List of biker metal bands
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This is a list of biker metal bands. Biker metal is a fusion genre of punk rock, heavy metal, rock and roll, and blues.
- The Almighty[1]
- Anti-Nowhere League[2][3]
- Black Label Society[4][5]
- Black Moth[6]
- Chrome Division[7][8]
- Girlschool[9][10][2]
- The Godz[11]
- The Gone Jackals[12]
- Earthride[13]
- High Rise[14]
- Iggy Pop[15]
- Kïll Cheerleadër[16]
- Kylesa[17]
- Loudmouth[18]
- Malignant Tumour[2]
- Metallica[19][20]
- Motörhead[26]
- The Obsessed[27]
- Orange Goblin[28]
- Plasmatics[29][2]
- Axel Rudi Pell
- Rogue Male[30]
- Saxon[31]
- Sea Hags[32]
- Spread Eagle[15]
- Steve Jones[33]
- Tank[34]
- Turbonegro[8]
- Tygers of Pan Tang[35]
- Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction[15]
References
- ↑ Grinder, Sleaze. "Flash Metal Suicide: The Almighty". Classic Rock. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
Otherwise, it's state of the art biker metal, right down to the ridiculous hollow-drum production.
- 1 2 3 4 Smith, E.R. Extreme Metal: The Story of Punk and Metal's Interwoven History.
- ↑ DISTEFANO, ALEX (May 16, 2014). "TSOL and Anti-Nowhere League – The Observatory – May 16, 2014". OC Weekly.
- ↑ BIENSTOCK, RICHARD. "25 Most Anticipated Metal Albums of 2016". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
Former Ozzy Osbourne guitar man Zakk Wylde spends most of his time these days churning out doomy biker metal with Black Label Society
- ↑ "Ozzfest 2002". Spin.
- ↑ Dome, Malcolm. "Orange Goblin/Karma To Burn/Black Moth at Electric Ballroom, London live review". Classic Rock. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Chrome Division" (Press release).
- 1 2 Popoff, Martin (24 July 2006). "CHROME DIVISION - DOOMSDAY ROCK 'N ROLL". Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
The theme is biker metal, along the lines of Motorhead and Tank meets Turbonegro
- 1 2 McIver, Joel. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
- ↑ Beaumont, Mark (5 August 2016). "Girlschool - Nightmare At Maple Cross / Take A Bite album review". Metal Hammer. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
Failing to graduate alongside contemporaries Motörhead and Maiden, come 1986 they went looking for rejuvenation in their biker metal roots.
- ↑ Grinder, Sleaze (9 December 2016). "Cult Heroes: The Godz - the crazed story of America's great lost biker band". Classic Rock. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
After writing a fistful of screeching biker metal anthems, the band hit the road.
- ↑ MCCAFFREY, RYAN. "RYAN MCCAFFREY'S TOP 50 GAMES OF ALL TIME". IGN. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
Its mix of a dystopian Western setting, Schafer's brilliant writing, gorgeous art direction, a stellar biker-metal soundtrack by The Gone Jackals that was so good I bought the album, and a remarkable voice cast (including a hell of a turn by Mark Hamill as the villainous Adrian Ripburger) made for an unforgettable ride that I still fire up every year or so
- ↑ Yardley, Miranda (24 August 2010). "BAND OF THE DAY: BIKER DOOM LORDS EARTHRIDE". Terrorizer. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- ↑ Gardner, Noel (2016). "The Sound Of Impact: Noise Rock In 1986". The Quietus. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
Which maybe means that it's High Rise who don't belong here... nah, this is zero parallel sense-strafing rock & roll demolition and it deserves to be blasted from every conceivable platform. They used to go by the name Psychedelic Speed Freaks (keeping it for their record label) and it's hard to put it better than that: freeform biker metal blaze with half-submerged vocals and no real beginning or end.
