The Metal Project: An attempt to collect and share every single Heavy Metal song that actually has "Metal" in the title. All the ones on Youtube anyway.
Today I'm going to bring you 8 songs from the most Metal decade in history. The 1980s.These bands never got to play Live Aid, never got on MTV and probably spent more time in fart-stinking vans than any sane man should have to endure. And for that I salute them all.
(And while I'm at it - To all those fans who have dug out obscurities and shared them with the world, I can do this only because of you. Respect is due.)
Riff - Ruedas De Metal (Argentina 1981)
(More Bachman-Turner Overdrive than Black Sabbath but
you know what, I'm cool with that.)
Honour to: JoChoLP123
Future Tense -Battle Of Metal (NLD 1983) Demo
(Big fans of the faster NWOBHM bands, clearly)
Honour to: omgw00
Vaughn - Holy Metal (USA 1984)
(Christian Metal, obviously, but not too preachy)
Honour to: NWOBHM87
Vice Human - Metal Wars (Greece 1985)
(No nonsense chuggachug - Vocals do take a bit of getting used to, mind)
Honour to: PanosDrama92
Attaxe - Petal To The Metal (USA 1985)
(Leather 'n' studs US Metal - Reminds me a wee bit of somebody... The Rods, maybe?)
Honour to: Windrider1986
Formel1 -Heavy Metal (East Germany 1986)
(Heavy Metal leans heavily towards nonconfomity and individualism.
The Eastern Bloc nations - not so much.
I suspect there was a certain amount of friction)
Honour to: zeob100
Crypt - Metalust Forever (Canada 1987)
(Slots into the gap between HM and Thrash with a definite nod to Maiden in places )Galactika - Metall (Russia 1988)
(Another one from behind the Iron Curtain. You can't help feeling
they deserved a bigger recording budget)
Honour to: rumblephist
That's it to be getting on with.
I have no idea what the theme for the next Metal project entry will be.
"Blatant stalling while I try and collect enough songs to justify
an entry for 2013" would probably be accurate.
See you next time.
The very same formula being spread around the world always surprises me BigD.
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`Vice Human - Metal Wars (Greece 1985)'
Strange, but I thought the vocals were reminiscent of the great Bon Scott. (Maybe it's just that he's sorely missed, even after all these years. Yes, I know, the `new' boy doesn't do too badly.)
Cheers, ic
Hi Big D! Well, I’m more of a ‘70s chick but there was some awesome music in the ‘80s too. Bands who “spent more time in fart-stinking vans” LOL! Yeah, gotta salute them for that. I especially liked that East German band from ‘86. The last one Galactika rocked too. Thanks for introducing us to bands many of us never heard of.
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