Tank

Singer for: Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Cornerstone, Balance of Power, Pink Cream 69, Praying Mantis, Rainbow, Tank

Stranger in Us All = Studio album by Rainbow
Released: August 21,1995
Recorded: 1995
Genre:Hard rock, heavy metal
Length: 51:44
Label: BMG
Producer: Pat Regan & Ritchie Blackmore

Stranger in Us All is a 1995 album by the reformed Rainbow. Ritchie Blackmore put together a new version of Rainbow with little-known musicians in 1994. It was originally intended to be his solo album, but due to the label BMG pressures, the record was billed as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. This line-up only released the one album before Blackmore decided to pursue different musical styles and formed Blackmore's Night with his companion Candice Night. As such, this album marks Blackmore's final hard rock and roll recordings (to date.)
Released in the post-grunge mid '90s, Stranger in Us All achieved a modest success, particularly in Europe.

This was the band started by the lead singer of Persian Risk.

Persian Risk were a heavy metal band from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal era formed in 1979 and hailing from Cardiff, Wales. The brainchild of guitarist Phil Campbell, he recruited vocalist Jon Deverill, second guitarist Dave Bell, bass player Nick Hughes, and drummer Razz. The group was active until 1986.

Associated acts:
Motörhead, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Lone Star, Wild Horses, Tyrant, Wrathchild, Chinatown, Shy, Idol Rich, Paul DiAnno's Killers, Battlezone, Wild, Tredegar, Geezer Butler Band, Paul Chapman's Ghost, Krokus, Tank,
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Persian Risk were a heavy metal band from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal era formed in 1979 and hailing from Cardiff, Wales. The brainchild of guitarist Phil Campbell, he recruited vocalist Jon Deverill, second guitarist Dave Bell, bass player Nick Hughes, and drummer Razz. The group was active until 1986.

Associated acts:
Motörhead, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Lone Star, Wild Horses, Tyrant, Wrathchild, Chinatown, Shy, Idol Rich, Paul DiAnno's Killers, Battlezone, Wild, Tredegar, Geezer Butler Band, Paul Chapman's Ghost, Krokus, Tank,

SAMPLES:
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TRACK LISTING (13 not 10 songs --> High Vaultage, 1997)
1. Hold the Line 4:31
2. Jane 4:12
3. Rise Up 4:37
4. Brave New World 4:01
5. Don't Turn Around 3:31
6. Sky's Falling Down 4:53
7. Break Free 3:46
8. Dark Tower 4:03
9. Rip It Up 2:59
10. Women and Rock 4:00
11. Too Different 3:39 (bonus track)
12. Sky's Falling Down 5:09 (bonus track)
13. Dark Tower 4:01 (bonus track)

Note: The High Vaultage re-issue added the 3 songs from the Too Different 12" EP as bonus tracks.

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Angel Witch – Angel Witch Live
Label: Metal Blade Records / Music for Nations Records
Catalog#: ZORRO 1
Format: CD
Released: Feb 1990
Genre: Rock
Style: Heavy Metal

Tracklist▼
1 Angel Of Death 5:05
2 Sweet Danger 3:04
3 Confused 3:15
4 Sorceress 5:30
5 Gorgon 3:00
6 Baphomet 5:26
7 Extermination Day 3:00
8 Atlantis 3:35
9 Flight 19 5:10
10 Angel Witch 6:35
11 White Witch 5:35

Bass – Peter Gordelier*
Drums – Spencer Holman*
Guitar – Grant Dennison
Songwriter [All Songs By] – K. Heybourne*
Vocals, Guitar – Kevin Heybourne

Recorded live in Los Angeles, USA.
CD Made in France by MPO.
Barcode: 5020083100126

Possibly the best LIVE album to emerge from the NWOBHM scene. Guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Kevin Heybourne was hugely underrated - in his composition and playing you can hear the technical thrash that Metallica & Megadeth were to have great success with. Versatile too!

A hard-to-find 1980 British METAL LP. “Vardis were a pioneering three-piece new wave of British Heavy Metal between 1978 and 1986. They were from Wakefield in England, and consisted of frontman Steve Zodiac on guitar and lead vocals, Alan Selway on bass and Gary Pearson on drums. Original Vardis records are rare and are valued highly in most record collector's books and guides.

They took the unorthodox approach of comprising their debut album, '100MPH' (1980), of entirely live recordings. This is largely considered to be their finest hour and gained the band a large following early on in their career. They were invited to play the Heavy Metal Holocaust music festival in August 198l alongside Motorhead, Ozzy Osbourne and Triumph. Around 30,000 heavy metal fans were estimated to have attended with the PA reportedly reaching new heights of amplification at over 100,000 watts.

Steve Zodiac - Guitar, Vocals
Alan Selway - Bass
Gary Pearson - Drums

1. Out Of The Way 02:55
2. Move Along 04:07
3. The Lions Share 03:45
4. Situation Negative 03:34
5. Destiny 03:59
6. The Loser 03:54
7. Living Out Of Touch 02:59
8. Let's Go 03:28

PRAYING MANTIS Cheated (1980 UK 7" vinyl double pack also featuring Thirty Pieces Of Silver & a bonus live 7" featuring Flirting With Suicide & Panic In The Streets recorded live at The Marquee, gatefold picture sleeve, ARIST378).

