Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares - Vinyle Violet Neon

Description

This compilation, as well as the cover, immediately sets the tone: sensitive souls beware! What we have here is a collection of unknown bands, whose lifespan was very short, but who contributed considerably to shaping metal. We tend to believe — wrongly — that the foundations of heavy metal were laid by Blue Cheer’s famous Vincebus Eructum and especially Black Sabbath with their first 5 albums. The contribution of the latter is undeniable, but they are just the tip of the iceberg! Many bands around the world, as early as the late 60s, were creating music built on heavy guitars, rough vocals and snarling rhythm sections... Tony Iommi of Black Sab was certainly a magician, but his riffs did not come out of nowhere. Listening to this excellent compilation — musically speaking, but also because of the research work of its initiators — and leafing through the booklet, we put a name and faces to all these unknown soldiers (most of them dead). The first soldiers of metal, a true foreign legion! The Portuguese Xarhanga, the Austrians Novak's Kapelle, the Germans Gift or Acid, the English Brass Alley or Sardonicus, the Americans Whistler's Mother, Supa Chief, TNS, Mass Temper, Goliath, Bulbous Creation, Ritual or Gollum.