Black Rose (English band)

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Black Rose
General information
origin Middlesbrough , England
Genre (s) New Wave of British Heavy Metal , Hard Rock
founding 1978 as Ice, 2005
resolution 1989
Website blackroseuk.co.uk
Current occupation
Steve Bardsley
Electric guitar
 Kenny Nicholson
Kiko Rivers
Chris Bennett
former members
Electric guitar
 Andy Reeve
Electric bass
 Marty Rajn
Drums
 Mark Eason
Drums
 Malla Smith
Drums
 Charlie McKenzie
Electric guitar
 Chris "Wah Wah" Watson
Electric bass
 Mick Thompson
Electric guitar
 Ian Iredale
Electric guitar, keyboard
Gary Todd
Drums
 Barry "Bazza" Youll
Electric guitar
 Pat O'Neill
Drums
 Paul Fowler
Electric guitar
 Davey Patterson

Black Rose is an English hard rock and new wave of British heavy metal band from Middlesbrough , which was founded in 1978 under the name Ice , disbanded in 1989 and has been active again since 2006.

history

The band was founded in 1978 under the name Ice. This was taken seriously after guitarist Kenny Nicholson joined the cast. A little later, Charlie McKenzie joined the group as the new drummer. After performing locally, the group changed their name to Black Rose in 1980. The band consisted of the singer and guitarist Steve Bardsley, the guitarist Kenny Nicholson, the bassist Marty Rajn and the drummer Mark Eason. By the end of the year the four-piece band was able to increase its popularity. In 1981 the band recorded in the Impulse Studios of Neat Records in Wallsend , a demo on which the six songs Alright on the Night , bikers , killer , Love Hock , Ready Aim Fire and raised in Hell contains. However, the demo was never released. In the second half of 1981 McKenzie left the cast to join the band Taurus. He was also later active at Samson , among others . Kenny Nicholson also left the band and auditioned at White Spirit . After he was not taken, however, he decided to be active with Holland or Hammer and Fast Kutz . The remaining members Marty Rajn and Steve Bardsley were joined by guitarist Chris Watson and drummer Malla Smith. Together they worked on new songs, but the hoped-for interest of a label still failed to materialize. For the sampler Roxcalibur , which appeared in early 1982 on Guardian Records , the songs No Point Runnin ' and Ridin' Higher were contributed. In the same year, the single No Point Runnin 'followed with the song Sucker for Your Love as B-side on the Teesbeat label. The group was able to increase its level of awareness through the single. The average age of the members at the time was around 20 years. Shortly after the release, bassist Marty Rajn left the band and was replaced by Mick Thompson. A music video for No Point Runnin ' was commissioned by Check It Out , a local TV program. However, the video was never broadcast. In the phase in which Black Rose gave concerts with Vardis and Raven , the band appeared in the Armed and Ready section in the Kerrang . The group also performed at the Gateshead Festival , which Limelight , Budgie and Trust also took part. During this time the band played a total of three times at London's Marquee Club , performed in different parts of Europe and held concerts with Atomic Rooster , Diamond Head , Spider and Terraplane . Towards the end of the year demo recordings of Love on the Line , Take Me Away and Red Light Lady were made, while the song Knocked Out found its way onto the sampler One Take No Dubs from Neat Records. After further demos for We're Gonna Rock You and Burn Me Blind , Black Rose signed a contract with Bullet Records . About this a self-titled EP was released , which consists of four songs from previous studio stays. The debut album Boys Will Be Boys followed in 1984. A little later, a re-release of the album was negotiated with Bronze Records , but this did not take place. The band also negotiated with this label and Atlantic Records for a record deal, but did not succeed. The songs We're Gonna Rock You and Stand Your Ground from the previous EP were reused on the album . Altered versions of Knocked Out and No Point Runnin 'also appeared on the album. As a single was released in the same year Boys Will Be Boys with the song Liar , which is not included on the album, as the B-side. Since the sales figures Bullet Records unsatisfied, both parties separated, whereupon the band signed a contract with Neat Records. The EP Nightmare was recorded at Impulse Studios while the band was still under contract with Bullet Records . This consists of completely new material with the theme song, Need a Lot of Lovin ' , Rock Me Hard and Breakaway . The EP was released in 1985 on Neat Records. Watson was then replaced by guitarist Ian Iredale. However, this was to be the only recording with Iredale, as he was replaced by Watson, who returned to the band after he had not appeared for a rehearsal. In addition, the guitarist and keyboardist Gary Todd also joined, whereupon Bardsley only concentrated on the vocals. Smith joined Stoneheart a short time later. Towards the end of the year, the band made recordings for the Friday Rock Show , which aired on January 17, 1986. Here were Need a Lot of Lovin ' and the new songs Get Off Your High Horse and Go for the Throat played. In 1986 Barry Youll joined the group as the new drummer. After a few live appearances, the next album, Walk It How You Talk It , was released in 1987 . 16-year-old Pat O'Neill then plays the electric guitar, as Watson left Black Rose again. The publication followed other appearances, including in the same year together with Warfare . A planned tour of the USA could not be held because a US band of the same name , which had secured the naming rights, threatened a fine of 500,000 US dollars . In 1988 the group worked on new material and went on extensive tours before it broke up in 1989.

