Rising Force won Guitar Player ‘ s award for Best Rock Album and was nominated for a Grammy Award for ‘Best Rock Instrumental’, reaching no. 60 on the Billboard album chart. Yngwie J. Malmsteen’s Rising Force (as his band was thereafter known) next released Marching Out (1985). Then he recruited…
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In February 1988, the Dirty Rotten Imbeciles returned to the studio to record 4 of a Kind . The songs on this album continued in the band’s metal style. They released a music video for the song “Suit and Tie Guy”, and the Dirty Rotten LP was remixed to include…
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Despite the success of Crystal Logic , drummer Rick Fisher did not feel at ease with the way the band was evolving musically. With Fisher agreeing to step down, Shelton and Park went searching for a drummer who could play double bass drums, in accordance with their newly evolving sound.…
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Columbia Records was not interested in releasing the Imaginos project as an Albert Bouchard solo album so it was arranged for the record to be released in 1988 by Columbia as a Blue Öyster Cult album, with some new lead vocal overdubs from Bloom and Roeser and lead guitar overdubs…
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who signed them in the spring of 1988
After Mystification came Out of the Abyss in 1988. The album was initially released by American label Leviathan Records ( David Chastain ‘s) instead of Black Dragon due to their distribution issues. Selling significantly better than Mystification , the album nevertheless was criticized at the time for its overt- thrash…
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The album was recorded towards the end of 1988 in a rustic studio in Rio de Janeiro.
The expanded five piece embarked on a 1988 European tour with Nasty Savage and Exumer ultimately resulting in a ‘unique’ gig (for the time) in Katowice , Poland, at Spodek Stadium. This show was recorded for live TV/video. On completion of the tour, the band folded in 1988.
In 1988, after four years with the German power metal band Helloween , guitarist and songwriter Kai Hansen decided to leave the group. Hansen claimed that Helloween had become too big for him to handle, although the group’s troubles with financial issues and their record company, Noise Records , most…
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In the fall of 1988, the band went on yet another European tour, now as headlining act, named “Pumpkins Fly Free Tour”