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Re: Unknown NWOBHM demos and "demo only" bands

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2016 11:38 am
by rumblefist
Icemon, think they recorded 1 or 2 demos before 1984. Unfortunately i never listened it.

Re: Unknown NWOBHM demos and "demo only" bands

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 1:56 pm
by rumblefist
Local Hero - Demo 1983

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Section 29 - Demo 1983

http://www.popsike.com/SECTION-29-LOCAL ... 83163.html

Re: Unknown NWOBHM demos and "demo only" bands

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2017 8:26 pm
by rumblefist
The mighty 1984 demo of Saigon (Norwich).

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Re: Unknown NWOBHM demos and "demo only" bands

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:12 pm
by rumblefist
Aftermath - with a demo of 1984

Bit of Venomesque but way more metal than the trio. These fellows had 2 guitars. Sound a bit like Tysondog's "Crimes Of Insanity" mixed with Onslaught in several parts.
Don't know much about them - never saw a pic. Probably they were from a village called Riverside. But i googled for information about this place and there are 7 or 8 different villages with this name.

Re: Unknown NWOBHM demos and "demo only" bands

Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2017 10:37 pm
by rumblefist
Sacred Oath (Tamworth) - The Power Of The Oath - released on 1985.

I was expecting them to be a bit more heavier but it's how things are.

Re: Unknown NWOBHM demos and "demo only" bands

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 5:42 pm
by rumblefist
Omen - super obscure band :

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Re: Unknown NWOBHM demos and "demo only" bands

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:17 pm
by Avenger
rumblefist wrote:Sacred Oath (Tamworth) - The Power Of The Oath - released on 1985.

I was expecting them to be a bit more heavier but it's how things are.
Is this more Hard Rockish than Metal?

Re: Unknown NWOBHM demos and "demo only" bands

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:36 pm
by rumblefist
Avenger wrote:
rumblefist wrote:Sacred Oath (Tamworth) - The Power Of The Oath - released on 1985.

I was expecting them to be a bit more heavier but it's how things are.
Is this more Hard Rockish than Metal?
It's Metal but with the 2 guitars + vocals very melodic. Just thought with such a name for a band and for a demo would be something really headbanger and it's not. The best track for me it's "On The Borderline" but the guitar solo is very primitive and even with playing mistakes it seems.

On the other hand Omen is way better in my opinion.
Even Saigon with their Saxon influences...

Re: Unknown NWOBHM demos and "demo only" bands

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 7:09 pm
by loxx
rumblefist wrote:Omen - super obscure band :

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Obscurest. Black vocalist is quite unusual, judging by the clothes very late 70's?

Re: Unknown NWOBHM demos and "demo only" bands

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 9:25 pm
by rumblefist
loxx wrote:
rumblefist wrote:Omen - super obscure band :

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Obscurest. Black vocalist is quite unusual, judging by the clothes very late 70's?
Not that sure - DRAGONFLY (and SAPPHIRE) -

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and if i look better here i'm sure i will find more...

Re: Unknown NWOBHM demos and "demo only" bands

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 11:10 pm
by bigfootkit
rumblefist wrote:
loxx wrote:
rumblefist wrote:Omen - super obscure band :

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Obscurest. Black vocalist is quite unusual, judging by the clothes very late 70's?
Not that sure - DRAGONFLY (and SAPPHIRE) -

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and if i look better here i'm sure i will find more...
There really weren't too many other black musicians playing in NWoBHM bands, aside from Rudi Revere the only other i can think of off the top of my head was Mel Gaynor who played drums for Samson for a while post-Thunderstick, before joining Simple Minds.
I'm sure there must have been others, but i'm guessing not very many.

Re: Unknown NWOBHM demos and "demo only" bands

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 11:19 pm
by rumblefist
bigfootkit wrote:
There really weren't too many other black musicians playing in NWoBHM bands, aside from Rudi Revere the only other i can think of off the top of my head was Mel Gaynor who played drums for Samson for a while post-Thunderstick, before joining Simple Minds.
I'm sure there must have been others, but i'm guessing not very many.
There is other black musician - on a Bristol based band. I forgot the name of the band. Anyways i never listened them. I only saw the photos. Sorry, my memory sucks and i really wished to have my things better organized. I should have all NWOBHM and related in just 1 place, i know that.

Re: Unknown NWOBHM demos and "demo only" bands

Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 5:11 am
by rumblefist
A polish friend (he should be here, because he knows a lot ) of mine who runs a NWOBHM page and that follows this discussion with some distance sent me these :

This is 1 of the several Overdrive's at that time :

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Not sure about who these guys were - maybe Medusa or Tok-io Rose :

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Re: Unknown NWOBHM demos and "demo only" bands

Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2017 10:32 pm
by bigfootkit
Interesting pix rumblefist.

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Samson with Mel Gaynor.

Re: Unknown NWOBHM demos and "demo only" bands

Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2017 12:45 am
by Avenger
These are interesting photos.

I think at one point there was a thread specifically discussing blacks in Metal. Although it wasn't limited to just NWOBHM, it's quite rare regardless.

I just tried to do a quick search but because the search terms I used were so close to "Black Metal" I got over 500 pages of results and don't have the time to dig through them at the moment.

I think it could be a future topic to expand upon if someone wants to take the time to find it. Perhaps an exhaustive list of all the known musicians from a specific time period.