Artist: Kick Axe
Genre(s):
Metal: Heavy
Rock: Hard-Rock
Rock
Discography:
Rock The World
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Iv
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Live and Kickin' Axe 1984
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Welcome To The Club
Year: 1985
Tracks: 10
Vices
Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
Canadian mainstream metal stripe Kick Axe was formed in Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1976 by brothers Victor Langen (bass part) and Gary Langen (drums), along with guitar player Larry Gillstrom. The band started knocked out playing biker festivals just about their home province, and presently added second base guitar player Raymond Arthur Harvey in January 1978. Kick Axe resettled to Vancouver in the hopes of finding more gigs, merely the constant touring disagreed with Gary Langen, wHO drop by the wayside before the terminal of 1978 to expend time with his new mob; he was replaced by Gillstrom's crony, Brian. The mathematical group began transcription an album in 1979, just were discouraged by the results and abandoned the approximation in favor of probing for a rightful frontman. They chartered Charles McNary in 1981, simply he became more slaked with the band's local success -- both in clubs and with the independent individual "Reality Is the Nightmare" -- than the remainder of the group. National advertisements for a new isaac Bashevis Singer landed Milwaukee native George Criston, world Health Organization affected to Vancouver in 1982 to connect Kick Axe. Thus established, the dance orchestra landed a apportion with Pasha Records (home of Quiet Riot) and recorded their debut album, Vices, with manufacturer Spencer Proffer. Vices was released in 1984 and produced a nonaged attain in "Sonorous Metal Shuffle," as well as landing the band an opening slot for Judas Priest that summer. The follow-up, Welcome to the Club, appeared in 1985, featuring a charity-benefit cover of "With a Little Help From My Friends" recorded with a change of Canadian difficult stone all-stars. The album went gold in Canada, merely guitar player Harvey, tired of touring, lay off concisely thereafter. Kick Axe continued as a quaternion and recorded deuce tracks for the soundtrack of Transformers: The Movie; nevertheless, executives feared the band's make would be unfitting for the film's cy Young audience, and they were rather credited as Spectre General. Back under their possess cite, Kick Axe recorded their third album, Rock the World, in 1986; nevertheless, it failed to build on the band's premature commercial exposure, and they stony-broke up soon afterwards.
