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ALLEN COLLINS BAND (USA)
Jimmy Dougherty: vocals
Allen Collins: guitar
Randall Hall: guitar
Barry Lee Harwood: guitar
Billy Powell: keyboards
Leon Wilkeson: bass
Derek Hess: drums
Powell and Wilkeson were members of the ill-fated Lynyrd Skynyrd band
that folded after several members were killed in an air crash in
October, 1977. The band emerged in 1983 and play a fine selection of
good Southern swamp rock sounds with some surprisingly good horn
playing. The band have kept a low profile since the album release and
its recording may have been a one-off project.
Here There and Back (MCA) 1983
COMPANY OF WOLVES (USA)
Kyf Brewer: vocals
Steve Conte: guitar
John Conte: bass
Frankie LaRocka: drums
Interesting amalgam of standard American melodic rock with British-
based blues à la Rolling Stones, Bad Company and Free. Based in New
York, the band was conceived as a studio project before developing
into a fully functioning unit with its eyes set on a heavy gigging
schedule. Ace drummer Frankie La Rocka was previously with Bryan
Adams' and John Waite's touring bands. Produced by Jeff Glixman.
Company Of Wolves (Polygram) 1990
CONEY HATCH (Canada)
Carl Dixon: vocals, guitar
Andy Curran: vocals, bass
Steve Shelski:guitar
Barry Connors: drums
Coney Hatch is one of the most dextrous, original and skilful Canadian
bands to have emerged in recent years. Their debut album was produced
by ex-Max Webster centrepin Kim Mitchell and it remains their best work.
The album is an incredible showcase for many styles from jazz-tinged
freakola to vicious uncompromising heavy-duty rock and roll. The savage
intensity of Steve Shelski's guitar work and the strained compassinate
vocals of Dixon are really quite exceptional. Outa Hand suffered from
a lack of good material and Max Norman's insensitive production. Friction
is a step back into the right direction but hasn't given them the expected
commercial breakthrough. It also signalled the entrance of new drummer
Connors who replaced Dave Ketchum.
Coney Hatch (Mercury) 1982
Outa Hand (Vertigo) 1983
Friction (Vertigo) 1985
CONTRABAND (Australia)
Owen Orford: vocals
Graham Kennedy: guitar
Mark Evans: bass
Peter McFarlane: drums
After being fired from AC/DC, Mark Evans returned to Australia and
joined forces with the disintegrating Finch, with whom McFarlane and
Orford were playing. Considering the heaviness of all the players'
previous outfits, Nothing to Hide is a surprisingly low-key, almost
acoustically melodic LP. The band fell into obscurity after the
release of the album.
Nothing to Hide (Portrait) 1978
CONVICT (Canada)
Terry 'The Can' Browning: vocals, guitar
Kim Kennedy: bass
Vic Bradley: drums
Another mysterious group from the Cobra stable (home of Piledriver)
which makes you wonder whether this mob are also a 'joke' outfit.
Like Piledriver (apart from some dreary almost romantic metal on
side two) they deliver some incredibly heavy rock.
Go Ahead Make My Day (Cobra) 1985
CORONER (Switzerland)
Ron Royle: vocals
Tommy T. Baron: guitar
Marquis Marky: drums
Classic southern-German-sounding death metal with the emphasis on
doom and destruction. Wailing guitars, banshee vocals and familiar
stop-start drum patterns are the order of the day, with No More
Colour taking a not too dissimilar direction to much of Celtic
Frost's most archaic work. Best described as avant garde techno
thrash.
RIP (Noise) 1987
Punishment for Decadence (Noise) 1988
No More Color (Noise) 1989
COUCHOIS (USA)
Chris Couchois: vocals
Pat Couchois: guitar
Chas Carlson: keyboards
Howard Messer: bass
Mike Couchois: drums
There are enough brothers in this band to start a football team. Their
first album leans more towards ballads, while the second is great US
radio rock. It includes 'Roll the Dice' which was covered by Rage (and
others) on their first LP.
