3 Quartz-releases, a pop-hr 7" and a slightly overrated kült classic - is that really enough to be honored a Corroseum Metal Labels discography page these days?? Apparently yes, but mainly because there were very few strictly HR/HM-focused microlabels from the NWOBHM era with more than 1-2 relevant releases, so they're well worth documenting. And then there's that mystery "DAN 3".... (no relation)
This clearly short-lived affair of a label was the creation of one Danny Reddington, who ran the significantly more long-lived record store with the same name out of Birmingham, UK. It still exists today! (beautifully retro homepage)
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REDD 001 | Quartz | Live Quartz | LP | 1980 | While "Mainline Riders"is the obvious stand-out track here, I'd still say about half the album is pretty solid NWOBHM-classica, "Roll Over Beethoven" obviously not included... | 
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While "Mainline Riders"is the obvious stand-out track here, I'd still say about half the album is pretty solid NWOBHM-classica, "Roll Over Beethoven" obviously not included... | |||||||||
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DAN 1 | Mayday | Day After Day / Love In The Spaceage | 7" | 1980 | The A-side is so utterly drenched in keyboards it should almost have synth-collector-appeal. The Lynott-like vocals lend the melo-hr flip a slight Thin Lizzy-feel, but this is very, very far from prime NWOBHM material, McMillan-bible-inclusion or not... |
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The A-side is so utterly drenched in keyboards it should almost have synth-collector-appeal. The Lynott-like vocals lend the melo-hr flip a slight Thin Lizzy-feel, but this is very, very far from prime NWOBHM material, McMillan-bible-inclusion or not... | |||||||||
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DAN 2 | Quartz | Nantucket Sleighride | 7" | 1980 | The pompy MOUNTAIN cover A-side is only distinguished from the original by an ever so slightly NWOBHM'ier guitar-tone on the heavier parts. On the B-side we find the 70's style hardrocker "Wildfire", the very same version infamously misplaced at the end of the SLEDGEHAMMER s/t 2LP compilation on Mausoleum. |
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The pompy MOUNTAIN cover A-side is only distinguished from the original by an ever so slightly NWOBHM'ier guitar-tone on the heavier parts. On the B-side we find the 70's style hardrocker "Wildfire", the very same version infamously misplaced at the end of the SLEDGEHAMMER s/t 2LP compilation on Mausoleum. | |||||||||
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DAN 2 | Quartz | Nantucket Sleighride | 7" | 1980 | Red/white sleeve. While all b/w copies were black vinyl, this version came in either white or blue vinyl. |
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Red/white sleeve. While all b/w copies were black vinyl, this version came in either white or blue vinyl. |
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DAN 3 [?] | ? | ? | ? | 1980? | A deleted release, if I were to make a guess... |
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A deleted release, if I were to make a guess... | |||||||||
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DAN 4 | Paralex | White Lightning | 12" EP | 1980 | Review |
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Review | |||||||||
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DAN 4 | Paralex | White Lightning | 12" EP | 1980 | Promo-version in neutral white sleeve w/ glued artwork. |
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Promo-version in neutral white sleeve w/ glued artwork. | |||||||||
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DAN 4 | Paralex | White Lightning | 12" EP | 1980 | Promo-version in neutral white sleeve w/ glued artwork. |
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Promo-version in neutral white sleeve w/ glued artwork. | |||||||||
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DAN 5 | Quartz | Satan's Serenade | 12" EP | 1980 | Afaik this original RRR pressing only came on red vinyl, while the Logo Records repress came in black, blue and red. NOTE that both the RRR version and the Logo versions came in the exact same sleeve(!) |
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Afaik this original RRR pressing only came on red vinyl, while the Logo Records repress came in black, blue and red. NOTE that both the RRR version and the Logo versions came in the exact same sleeve(!) |
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Compiled by DaN Edman.
