Cage (band)

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Cage
Cage at Headbangers Open Air 2014
Cage at Headbangers Open Air 2014
General information
Genre (s) Heavy metal
founding 1992
Website www.cageheavymetal.com
Founding members
Sean Peck
Anthony Wayne McGinnis
Electric guitar
Dave Garcia
Mike Giordano
Mike Nielsen

Cage is an American heavy metal band from San Diego . Their style is classic heavy metal with influences from US power metal .

history

Cage was nominally founded in 1992, the first demos were recorded in 1995. In 1999 they won the band contest organized by Rock Hard magazine with 600 participants , after which they released their first regular album Unveiled on Omega Records. Appearances at Dynamo Open Air and Wacken Open Air followed. In 2000, Cage released the album Astrology . With the album Darker Than Black (2003) they switched to the German label Massacre Records .

At the Bang Your Head Festival 2004 there was a fight between the Cage singer Sean Peck and Blaze Bayley (ex-member of Iron Maiden ). Bayley's remarks against George W. Bush's policies sparked an argument that ended in a brawl. Bayley got a black eye.

In 2007 the album Hell Destroyer was released. It conceptually tells the apocalypse after the revelation of John .

Discography

  • 1998: Unveiled (Omega Records)
  • 2000: Astrology (Omega Records)
  • 2003: Darker Than Black ( Massacre Records )
  • 2007: Hell Destroyer (MTM Music)
  • 2009: Science of Annihilation (Heavy Metal Media)
  • 2011: Supremacy of Steel (Heavy Metal Media)

Web links

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