![]() ![]() If you are particularly interested in this one, you might like to check out the US A.O.R. The efforts of reissue labels, and more recently the powers of internet exposure, have thankfully made it easy for everyone to now appreciate how good some of those records are! ![]() Others only made private pressings for gigs and friends, destined to go no further than the shelves of local fans and later, those of avid record collectors. The world's focus didn't fall upon many of them, most would sign to regional record labels and only have local success. American underground metal was exploding in popularity, bands were getting heavier and more skilled, Van Halen broke through were Montrose didn't do so well. The UK, and also Germany, were responsible for many of the famous technically-accomplished and speedy metal bands in the latter-half 1970s, but it was happening everywhere else too. Included here are a few conversations I've had with band members of Alkana, Axxe, Squadran and Tyranny. All the facets of those cutting-edge bands can be found among the lesser-known and never-known US bands I have included on this volume grand fantastical themes, guitar harmonies, galloping riffs and histrionic power metal vocals included. Heavy metal continued to evolve in the mid-seventies with bands like Rush, Thin Lizzy, Scorpions, UFO, Judas Priest and Rainbow upping the ante on each record.
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