ...saw both of them back in the day.

― Wandering Boy Poet, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 12:29 (10 months ago) Permalink

"trail by fire"

― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 19:12 (10 months ago) Permalink

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Budgie -- Diamond Head -- Obscure Heavy Metal (RFI)

What about Demon?

for PURE FUCKING EVIL, PLEASE check out Relapse Records compilation of rare PENTAGRAM

I'm also curious about Judas Priest records before "British Steel"