Couchois (Warner Bros) 1979
Nasty Hardware (Warner Bros) 1980
JESS COX (UK)
One-time vocalist with premier NWOBHM's Tygers of Pan Tang who left
them in 1981. After teaming up with Lionheart (which lasted a single
gig) Cox retired temporarily from the music business. Thrid Step is
a solo project that fuses many styles, not all successfully, from
pop to hard-core heavy metal.
Third Step (Neat) 1983
CRAAFT (Germany)
Klaus Luley: vocals
Marcus Schleicher: guitar
Franz Keil: keyboards
Tommy Kaiser: bass
Tom Schneider: drums
Excellent melodic hard rock outfit whose style is similar to some of the best
American groups of the genre, including Toto, Survivor and Nightranger.
Singer Klaus Luley, previously in Tokyo, has an evocative and excellent range,
complementing the superb songs. Their debut album, produced by Peter Hauke
(White Lion) set the scene perfectly, allowing album number two to cement their
reputation with an astonishing selection of tremendously catchy songs and superb
vocal performances by Luley. To date the band has gigged only spasmodically
outside their native Germany. Bassist Tommy Kaiser was previously a member
of Swiss band Krokus.
Craaft (Epic) 1986
Second Honeymoon (RCA) 1988
CRACKJAW (Germany)
Stephen Kiergerl: vocals
Holger Eckstein: guitar
Jurgen Schulz: guitar
Gerriot Eisenmenger: bass
Markus Klinke: drums
Well-played commercial hard rock with good use of melody is shown in this
band's first vinyl outing.
Night Out (Steamhammer) 1985
CRACK THE SKY (USA)
John Palumbo: vocals
J. M. Griffiths: guitar
Rick Witkowski: guitar
Joe Macre: bass
Joey D'Amicao: drums
Numerous membership changes have affected this band to the point where
the last listed album features only the group's mentor and guiding light,
Palumbo, from the original classic line-up. Even he left the band at one
time. The music is weird and wacky hard-rock -- twisting, turning and
creating wonderful moods for Palumbo's stunning lyrics. At times they
appear light and jazzy and then they crush you with stunning guitarwork.
Crack the Sky is a superb band but very under-estimated.
Mid-1980s and it seemed the band was no more; thankfully they reemerged
before the decade ended, with more superlative material.
Crack the Sky (Lifesong) 1975
Animal Notes (Lifesong) 1976
Safety in Numbers (Lifesong) 1977
Live Sky (Lifesong) 1977
White Music (Lifesong) 1980
Photoflamingo (Lifesong) 1981
World in Motion (Criminal) 1984
Raw (Grudge) 1987
From the Greenhouse (Grudge) 1989
CRAWLER (UK)
Terry Wilson Slesser: vocals
Geoff Whitehorn: guitar
Terry Wilson: bass
Tony Braunagel: drums
Formed from the ashes of Backsteet Crawler who had featured the late
great Paul Kossoff, Crawler made two albums of reasonable blues rock
and then split. Crawler is by far the superior album, and contains
the memorable track 'Stone Cold Sober'.
Crawler (CBS) 1977
Snake, Rattle and Roll (CBS) 1978
CREAM (UK)
Eric Clapton: guitar, vocals
Jack Bruce: bass, vocals
Ginger Baker: drums
Cream, a late 1960s group, was formed in 1966 and split in 1970. It is seen
by many as one of the major formative heavy bands. The band was popular in
the UK but enormously successful Stateside where they had several million-
selling albums. Among Cream's best-known cuts are 'I Feel Free', 'Badge',
'I'm So Glad', 'Strange Brew' and 'Sunshine of Your Love'.
When Cream ceased to exist, Baker and Clapton formed half of the brief-
lived supergroup Blind Faith. Both musicians have had long illustrious
careers in rock as solo performers, with their own bands, in session work
and with other groups. Scottish-born Bruce was the first to record solo
material with the 1970 release 'Songs for a Tailor'. Later he worked with
Paul Haines and Carla Bley on a jazz-rock project and for a while he played
in West, Bruce and Laing. Although he has never achieved the public notice
which has attended Baker and Clapton, Bruce remains a respected musician.
