Acid Reign

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Acid Reign
General information
Genre (s) Thrash metal , speed metal , crossover
founding 1985, 2015
resolution 1991
Website http://www.acidreign.co.cc/
Founding members
Howard "H" Smith
Mark Ramsey Wharton (until 1991)
Ian Gangwer (until 1988)
Gary "Gaz" Jennings (until 1988)
Current occupation
singing
 Howard "H" Smith
guitar
 Cookey (since 2015)
guitar
 Paul Chanter (since 2015)
bass
 Pete Dee (since 2015)
Drums
 Marc Jackson (since 2015)
former members
guitar
 Kevin "Kev" Papworth (1987-1991)
guitar
 Adam Lehan (1988-1991)
bass
 Ian "Mac" MacDonald (1988–1991)

Acid Reign was a British thrash metal band from Harrogate that was formed in 1985 and split in 1991.

history

Development phase (1985–1987)

Acid Reign was founded by Mark Ramsey Wharton (drums, keyboards), Ian Gangwer (electric bass), Howard "H" Smith (vocals), and Gary "Gaz" Jennings (electric guitar, later a member of Cathedral ). Kevin Papworth joined the band in 1987 as the second guitarist.

Rise and separation (1987–1991)

In 1987 the band released their first demo called Moshkinstein . Impressed by this demo tape, the British thrash metal label Under One Flag (sub-label of Music for Nations ) signed the band. In 1988 she released the EP Moshkinstein . After this release, guitarist Jennings left the band and was replaced by Adam Lehan (previously with Lord Crucifier , later also with Cathedral). She then played as the opening act for bands like Flotsam and Jetsam and Death Angel . Acid Reign also developed friendships with other bands on the label such as Nuclear Assault and Exodus and toured Europe with them .

The band released their debut album The Fear in 1989. To promote the new album, the band went on tour through Europe again with Nuclear Assault, along with the bands Dark Angel and Candlemass . Meanwhile, bassist Ian "Mac" MacDonald replaced the previous bassist Gangwer. The second album Obnoxious was released in 1990.

The band disbanded in 1991 after separating from Music for Nations. She played her last concert at the Marquee Club in London .

After the separation (1991-today)

After the band split up, Papworth joined the band Lawnmower Deth . Wharton played at Cathedral and joined the band Cronos . Smith starred in the comedy program "Keith Platt - Professional Yorkshireman".

Acid Reign released remastered reissues of their albums and EPs on January 17th, 2011 on Lost & Found Records . It was mastered by producer Bill Metoyer ( Slayer , DRI , Flotsam and Jetsam) at Skull Seven Studios .

In September / October 2010 Smith worked with the Italian thrash metal band Satanika . Smith took over the vocals on one of their songs.

Reunification (from 2015)

In May 2015, Howard "H" Smith announced that he would revive the band. The line-up is completely new, there is no musician from the time before the dissolution.

style

In their lyrics, the musicians dealt with various topics such as censorship (e.g. in the song "Creative Restraint") or the rejection of nuclear tests ("Joke Chain"). Topics from science fiction (“Phantasm”) were also used. Furthermore, the songs are characterized by a certain kind of humor, an example of this is This Is Serious , the bonus track of the album Obnoxious . They played a technically demanding form of thrash metal. Another characteristic of the band is the high speed of the pieces. Mark Day compared the band to DRI and Gang Green .

In the biggest German metal magazines, Acid Reign's raison d'etre was (initially) questioned. In Rock Hard , Götz Kühnemund initially said the band had a special place in the Thrash scene. Then she even considered Frank Albrecht to be “more than superfluous”. In between, Frank Trojan wrested the attribute “capable of development” from himself. However, this was followed by the accusation of "having hardly any ideas of my own, mediocre songwriting and [...] conforming with it, lacking wit" by Wolfgang Schäfer. In the Metal Hammer the band was devalued by Uwe “Buffo” Schnädelbach: The substance of their compositions is acceptable, but the musicians are mere epigones with a “completely unsuccessful drum sound” and an incompetent singer. Oliver Klemm later wrote that although the record releases were weak, the mediocre songs ignited live and that the editors had probably prematurely judged the quality of Acid Reign.

Discography

Albums

Compilations

  • 1991: The Worst of Acid Reign (Under One Flag)

Demos, singles and EPs

  • 1987: Moshkinstein (demo, self-published)
  • 1988: Moshkinstein (EP, Under One Flag)
  • 1989: Humanoia (EP, Under One Flag)
  • 1989: Hanging on the Telephone (Single, Under One Flag)

Split releases

  • 1990: Kerrang! Plastic Explosive (together with Testament )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from January 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.tvcoast.com/acid-reign/biography.html ( Memento from September 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ http://www.comedycv.co.uk/howardsmith/index.html
  4. ↑ http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=153064 ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/uk-thrashers-acid-reign-are-back/
  6. ↑ http://www.metalcrypt.com/pages/review.php?revid=1814
  7. ^ Mark Day: Acid Reign . We have our own sound. In: Metal Hammer / Crash . No. 9/1989 , April 21, 1989, pp. 38 f .
  8. ↑ Götz Kühnemund: Acid Reign . The Fear. In: Rock Hard . May / June, No. 32 , 1989, pp. 46 .
  9. ^ Frank Albrecht: Speed ​​Kills 6 . Sampler. In: Rock Hard . No. 69 , February 1993, Record Review, pp. 86 .
  10. ^ Frank Trojan: Acid Reign . Obnoxious. In: Rock Hard . No. 39 , May 1990, Record Review, pp. 46 .
  11. ↑ Buffo [Schnädelbach]: Acid Reign . The Fear. In: Metal Hammer . No. 7/1989 , March 23, 1989, pp. 46 .
  12. ↑ Oliver Klemm: Nuclear Assault, Dark Angel, Acid Reign . Colliery, Bochum. In: Metal Hammer / Crash . No. 23/1989 , November 3, 1989, pp. 84 f .
  13. ↑ Barry Lazell: Indie Hits 1980-1999 . Cherry Red Books, 1997, ISBN 0-9517206-9-4 .