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10 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

Whether this is your channel or just a favoured channel, it is still getting promotion - hence moved to the promo thread.

No problem, just looking for stuff to share in case someone interested, trying to add a bit more to the forum andhopefully attract more interaction and new members, this is material I usually check out 🤘

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On 6/29/2024 at 4:28 PM, AlSymerz said:

Manilla Road. That's one band I could never get into. Don't know what it was, I tried quite a few times to listen to their stuff but nothing ever clicked.

Have to agree with you, always hear about them being referenced as trailblazers, I don't get the hype honestly 🤷‍♂️ 

Metal School - Running Wild: The Origin of Pirate Metal

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8 hours ago, AlSymerz said:

Now Running Wild I can get along with.

I remember buying Gates of Purgatory on import from Record Peddler, Brian the owner who is a local metal legend here used to preorder vinyl for us and most metal could only be found on import here early 80's late 70's. He is in Eve of Darkness the book on the early metal scene in Toronto, in fact a lot of my friends contributed material to make the book and were in a lot of the bands the deluxe has collectibles, its a good read on the early metal scene. My son plays bass and wants to do Prisoners of our Time with me, it was the first song I learned from the album 🤘

https://www.amazon.ca/Eve-Darkness-Toronto-Heavy-Metal/dp/1999388518    

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I remember buying Gates of Purgatory on import from Record Peddler, Brian the owner who is a local metal legend here used to preorder vinyl for us and most metal could only be found on import here early 80's late 70's. He is in Eve of Darkness the book on the early metal scene in Toronto, in fact a lot of my friends contributed material to make the book and were in a lot of the bands the deluxe has collectibles, its a good read on the early metal scene. My son plays bass and wants to do Prisoners of our Time with me, it was the first song I learned from the album 🤘

https://www.amazon.ca/Eve-Darkness-Toronto-Heavy-Metal/dp/1999388518    

We didn't here much RW here in OZ until Under Jolly Roger came out and everyone wanted it because it came with a warning on the cover about the cannon noises at the start.

 

14 minutes ago, RexKeltoi said:

Metal School Manowar

A band I unfortunately have never seen 

They'd be worth seeing. I've got several of their live DVD's and they always put on a good show.

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11 hours ago, AlSymerz said:

We didn't here much RW here in OZ until Under Jolly Roger came out and everyone wanted it because it came with a warning on the cover about the cannon noises at the start.

 

They'd be worth seeing. I've got several of their live DVD's and they always put on a good show.

I thought Canada sucked for getting international metal from the 70's to early 80's, think that is there 3rd 0r 4th album 🤔 Did you have niche music stores where you could order and get imports? I know they were expensive here back then, sometimes $40 for an album that would cost under $10 domestic. I could have waited a year or more to get Gates on domestic but my circle were either hanging out at the Record Peddler, Long and McQuade checking out guitar and gear or seeing a show sometimes all 3 in the same day. Music was our life and everyone wanted to be the 1st to own a copy so Import prices were nothing to sweat about, we wore the same plain t shirts jeans and leather jackets for years, not wasting money on clothes allowed us the freedom to do all these things back then. I think we used to leave a 50% deposit when ordering imports.

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The 70's and 80's were a different time. I don't think any country had a huge international scene, we certainly didn't because we were too far away. Bands like AC/DC managed a few tours but they spent the best part of a decade away from home to become an over night success in other countries. Into the early 80's we had other bands try the AC/DC formula and not succeed. But all that lead to a stronger local scene.

We didn't have many bands tour here either, but it did happen. Black Sabbath toured here in the early 70's and were in total awe of a guy named Billy Thorpe who headlined the festival they played at. In the mid 80's we had a few thrash bands tour but nothing huge and it wasn't until Metallica broke the world with Justice that international bands really made a dent.

We had a few radio shows through the 80's but when anything imported took 6-8 weeks to arrive, and that's if you could get an order sheet for the labels that were selling, many people just didn't bother. There was also several metal shops in the country that handled imports, one of which is still open today, and they sold magazines and records from overseas but everything was 6-8 weeks behind at least. It got better by the late 80's as more tours and more labels signed deals with labels that had a local presence.

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