Demon Pact

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Demon Pact
General information
origin Hayes , England
Genre (s) New Wave of British Heavy Metal
founding 1979 as Fenris Wolf
resolution 1982
Website http://www.demonpact.com/
Last occupation
Roy Bridle
Iain Finlay
Richard Dickerson
Mark Maxwell
former members
Electric bass
 Alan Dickerson
Drums
 Phil Wickenden
singing
 Donald Meckiffe

Demon Pact was an English New Wave of British Heavy Metal band from Hayes , which was founded in 1979 under the name Fenris Wolf and disbanded in 1982.

history

The band was founded in 1979 under the name Fenris Wolf. With guitarist Richard Dickerson, who was the driving force of the group, the line-up was completed by his brother Alan as bassist, Donal Meckiffe as singer and Phil Wickenden as drummer. All members were current or former students of Hayes Secondary School. The band made their first appearance in July 1979 in a church during a graduation ceremony. By then, Richard Dickerson had already left school two years. After that, the band was renamed Demon Pact and Iain Finlay joined the band as the new drummer. Through a close friend of Richard Dickerson, Paul Pelletier, the band was able to release a single on Slime Records in the summer of 1981 , with the song Eaten Alive on the A and Raiders on the B. In early 1981, the sampler Kent Rocks appeared on White Witch Records , for which the group was the song Escape . The single was played by Tommy Vance on his Friday Rock Show and by John Peel . In addition to the two songs of the single and the sampler contribution, four other songs were recorded, but they were not released because the band had previously split up. Among other things, the release of a single was planned, which should contain the song Demon Pact and Escape . Prior to the dissolution, due to disagreements, Alan Dickerson left, who had been replaced by Roy Bridle in the summer of 1981. In addition, Meckiffe had left the band towards the end of the year to devote himself to his studies and had been replaced by Mark Maxwell. In 1982 Richard Dickerson broke up the band. He then joined the band Opera as a bassist. Ian Finlay later played for Running Wild , Justice and Kruis .

Years later, an unauthorized record album with stolen studio recordings was released by Hades Paradise Records / High Roller Records . After an agreement in December 2009 with the rights holder Paul Pelletier, this previously unpublished studio material was released along with live recordings in spring 2010 on High Roller Records.

In 2016 Paul Pelletier sold all copyrights to Thorsten Thormann.

style

According to Malc Macmillan in The NWOBHM Encyclopedia , Eaten Alive glorifies cannibalism . The text was very offensive for 1981, would still be perceived by many as offensive today and was comparable to the texts of Cannibal Corpse . The singing is unmelodic. The two songs of the single are very short and simple and would not be able to reach the sampler contribution. Instead, the group sounds like a worse version of Venom and Warfare . The sampler contribution Escape has an intro with an acoustic guitar before it turns into a typical NWoBHM song that sounds like Sparta or a more technically demanding version of Shock Treatment.

Discography

  • 1980: Demo (demo, self-publication)
  • 1980: Demo 2 (demo, self-published)
  • 1981: Eaten Alive (Single, Slime Records )
  • 2010: Released from Hell (Compilation, High Roller Records )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c History in brief .... demonpact.com, accessed January 4, 2016 .
  2. ^ A b c Malc Macmillan: The NWOBHM Encyclopedia . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader GbR, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-931624-16-3 , p. 161 f .
  3. ↑ a b The Band. demonpact.com, accessed January 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ cf. Liner Notes for the 2018 edition of the compilation Released from Hell on High Roller Records.