Pride Before A Fall – The Lost Album

Przenosimy sie do początku lat 80-tych gdy na nowej fali brytyjskiego heavy metalu wypłynęła grupa Stormtrooper!!

Na płycie znajdziecie zremasterowane nagrania z lat 1980-1981,

Cast your mind back to a time when new music was coming at the public in ‘waves’. First there was the ‘new wave’ of punk rock. Then 1979 and into the early 1980’s, taking its’ cue from those shorter haired thrashings, the then mighty music press in the form of Sounds came up with the laborious name of the ‘New Wave Of British Heavy Metal’ for the deluge of new rock bands that were emerging from all over the country.

In a story that is little appreciated, bar amongst the bands’ fiercest fans, Bristol’s very own Stormtrooper were ahead of the ‘N.W.O.B.H.M’, as they had originally formed in the mid 1970’s. But they were right in there more than holding their own with the likes of Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, Saxon and Motorhead in terms of seeing their music released in the slip-stream of that catch-all ‘brand identity’.

Bristol as a city has no claim to being a rock stronghold, but the band didn’t let that hold their campaign back. Their passion, talent and ambition enabled them to launch themselves to gain recognition, and their hard work and blistering live shows paid off when ‘Pride Before A Fall’ became one of the singles released through the unlikely means of local Heartbeat Records operation, run by Simon Edwards in Bristol.

‘Pride’ roared its’ way into the ‘Heavy Metal’ chart at 23…  more

credits

released August 19, 2016

Colin Bond – Bass: Rickenbacker 4000

Synthesisers: Moog Taurus, Moog Prodigy

Affects: Colorsound Flanger

Amplification: Hiwatt/WEM

Bob Starling – Guitars: Gibson Les Paul SG, Gibson Firebird,

Yamaha Acoustic

Amplification: Marshall/Vox

Affects: MXR micro amp, Cry Baby wah wah,

Coloursound delay and Flanger

Nick Hancox – Drums: Sonar

Paul Merrell – Vocals: Sure

Tracks 1, 5, 6, 7 Recorded at Crescent Studios, Bath, March 1980

Produced by Stormtrooper

Engineered by Glen Tommey

Tracks 2, 8, 9 Recorded at Crescent Studios, Bath, April 1981

Produced by Stormtrooper

Engineered by Glen Tommey

Tracks 3, 4 Recorded at S.A.M Studios, Bristol, July 1981

Produced by Stormtrooper

Engineered by Steve Street

Photography Credits: Julia Bond, Karen Starling, Stormtrooper and anybody else we could trust with our camera's.

All songs published by Archive Publishing Ltd 2016

All recordings owned by Stormtrooper and exclusively licensed to Bristol Archive Records  

Artwork designed by Sam Giles samgilesdesign@gmail.com

All tracks mastered by Steve Street