Episode 3: Heavy Metal Attack

Our first episode with a theme!  Some terrific and mostly rare metal klassics from the 80s.  I didn't have enough time to play everything I wanted to, so whatever didn't make it on the tape deck tonight, will show up again later.


If you have any comments or suggestions, here's the place to do it...or you can always follow me on the twitter, I'm @yoshiki89 so go for it.  Thanks for listening!!

Without any further ado...show notes!  Timestamps are approximate.  PLAY LOUD or GO TO THE JOHN.  Heavy Metal is the LAW!!

Episode 3 MixCloud (click here to listen to the archive of the broadcast)

Prelude/Intro 0:00:00

I think a lot about this kind of stuff...

NASTY SAVAGE (USA/FL) "Unchained Angel" 0:04:01

From the 1984 "Wage of Mayhem" demo.  One of the bands that wrote the rules on how underground bands should interact with their fans.  Also a great idea to smash TV sets on your chest.

BANSHEE (USA/MO) "Back Your Way" 0:07:23

From the 1986 "Cry In the Night" EP.  Maybe you don't know them, maybe you do...they released this EP on their own, released an LP that everybody forgot about on Atlantic Records, then vanished...but, they really are back...back your way; having released a new album in 2012.

GRIFFIN (USA/CA) "Submission" 0:11:38

From the 1984 "Flight of the Griffin" LP.  Shouldn't be any man Jack (or Jill) of ya that don't know Griffin.  R.I.P. "Yaz" (Mike Yastremski), who played guitar for the band on this LP before he joined Heathen.

MC  0:15:49

Shreddi confetti; spandex and bullet belt tourniquet...

RAW ENERGY (USA/OH) "White Stallion" 0:16:54

From the 1988 "White Stallion" Mini-LP.  I hope you enjoy this treasure, from the burning-metal guitar tone capital of the USA, Columbus, Ohio.  I could never make that up.

ION BRITTON (USA/NC) "Eat Metal" 0:21:42

From the 1987 "Eat Metal" EP.  They've been around since 1982, are amazingly still together, but this is their only release to date.  Ultra Dave's vocals are...juuuuuuust a bit outside.  I want you to EAT METAL, yeahhhhhh!!

VALHALLA (USA/PA) "Break of Darkness / Looking For the Light" 0:26:29

From the 1984 Self-titled EP.  There were a lot of bands called VALHALLA back in the day, this one will always be my favorite.

MC 0:32:38

You don't know it...but they came to rock YOU!

MANIAC (AUSTRIA) "You Don't Know It" 0:33:41

From the 1985 Self-titled LP.  There were a lot of bands called Maniac, but Austria's version released this amazing LP on Hot Blood Records.  That's what I call one-stop shopping.

BURN (SWE) "Burn in Fire" 0:38:07

From the 1983 Self-titled LP.  If you ever hear this record call out to you, as if it was saying "buy me," you would be foolish to ignore it.  Quite solid effort, here.

MIDNIGHT DARKNESS (GER) "Linefire"0:41:50

From the 1985 "Holding the Night" LP.  The final leg of a veritable triumvirate of essential metal albums.  That's one-two-three total klassics.

MC 0:46:34

If you're still listening...thanks a lot!

NORTHWIND (GRE) "Stop Sisyphus Stop" 0:47:37

From the 1987 "Mythology" LP.  Their second LP, this was a concept album about mythology.  It's only right and just that a band from Greece should take up this task, and only fair to admit that they do a fantastic job of it.

KNIGHTMARE II (USA/CA) "Crack The Whip" 0:51:13

From the 1985 "Death Do Us Part" EP.  The Rod!  What else do you need to know?  Other than 'what happened to Knightmare I?'

MC 0:54:34

So, what are you drinking?

SLAYER (USA/TX) "Final Holocaust" 0:55:43

From the 1983 "Prepare to Die" EP.  A lot of folks remember this "Slayer band" because of their having to change their name to "S.A. Slayer" because of the other "Slayer band."  Some also remember this band because Ron Jarzombek played for them, but not on this EP. I think tonight, we should remember vocalist Steve Cooper, who also briefly sang for Juggernaut as well as Narita (formerly known as the Mark Reale Project) and who died in 2006. 

If you like something on the show, please, go buy it (if it's available).  If you own something on the show and don't want me to play it, please let me know.

Episode 2: Son of There is No Theme

After a few weeks of silence, I'm back.  I even re-broadcasted the first episode, fixed the strange echo-delay and as far as that goes...all is right with the world.  The link to the updated showreel is in Episode 1 Show Notes.

So this is "Son of There is No Theme," consider it part 2 of the first Episode, if you like.  I couldn't fit all of the songs I wanted to mix up in the first Episode, so assume that I meant to do this and make it a two-episode thing.

