Austrian Heavy Metal

ION BRITTON · Post by **ION BRITTON** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:22 pm

Austrian Metal is rather an alien phrase to me. BUT, i must admit that there is one band from this country that has stolen my black heart more than once: MAYFAIR. Hardly you call them metal, they're better described as progressive music with many gothic and some metal elements. Their debut "Behind" is totally mindblowing, easily one of my 30 greatest albums of all times regardless of music genre. Anyone into prog stuff MUST hear them!

Fucking Åmål · Post by **Fucking Åmål** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:04 pm

I don't understand why anyone of you don't find Austria interesting.For me Austria has PERFECT scene and of corpse my top cult scene ever!!!!I wonder really why hasn't anyone mentioned really top HM bands like STORMWAVE(What you think about them:Personally i think they are one of the 30 fave HM acts)MANIAC(the same as STORMWAVE very very top on my fave list) and HAPPL(really strange metal with keyboards but fierce HM music real metallers and musicians i think top band).Ah and i hope you don't deny it that Austria is the most beatiful country in the planet(i have been there

).

Fucking Åmål · Post by **Fucking Åmål** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:03 pm

ION BRITTON wrote:Austrian Metal is rather an alien phrase to me. BUT, i must admit that there is one band from this country that has stolen my black heart more than once: MAYFAIR. Hardly you call them metal, they're better described as progressive music with many gothic and some metal elements. Their debut "Behind" is totally mindblowing, easily one of my 30 greatest albums of all times regardless of music genre. Anyone into prog stuff MUST hear them!

Ion Britton eisai kala?It is alien phrase Austrian Metal,and talking about Peruvian,Romanian,Albanian,Malaysian or Pakistan(??) metal is more normal?

As for what you said about MAYFAIR i am very curious to hear them.Can you tell me where you bought their CD to take also.
I am also highly interested(among others) about that split LP in 1989 which feautured PUNGENT STENCH and DISHARMONIC ORCHESTRA is it any good?Can someone upload it?
Also last buy for this year BURNING VISION-Positiv Forces 20 Euro.

Ryacus · Post by **Ryacus** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:36 pm

Innocence s/t is pretty decent sounds like much of the german stuff at the time but better than nothing I guess haha.

I would like to add summoning from austria is one band that should never be called metal I always see it called "atmospheric black metal" Its not even worthy of the title of metal most of their material is dark ambient at best not fucking metal.

ION BRITTON · Post by **ION BRITTON** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 4:33 pm

Fucking Åmål wrote:
ION BRITTON wrote:Austrian Metal is rather an alien phrase to me. BUT, i must admit that there is one band from this country that has stolen my black heart more than once: MAYFAIR. Hardly you call them metal, they're better described as progressive music with many gothic and some metal elements. Their debut "Behind" is totally mindblowing, easily one of my 30 greatest albums of all times regardless of music genre. Anyone into prog stuff MUST hear them!
Ion Britton eisai kala?It is alien phrase Austrian Metal,and talking about Peruvian,Romanian,Albanian,Malaysian or Pakistan(??) metal is more normal?
As for what you said about MAYFAIR i am very curious to hear them.Can you tell me where you bought their CD to take also.
I am also highly interested(among others) about that split LP in 1989 which feautured PUNGENT STENCH and DISHARMONIC ORCHESTRA is it any good?Can someone upload it?
Also last buy for this year BURNING VISION-Positiv Forces 20 Euro.

Mia xara eimai file. As far as i remember i haven't even posted (!) something on threads that concerned Peruvian, Romanian or Pakistani(!) metal. So, at least half of your ''accusations" are not true. You can check it out. However, I have made positive comments on THUNDERWAY from Albania or SAXO from Malaysia and that of course doesn't mean that Albanian or Malaysian metal is great in general. I didn't mean that and i never draw such conclusions on similar cases.
Let's go to Austrian metal now and i will try to be short as it;s really not worth writing more than 2-3 sentences. I find the whole scene generally average. Bands like NO BROS, BLOWIN FREE, MANIAC, GREIFENHAGEN, INNOCENCE, BURNING VISION sound indeed average, typical and generic to my ears without necessarily being bad or crap. I just find them unexciting that's all. Unfortunately, two maybe three awesome cases such as U8, HAPPL or STORMWAVE cannot really make me say that Austrian metal is "fuckin' great". I hope you didn't explain the phrase "Austrian metal is an alien phrase to me" in "Austria hasn't got metal bands at all" because that's not really what was meant.

MAYFAIR's CD's are oop. You can score them on ebay, even though they are not auctioned very frequently. I don't think you'll pay more than 15-20 $ for each of them, if that's a helpful clue.

Fucking Åmål · Post by **Fucking Åmål** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:48 pm

ION BRITTON wrote:
Mia xara eimai file. As far as i remember i haven't even posted (!) something on threads that concerned Peruvian, Romanian or Pakistani(!) metal. So, at least half of your ''accusations" are not true. You can check it out. However, I have made positive comments on THUNDERWAY from Albania or SAXO from Malaysia and that of course doesn't mean that Albanian or Malaysian metal is great in general. I didn't mean that and i never draw such conclusions on similar cases.
Let's go to Austrian metal now and i will try to be short as it;s really not worth writing more than 2-3 sentences. I find the whole scene generally average. Bands like NO BROS, BLOWIN FREE, MANIAC, GREIFENHAGEN, INNOCENCE, BURNING VISION sound indeed average, typical and generic to my ears without necessarily being bad or crap. I just find them unexciting that's all. Unfortunately, two maybe three awesome cases such as U8, HAPPL or STORMWAVE cannot really make me say that Austrian metal is "fuckin' great". I hope you didn't explain the phrase "Austrian metal is an alien phrase to me" in "Austria hasn't got metal bands at all" because that's not really what was meant.

