Tag: Heavy Metal
Helloween
During the 1980s, Helloween were the most successful heavy metal band that Germany has ever produced (who aren't called The Scorpions).
Formed in Hamburg in...
Cinderella
In the late 80s, Cinderella had triple-platinum hits in the US with debut album Night Songs (1986) and follow-up Long Cold Winter (1988).
Night Songs was released a year after the...
Dokken
There was never a better time to be a big-haired hard rock band from Los Angeles than in 1987.
Mötley Crüe were riding high with the...
Slayer
Slayer formed in Los Angeles in 1982 and always existed to be the heaviest and the fastest - and to stand at the farthest...
Sepultura
Brazilian thrash metal band formed in Sao Paolo in 1983 by teenage brothers Max and Igor Cavelera (on guitar and drums respectively) with guitarist...
Scorpions, The
The Scorpions formed in Hanover, Germany, in 1971, and recorded their first album, Lonesome Crow, in Hamburg a little later.
The band embarked on a gruelling...
Saxon
Saxon vocalist Peter "Biff" Byford is a Yorkshireman with strictly old-school values.
Once photographed enjoying a cup of tea while his wife washed his car...
Pantera
One of the most influential heavy metal bands of the 90s, Texan quartet Pantera knocked out a series of albums in that decade that...
Judas Priest
Named after the Bob Dylan song The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest and led by Tim Brooke-Taylor look-alike and openly gay biker dress-alike...
Dio
Formed after Ronnie James Dio's departure from Black Sabbath, Dio's first self-titled outfit featured the considerable talents of fellow Sabbath absconder Vinny Appice on...
Def Leppard
Def Leppard formed in Sheffield, England in 1977 as Atomic Mass with original members Rick Savage, Pete Willis and Tony Kenning.
Frontman Joe Elliot came...
Rainbow
A few months prior to his departure from Deep Purple in 1975, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore teamed up with members of a decidedly mediocre American...
New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM)
In the early 1980s, UK rock magazine Sounds ardently promoted (and christened) the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal - the acronym of which is spelt...
Heavy Metal
Fine in principal, but not quite in practice; The Heavy Metal crowd consistently ruled much of the 80's, which is why there was 'alternative...
Michael Schenker Group
Michael Schenker joined his brother's band, Scorpions in 1971.
The group opened for UFO on one of their early German tours and UFO were impressed enough that they asked...
UFO
During the 1970s, UFO was one of the most popular heavy metal bands in the world, thanks in no small part to the blistering guitar work...
Witchfynde
Witchfynde were formed in Derbyshire, England in 1974, by bass guitarist and vocalist Neil Harvey. They discovered Montalo (real name Trevor Taylor) in a...
Warrant
With a pair of double-platinum albums, Warrant were one of the most popular glam-metal bands of the late 80s.
Formed in Los Angeles in the...
Anthrax
Although die-hard fans stuck by Anthrax no matter who their singer was, it is widely agreed among metalheads that the band was at their...
Y&T (Yesterday & Today)
When it comes to the original MTV generation of big-haired heavy metal band, Y&T (originally Yesterday & Today before they shortened their name) were...
