Don’t we all just love Metalploitation? Records by made-up bands never heard from since, whose members played under pseudonyms and whose music possessed an extremity only matched by the band’s image.
We had a talk with Virgin Steele singer and mainman David
Defeis, who had more than just a hand in three of the most prolific metalploitation albums – Piledriver’s ”Stay Ugly”, Original Sin’s ”Sin Will Find You Out” and Exorcist’s ”Nightmare Theatre”. All released in 1986 on the infamous Cobra Records. This is the unmasked truth about those albums.
You need no longer pay attention to the BS written predominantly about Exorcist
at Metal Archives.
The interview was conducted over the phone by Per-Ola
Nilsson (aka ”mordred” on The Corroseum forum) in autumn 2010, originally for
Sweden Rock Magazine. This is the complete, unedited interview from which only
parts were published in SRM.