In 2004, the previously unreleased song Get Off Your High Horse from 1986 was released on the 2004 sampler Total Metal Attack by Old School Records , before the compilation Bright Lights Burnin ': The Anthology followed in 2005 .

In 2006, Bardsley, Watson, Smith and the new bassist Kiko Rivers got together again to record only one new album. This was released in 2010 as a download under the name Cure for Your Disease . In the same year Smith left the band and was replaced by Barry Youll, who briefly returned to the band, before Chris Bennet was added as a long-term replacement. In 2011 Watson was replaced by the also well-known guitarist Kenny Nicholson, who played with Black Rose for the first time in over 20 years at the Cradle Will Rock All Day Festival in Shildon . In 2012 further appearances followed. The band played at the Hammerfest in Prestatyn in March and at the Headbangers Open Air in Brande-Hörnerkirchen in July . In the course of this, the compilation The Early Years & More - Remastered was released on Hellion Records , which contains 18 songs (eight of which were previously unreleased), as well as another called Loveshock on High Roller Records .

style

According to Malc Macmillan in The NWOBHM Encyclopedia , the band was influenced by Iron Maiden and Van Halen . The songs No Point Runnin ' and Ridin' Higher are comparable to the music of Jaguar or Tygers of Pan Tang on their album Spellbound . We're Gonna Rock You and Burn Me Blind would be similar to footage from Tokyo Blade and Diamond Head . With the album Walk It How You Talk It , the band turned to chart-friendly pop rock with claims on the mainstream . Energy, Mendes Prey , Export and Heavy Pettin also went through a similar development .

In his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 2: The Eighties, Martin Popoff described the music of Boys Will Be Boys as hard rock, reminiscent of Def Leppard . The songs are amateurish and cumbersome and have clichéd texts. Also on Walk It How You Talk It it had not improved and still sound like a hard rock band from the high school . He also called it a worse version of Heavy Pettin '.

Metal Mike Blim from Metal Hammer compared the band in his review of the album Boys Will Be Boys with Diamond Head because they “1. also dismantle, 2. are just such fine girl types and 3. steal material from old things themselves ”. The first point he referred to the deteriorating quality of the songs for him, while with the latter he meant that the band used songs on the album that were previously on other sound carriers. In addition, many songs would be very similar.

Discography

  • 1981: Black Rose (demo, self-published)
  • 1982: No Point Runnin ' (Single, Teesbeat)
  • 1983: Black Rose (EP, Bullet Records )
  • 1984: Boys Will Be Boys (Album, Bullet Records)
  • 1984: Boys Will Be Boys (Single, Bullet Records)
  • 1985: Nightmare (EP, Neat Records )
  • 1987: Walk It How You Talk It (Album, Neat Records)
  • 1987: Shout It Out (Single, K-tel International )
  • 2005: Bright Lights Burnin ': The Anthology (compilation, Majestic Rock )
  • 2010: Cure for Your Disease (album, self-published)
  • 2012: Loveshock (compilation, High Roller Records )
  • 2012: The Early Years & More - Remastered (Compilation, Hellion Records )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Malc Macmillan: The NWOBHM Encyclopedia . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-931624-16-3 , pp. 72 ff .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Band History. (No longer available online.) Blackroseuk.co.uk, archived from the original on March 30, 2012 ; Retrieved January 25, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blackroseuk.co.uk
  3. ↑ a b History. metallian.com, accessed January 30, 2016 .
  4. ^ A b c d Matthias Mader, Otger Jeske, Manfred Kerschke: NWoBHM New Wave of British Heavy Metal The glory Days . Iron Pages, Berlin 1995, p. 93 f .
  5. ↑ a b c d e Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on January 25, 2016 ; Retrieved January 25, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rockdetector.com
  6. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 2: The Eighties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington (Ontario) 2005, ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5 , pp. 47 .
  7. ^ Metal Mike Blim: Black Rose . Boys Will Be Boys. In: Metal Hammer . July / August, 1984, p. 55 .