The inaugural Headbangers Ball Tour started in April 1989 with Helloween joining San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal band Exodus in support of headlining act Anthrax . The band was slotted in the prestigious second spot, right before Anthrax’s set. On the heels of this exposure to U.S. audiences, the…
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including the March 16 show at Shibuya Public Hall
X’s sold out Blue Blood Tour started on March 13
After almost a year of writing and practicing in the Palmer’s living room, the guys recorded 10 songs on a demo tape under the name K.G.B., but it was never circulated. Soon after, Kirk Palmer left the band and was replaced by his brother Trevor. In 1986, The Crucified gathered…
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During the March 1989 auditions for a new lead guitarist, Mustaine was arrested for driving under the influence and possession of narcotics after crashing into a parked vehicle occupied by an off-duty police officer.
Accept’s career came to a sudden halt when Stefan Kaufmann sustained a serious injury to his back during the tour in support of the album. He was briefly replaced by House of Lords drummer Ken Mary for the remainder of the US tour. By the time the tour ended in…
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A reviewer has called Ram It Down a “stylistic evolution” that resulted from the band’s “attempt to rid themselves of the tech synthesiser approach … and return to the traditional metal of their fading glory days”. The reviewer argued the album showed “how far behind they were lagging … the…
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For 1989’s Street Ready album, recorded in the Bahamas, the band kept on Beamish as producer, but asked the German expatriate Michael Wagener for the mix. Although the first single/video was the radio-friendly semi-power ballad “Hideaway”, Street Ready saw the band take a step back toward their more metallic roots…
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In 1989, Ralf Dörper initiated a collaboration with Nitzer Ebb on an old Die Krupps track (i.e. “Machineries of Joy”, a newer version of their early-1980s track “Wahre Arbeit, wahrer Lohn”) which he produced together with Jürgen Engler. The chart success of the record ( Billboard charts ) led to…
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When Shaffer reunited with the band, they found a manager and released an EP entitled Love and Peace Dude in 1989 through Triple X Records .