Cream mixed pop and blues and there was an element of improvization in
their work that was not very noticeable elsewhere in the music scene at
the time. Much of their material has gone through a renaissance, with
various compilations available during the latter part of the seventies, and
more in the eighties. Clapton has become very much a rock mega-star, with
high-charting albums and sell-out concert tours.
Fresh Cream (Polydor) 1966
Disraeli Gears (Polydor) 1967
Wheels of Fires (Polydor) 1968
Goodbye (Polydor) 1969
Live Volume 1 (Polydor) 1970
Live Volume 2 (Polydor) 1972
CREED (USA)
Steve Ingle: vocals, guitar
Hal Butler: vocals, keyboards
Luther Maben: guitar
James Flynn: bass
Chip Thomas: drums
Creed have only produced one album, but it contains a truly epic track,
'Time and Time Again'. There is a Southern feel to their music.
Creed (Asylum) 1978
CREEK
See Sugar Creek
CRIMSON GLORY (USA)
Midnight: vocals
Jon Drenning: guitar
Ben Jackson: guitar
Jeff Lords: bass
Dana Burnell: drums
Intense and highly specialized progressive metal, taking in the techno
slant of Queensryche and fusing it with the pomp and bludgeon of prime
Iron Maiden. For a band who have so far worked within restrictive
independent budgets the results have been increasingly staggering. Formed
in Florida in 1986, the band, who have incidentally remained stable,
struck a deal with local-based PAR Records, who financed their debut album
Crimson Glory, later picked up for distribution in Europe by Roadrunner.
Immediately hailed as a near-classic, the band further intrigued its small
clique of admirers by revealing an odd stage presentation based around
wearing ornate steel masks to keep their faces hidden. Live shows in
Europe supporting Metal Church were greeted with a warm and enthusiastic
reception.
Album number two, Transcendence, is an ambitious conceptual piece
performed with tremendous dexterity and, once again, lavished with critical
praise. A further European tour in the autumn of 1989 was also successful
and gave indication that the band would eventually reveal their true
identities by removing their already modified masks entirely. The band
has been linked to the Christian rock movement, mainly due to the name
being taken from the Bible, but they maintain that their interest in
organized religion is of a more spiritual than ritualistic nature. A truly
excellent group with tremendous international potential.
Crimson Glory (PAR) 1986
Transcendence (Roadrunner) 1989
Strange and Beautiful (Roadrunner) 1991
PETER CRISS (USA)
Peter Criss was the whiskered drummer with those comic cut-outs, Kiss. He
had previously played with Chelsea. Peter Criss is very poor pop rock. In
1980, Criss left Kiss and released Out of Control, another empty package
of laughable pop musak. Let Me Rock You shows some advance in metal areas,
but still falls short of promise.
By early 1990 Criss had merged with Mark St John, ex-Kiss and White Tiger
guitarist, plus Michael Norton, vocalist with White Tiger, and bass man
David Macdonald. Perhaps there will be more vinyl coming from this new
impetus of Criss's.
Peter Criss (Casablanca) 1978
Out of Control (Mercury) 1980
Let Me Rock You (Casablanca) 1982
CRONOS (UK)
Cronos: vocals, bass
Jimmy C: guitar
Mike H: guitar
Chris P: drums
Formed as a splinter group by British-born ex-Venom frontman Cronos
and featuring both the American guitar players who appeared in the
final Venom line-up. Based on the East Coast of America, the band,
formed during early 1989, failed to make any significant impression
and sank to obscurity. Crunchy hard rock bordering on trash but with
none of the energy or commitment that made early Venom so perversely
attractive.
Dancin' in the Fire (Neat) 1990
THE CROSS (UK)
Roger Taylor: vocals, guitar
Clayton Moss: guitar
Peter Noone: bass
Josh Macrae: drums
Spike Edney: keyboards
Taylor of Queen fame formed the band in 1987. He has denied this band
is no more than a fill-in for times when Queen is inoperative, and its
members have likewise professed their commitment. That said, it can
never be more than second best in Taylor's interests. The band play
fairly aggressive hard rock but have hardly shaken the corridores of
rock power.
