MANILLA ROAD / CUTTY SARK / WILDFIRE "Heavy Metal Things: Episode 1 Metal From The Eighties" [12" LP, Black Vinyl]
2022 - Epic Heavy/Power from United States | Heavy Metal from Germany
Detailed Description
Heavy Metal Sampler with underground hits and cult songs -includes the "golden eighties" with songs from 1981 to 1988 -vinyl only (no digital version)! -EYECATCHER: attractive cover with homage to the "Stranger Things" series -printed inner sleeve with essay about 80s Metal and many photos -with a new vinyl remaster of the Manilla Road classic "Necropolis" Despite the vinyl boom, which is even more pronounced in scene-heavy music genres than in pop music, there have been few compilations on LP in recent years. Yet compilations were an equally important part of the seventies and eighties, precisely in the time when vinyl was the common medium and a mixtape was just a tape. "Heavy Metal Things" of course alludes to the successful TV series "Stranger Things," which was set in the eighties and created a lifestyle desire all its own among young people. Despite the exciting plot, you experience a time that was simpler and more relaxed in some respects after all - despite the Cold War and unsafe nuclear power plants. The record (and surprisingly even the cassette) belongs to this time, which overlaps with the heyday of heavy metal. In scene circles, therefore, the phrase "golden eighties" often appears, because pretty much every metal subgenre was invented here or at least already sounded. A rough style, partly still ostracized by society, became a commercial success. Even the nineties, peppered with grunge and crossover, could not prevent the return of traditional heavy metal in the 2000s. And through the series "Stranger Things", young people become aware of songs and bands that, as a result, shoot back into the charts after more than 30 years. Nevertheless, the LP "Heavy Metal Things" is not a compilation with the big hits of the mega acts in this segment. On the contrary! It shows which exciting acts from the USA and Europe were not blessed with mass success at first, but have been discovered by curious and interested genre fans in the meantime. So you could see bands like Manilla Road at festivals like Hellfest, Sweden Rock or Maryland Death Fest in the last years. Cult groups like Griffin (USA), Witchfynde, Malleus or Dark Wizard also returned to the stages. The underground is indeed a bigger deal in heavy metal than one would first assume with the term.
