#devil childe

[davey-dammit]

Extracted photos from my old Razr phone from 2007 😯😄

Me at 17 years old

[metalsongoftheday]

Tuesday, August 15: Devil Childe, “Devil Childe”

Jack Starr may have left Virgin Steele on acrimonious terms around 1984, but he couldn’t stop making music: Devil Childe’s self-titled debut was the fourth album Starr recorded in the space of about 18 months. To be fair, Devil Childe was really just a side project for Starr and future Raven drummer Joe Hasselvander, both of whom assumed aliases (Starr went by the imaginative moniker “Lucifer”).  Nonetheless, this material was firmly in Starr’s wheelhouse, and the band’s namesake tune was pure no-frills ‘80s metal- “Devil Childe” might’ve borrowed from Di’Anno-era Maiden, but was fundamentally American in its approach, with Starr, Hasselvander and Ned Meloni bashing away like excitable teenagers, which was what many thought Devil Childe consisted of at the time.  Jack Starr clearly could not be stopped, but it was this sort of tenaciousness that kept metal roaring at all levels back then.

[george-fertakis]