Seeing this calender flyer, my mind has been blow!! Which was rad.īut what I don't remember is fucking Neurosis was on that bill too?!?!?!! 22 years later I realize I played with what would later become my favorite band of all time!! Of course I had no idea who they were at that time, and we were so bummed about getting shunned by the hardcore punks we got the hell out of there after we were done. you guys and us, we's doin da same tings, we just look different". But Vinnie Stigma came backstage and gave us heavily new York accented words of encouragement, telling us, "hey, they'll come around. The biggest crowd resoponse we got was when we announced our last song, and the call of "get off the stage longhairs" could be heard through out our set.
I remember being bummed cuz all the hardcore punks and crusters back then didn't want anything to do with a thrash metal band.
My first band Hate, played w/ Agnostic Front on that show. This a calender flyer from the Omni in Oakland from 1990.
The band might be off the beaten path and they don't play out a lot (they are playing a festival near Columbus, Ohio in June, with geezers Meliah Rage and Flotsam & Jetsam headlining) so tracking the disc down might be a chore but if this kind of stuff moves you, it'll be worth the effort. The band is strong up the middle (really good drumming and vocals) with synths that pop up in the mix to compliment the guitars nicely. The New Jersey band slashed swords and shields and rocked the chainmail but their brand of metal didn't owe to the typical Pagan stuff, rather the group churns out epic power metal with a ton of speed, like a direct line from Manowar's "Black Wind, Fire & Steel" (the back of the CD jacket says "Death To False Metal" and it ain't irony) without too much of the sing-songy Euro-trappings that might be good in beer halls but gets old real fast. I picked it up when they opened up for Widow (tenured classic metal on steroids from Raleigh, NC), White Wizzard (well, who was left of them almost the entire lineup had changed at that point) and Icarus Witch (didn't like the new-ish singer) late last year in Delaware. This album by a group named Fiakra came out last year on Pure Underground Records, a German label.
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