- 1 2 3 Grinder, Sleaze (7 March 2016). "Flash Metal Suicide: Steve Jones". Classic Rock. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
So naturally, Jones wanted to keep the motor revving. And as we rolled into the last gasp of the 80s, biker metal was where it was at. COP, Warrior Soul, Zodiac Mindwarp, Spread Eagle, Horse London, Two Bit Thief, The Cult, Four Horsemen, I mean, everybody had long hair and dangling earrings and black biker boots and snorted whiskey and guzzled gasoline in '89. Biker metal was glam metal gone Mad Max, basically, and 1989 was truly the Year of Manly Living.
- ↑ ""Spin" Goes Back To Beck". Idolator. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
Then he read the text, and learned that Kath used to be known as Ethan Deth, bassist for the biker-metal band Kill Cheerleader.
[dead link] - ↑ WISE, LAUREN. "The 21 Best Heavy Metal Albums of 2013". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
Georgia's pretty damn good at producing great stoner sludge metal: In addition to Mastodon and Baroness there's Kylesa, who fuses basement punk and biker metal on Ultraviolet.
- ↑ McIntyre, Ken. "Almost Famous: Five brilliant 90s bands who shoulda been huge. But weren't". Classic Rock. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- ↑ Plowman, Alec. "How Metallica Could Have Saved "Load" and "Reload"". Ultimate Guitar Archive. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
The albums weren't thrash, but the greasy biker-metal sound the band mostly went for wasn't a complete sonic deviation either.
- ↑ WIEDERHORN, JON (2017). "20 YEARS AGO: METALLICA LOCK AND 'RELOAD'". Loudwire. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
Reload, by contrast, was more experimental, blending biker metal, southern rock and unconventional arrangements into a bracing batch of songs that were familiar, but refreshingly adventurous.
- ↑ Prato, Greg. "Motorhead". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
But still, there's no denying how important and influential this biker metal band has been
- ↑ EPSTEIN, DAN. "Motorhead's Lemmy: 20 Essential Songs". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
A herald of the laid-back biker metal of the band's latter years, "Born to Raise Hell" is a Motörhead classic lacking any pretense.
- ↑ Reynolds, Simon. The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll. Serpent's Tail. p. 107.
- ↑ WIEDERHORN, JON (24 March 2017). "39 YEARS AGO: MOTORHEAD PAVED THE WAY FOR THRASH WITH SECOND ALBUM 'OVERKILL'". Loudwire. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
With their 1977 self-titled debut, Motörhead opened the floodgates for a new style of bluesy, bombastic biker metal, but two years later, on March 24, 1979, they rewrote the rule book altogether with the more urgent, combustive Overkill.
- ↑ Armitage, Ian. Motorhead - Uncensored On the Record.
- ↑ [21][9][22][23][24][25]
- ↑ Law, Sam. "SIX THINGS WE LEARNED AT DESERTFEST 2018". Kerrang!. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- ↑ Berelian, Essi (2005). The Rough Guide to Heavy Metal. Rough Guides. p. 203.
- ↑ Popoff, Martin (2017). Speed Metal.
- ↑ Jones, Martin. Lover, Buggers, and Thieves. Headpress. p. 63.
- ↑ Pehling, Dave (15 April 2018). "British Metal Heroes Saxon Headline Cornerstone In Berkeley". CBS. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
Gritty anthems like "Princess of the Night," "Denim and Leather" and "Wheels of Steel" established the band's biker-metal aesthetic
- ↑ "The Hair Metal 100: Ranking the '80s Greatest Glam Bands, Part 2". VH1. Archived from the original on August 19, 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
One of glam's most fascinating misfires, the diabolically decadent Sea Hags soared up out of pre-grunge Seattle and landed in thrash-era San Francisco, where they won fans with an especially sleaze-basted take on biker metal
- ↑ Jones, Jones. Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol. Da Capo Press.
- ↑ Popoff, Martin. "Hard Reviews by Martin Popoff". Retrieved 23 September 2018.
First up, Tank's This Means War combined a scampered biker metal with epic war tales, sorta like Motorhead crossed with Maiden.
- ↑ Popoff, Martin. "The top 25 NWOBHM records". Goldmine. Retrieved 23 September 2018.