Metal Forever

TRADE MARK

2006-12-31T08:18:00.000-08:00

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Agelos Kalantzis (vocals), Sotiris Fegitis (guitar), Nick Lazakis (bass), Christos Diakoumis (drums)

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http://rapidshare.com/files/1547957/TRADE_MARK_-_FATAL_BLUES.rar

HEAVY LOAD - "DEATH OR GLORY"

2006-11-05T17:28:00.000-08:00

HEAVY LOAD (SWEDEN)

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Ragne Wahlquist (vocals / guitar), Eddy Malm (guitar), Torbjorn Rogesjo (bass), Styrbjorn Wahlquist (drums)

A highly influential and successful Stockholm Metal outfit, HEAVY LOAD saw regular chart placings in their home country with a series of strong self-financed albums. The band date to 1976 when brothers Ragne and Styrbjörn Wahlquist teamed up with bassist Michael 'Bachler' Backlund. Heavy gigging ensued and the following year Backlund departed to be replaced by Dan Molén.

HEAVY LOAD scored its first album release in November 1978 when Stockholm Record store Heavy Sound released 'Full Speed At High Level', recorded at Mill Recording Studio in July, and the trio undertook a headline tour of Sweden to promote its release. HEAVY LOAD’s brand of Metal was both enthusiastically riff orientated and melodious. Curiously, in the visual stakes, they would also take on every Heavy Metal cliché in the book with each and every album cover depicting a Viking warrior in battle mode.

By 1979 the touring schedule had taken its toll on Molen who quit. HEAVY LOAD added bassist Eero Koivisto and rhythm guitarist Leif 'Lillen' Liljegren to become a quartet. However, within months both new members had left and later formed RED BARON in 1985, Liljegren also turned up as a member of TREAT at one point.

During the summer of 1979 the band found replacements in bassist Torbjörn Ragnesjö and ex-HIGH BROW guitarist Eddy Malm. HEAVY LOAD's next release was the September 1981 mini-album 'Metal Conquest' cut at Decibel Studios that July, which gained the band many honours, beating many international acts to grab the number one airplay position on the H.M.H. Metal radio station playlist and charting in the national Swedish listings. Naturally the album sleeve featured Vikings at war. This success was capitalised on by an extensive headline tour, which included two live radio broadcasts from Malmö and Stockholm. A further album, 'Death Or Glory', arrived in October 1982 with another national chart placing at number 47. First editions of this record came packaged with a free 7" single, 'Take Me Away' / 'Trespasser'. 'Death Or Glory'’s artwork now saw an axe wielding Viking pitched against a polar bear.

1983 started with HEAVY LOAD releasing a concert video and recording the 'Stronger Than Evil' album, sporting a Viking atop a pile of recently slaughtered foes, for issue in October. THIN LIZZY's enigmatic frontman PHIL LYNOTT, who was in Sweden promoting his solo album at the time appeared on the track 'Free'. At this point HEAVY LOAD extended their touring into Europe as album sales got stronger, although gigs were curtailed in mid 1984 when Ragnesjö departed. It was 1985 by the time HEAVY LOAD added new bassist Andreas Fritz to the ranks.

Having been self-financed since inception the band now sought a major record deal and soon signed with WEA. A single, 'Monsters Of The Night', was released backed up by further Swedish dates, but a projected album never materialized and Malm left to pursue a solo project. As a result HEAVY LOAD was put on ice as the Wahlquist brothers concentrated on building a recording studio that would be used later by CANDLEMASS amongst others. Ragne Wahlquist scored a significant production credit on the monumental CANDLEMASS debut in 1986, 'Epicus, Doomicus, Metallicus'.

In 1986 HEAVY LOAD recruited guitarist Patrik Karlsson to work on a new album, although further delays were caused when Fritz left to work with ex-member Malm. Still intent on recording a new album, ex-THE DAMNED and UFO bassist Paul Gray joined up, but business considerations at the recording studio forestalled any release, although a new HEAVY LOAD album apparently still remained a possibility.

Still, the Wahlquist brothers have resurrected their Thunderload label to release the Christian Metal VENI DOMINE album 'Material Sanctuary' in 1995. The band's legacy was still strong in 2000 as evident by Swedish Metal kings HAMMERFALL cutting a version of HEAVY LOAD's 'Run With The Devil' for a bonus track on their chart single 'Renegade'. Italian Power Metal band NOBLE SAVAGE covered the HEAVY LOAD track 'Dreaming' on their 'Killing For The Glory' album in 2005.

