Venom’s professional recording debut was the 1981 single ” In League with Satan / Live Like an Angel “, which was released by Neat Records . Later that year they released their full-length debut album, Welcome to Hell .
Witch drummer Punky Peru (Perry Boyer) was part of the first Leatherwolf line-up in 1981 along with bassist Jerome Sevron (Jammin’ Gyro), Scott Moore and Geoff Gayer on guitars and vocalist Carl Detkin. This line-up was very short-lived and already the same year Matt Hurich joined on bass, Dean Roberts…
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Alex Henderson, writing for AllMusic , said they started in 1981 in Los Angeles, California, but Kuehnemund herself denied this. In 1984, an early version of the band with Kuehnemund, singer Janet Gardner , bassist Pia Maiocco, drummer Laurie Hedlund, and rhythm guitarist/singer-songwriter Tamara “Tammy” Ivanov appeared in the movie…
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For its next album, the band worked again with producer Ezrin, with whom Kiss had found success on Destroyer . Early press reports indicated that the new album would be a return to the hard rock style that had originally brought the band success. However, 1981’s Music from “The Elder”…
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Jag Panzer came together in late 1981, being inspired by the onslaught of the new wave of British heavy metal . The original lineup consisted of Harry Conklin on vocals (later nicknamed “Tyrant”), Mark Briody, the sole guitarist of the group in its first incarnation, John Tetley (bassist) and Rick…
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In 1981, Accept’s third studio album, Breaker , was released, and the band employed manager Gaby Hauke . The same year, Accept served as a supporting act on Judas Priest ‘s World Wide Blitz Tour , and obtained attention outside of Europe for the first time.
With an interpretation of “No Quarter” by Led Zeppelin , “Child in Time” by Deep Purple and “Catch the Rainbow” by Rainbow , David got the vacant role of singer, bringing with him bassist Joe O’Reilly. At the end of 1981 the first line-up was ready.
Icon was formed in 1981 in Phoenix, Arizona , by high school friends Dan Wexler (guitar), Stephen Clifford (lead vocals) and Tracy Wallach (bass).
Metallica was formed in Los Angeles in late 1981 when Danish drummer Lars Ulrich placed an advertisement in a Los Angeles newspaper, The Recycler , in which the advertisement read, “Drummer looking for other metal musicians to jam with Tygers of Pan Tang , Diamond Head and Iron Maiden .”…
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The planned North American tour was cancelled, and despite rumours that Cozy Powell , Carmine Appice , Barriemore Barlow , Simon Kirke , Ric Lee or Bev Bevan would join the group as his replacement, the remaining members decided to disband. A 4 December 1980 press statement stated that, “We…
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