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Heavy Metal Maniac is the debut studio album by the Canadian speed metal band Exciter, released through Shrapnel Records in 1983. The album was reissued by Megaforce Records in 2005. [4] Heavy Metal Maniac was inducted into the Decibel Magazine Hall of Fame in a special issue regarding the Top 100 Old-School Metal Albums of All Time. [5]
Exciter is a Canadian speed metal band from Ottawa, Ontario, formed in 1978.Named after a song by Judas Priest, [2] they are considered to be one of the first speed metal bands [3] and cited as a seminal influence on the thrash metal genre.
He also wrote The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time (2010). Popoff put together this book by requesting thousands of heavy metal fans, musicians, and journalists to send in their favorite metal songs. Almost 18,000 individual votes were tallied and entered into a database from which the final rankings were derived.
Helix – “Heavy Metal Love” (1983) Forget hair metal balladry on their big day. You gotta tap into uncut himbo rocking, and Helix’s “Heavy Metal Love” delivers that covered in drool ...
This list of performances on Top of the Pops is a chronological account of popular songs performed by recording artists and musical ensembles on Top of the Pops, a weekly BBC One television programme that featured artists from the UK Singles Chart.
The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company , the data is based on each song's weekly physical sales, digital downloads (since 2007) and streams (since 2015), and is currently published every Friday. [ 1 ]
Mass (Ger) - Metal Fighter; Max Havoc – Max Havoc; Max Lynx – Take One; McCoy – McCoy (EP) Mercyful Fate – Melissa; Metallica – Kill 'Em All; Metal Massacre - Metal Massacre III (Compilation, various artists) Metal Massacre - Metal Massacre IV (Compilation, various artists) Mindless Sinner – Master of Evil (EP) Molly Hatchet – No ...
The band hit the Billboard Hot 100 with "Midnite Maniac" from that album, becoming the first Swiss act to do so. Capitalizing on the wave of success enjoyed by heavy metal in the mid-1980s, the band then released Change of Address in 1986, which featured a cover of the Alice Cooper standard "School's Out". The album production was way too clean ...