DEFENDERS OF METAL

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

HEIR APPARENT (US/WA) IN THE NETHERLANDS (1986)

Groningen, Netherlands, during the Metal Hammer Roadshow Speed + Power Tour in May 1986.

YNGWIE MALMSTEEN (WHIPLASH #1, 1983)

ABSTRACTION [АБСТРАКЦИОН] (RUS)

Heavy Metal band from Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia. The band only release one album from 1987, "Bomb-Architector [Бомба-архитектор]" on reel-to-reel (listen down below).

Monday, April 27, 2026

TYRRANICIDE (US) (NECRONOMICON #2, 1988)

TRYCKVÅG (SWE) "DEMO 1982" [DEMO TAPE]

Genre: Heavy Metal Year: 1982 Country: Sweden Info: Tryckvåg (English: Shock wave) a Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band from Mora, Sweden. Quite successful in the province of Dalarna during the 1980's. The members moved to Stockholm in the mid 80's to make it big, but instead split up and drifted off to other constellations and bands. Höglund and Broman co-founded Great King Rat and 'Attaque' joined the band Mogg, which Broman was also briefly a member of, and left for Los Angeles fame. After putting Great King Rat on ice, Höglund joined UK stadium rockers Thunder in 1993 and Broman replaced Niclas Sigevall as the new drummer in Electric Boys.
Notes: This is great early F.W.O.S.H.M. stuff with great riffs, really good songs, sound quality and also some corny lyrics ("In a Dream" actually makes me blush because of it's corniness). Highly recommended!

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TRACKLIST

1. Are You Receiving Me

2. White Wizard

3. Snowfall

4. In a Dream

5. I Don't Believe in You

6. Chains

7. Princess in a Tower

8. Agony

9. The Magician

10. We Shall Risa Again

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Sunday, April 26, 2026

PETER TÄTGREN OF HYPOCRISY (1988)

Christmas 1988. The school band Meltdown in Florida was just a pastime with friends who would take drummer Peter Tägtgren (far right in the picture) further towards harder heights in Hypocrisy. The other members never made it in the music industry.

CRONOS (VENOM) AND CERNUNNOS (ENTHRONED) (1996)

Backstage from Dynamo Open Air 1996.

CELTIC FROST (METAL AMERICA #2, 1988)

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PUNGENT STENCH

Courtesy of Alex Wank

In August 1987, I visited England for the first time, staying with Mick Harris, among others, who had invited me shortly before. It was a visit that definitely had a profound impact on me and set the course for the near future. I attended Napalm Death & Extreme Noise Terror rehearsals, got to know the Carcass lads and was given lots of demo recordings to listen to. I returned with a bag full of cassettes, became a vegetarian, and my musical path was cemented and confirmed. Six months later, the Stench finally started to take off.

W.A.S.P. ... WHEN CAPITOL REJECTED "ANIMAL (F**K LIKE A BEAST)"

From Sounds magazine in April/May 1984.

Saturday, April 25, 2026

SLAYER "SHOW NO MERCY" ALBUM AD (THE HEADBANGER #7, 1983)

CRIMSON GLORY (METAL HAMMER VOL.6 #12, 1991)

THE RUNAWAYS (W.P.T.B, SPRING 1976)

TOMMY BOLIN "THE ULTIMATE DOCUMENTARY" (1989)

Tommy Bolin - "The Ultimate" Music Link Documentary

Aired: December 15, 1989, KUBD CH 59 Denver CO

From the YouTube Uploader: I recorded this excellent documentary, put together by Mike Drumm, about the amazing Tommy Bolin, when it first aired on December 15, 1989, in conjunction with the release of the Tommy Bolin "The Ultimate" box set. There was ALOT of buzz around this release in Denver at the time, with a very in depth article in Westword appearing in the October 11-17, 1989 issue of that local newspaper and I have included scans of that article at the end of this video. In addition, KDHT 92.5 aired a previously rarely heard Tommy show from Ebbets Field in 1974 (subsequently released through the Tommy Bolin Archives).

As a huge Tommy Bolin fan since high school (1975) this was an AWESOME, very exciting time! Unfortunately the box set didn't sell well and Geffen was done with new Bolin releases. Thank goodness the Tommy Bolin Archives came into fruition and released numerous excellent CDs and Vinyl over the next few decades, and continues to keep his legacy alive on Facebook.

I wanted to transfer this to digital, as I know it is first generation and recorded in SP mode on VHS. This documentary does appear elsewhere on YouTube, broken into segments, although it doesn't seem to be complete. This is the complete show, as broadcast, including the commercials (I enjoy seeing the commercials of the time, particularly on independent stations). Albums On The Hill was my go to store when I went to CU.

A Huge Thanks to Mike Drumm for putting this together way back then.