Shove It (Virgin) 1988
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (EMI) 1990
CROSSFIRE (Belgium)
Peter de Wint: vocals
Marc van Caelenberge: guitar
Rudy van Caelenberge: guitar
Patrick van Londerzele: bass
Chris de Brauwer: drums
The band was formed by guitarist Marc van Caelenberge. They recorded
four tracks which appeared on the Metal Cross compilation album.
Mausoleum signed them in 1983. De Wint had played drums and written
the vocals up to the recording of the second album but decided it was
too much. Brauwer took over on drums. They play no-nonsense basic
fast metal.
See You in Hell (Mausoleum) 1984
Second Attack (Mausoleum) 1985
CRUISER (Canada)
Don Beauchamp: vocals
Ed Stevens: guitars
Wally Rathie: keyboards
Tom Rathie: bass
Ritchie Henman: drums
Hard pop rock is probably the best description, although Cruiser were
definitely more rock than pop. They featured Ritchie Henman, who was
the original drummer in April Wine.
Rollin' with the Times (Network) 1979
THE CULT (UK)
Ian Astbury: vocals
Billy Duffy: guitars
Haggis: bass
Matt Sorum: drums
Addictive hard-rock act with tidal-wave riffs, unrelenting rhythm and
banshee vocals from self-confident sex-god vocalist Ian Astbury. With
their brazen three-chord rocking and piledriving melodies, The Cult
have risen from timid wannabees to platinum-sellers whose Sonic Temple
album allowed them to tour the world's stadiums in complete triumph.
Formed by Astbury and Duffy (who to this day remain the only permanent
members) from the ashes of the Southern Death Cult with a punk/gothic-
tinged sound, they were mildly successful in the UK underground scene.
Shortening their name via Death Cult, the duo laid plans to build a
psychedelic-tinged beast influenced by classic British rock acts such
as Led Zeppelin and Free. Their debut album, Love, itself a gathering
of styles, garnered extensive reviews and press exposure, helping to
secure a strong fan following whose size and dedication soon overwhelmed
their indie stature. She Sells Sanctuary, a UK hit single, bolstered
their appeal and helped to define their commitment to developing a
potent heavy metal style.
Asbury and Duffy further admitted in print to their devotion to such
acts as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and AC/DC, pointing out that they
wished to construct a supreme hard rock LP. Electric commenced life
under the production guidance of Steve Brown but was entirely scrapped
for being too wimpy. American rap/rock producer and Def Jam co-owner
Rick Rubin was later commissioned to record the LP in New York, helping
to capture the band's fury at its height.
Sonic Temple, produced by Bob Rock, successfully fused the band's
stinging AC/DC-style guitar work with psychedelic-tinted melodies and
superlative songs, helping to establish them in the US market place with
a top twenty LP and several hit singles, including 'Fire Woman' and
'Edie Chao Baby'. A truly sensational and inspired outfit whose future
success looks assured and is eagerly anticipated.
Love (Beggars Banquet) 1985
Electric (Beggars Banquet) 1987
Sonic Temple (Beggars Banquet) 1989
CHERIE CURRIE (USA)
Cherie Currie came to fame via the lead vocalist's spot in the Kim
Fowley-manufactured the Runaways. She recorded three albums with
them before leaving the band to go solo. Cherie is more interested
in acting these days and obtained a co-starring role as Annie in
the movie Foxes.
Beauty Is Only Skin-Deep (Mercury) 1978
Messin' with the Boys with Marie Currie (Mercury) 1979
CURTIS KNIGHT ZEUS (UK)
Curtis Knight: vocals
Eddie Clarke: guitar
Nicky Hogarth: keyboards
John Weir: bass
Chris Perry: drums
The infamous 1960s soul man Curtis Knight claimed to have known
Jimi Hendrix and allowed him to play guitar in his backing band
when he was unknown. When Knight's own career declined in the early
1970s, he bolstered his morale by writing a Hendrix biography
and forming a hard-rock band very much in the Hendrix style. Both
projects failed dismally. Eddie Clarke later joined Motorhead and
his unique style can be heard on this LP.
The Second Coming (Dawn) 1974
Sea of Time (Philips) 1974
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