Tracklisting:
1. Cheated
2. Thirty Pieces Of Silver

Live Single
1. Flirting With Suicide
2. Panic In The Streets

Arista
ARIST 378
1980

Tino Troy (G,V)
Chris Troy (B,V)
Dave Potts (D)
Steve Carroll (G,V)

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Excellent indeed, one of their best from the 80's and even with a motive (opening riff) parroted later by Maiden for 2 Minutes to Midnight... It's a real SHAME it didn't originally appear on Time Tells No Lies.

New Wave Of British Heavy Metal till we die!!

PERSIAN RISK Ridin' High (1983 UK Neat 7" b/w Hurt You, picture sleeve NEAT24)

Persian Risk formed in 1979 in England by Phil Campbell who has played in Motorhead and Lemmy now for over two decades. Dudes a total hero.
The band made headway by contributing the aforementioned Calling For You to the "Heavy Metal Heroes Vol.2" compilation (Heavy Metal Records, 1982) and also the Ridin' High b/w Hurt You 7" single through Neat, which earned Risk their strongest reviews yet. Lovely back cover photo the way the band looks wearing spikes and leather... cool in a 1983 sorta way. For the die hard early Iron Maiden fan this is not all that far off. The guitar playing is great. Campbell plays and chugs away exactly the way one would want one to in the early metal days with his killer hook riffs, and a solo on "hurt you" that reminds me of some fast Eddie Clark noodles. No wonder Lemmy chose Phil for the Motorhead sound! The main riff in "hurt you" also has a Riot Influence. Cool nwobhm stuff that most metal heads rifle right past when taking the headbanging journey into heaviness.

Razz Drums
Phillip Campbell Guitar
Nick Hughes Bass
Carl Sentence Vocals

A.R.C: Home Made Wine + The Chase
Very obscure N.WO.B.H.M. extremely limited (200 copies) and very hard to get. The primitive, raw and gravelly vocals a similar to this of Tank, Motorhead and Sabre.

K.Brunnenkant-Guitars/Vocals.
A.W.Howe-Haysom.Bass/Vocals.
C.Ashcroft-Drums.

Side 1: Home Made Wine.
Side 2: The Chase.

I assume this is a private pressing.The Hand Scratched Matrix Numbers Are: Side A;SJP 805A1 EG LYN 70 85(OR IT COULD BE 55,IT LOOKS LIKE A 5 SCRATCHED DIRECTLY BENEATH AN 8) BIBO.
Side B;DB SJP-805 B3 EG LYN -7056.

(Rock ’79)
The band were from Lincoln and this was their only release. The record is associated with both punk and NWOBHM genres which makes it doubly collectable. It is documented in a recent book called 45 Revolutions (by Mario Panciera) and also in the NWOBHM encyclopedia by Malc MacMillan. There was another NWOBHM band called Arc but they were totally unrelated to the A.R.C.
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Paul Mario Day - Vocals (Iron Maiden, More, Sweet, Crimson Lake)
Jeff Summers - Guitars (Weapon, The Headbangers, Flex, Legs Akimbo, The Loudshirts, Paddy Goes To Holyhead, Snatch, Statetrooper)
Martin Bushell - Guitars (Statetrooper)
Jeff Brown - Bass (Statetrooper, Dumpy's Rusty Nuts)
Bruce Bisland - Drums (Praying Mantis, Statetrooper, Sweet, Tank, The Wandering Crutchless, Weapon, Lipservice)

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The song 'If I Tried' starts off with Paul Mario Day singing the words to Simon & Garfunkel's 'Scarborough Fair'.

NEAR MINT CONDITION
1. Violator 03:49
2. Victim Of Love 03:51
3. Another Daymare 03:40
4. Lovelight 04:30
5. Search And Destroy 04:26
6. Redline 04:17
7. Wildfire 02:35
8. Godrush 04:44
9. If I Tried 03:45
10. Eyes Of The Future 04:35
Total playing time 40:12

label: Mausoleum Records 1983, SKULL8307
pressing: belgian
produced by Chris Tsangarides
style: NWOBHM
Release recorded: 1982
Country: London, UK

Violator

Featuring :
Wurzel (MOTORHEAD).
Evo (ANGELIC UPSTARTS, WARFARE).
Algy (DAMNED, TANK, Atom God).

Warhead was a speed metal side-project with a certain punky feeling to it. A side-project of members from Motörhead (Mick Burston, better known as Wurzel), Tank (Algy Ward) and Warfare (Paul Evo). The punky speed metal caused the band sounding somewhat similar to Motörhead.

Warhead CD 1995
Communique Records

1. Fear Zone
2. Dancing The Unknown
3. Touching Imagination
4. Dark Victory
5. Artistic Decline
6. Atmospheric Chill
7. Solitaire Dementia
8. Dream Rehearsal
9. Damned
10. Ever Eternal
11. Some Weird Sin

Speed Metal / Heavy N.W.O.B.H.M