MAYFAIR's CD's are oop. You can score them on ebay, even though they are not auctioned very frequently. I don't think you'll pay more than 15-20 $ for each of them, if that's a helpful clue.

OK nothing bad i meant for you just teasing.But you are the first also to mention the GODS STORMWAVE and HAPPL just a great HAIL for this!!!You will permit me disagree about the musical value of the bands you refered but that's of course a matter of taste as always.As for THUNDERWAY a friend of mine asked if i had something about them?!?Metal Invader magazine offered once a compilation with a track of THUNDERWAY(!!!!) and this friend told me that they were so great!!So i wait anxiously for upload.

OmenOfSteel · Post by **OmenOfSteel** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:59 pm

BURNING VISION are okay, nothing exciting.

SABOTAGE -> good, but only did one 7" and a view Sampler tracks afaik
REWARD -> boring, ignore it
BABA JAGA -> great, but only Sampler Tracks
ANGELINA -> hmm, dont know them I think
SCHUBERT -> crap
HAPPL -> I like it! Very rare!

Just heard from a friend that the 2nd HAPPL album was never released. It was recorded, but never pressed, only 1 or 2 testpressing as said to exist...

Fucking Åmål · Post by **Fucking Åmål** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:05 pm

OmenOfSteel wrote:BURNING VISION are okay, nothing exciting.

SABOTAGE -> good, but only did one 7" and a view Sampler tracks afaik
REWARD -> boring, ignore it
BABA JAGA -> great, but only Sampler Tracks
ANGELINA -> hmm, dont know them I think
SCHUBERT -> crap
HAPPL -> I like it! Very rare!

Just heard from a friend that the 2nd HAPPL album was never released. It was recorded, but never pressed, only 1 or 2 testpressing as said to exist...

Hmm I have from HAPPL the second LP ''SIGNED''.With tracks like Why Should,Wrong Or Wright,Cat In The Night.Roman you made maybe a mistake the (?)unreleased album might be the NEVER GONNA STOP(1989) which i have never seen this offered .Ah and the GREIFENHAGEN LP i have i bought it for 30 Euro was a good price?

OmenOfSteel · Post by **OmenOfSteel** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:31 pm

Fucking Åmål wrote:
OmenOfSteel wrote:BURNING VISION are okay, nothing exciting.

SABOTAGE -> good, but only did one 7" and a view Sampler tracks afaik
REWARD -> boring, ignore it
BABA JAGA -> great, but only Sampler Tracks
ANGELINA -> hmm, dont know them I think
SCHUBERT -> crap
HAPPL -> I like it! Very rare!

Just heard from a friend that the 2nd HAPPL album was never released. It was recorded, but never pressed, only 1 or 2 testpressing as said to exist...
Hmm I have from HAPPL the second LP ''SIGNED''.With tracks like Why Should,Wrong Or Wright,Cat In The Night.Roman you made maybe a mistake the (?)unreleased album might be the NEVER GONNA STOP(1989) which i have never seen this offered .Ah and the GREIFENHAGEN LP i have i bought it for 30 Euro was a good price?

Oh, yes, it's the first HAPPL that never was released! Thanks for correcting

GREIFENHAGEN can sometimes be found quite cheap, at least in germany. I sometimes see it around 15 - 20 Euros. Guess outside of Germany its harder to come by

Fucking Åmål · Post by **Fucking Åmål** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 8:51 pm

I am very curious about HAPPL first album i think it is a super-duper rarity.I consider HAPPL one of my favourite bands so i am curious about the Never Gonna Stop.(i will correct also the HAPPL's Metal Archives entry).Roman have you that LP,have you heard that,is this any good?Also do you know any special informations or contact adress with MANIAC,what they have done after the Look Out LP(1989)?Anyone help?In the backcovers they say see you on Tour.With which bands did they toured(i wish i were there

) and where?

OmenOfSteel · Post by **OmenOfSteel** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:21 pm

I have never heard NEVER GONNA STOP myself. Actually it was only designed as a demo-recording, but the producer pressed it on vinyl without knowledge of the band! It never was released or anything, and the producer and his studio did extinct shortly after. So no chance on getting this one I think, at least on vinyl.
I dont know if you visit the german Metal Festivals, but if you do, you might know Bruder Cle (either wears pink bunny costume or is dressed like a monk usually). He did write the lyrics to the first MANIAC LP. Guess he'd be the right one to ask about what became of the band. He also did the austrian PATERNOSTER Zine back in the day.

Fucking Åmål · Post by **Fucking Åmål** » Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:29 pm

Ich wüsste dass nicht.Tolle information.Über dieser Bruder Cle gibt es keine Website für ihm.Also diese fanzine PATERNOSTER ist von achtziger?Hast du kein Exemplar für Verkauf?

roihlem · Post by **roihlem** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:16 am

Afaik Bruder Cle played in Angry Angels (http://www.angryangel.cjb.net/).

I have a compilation CD on which Happl appears with two tracks: NEVER GONNA STOP and DON`T STOP AT THE TOP...to be honest I find this quite average...

roihlem · Post by **roihlem** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 2:30 am

Paternoster was also an extremely great 70`s progressive band from Austria...

Crimson Angel · Post by **Crimson Angel** » Fri May 04, 2007 12:52 am

Can anyone upload STORMWAVE albums please?