Blacklace
| Blacklace | |
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| General information | |
| origin | New York , United States |
| Genre (s) | Heavy metal |
| founding | 1981 |
| resolution | around 1987 |
| Founding members | |
| Carlo Fragnito | |
| Anthony Fragnito | |
| Maryann Scandiffio | |
| Steve Werner | |
| Last occupation | |
guitar |
Carlo Fragnito |
Bass, vocals |
Anthony Fragnito |
Singing, backing vocal
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Maryann Scandiffio |
Drums |
Steve Werner |
Blacklace was an American heavy metal band with female vocals that was active in the mid-1980s.
history
The school bands based in the New York borough of Bronx , in which the brothers Carlo ( guitar ) and Anthony Fragnito ( bass ) on the one hand and the singer Maryann Scandiffio on the other hand were active, broke up towards the end of 1981 at the same time, so that the three and one other were unemployed turned colleague to form a heavy metal band. The name Blacklace , which can be translated as "black lace" or "black silk", underlined the specialty of having a female member who also presented itself provocatively . Scandiffio used the money she earned working at Paramount Pictures in Manhattan to finance a demo production for the group . The final drummer Steve Werner, whom they found a little later, cannot yet be heard on this introduction tape. After the next, this time by fees funded, Demo On the Attack , the first band-publication of the contribution was Damn Cheater on the New York Metal-84 - Sampler . The Belgian metal label Mausoleum Records became aware of the positive mentions in the metal press and signed them. First the label placed the song Born to Raise Hell on the in-house sampler Metal over America , then followed, all still in 1984, the LP Unlaced . During the recording, the band received support from Manowar guitarist Ross "the Boss" Friedman . Blacklace had been the opening act for Manowar in New York's Upstate and had become friends with Ross the Boss, who was also of bronx. Blacklace also opened shows from Y&T , Twisted Sister , Loudness , Talas , Zebra and the Plasmatics . Maryann Scandiffio also worked on the all-star project Thrasher by Rods drummer Carl Canedy. On October 5, 1985, Blacklace headlined the Shockwave Festival in Limburghal in Genk , organized by Mausoleum Records, which testified to the trust the label had in the quality of its overseas act. This forced the release of the follow-up album Get It While It's Hot , which, however, has a quick-fire character in the monotony. The best song, Speed of Sound , found a secondary use in 1986 on the female rocking compilation Ladykillers from New Renaissance Records . The recordings for the album took place in England .
Along with the financial decline of Mausoleum, Blacklace's star sank because no new label took on the band. The exact time of dissolution is not known. Carlo and Anthony Fragnito formed a new band in 1988 whose name Damn Cheetah was derived from the Blacklace song Damn Cheater . Maryann Scandiffio has not been heard from for a long time, but a demo tape is said to have been made under her first name later. In 1998 she hired herself as a background singer .
In 1994 (in the "Classix" series) and 2002 (summarized) the albums were re-released on CD . There was no evidence of an alleged reunion in July 2004.
style
The BNR Metal Page classified the repertoire as hard rock and "80's metal". Characteristic is the rough rock 'n' roll singing. Lyrically they move on the borderline to Glam Metal . Rockdetector decided on the assignment to hard rock. The music sounds a bit like The Rods, said the website metalmaidens.com . The Metallian website stated that hints of different bands were noticeable in the music , starting with Manowar and Hellion . Most others would think of Warlock when they heard Blacklace. Unlaced was probably a bit unbalanced because of various recording sessions (Ross the Boss only produced three pieces), whereas Get It While It's Hot is excellent heavy metal by competent musicians.
Frank “Tank” Kleiner said in Metal Hammer that Unlaced was initially arranged atmospherically, sung roughly and convincing with good guitar work, but then drifted into “American honesty”. In his encyclopedia entry ( US Metal Vol. 2 ), Arno Hofmann was disappointed with the insignificance of the songs on Get It While It's Hot , which he attributed to the reduction in speed and heaviness.
Martin Popoff wrote in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 2: The Eighties about Unlaced that the band sounds typically like a rock band from a New York suburb, with "sticky" vocals. Visually, the group reminds me of Mötley Crüe , while they sound more like older shrapnel. In the review of Get It While It's Hot , he noted that the group fills the void between Wendy O. Williams and Doro Pesch . The sound quality has improved significantly on the album. He found Carlo Fragnito's guitar work not very pleasant.
Discography
- 1982 (?): Demo (demo, self-publication)
- 1983: On the Attack (demo, self-published)
- 1984: Unlaced (album, Mausoleum Records )
- 1985: Get It While It's Hot (Album, Mausoleum Records)
- 1985: Demo 1985 (demo, self-published)
- 2002: Unlaced / Get It While It's Hot (compilation, Mausoleum Records)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Charly Rinne: Blacklace . In: Metal Hammer . Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Poster Magazine! January 1985, Women in the Heavy Guild (4), p. 18th f .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Arno Hofmann: Blacklace . In: Otger Jeske, Arno Hofmann (Ed.): US Metal . 1st edition. Vol. 2. IP Verlag Jeske / Mader GbH, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-931624-05-6 , p. 34 ff .
- ↑ a b c d e Blacklace. (No longer available online.) In: rockdetector.com. Formerly in the original ; accessed on October 26, 2015 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Toine van Poorten: Back to the Past (2). Blacklace. In: metalmaidens.com. Retrieved October 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Shockwave again this year . In: Metal Hammer . Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Poster Magazine! October 1985, p. 7 .
- ↑ a b Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 2: The Eighties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2005, ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5 , pp. 46 .
- ^ A b The former Blacklace musicians […] In: Metal Hammer . Hard rock & heavy metal poster magazine. November 1988, News, p. 9 .
- ^ A b Ali "The Metallian": Blacklace - USA. In: metallian.com. Retrieved October 26, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Blacklace. (No longer available online.) In: bnrmetal.com. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on October 26, 2015 . 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.
- ↑ Frank "Tank" Kleiner: Black Lace. "Unlaced" . In: Metal Hammer . Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Poster Magazine! November 1984, LP's, p. 66 .