DISCOGRAPHY

DEATH OR GLORY
TrackList
1. Heavy Metal Angels (In Metal And Leather)
2. Might For Right
3. Something New
4. Bleeding Streets
5. The Guitar Is My Sword
6. Still There Is Time
7. Traveller
8. Little Lies
9. Daybreak Ecstasy
10.Trespasser(bonus track)

link

http://rapidshare.com/files/2101730/HLDOG.rar

VICE HUMAN

2006-11-04T15:39:00.000-08:00

ALBUMS

"VICE HUMAN" 1984 POLYAVLOS

"METAL ATTACK" 1985 FAMOUS

"SET ME FREE" 2003 Supreme Music Creations

"BEYOND THIS LIFE" 2005 Supreme Music Creations (Limited edition 400 copies)

"VICE HUMAN" 1984 POLYAVLOS

TRACKLIST

01 - STAND UP

02 - I NEED POWER

03 - LIFE DON'T BE BLIND

04 - I LONG TO KILL YOU BEAST

05 - DAMNED WORLD

06 - YOU GONNA WORK ALL THE TIME

07 - CAN YOU FEEL THE NIGHT

08 - RUNNING WAYS

09 - DUST INTO MY NOSE

10 - VICE HUMAN

11 - MAKE IT IN TIME

"METAL ATTACK" 1985 FAMOUS

TRACKLIST

01 - HEAVY METAL

02 - WE ARE THE FUTURE

03 - HELL HAS BROKEN LOOSE

04 - HOOLIGAN HERO

05 - ALIVE IN THE NIGHT

06 - TWO WHEELS

07 - METAL WARS

link

http://rapidshare.com/files/2023956/VICE_HUMAN_-_METAL_ATTACK_HOOLIGAN_HERO.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/2025264/VICE_HUMAN_-_VICE_HUMAN1-2-10.rar

NORTHWIND - "MYTHOLOGY"

2006-11-04T14:52:00.000-08:00

TRACKLIST

01 - STOP,SISYPHUS,STOP
02 - MEDEA
03 - EAGLES(NOW THEY FLY)
04 - TROY
05 - BAD ORION,SCORPIO THE PUNISHER
06 - PROMETHEUS THE MAN
07 - IOLE
08 - ACHILLES LAST STAND
09 - PAN AND THE THRILL OF A CHASE

link

http://rapidshare.com/files/90825356/Northwind_-_Mythology__1987_.rar

DOUGLAS - STATE OF ROCK

2006-11-01T15:23:00.000-08:00

TRACKLIST

DON'T LET THEM DIE
IT'S LATE
LONER
MIRROR
SHOUT
STATE OF ROCK
TURN ME ON

link

http://rapidshare.com/files/1585110/D.rar

SPITFIRE - FIRST ATTACK

2006-11-01T15:15:00.000-08:00

A Greek Metal band named after the legendary British fighter plane of World War Two infamy. Vocalist Dino Costakis was badly injured in a car crash curtailing the band's career. The act returned, retitled SPEEDFIRE for legal reasons, and a 1990 live album. SPITFIRE would apparently resurrect themselves during 1997 for live work. The band would now be fronted by ex-POWER CRÜE man Alexis 'Hannibal' Balakakis with drums supplied by British born Mark Cross, a former member of MAGNA CARTA. Balakakis would take time out in 1998 to session lead vocals on the MUTINY demo 'Faded Pages'.

Cross would later join occult Metal band NIGHTFALL prior to hooking up with the German / American band METALIUM, sessioning for KINGDOM COME in 2000 before enrolling in premier Metal band HELLOWEEN in August of 2001. However, he sticksman was forced out of HELLOWEEN whilst recording the 2002 album Rabbit Don't Come Easy' due to contracting the debilitating Epstein-Barr virus. MOTÖRHEAD drummer Mickey Dee stepped in to complete the album but Cross' affliction meant he had to miss out on touring too.

Fully recovered Cross, assembled VALANOS in union with erstwhile SPITFIRE colleagues guitarist Elias Logginedes and bass player Gus McRicostas, PHANTOM LORD vocalist Vasili Axiotes with the SEPTIC FLESH, CASUS BELLI and NIGHTFALL credited Bob Katsiones handling the guitar / keyboard role. McRicostas also cites prior membership of BATTLE ROAR and CASUS BELLI. Cross joined US Power Metal band WINTER'S BANE in July of 2004.

2004 found ex-singer Alexis 'Hannibal' Balakakis announcing his new band, fittingly entitled HANNIBAL. The modern styled Metal act signed to Sleaszy Rider Records for a debut album 'This Is U'. Cross joined German act AT VANCE in February 2005. Former keyboard player George Aspiotis founded KINGDRAGON in 2006.

LINE UP

Dinos Costakis (vocals), Elias Loginidis (guitar), Thanon Kremides (bass), George Velentzas (keyboards), Costas Kirlakidis (drums)

TRACKLIST

01 - STREET FIGHTER
02 - LEAD ME ON
03 - WHISPERS
04 - LADY OF THE NIGHT
05 - EXPLOSION
06 - WALK ALONE
07 - EVIL THOUGHTS AROUND
08 - GUILTY DREAMS

LINK

http://rapidshare.com/files/1576040/sp.rar