Nuclear power (tape)

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Nuclear power
General information
origin Newcastle upon Tyne , England
Genre (s) Punk (initially), New Wave of British Heavy Metal , Thrash Metal
founding 1979 as Moral Fiber, 2005
resolution 1988
Founding members
Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan
Paul Spillett (until 1984)
Current occupation
Vocals, electric bass, and now also electric guitar
 Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan
Drums
 Steve Mason
Electric guitar (since 2005)
Payre Hulkoffgarden
former members
Electric guitar
 Steve White (1981-1984)
Electric bass
 Mark Irvine (1981)
Drums
 Ged Wolf (1985–1988)
Electric guitar
 Neil Rander (1985)
Electric guitar
 Rob Mathew (1985-1988)
Electric bass
 DCRage (1986–1988)
singing
 Ian Swift (1986-1988)
Drums
 IG (1986)
Electric guitar
 Raggy (1986)
Electric guitar
 Chris Taylor (1979-1980)
Electric guitar
 Sean Drew (1979)
singing
 Alan Hunter (1986)

Atomkraft is a British New Wave of British Heavy Metal and Thrash Metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne that was founded in 1979 under the name Moral Fiber , disbanded in 1988 and reunited in 2005.

history

The band was founded in the summer of 1979 by bassist and singer Tony Dolan and drummer Paul Spillett under the name Moral Fiber, back then as a punk project. After a few line-up changes, Chris Taylor joined the band as a permanent guitarist. After Taylor returned from a trip to Bremen , he brought back badges for Dolan and Spillet that read Atomkraft? No thanks . Then the band changed their name to nuclear power. Shortly thereafter, Taylor left the band. Dolan and Spillett were writing new songs shortly afterwards and were looking for a new guitarist, whom Dolan found in Steve White at the art school. Bassist Mark Irvine was also recruited at the art school; after he joined the band, Dolan switched from bass to rhythm guitar. There followed four appearances in this line-up before Irvine left the band and Dolan switched back to bass. Then the band rehearsed in a friend's house. In addition, regular appearances followed in the local area, and the band worked on their first demo. This was recorded at Impulse Studios in 1981, with Keith Nicol as a producer, and released under the name Demon . This was followed by other appearances together with bands like Warrior . In early 1983 the band returned to Impulse Studios to record the Total Metal demo . After the recordings, White met Sam Kress, who ran a magazine called Whiplash , at Neat Records ; White gave him a copy of Total Metal , and Kress promised him a review at Whiplash . Towards the end of 1983 Steve White had to leave the band for personal reasons. Since Dolan thought that the band was over, he moved to Canada .

In 1984 Spillett followed Dolan to Canada. They wrote new songs, and Dolan found a band with which he also gave some concerts; However, after a short time he realized that he would have to return to England if he wanted to continue nuclear power, as the atmosphere there was better and more aggressive. Accordingly, he returned there at the end of 1984. He split up with Spillet because his guitar playing had stayed on the same level and Dolan would need more to keep up with the metal explosion at the NWoBHM. When Dolan visited Neat Records to ask for an available drummer, he met Conrad "Cronos" Lant of Venom , with whom he traded his electric guitar for a bass. Dolan later wrote that the guitar was good, but the bass was "a piece of shit"; Dolan later destroyed this bass while performing with Slayer at the Marquee Club . Cronos also referred Dolan to drummer Ged Wolf, who was the brother of Venom's manager and had been looking for a new band since he left Tysondog after completing their debut album. The band needed a guitarist; After several candidates who were unsuitable and therefore not recorded, the 16-year-old guitarist Rob Mathew came to the band, so that the band was represented in 1985 in this line-up on the debut album Future Warriors . After the band had worked on songs for about a month, a first demo was created, which was recorded in Neat Records' recording studio and was released under the name Pour the Metal In . Dave Woods of Neat Records became aware of the band, so the group reached a contract with this label. The band then worked on their debut album Future Warriors . The band went into the studio for a few weeks to record it, with Keith Nichol as producer. After the album was released, a tour with Venom and Exodus followed . After the tour, the band recorded another demo with Your Mentor . Since Dolan wanted to step out of the shadow of Venom with the band and Wolf and Mathew wanted to get closer to them, Dolan left the band. Neat Records released the not yet published Demo Your mentor on the Powertrax - compilation . Ian Swift ( Avenger ) and Tysondog's Alan Hunter were there as vocalists, while DC Rage joined the band as bassist. The band then released the EP Queen of Death . For this, the song Future Warriors was re-recorded, with Swift taking over the vocals. Dolan was still heard on the songs Demolition , Funeral Pyre and Mode 3 . The EP also contained two new songs with Queen of Death and Protector . However, the band was never seen live with this line-up. Then Ged Cook and Ian Swift went to Dolan, who asked him if he wanted to return to the band, with Swift taking over the vocals and Dolan DC replacing Rage on bass. Since Dolan had already written six songs but couldn't find a suitable label, he agreed. The band then went to the studio to record the EP Conductors of Noize . This was followed by a tour with Agent Steel and Nuclear Assault . Video recordings of this tour appeared under the name Conductors of Noize . The band also played at Dynamo Open Air together with Testament , Destruction and Stryper . Then the band needed a second guitarist for their next album Atomized , so DC Rage came back to the band as bassist and Dolan played the electric guitar. This was followed by a European tour in 1988 with Nasty Savage and Exhumer . The band was also the first British band to play behind the Iron Curtain . After this, Swift left the band and Dolan was asked if he wanted to come to Venom as a singer because Cronos had left the band. Dolan joined Venom in 1988, which resulted in the breakup of nuclear power and Atomized never appeared. Swift, however, was a butcher while Rob Mathew was a street musician. In 2004 a best-of compilation Total Metal: The Neat Anthology was released via Sanctuary Records . In 2005 the band got back together.

