Some fellow bloggers (from the honorable Something I learned today and Last Days of Man blogs) recently had their first Podcasts and I enjoyed them quite a bit. So here’s mine.
BEHOLD THE SECRET OF STEEL features what I felt like ripping from my Metal collection. I didn’t follow a concept really, I tried to focus on bands that I either knew personally or saw live back in the days of long hair. So things are quite mixed up stylisticly. The rougher stuff will scratch along the genre of Power Metal / Thrash Metal (Overkill and Nasty Savage namely). The time frame is roughly the one from the late 70s to the mid 80s. Metalheads will of course know all of these songs, they’re all considered classic in one way or another.
This time, we have real Metal. No Punk shit, no HC crap – just good ol’HM, sometimes cheesy (Medieval Steel), heartwarmingly naive (Acid), not of this earth (Trouble), lucid and sinister (Nasty Savage) or politically charged (Trust).
So get your airgeetars ready and bang your head!!
Download Podcast (1’01”, 85.6 MB)
1. Intro / BITCHES SIN: Strangers on the Shore (UK, 1980)
2. OSTROGOTH: Full Moon Eyes (Belgium, 1984)
3. FLYTE: Oh for the Brains of a Ludwig (UK, 1983)
4. NASTY SAVAGE: Unchained Angel (USA, 1984)
5. ACID: America (Belgium, 1983)
6. TRUST: Antisocial (France, 1980)
7. OVERKILL: Overkill (USA, 1984)
8. MANILLA ROAD: Necropolis (USA, 1983)
9. WARLORD: Deliver us (USA, 1983)
10. SAVAGE GRACE: Too young to die (USA, 1983)
11. MEDIEVAL STEEL: Medieval Steel (USA, 1984)
12. JAG PANZER: Harder than Steel (USA, 1984)
13. ANGEL WITCH: Baphomet (UK, 1979)
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tasty tasty! total expert selection. hit after hit – so great!!! but wheres Troubble????
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HEAVY METAL IS THE LAW!!!!!
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Some great stuff here, thanks! I look forward to volume 2.
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great kitsch! that band flyte is amazing!
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heavy metal = music for people who can’t cope with reality
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I love it! Will there a be a follow up with some more chattering?
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This is all well and good but when-oh-when will I get to hear those 2 early Bathory comp tracks????
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As soon as we’re ready to unveil more secrets of steel, when we’ve dug ourselves in deeper, I’ll be posting them. They wouldn’t have fit in the first podcast. “Stay tuned” (now that was cheap).
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“heavy metal is stupid-kid music”
kurt cobain
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IRON MAIDEN Reply:
June 22nd, 2016 at 04:42
curt cobain what a morron
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On 13 bands, I think I must know the MUSIC (and not only the NAMES) of… 2 bands.
I guess it’s must be a “Generation thing”. As a 90’s teenager, I was more aware of, let’s say, Prong or Carcass than of Angel Witch or Savage Grave.
Yet, as a every good French metalhead, I had the “Répression dans l’Hexagone” album!
Funny: no Swiis band in this first selection? Oh, Erich, you’re a bad patriot!
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“Oh, Erich, you’re a bad patriot!”
Thanks!
Well, that was only the tip of the iron iceberg. Metal of the 70s / 80s seems to be way more obscured than HC or Punk. Shame.
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who cares about curt cobain? and besiddes: he was very much into metal himself.
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Picard a dit…
“…or Savage GRAVE.”
NOW, that’s a fuckin cool name !
Vacant Grave, beware !!!
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Christ, who cares what some dirty junkie shithead in a crap pop group– like Kurt Cobain– thought about anything?
I think this is great and my tastes are far more important than that dead moron’s.
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how do you listen? do you just download the whole big thing and then play it?
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‘cactly Tom – or you loadd iTunes,go to “Podcasts” and from there you will open it as a stream. That seems to be the best way.
Kurt Cobain was a metalhead. There would be more nice things to say about him, like having released 2 great albums (“Nevermind” and “Unplugged”; two impressive records that will stand the test of time).
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Jag Panzer! Colorado’s finest metal export. Still around at http://www.jagpanzer.com. Oh, I just looked at that site and see that they played in Germany with my favorite contemporary metalband, Lord Weird Slough Feg! Raven? Virgin Steele?
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do you or anybody else has Destrucktions Lp – Vox Populi?
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i really love the voice of the guy on manilla road.
the end of the overkill song is wicked sweet.
keep the obscure metal coming.. please!
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I’m looking forward to throwing this on the ipod and digesting while driving to and from work. Metal is the best remedy for gridlock. Most of these I’ve only heard of, never heard, so this should be interesting.
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Made a CDR with it – FANTASTIC!!! Thanks for this! Great great stuff. Faves being MANILLA ROAD (which albums should I buy?), FLYTE, MEDIEVAL STEEL & SAVAGE GRACE. Can you give more details?
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Blows away all the Punk shit!
