Month: November 2020

Within the framework of NWoBHM-inspired steel, Lord Fist’s uplifting, forward-pushing style may lend itself to that of their countrymen Nightstryke, Legionnaire or Angel Sword – yet excels in that the frontman his six-string counterpart Niko display an astounding inventiveness when crafting melodies and structuring songs that, strangely enough, don’t swerve one iota from the traditional path.

01 First Morning – Collapse
02 Arkona Cross Ii
03 Wings Drawn In Our Minds
04 Flying Over Tiprinith
05 Moonhalo (instrumental)
06 Sisters
07 Princess Of The Red Flame
08 Aurorae
09 Tigers Of Snow
10 Wilderness Of Hearts

Faithful Breath were originally founded in Bochum in 1967. The first album “Fading Beauty”, a mixture of Krautrock, Prog and Psychedelic, followed in 1974 and is now a sought-after collector’s item. Six long years later followed “Back On My Hill”. “Rock Lions” (1981) and “Hard Breath” (1983) finally paved the way for “Gold ‘N’ Glory”, which saw the light of day in 1984 on the Belgian label Mausoleum. Many consider “Gold ‘N’ Glory” the best album Faithful Breath ever recorded.

01 Don’t Feel Hate
02 King Of The Rock
03 Jailbreaker
04 A Million Hearts
05 Gold’n’glory
06 Play The Game
07 Princess In Disguise
08 Don’t Drive Me Ma

Manowar’s origins go back to Black Sabbath’s Heaven And Hell tour of the UK in 1980, when Black Sabbath bass tech and pyrotechnic operative Joey DeMaio met former Dictators guitarist Ross The Boss, then playing guitar with French support band Shakin’ Street. At the end of the tour, the pair joined forces with singer Eric Adams and Manowar were born. Scott Columbus would join on drums for 1983’s “Into Glory Ride”.

01 Fighting The World
02 Blow Your Speakers
03 Carry On
04 Violence And Bloodshed
05 Defender
06 Drums Of Doom
07 Holy War
08 Master Of Revenge
09 Black Wind, Fire And Steel
01 Wheels Of Fire
02 Kings Of Metal
03 Heart Of Steel
04 Sting Of The Bumblebee
05 The Crown An

The album contains 7 songs; 7 songs that symbolize what Darkness stood for in the past and what it will look like in the future. 7 songs that cast their shadows on the upcoming 7th album. Two already known songs from the 1980s present themselves in a new musical guise.

01 Every Time You Curse Me
02 Dawn Of The Dumb
03 Over And Out
04 Slave To The Grind
05 Tinkerbell Must Die (live In Osaka, Japan)
06 Armageddon
07 Faded Pictures (unplugged)

The “solo” Alice record “Welcome to My Nightmare” had firmly separated Alice Cooper the singer from Alice Cooper the band. Rather than abandon the intended album, drummer Neal Smith, guitarist Michael Bruce and bassist Dennis Dunaway joined forces with lead guitarist Mike Marconi and Alice Cooper keyboard player Bob Dolin, and signing to Polydor records, fashioned the abandoned Alice Cooper band album into “Battle Axe”, calling themselves Billion Dollar Babies, a very deliberate nod to their previous incarnation.

Track List:

DISC ONE:

BATTLE AXE (1977)

TOO YOUNG
SHINE YOUR LOVE
I MISS YOU
WASN’T I THE ONE
LOVE IS RATHER BLIND
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL RADIO
DANCE WITH ME
ROCK ME SLOWLY
EGO MANIA
BATTLE A

The fifth and final part of Riot’s “Archives” series spans the years 1993 to 2002 and includes rare recordings from the album sessions of “Nightbreaker”, “Brethren Of The Long House”, “Inishmore”, “Sons OfSociety” and “Through The Storm”.
A highlight of the compilation is the completely unreleased track “Sylvia”. Recorded during the “Nightbreaker” session, the song finally made it onto the album. In the period between 1993 and 2002 Riot released a total of five studio albums. GilesLavery, product coordinator of the Archives series, comments: “Riot were the last refuge for all fans of traditional heavy metal in the nineties. Artists such as Alice Cooper, Whit