style

The band played punk under the name Moral Fiber; During this time Dolan saw Motörhead on their first tour and said in retrospect that this was all he had ever wanted in a band. The debut album Future Warriors was mixed with minimal guitar sound and too heavy weight on the drums and poorly produced. It tended towards Speed ​​Metal or Thrash Metal , but their repertoire was not limited to this style; Pieces like Total Metal and Pour the Metal In are much stronger to other British bands like Raven and Tank than later American bands like Metallica or Slayer , and Starchild and This Planet's Burning are more varied in tempo and melodies and closer to contemporary bands like Blitzkrieg or Tysondog . In Slayer - Fanzine the music but was "not very successful mix of Venom / Tank / Motörhead" described as. In general, the Newcastle people weren't exactly favorite critics in the beginning. Titles like Requiem , The Cage and Vision of Belshazzar from the third album, however, are more reminiscent of Bay Area Thrash Metal bands like Exodus and Forbidden than Raven or Venom .

Discography

  • 1981: Demon (demo, self-published)
  • 1981: Atomkraft (demo, self-publication)
  • 1983: Total Metal (demo, self-published)
  • 1985: Future Warriors (album, Neat Records )
  • 1985: Pour the Metal In (demo, self-release)
  • 1985: Heat and Pain (demo, self-published)
  • 1986: Queen of Death (EP, Neat Records)
  • 1987: Conductors of Noize (EP, Neat Records)
  • 1987: Conductors of Noize (VHS, Jettisoundz Video )
  • 1987: Atomkraft (compilation, Tonpress Records )
  • 2004: Total Metal: The Neat Anthology (compilation, Sanctuary Records )
  • 2011: Cold Sweat (EP, WAR Productions )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduardo Rivadavia: Atomkraft , accessed on March 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Tony Demolition Dolan Official Website ( memento of March 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ Scorpio: Atomkraft ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 12, 2003, accessed February 23, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.themetallist.com
  4. ↑ a b Arto, EvilG: Interview with Tony Dolan of MANTAS , accessed February 23, 2013.
  5. ↑ Garry Sharpe-Young : AZ of Thrash Metal . Cherry Red Books, London 2002, ISBN 1-901447-09-X , pp. 51 f .
  6. ↑ Scorpio: ATOMKRAFT ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 3, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.themetallist.com
  7. ↑ Rüdiger Ehle: NUCLEAR POWER reunion , accessed on March 2, 2013.
  8. ^ A b Frank "Tank" Kleiner: Nuclear power . Future Warriors . In: Metal Hammer , October 1985, p. 85.
  9. ^ A b Eduardo Rivadavia: Future Warriors - Atomkraft , accessed on February 23, 2013.
  10. ↑ NUCLEAR POWER - "Future Warriors" . In: Jon Kristiansen : Slayer . N ° 1 to 5 . Rosières en Haye: Camion Blanc 2009, p. 292.
  11. ↑ Horror Infernal , No. 57 (February / March '95), Rock Lexikon p. 13 (= booklet p. 62).
  12. ^ Reinhard Harms: On Stage. Venom, nuclear power, exodus. Osnabrück, Halle Gartlage . In: Crash , January 1986, p. 34
  13. ↑ Eduardo Rivadavia: Conductors of Noise - Atomkraft , accessed on February 23, 2013.