In addition to songs like “Corruption” and “Living Dead” – linked to TV smashing and automobile destruction – “Butcher Baby” featured a chainsaw sawing through a guitar, in place of a guitar solo, which was replicated during live shows. The Plasmatics visited the UK for a tour, which met with…
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Maggots: The Record was recorded in 1987 and set 25 years in a future where environmental abuse and the burning of fossil fuels have created a greenhouse effect leading to an end of the world scenario. Called by many the first “thrash metal opera”, the central theme of the album…
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Review copies were sent out to the various media outlets. Malcolm Dome, a reviewer for Kerrang! magazine, had picked the WOW album as his album of the year. Williams received a Grammy nomination for ‘Best Female Rock Vocal’ in 1985.
Beech had rejoined the band to both tour and play on the next album where the re-formed four-piece band became a centerpiece for perhaps the most complex arrangements in the band’s career. After the archetypal minimalism, both lyrically and musically of Kommander , the new album, which would again carry…
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During the last part of the tour, Swenson was contacted by American singer, songwriter and record producer Dan Hartman ‘s office, asking for a meeting with Williams and Swenson. Hartman, who produced 38 Special , James Brown , and others, had been working on a session in LA when he…
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The 1984 World Tour continued with the bold slogan “Down On Your Knees and Pledge Allegiance!”.
By the spring of 1982, a worldwide deal was signed with Capitol Records, and Dan Hartman offered to produce a demo of the album for Capitol with Swenson at Electric Lady Studios , Jimi Hendrix ‘s old studio, in New York. The whole album was arranged, recorded and mixed within…
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In 1982, Kiss asked for Williams and the Plasmatics to appear as a special guest on their tour. Kiss wanted the controversial street edge that Williams would bring as part of their tour and for the Plasmatics it was a chance to play in front of different audiences in different…
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In 1982, Lemmy of Motörhead was approached by his label to do a follow-up to his successful Motörhead/Girlschool collaboration , St. Valentine’s Day Massacre EP and Motörhead’s manager Doug Smith got in touch with Rod Swenson in the States and proposed a duet of the country classic ” Stand by…
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In October 1981, the band made an appearance on the Fishin’ Musician segment of SCTV on NBC, shortly after the release of Metal Priestess .