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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]
In 1983, they released their debut album, Heavy Metal Maniac. [ 7 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Exciter signed a record deal with Jon Zazula's Megaforce Records the year after based on the promise of tour support [ 12 ] and, in 1984, released their second album, Violence & Force . [ 7 ]
Headbangers Ball is a music television program that consists of heavy metal music videos airing on MTV and its global affiliates. [1] The show began on MTV on April 18, 1987, [2] playing heavy metal music videos from both well-known and more obscure artists.
Founded in 1989 by Mike 'G' Greenblatt and Katherine Ludwig of Metal Shop. [1] Where its sister publication Metal Edge largely covered glam metal, Metal Maniacs focused largely on covering the more extreme sub-genres of heavy metal such as thrash and death metal genres. [2]
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 ...
Exciter – Heavy Metal Maniac; Fastway – Fastway; Fighter – No Pain No Gain; Fist (Can) – In the Red; Lita Ford – Out for Blood; Girlschool – Play Dirty; Gotham City - Black Writs (EP) Grand Prix - Samurai; Great White – Out of the Night (EP) Grim Reaper – See You in Hell; HSAS – Through the Fire; Hanoi Rocks – Back to ...
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States. [2] With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock and acid rock, heavy metal bands developed a thick, monumental sound characterized by distorted guitars, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats and loudness.
Violence & Force is the second studio album by the Canadian speed metal band Exciter, released through Megaforce Records in February 1984. The album was produced by The Rods drummer Carl Canedy, who had already produced Anthrax's debut album Fistful of Metal.