JudasPriestRocks
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Couldn't see a thread about this band anywhere, so here goes...
Discography
1986: Vinnie Vincent Invasion
1988: All Systems Go
This band was formed after guitarist Vinnie Vincent was kicked out of Kiss around 1983. They were completely over the top with outrageous shred guitar solos and screeching vocals, but they had the songs and the riffs to back it up.
Not a classic band by any stretch of the imagination, but their stuff is fun to listen to. I seriously dig their first album with Robert Fleischman on vocals. It has an awesome metallic crunch to it, the riffs are good, the songs are catchy and it was a lot more heavy & aggressive than the other hair metal bands of the time.
On their second album they replaced Robert Fleischman with Mark Slaughter. The story was that they had originally wanted Slaughter as their vocalist, but the demo tape he sent them didn't have a name on it, so they hired Robert Fleischman to sing like him on the first album, and then let him go after the first album as soon as they located Slaughter.
I don't like their second album as much as the first one, they seemed to lose a lot of their uniqueness and became more in line with the generic hair metal bands of the time - more soft songs, weaker production, etc.
Anyway, some of their best songs:
<--- The sound quality on this video is slightly off, but good song regardless.
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Thoughts?
Discography
1986: Vinnie Vincent Invasion
1988: All Systems Go
This band was formed after guitarist Vinnie Vincent was kicked out of Kiss around 1983. They were completely over the top with outrageous shred guitar solos and screeching vocals, but they had the songs and the riffs to back it up.
Not a classic band by any stretch of the imagination, but their stuff is fun to listen to. I seriously dig their first album with Robert Fleischman on vocals. It has an awesome metallic crunch to it, the riffs are good, the songs are catchy and it was a lot more heavy & aggressive than the other hair metal bands of the time.
On their second album they replaced Robert Fleischman with Mark Slaughter. The story was that they had originally wanted Slaughter as their vocalist, but the demo tape he sent them didn't have a name on it, so they hired Robert Fleischman to sing like him on the first album, and then let him go after the first album as soon as they located Slaughter.
I don't like their second album as much as the first one, they seemed to lose a lot of their uniqueness and became more in line with the generic hair metal bands of the time - more soft songs, weaker production, etc.
Anyway, some of their best songs:
<--- The sound quality on this video is slightly off, but good song regardless.
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Thoughts?
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