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Cauldron Black Ram - Skulduggery

Great Aussie DM

Cauldron Black Ram, "Devil Bellied".

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ARMED FORCES - Reach for the sky

THRUST - Stand up and fight

Last Flight, "Dance to the Music". It popped into my head just a few minutes ago & hasn't left.

Rush - Cygnus X-1 Book II Hemispheres

Maninnya Blade - Live Life At Speed

I just found an old compilation cassette I made sometime in 1988-89.
Beneath the pretentious but not too missleading title of "HEAVY METAL AT IT'S BEST!" these titles were to be found. These are the songs of the day.
Let the headbanging mania begin!

Side A
Ded Engine - Till Deaf do us Part
Picture - The Blade
Helloween - Heavy Metal (is the Law)
Savage Grace - We came, we saw, we conquered
Tyran' Pace - Shockwaves
Fates Warning - Night on Bröcken
Crossfire - Atomic War
Saint's Anger - Hero
Running Wild - Gods of Iron
Cutty Sark - Invitation to Dance

Side B
Exxplorer - Metal Detectors
Warhead - Evil Night
Tank - Power of the Hunter
Atomkraft - Heat and Pain
Iron Angel - Stronger than Steel
Hallow's Eve - The Mansion
Dark Heart - Don't Break the Circle
Tyrant - Up the Hammer
Witchcross - Alien Savage
Hazzard - Killer

That's the best of the first Fates LP but certainly they did much much better HM since then! By 88, good god, Awaken the Guardian was out! Also odd choice for the Exxplorer song since I think they did better on that same record but perhaps that's me. Great call on Iron Angel!

Helm wrote:That's the best of the first Fates LP but certainly they did much much better HM since then! By 88, good god, Awaken the Guardian was out! Also odd choice for the Exxplorer song since I think they did better on that same record but perhaps that's me. Great call on Iron Angel!

I was sixteen at the time and I hadn't yet heard Awaken the Guardian (Which completely blew my mind maybe only a few months away in time). Also this was tracks chosen from the vinyl collections of me and my brother and I doubt that there were more than 50-100 records to choose from (not counting major bands). I must have had No Exit at the time but as you can see most of the tracks were chosen due to their headbanging qualities... A lot of fast songs, no thrash and a few more anthemic ones (like Night on Bröcken, Killer, Heat and Pain) but nothing out-stretched, epic, complicated or difficult. And I definitely agree with you on the Exxplorer choice (even back then I sort of cringed at the mentioning of Bruce Springsteen in the world that is Heavy Metal).

Not the best ever for sure. But the best I could come up with at the time, bearing in mind my "dionysian" motives behind the choices.

Hah I see. But why 'no thrash'? Tell me more of this early... schizm between heavy metallers and the 'punks with long hair'.

Helm wrote:Hah I see. But why 'no thrash'? Tell me more of this early... schizm between heavy metallers and the 'punks with long hair'.

Don't know what there is to tell. To me it's entirely a matter of taste. Thrash never had that much of an impact on me. Sure, I like a lot of it, but it has never been first priority. I like music to have round edges, I guess. The "thrash" (incl. what was to become death or black metal) I listened mostly to (then and now) was always Celtic Frost, Onslaught (Power from Hell that is), Sabbat (UK) and a few others which triggered escapism in some ways. (I have never been one for analysing lyrics, to me the words themselves, their meaning and the way they sound, combined with the musical moods and themes is what makes out whether I am going to get something out of it or not.) Thus Kreator, Destruction, Testament, Exodus, Forbidden et al were things I listened much less to.

Come to think of it. There was already then a musical (estetical) border between me and my brother (which has been constantly overstepped - in both directions). Where his territories consisted of the harsh, agressive, reality based, over the top brutal or weird, as well as the tradition of blues and rock'n'roll (Motörhead, Razor, Tank, Rose Tattoo, Dead Kennedys, Bolt Thrower, Anti-seen, Rory Gallagher, Gore, Celtic Frost, The punk/Oi/HC.), mine were those of escapism, the gloom and doom, the fantastic, the lyrical, the progressive, the folky and the arty-farty stuff, warriors, dragons and fair maidens... (Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Fates Warning, Blaspheme, Jethro Tull, Van Der Graaf Generator, European Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Classical music, Romantic and Modernistic art music, Nordic folk music ...and the RODS)

On topic - Song of the day: None (so far)

LOMBARD - Stary Bol

Whatever genre you wanna put the band in, that is one awesome "nwobhm" song!

Seems like you and your brother had your separate pulls towards Dionysus and Apollo, heh.

It's strange for me because I can understand the attraction to thrash and one of my favorite subgenres of HM is technothrash, but I wouldn't say I'm a very dionysian person on the whole. There *is* thrash that deals with high concepts and such, though perhaps yes, not escapist. Do you know that Fates Warning were very influenced by thrash, for example?

Also, given your tastes, I'd make an effort to listen to the Xerxes CDs. They're at poisonoise, uploaded by the awesome ION BRITTON.

Helm wrote:Seems like you and your brother had your separate pulls towards Dionysus and Apollo, heh.

It's strange for me because I can understand the attraction to thrash and one of my favorite subgenres of HM is technothrash, but I wouldn't say I'm a very dionysian person on the whole. There *is* thrash that deals with high concepts and such, though perhaps yes, not escapist. Do you know that Fates Warning were very influenced by thrash, for example?

Also, given your tastes, I'd make an effort to listen to the Xerxes CDs. They're at poisonoise, uploaded by the awesome ION BRITTON.

I can hear the thrash influences in the riffing on ATH and NE. About techno thrash I sort of listened to a lot of Mekong Delta, Watchtower and Coroner in the late eighties/early nineties and I guess such stuff were an influence on the material we wrote in the band I was in at the time (although maybe not obvious upon hearing the old recordings we made as we were mere beginners and no equilibrists at what we were doing). Nowadays, I settle with Starz (singing: Last night I wrote you a Letter...).

I got two Xerkses CDs that I may well not have played this millenium which makes me a ............? Guess I'll have to pull them out of the shelf and give them some attention.