So blame the scrappy ethos of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal for amateurish numbers like “Dancin’” and “All the Way,” but not these blessed kids -- they were just trying to bring some sunny, Hollywood party anthems to the dreary north of England.
And, to be fair, despite the minimal production (and rehearsal!), there’s no shortage of spark and spunk to “Let’s Get This Show On The Road” and “All Systems Go (Full Scale Emergency),” where guitarist Dave Paxton does his best, baby E.V.H.
In any case, the boys in Hellanbach proceeded to head out on tour with label mates Raven, then captured a sophomore album, entitled The Big H, in 1984; but this actually showed a regression from their debut (If you can believe that), and the band quietly broke up soon after.
More N.W.O.B.H.M.: Angel Witch’s Angel Witch, Aragorn’s “Black Ice,” Bitches Sin’s Predator, Blind Fury’s Out of Reach, Blitzkrieg’s A Time of Changes, Chateaux’s Chained and Desperate, Cloven Hoof’s Cloven Hoof, Dark Star’s Dark Star, Def Leppard’s High ‘n’ Dry, Demon’s Night of the Demon, Diamond Head’s “Lightning to the Nations,” Dragonslayer's Dragonslayer, Ethel the Frog’s Ethel the Frog, Fist’s Turn the Hell On, Gaskin’s End of the World, Girlschool’s Demolition, Grim Reaper’s See You in Hell, Heavy Pettin’s Heavy Pettin, Holocaust’s The Nightcomers, Iron Maiden’s Iron Maiden, Jaguar’s Power Games, Legend’s Legend, Limelight’s Limelight, Mama’s Boys’ Plug it In, More’s Warhead, Pagan Altar's Judgement of the Dead, Persian Risk's Rise Up, Praying Mantis’ Time Tells No Lies, Raven’s Rock Until You Drop, Ritual’s Widow, Rock Goddess’ Rock Goddess, Samson’s Head On, Satan’s Court in the Act, Savage’s Loose ‘n Lethal, Saxon’s Saxon, Sledgehammer’s “Sledgehammer,” Tank's Filth Hounds of Hades, Tokyo Blade’s Tokyo Blade, Trespass’ “One of These Days,” Tygers of Pan Tang’s Wild Cat, Tysondog’s Beware of the Dog, Tytan’s Rough Justice, Vardis’ 100 M.P.H., Venom’s Black Metal, Warfare’s Metal Anarchy, White Spirit’s White Spirit, Witchfinder General’s Death Penalty, Witchfynde’s Give ‘em Hell.
