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Features, Interviews

Music Luminaries Share Their New Year’s Metal Resolutions for 2012: Part 1

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With Christmas now out of the way and Chanukah pretty close to ending as well our minds gets focused on the plans for the coming new year. We seem to always strive to change something in ourselves or do things a little differently from before when a new year begins and this got me to thinking a little bit. I wondered aloud about what the New Years Metal Resolutions for 2012 might be for some of the talented people that I have been fortunate enough to meet or communicate with in my role as founder of the PiercingMetal.com website. With that in mind I put the question out there and asked them to complete the sentence “My New Year’s Metal Resolution for 2012 Is….”

The first few responses are below and I’ll be adding a new post each day as 2011 counts down toward its close. I hope you enjoy them.

Carmine Appice (legendary drummer of Cactus, Vanilla Fudge, King Kobra, Blue Murder (whew…): My New Year’s Musical Resolution for 2012 Is to play with an even wider variety of artists and musicians.

Zak Stevens (lead vocals for Circle II Circle): My New Year’s Metal Resolution is to bring my music to as many fans in the world as possible this year. This is one of those “be careful what you asked for” years….Even though the task is daunting, it’s time to bring things to a new level in 2012! Horns up and pierce the world with metal!!

Brian Tatler (lead guitar for Diamondhead): My New Years Metal Resolution is… to keep looking out for new and interesting bands and to keep the Diamond Head flag flying for as long as possible. Thanks.
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Reviews, Videos

“Bootlegged In Boston 1988” by Hades

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Artist: Hades
Title: “Bootlegged In Boston 1988”
Label: Cruz Del Sur Music
Release Date: 11/2008
Genre: Heavy Metal
Rating: 2.5/5

Capturing New Jersey’s own Metal sons Hades in action way back in time when the group opened a set for Manowar and Nuclear Assault comes “Bootlegged In Boston 1988”. The title makes no bones about this being a bootleg as the film is definitely taken from the audience somewhere and often confuses the viewer with fast pans to the left, right, up, down and well, you get the picture. Of course while this kind of bootleg film does not always appeal to me I was happy to see that these guys dug up some vintage footage for their fans who are probably finding themselves pining for the “could have been” nature of the band. For their time of existence as Hades they were a top notch outfit of traditional sounding Thrash Metal with a nice dose of your Old School vibe tossed in for good measure. Of course in 1988 these aspects of Metal were neither traditional nor old school and very simply were how this stuff was being done by many bands that were performing on the stages of the day. The members of the band were Alan Tecchio (vocals), Dan Lorenzo (guitar), Ed Fuhrman (guitar), Tom Coombs (drums), and Jimmy Schulman (bass) and while they had been building a steady fan base they would disband in 1989. Their brief return years later would find a few albums released and again a parting of the ways. Lorenzo then formed Non-Fiction and most recently The Cursed with Overkill’s Bobby Blitz and this film, while not for everyone based on the overall content and quality, is a nice way to remember the group in their early years. Visually this drove me a little batty at times because of the club spotlights and the all too quick shifts in the camera angle. Of course we are probably dealing with a friend of the band whose task it was to document the gig for them. The audio aspect was surprisingly good and that I did not expect especially after seeing hundreds of bootleg video recordings over the years with absolutely dismal sound. The band pounds through seven tracks which appears to be the full set that they did for the show they were the opener on.
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