Blackstar (band)
| Blackstar | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Great Britain |
| Genre (s) | Hard rock |
| founding | 1996 |
| resolution | 1999 |
| Founding members | |
| Jeff Walker | |
| Carlo Regardas | |
guitar |
Mark Griffith |
| Ken Owen | |
Blackstar was a British hard rock band. With singer and bassist Jeff Walker , drummer Ken Owen and guitarist Carlo Regardas, three of the four founding members were active in the recently dissolved band Carcass ; the fourth founding member, Mark Griffith, is a retired Cathedral guitarist.
The band released only one album with Barbed Wire Soul (early September 1997). According to Intro magazine , “Influences from the late seventies and early eighties [...] merged into a blend [...] that was still inspiring in the nineties.” Blackstar would have fished for “self-discovery in familiar waters , [on] the boiling of old Carcass or Cathedral recipes ”but waived. Metal.de emphasized the use of wind instruments such as trumpet, horn and saxophone as “loosening up” and providing variety . In the music magazine Rock Hard , the album was certified as having an "original-refreshing, contemporary-aggressive sound", in which the "usual crude vocals [and] the numerous effective grooves" ensured a high recognition value.
In the spring of 1999, drummer Ken Owen suffered a cerebral haemorrhage and fell into a coma for ten months. There have been no further publications since then.
Discography
- 1996: Promo 1996 (demo)
- 1997: Barbed Wire Soul (album, Peaceville Records )
Web links
- Black Star at Discogs (English)
- Blackstar at Allmusic (English)
- Blackstar at Musik-Sammler.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Intro: Barbed Wire Soul - Blackstar ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 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. , in: Intro # 49, written November 9, 1997, accessed March 6, 2016.
- ↑ metal.de: Blackstar - Barbed Wire Soul - Review - Death Metal - metal.de , published on December 20, 1997, accessed on March 6, 2016.
- ↑ Buffo Schnädelbach: CD review: Blackstar - Barbed Wire Soul - Review - Death Metal - metal.de , in: Rock Hard # 125, accessed on March 6, 2016.
- ↑ David E. Gehlke: Carcass feature interview at Blistering.com ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2015 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 6, 2016.