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Sometimes cheesy? No, always cheesy!
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There’s nothing wrong with cheese!
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Blows away all the Punk shit! “
nope, just blows shit
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I thought about it for several days and I made my mind: I’m gonna create a metal band called “Savage GRAVE”.
For real.
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Nice to see Ostrogoth (first band I ever saw, in 1983) and Acid in such company!!!
Nice comp, when metal was still metal. (Where’s the mighty Trouble?) In fact metal was a lot more exciting than now. Same goes for punkrock and hardcore …
Danny, Belgium
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Angel Witch is the best metal band and their first l.p. the best album of all times
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Ok, finally bothered to listen to this and guess what: It is fucking good scheiBe! And I like it.
Totally throwing all the punk shit out the window now!
More cheese! Well done.
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don’t listen to too much metal, it will mak
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I really enjoyed this. 80’s Metal is fun. Thanks.
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kurt kobain is a dead asshole
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sorry anonymous you must be a young kid as your head is straight up your burger king ass
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MORE METAL PLEASE! This podcast does taste a little of “irony”, unfortunately… but overall pretty kick-ass.
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And so i remembered…
Where is BEHOLD THE SECRET OF STEEL Vol.2?????????
Volume 1 was so great man….
We are looking forward to it…
Thanks again for your time
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Nikolas: I might be doing a Vol.2 soon.
And Alexander (whose comment I noticed a little late): No, I’m totally unironic when it comes to my love for Metal.
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Admin, we are waiting for the Vol.2……………
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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‘can you give more details’
What would you like to know about Flyte?
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Hi Flyteman: Just about anything and everything! Is there any other material around, like a demo or so? Can I get it and give your (ex?)band the exposure you guys deserved? What’s the band’s history? etc. etc. “Oh for the brains” has always been one of my top top top favourite metal songs ever!
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Hi Erich, I have very little from my Flyte days, I don’t think I even have a copy of the album the track would have been lifted from.
I know there was plenty of demo stuff on tape of some description but as to who has that now I wouldn’t know. Extremely odd feeling to stumble across this after something like a quarter of a centry (ughh).
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And it feels very odd to me too. As soon as the “Metal Warriors” comp. came out and I heard the FLYTE song, I fell totally in love with it. I played it to so many people since and everybody, I think, understood my admiration for it. Especially the “medieval-sounding” intro part is so damn catchy, I’d love to hear more! What did you play? How come such a talented bunch never released anything else?
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I open the guitar riff but didn’t do the solo on this one – we played twin/harmony on most songs with some keys thrown in here and there. I never understood why this track made it to vinyl cos to me the vocals in places are unlistenable – but then I was the newbie and only 17 years old so it was just fun to be there.
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The vocals are the weak part, I’d agree. Still: The song is a total winner and if you could try and dig up the tape, that’d be much, much appreciated. Was there a demo you sent to Ebony? Was this an exclusive recording?
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The whole shooting match will be Ebony’s because Darryl Johnston had a recording studio as well as the label and produced the tracks (we did two) and so I presume he owns(ed) everything. There were some other songs recorded at The Enid’s studio, but I don’t have any of those. I’ll see what I can find out.
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thanks so much for the info, Flyteman! I’m chuffed. Finally, there’s some light coming into one of NWOBHMs mystery band’s history.
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Hi, “Wilko” here. I was the bass player on this track & cannot believe the interest in the band after all these years. I joined after the band recorded “Lonely Is The Night” which was popular @ the time when played at the weekly rock disco @ Leicester Uni. for which the band did the P.A (sound) etc. The rest of the line-up during my time in the band was Tremayne-Vox,Chris-Lead Guitar, Mark-Guitar(later replaced by Andy) & Scotty-Drums. The band were Leicester based & as “Flyteman” (is that you Andy)? correctly stated, did some demos @ The Enids studio which were never released, so “Ludwig” is sadly the bands only released legacy to my knowledge. The songs were great, but the right breaks never came. (Too many “practice room tours”)!! I lost touch with the band after leaving to join “Pretty Wicked” UK (ex Valhalla/Wikkyd Vikker) .. but that’s ANOTHER story! GREAT memories though. “Wilko”…………
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Admin Reply:
March 14th, 2012 at 23:36
hi wilko – if you could provide any demo material (or live or practice recordings), that’d be great and much appreciated!
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Hi Admin.
If it were down to me, then you would have been more than welcome to have all of my old recordings of “Flyte”, but unfortunately, as it was such a long time ago, mine are all on cassette only.
I don’t know if “Flyteman” or any other former members of the band can help you with converted mp3s etc.? I do hope so as your continued support & interest is very much appreciated.
Keep on rockin’!! Best wishes…… WILKO
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Admin Reply:
March 16th, 2012 at 00:46
I could easily convert cassette recordings to mp3. I’ll drop you a mail, hope the adress you left is correct.
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We need Vol. 2 in 2013!!
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