If you have any comments or suggestions, here's the place to do it...or you can always follow me on the twitter, I'm @yoshiki89 so go for it.

Without any further ado...show notes!  Timestamps are approximate.  PLAY LOUD or GO TO WORK (or, stay at work, if you're Justin...or drive around...or whatever).

Episode 2 MixCloud (click here to listen to the archive of the broadcast)

Prelude/Intro 0:00:00

Don't ask me what the prelude music is...it's a secret with no basis.

MACABRE (USA/IL) "Acid Bath Vampire"

From the 2003 "Murder Metal" CD.  It's about John George Haigh.  Such great friends of mine from so long ago; but I do a very good impression of Nefarious' bass riff, you should hear it sometime.

MASTER (USA/IL) "Unknown Soldier" 

From the 1985/1986 Unreleased Album (the 2003 From Beyond Productions official release).  The sound on the very first cassette of this I ever received (from Jim Plotkin) is still the best, but I love the clarity of this and present for your edification, my favorite MASTER song ever.  Paul Speckmann is MASTER.

SINDROME (USA/IL) "Rapture in Blood"

From the 1987 "Into The Halls of Exermination" demo (the original mix).  An interesting way to round out the opening "Chicago 3," as Chris Mittlebrun of MASTER also played for SINDROME for a while (but not on this recording).  Troy and Shaun were among the many great and fantastic Chicago folks we used to see hanging around at every show.

MC

Still here.  Top of the 9th, Giants 2-0.  Padres need a rally RIGHT NOW.

DOOM (JAPAN) "Killing Field..." 

From the 1988 "Killing Field" Mini-LP.  One of the greatest and most complicated Japanese metal outfits ever (not sure if you saw what I did there). Koh Morita (RIP, 1963-1999) -who was sometimes known as "Pirarucu"- still blows me away, every time I hear him play.

FONDLECORPSE (NL) "Twice the Hate, Twice the Carnage"

From the 2007 "Blood and Popcorn" Mini-CD.  One of two phenomenal releases in a most memorable year for me, personally...the heartfelt homage to a bloody rainbow of metal style represented in this impresses me so very, very much.

SIEGE (USA/MA) "Drop Dead" / "Sad But True" / "Cold War"

From the 1984 "Drop Dead" demo/sessions (the 1994 Relapse Records official release) If you're going to get a tribute to Boston from me, here it is.  A band who has always been far too important to forget, even though they really haven't been with us for almost 30 years.  I don't count the reunion, without Kevin Mahoney (RIP, 1965-2011) on board, what's the use?

MC

Hint: there's another Boston drop, at the very end of the show...see if you can guess what it is and where it came from.  Send your answers to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm.

JIM JONES AND THE KOOL-ADE KIDS (USA/MI) "Creeping Brown Deth"

From the 1986 "Trust Me" LP.  For more reasons than one, another major influence of mine.  The interplay of the drums, the tractor-like presence of the bass, and the singed flesh-tone of the guitars bring me to a point of musickal ecstasy that cannot be measured.

SLAUGHTER (CAN) "Disintegrator/Incinerator"

From the 1987 "Strappado" LP.  Gods.  From Canada.  Dives.  Third Harmonic Dives.

AUTOPSY (USA/CA) "Twisted Mass of Burnt Decay"

From the 1991 "Mental Funeral" LP.  I remember I used to listen to music while at work as the manager of a convenient store, and I also remember doing my best to exercise caution as to what I was playing so I wouldn't freak customers out.  I exercised no caution on the day I received this advance tape and listened for the first time.

MC

If you're still listening...thanks a lot!

THERION (SWE) "A Suburb to Hell"

From the 1990 "Of Darkness..." LP.  This band has changed a lot, but this album was, to me, their finest hour.

CARNIVORE (USA/NY) "Technophobia"

From the 1987 "Retaliation" LP.  A tribute to Peter Steele (RIP 1962-2010), this album was his best work and the bass sound on it, second only to that of REPULSION.

KREATOR (GER) "Riot of Violence"

From the 1987 "Pleasure to Kill" LP.  But, of course.  What you don't know is that there is a valid connection between Kreator and Macabre, but I don't have the time or the space to explain it.

MC

No luck for the Padres tonight.  So, what are you drinking?

CARDIAC ARREST (USA/IL) "Make Them Die Slowly"

From the 2008 "Cadaverous Presence" CD.  I dedicated this one to Jim ".50 caliber drummer" Deabenderfer, and to the entire band: Adam, Tom, and Holland.  Great guys, and a prime example of how some folks take the pride of Chicago seriously.  I love it, love it ALL.

If you like something on the show, please, go buy it (if it's available).  If you own something on the show and don't want me to play it, please let me know.