Crossfire (Belgian band)
| Crossfire | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Aalst , Belgium |
| Genre (s) | Heavy metal , speed metal |
| founding | 1981 |
| resolution | 1987 |
| Last occupation | |
| Patrick "The Beast" van Londerzele | |
| Marc van Caelenberge | |
| Chris de Brauwer | |
Electric guitar |
Jacky D'Hondt |
| former members | |
Electric guitar |
Nero Neerinckx |
Electric guitar |
Rudy van de Sype |
Electric bass |
Johan Susant |
initially drums, later singing |
Peter de Wint |
Crossfire was a Belgian heavy and speed metal band from Aalst , founded in 1981 and disbanded in 1987.
history
The members initially worked as a punk band under the name The Onion Dolls, which was founded in 1980, in which Peter de Windt took over both vocals and drums. Under the influence of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal , they founded the heavy metal band Crossfire in 1981, which consists of singer and guitarist Nero Neerinckx, guitarist Marc van Caelenberge, bassist Patrick "The Beast" van Londerzele (ex- Warhead ) and the drummer Peter de Windt. The band can be heard for the first time in 1982 on the sampler Metal Clogs vom Aardschok with two songs. The sound carrier was released via Rave-On Records . After that, Neerinckx left the band and was later convicted of the murder of a police officer. The drummer de Windt then switched to the singing post, and Chris de Brauwer joined the team as the new drummer. The band then recorded their debut album See You in Hell , which was released in 1983 on Mausoleum Records . The group was one of the first bands on the label. The album sold particularly well in Europe . Appearances with Accept and Iron Maiden followed . In 1985 the band played their first appearances in England , including two in London . Their first concert in that city was in Wellington at Shepherd's Bush , promoted by Shades Records . 1985 followed with a second album with Second Attack , whereupon Rudi van de Sijpe can be heard as the second guitarist. The band's first two albums sold a total of over 30,000 copies. By licensing for Poland the album also reached the Eastern bloc , including in East Germany, a certain distribution. In the same year the band played among other things at the Shockwave Festival in Belgium. After their third album Sharpshooter from 1986, whereupon van de Sijpe was replaced by Jacky D'Hondt, the band lost their record deal with Mausoleum Records. The following year a live album was released, which was recorded on the band's last tour of the Benelux countries . Singer de Windt had meanwhile left the band to play for Ostrogoth . Thereupon van Londerzele took over the singing before it came to a breakup shortly afterwards.
style
See You in Hell offers, according to Eduardo Rivadavia from Allmusic , energetic and melodic Heavy Metal with Thrash Metal-like elements and is comparable to Helloween , Angus and Accept. Second Attack is very similar to the debut album, which makes the material sound uninspired. The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal by Tony Jasper and Derek Oliver described the music as wild Euro metal in the style of Accept, the Scorpions , Raven and Judas Priest . Martin Popoff wrote in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 2: The Eighties that the band on See You in Hell has little talent. This did not change on Second Attack either. Here the group is on the same level as the label colleagues Killer. Charly Rinne from Metal Hammer found that See You in Hell contains "[a] cht groovy and fast-moving tracks". On the album, the group does not take a new direction of heavy metal, but it turned out well. Here you can hear influences from AC / DC , Accept and Judas Priest. In contrast to previous Mausoleum Records releases by Wildfire , Ostrogoth and Nitro, he likes this album a lot better. Alex Gernandt from the same magazine pointed out in his review to Live Attack out that the song titles are just as unoriginal as the songs themselves, the group ride on hackneyed. Metal - clichés around and offer little new. Andreas Kraatz found the song structures of See You in Hell in the Musikexpress rock solid , only the vocals unbearably castrati . All three records are "straight and straightforward" and thus "a surefire tip for scrap metal fans", recommended Oliver Klemm in Rock Hard .
Discography
- 1982: Demo (demo, self-published)
- 1983: See You in Hell (Album, Mausoleum Records )
- 1983: If It's Loud, We're Proud (Split with Ostrogoth and Killer , Mausoleum Records)
- 1985: Second Attack (album, Mausoleum Records)
- 1986: Sharpshooter (album, Mausoleum Records)
- 1987: Live Attack (Live Album, Metal Enterprises )
- 1988: Heavy Hell & Metal (split with Killer, Warhead , Stranger , Kat and Elise, Intrat Records )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on September 28, 2015 ; accessed on September 27, 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.
- ↑ a b c d Crossfire . In: Metal Hammer . July 1987, p. 106 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Crossfire. Allmusic , accessed September 27, 2015 .
- ^ Garry Sharpe-Young , Horst Odermatt & Friends: The Ultimate Hard Rock Guide Vol I - Europe . Bang Your Head Enterprises Ltd, 1997, p. 124 .
- ↑ Shockwave again this year . In: Metal Hammer . October 1985, p. 7 .
- ↑ Tony Jasper, Derek Oliver: The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal . Facts on File Inc., New York 1983, ISBN 0-8160-1100-1 , pp. 76 f .
- ↑ 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. 80 .
- ↑ Charly Rinner: Crossfire . See You in Hell. In: Metal Hammer . February 1984, p. 52 .
- ↑ Alex Gernandt: Crossfire . Live attack. In: Metal Hammer / Crash . November 1987, p. 49 .
- ^ Andreas Kraatz: Crossfire . In: Musikexpress / Sounds . No. 338 , March 1984, Hard Rock / Heavy Metal, p. 67 .
- ↑ Oliver Klemm: Crossfire . In: Rock Hard . No. 95 April 1995, From the Vaults. CD premieres and re-releases, pp. 108 .
