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The 1st Piledriver is indeed great. Original Sin is still in my want-listnar marratuk wrote:Just a De Feis project I think but like you said I really like that album/ Also DeFeis related check out from NY the band ORIGINAL SIN [all female band] who's album was for a large part penned by De Feis...you can hear a couple of tracks on future VIRGIN STEELE albums. I love the debut PILEDRIVER lp!! If your'e not a metalhead you might as well be dead...
Great bands DeFeis was involved in.
It was a real band, Virgin Steele. They probably released it in the guise of Exorcist because they wanted to do something different and it therefore doesn't sound very Virgin Steele.The Sentinel wrote:Spinning this one right now and I always found this a great piece of metal. Fake or not, it still thrashes 99% of everything called metal today!!! What's the deal with this band? Was it a real band or a DeFeis project? The info on the net seems confusing.
"Possessed" and "Call For The Exocist" are pure headbangers pur sang
Virgin Steele in disguise!
Here's the alleged story... in 1985, Jack Starr (Burning Starr) was on the way out of Virgin Steele, due to disagreements with the rest of the band. To let off creative steam, David DeFeis did some songwriting for Cobra Records artists like Piledriver, and also the band jammed with a new guitarist, Edward Pursino. Finally, they decided to record an album but could not release it as Virgin Steele since the name belonged to Jack Starr. They put out the ``Nightmare Theatre`` album in mid-1985. They then kicked out Jack Starr and one lawsuit later, the name Virgin Steele was Dave's and Edward was in the band. But part of the settlement was that Exorcist would remain Exorcist and not be associated with the Virgin Steele ``Noble Savage`` lineup that wrote it!
The second album was written in 1987. Little is known about it, but it's probably the V.S. guys again wanting to make something that sounded different from their usual stuff.
Thanks for this articleAvenger wrote:Virgin Steele in disguise!
Here's the alleged story... in 1985, Jack Starr (Burning Starr) was on the way out of Virgin Steele, due to disagreements with the rest of the band. To let off creative steam, David DeFeis did some songwriting for Cobra Records artists like Piledriver, and also the band jammed with a new guitarist, Edward Pursino. Finally, they decided to record an album but could not release it as Virgin Steele since the name belonged to Jack Starr. They put out the ``Nightmare Theatre`` album in mid-1985. They then kicked out Jack Starr and one lawsuit later, the name Virgin Steele was Dave's and Edward was in the band. But part of the settlement was that Exorcist would remain Exorcist and not be associated with the Virgin Steele ``Noble Savage`` lineup that wrote it!
The second album was written in 1987. Little is known about it, but it's probably the V.S. guys again wanting to make something that sounded different from their usual stuff.
No problem.The Sentinel wrote:Thanks for this articleAvenger wrote:Virgin Steele in disguise!
Here's the alleged story... in 1985, Jack Starr (Burning Starr) was on the way out of Virgin Steele, due to disagreements with the rest of the band. To let off creative steam, David DeFeis did some songwriting for Cobra Records artists like Piledriver, and also the band jammed with a new guitarist, Edward Pursino. Finally, they decided to record an album but could not release it as Virgin Steele since the name belonged to Jack Starr. They put out the ``Nightmare Theatre`` album in mid-1985. They then kicked out Jack Starr and one lawsuit later, the name Virgin Steele was Dave's and Edward was in the band. But part of the settlement was that Exorcist would remain Exorcist and not be associated with the Virgin Steele ``Noble Savage`` lineup that wrote it!
The second album was written in 1987. Little is known about it, but it's probably the V.S. guys again wanting to make something that sounded different from their usual stuff.
aren't the band ORIGINAL SIN a band in themselves?? although there's no mistaking the fact De Feis wrote most if not all the album but to be fair those girls executed it rather well...metalmaster wrote:Actually Exorcist, Original Sin and the lineup which recorded the second PileDriver album are the same band. .
The only girl in the line up was the vocalist.nar marratuk wrote:aren't the band ORIGINAL SIN a band in themselves?? although there's no mistaking the fact De Feis wrote most if not all the album but to be fair those girls executed it rather well...metalmaster wrote:Actually Exorcist, Original Sin and the lineup which recorded the second PileDriver album are the same band. .