Exciter (band)

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Exciter
Exciter logo.png
Exciter (2005)
Exciter (2005)
General information
origin Ottawa , Canada
Genre (s) Speed ​​metal , thrash metal
founding 1978 as Hell Razor
Website www.longlivetheloud.com
Current occupation
Vocals,
drums
 Dan Beehler (until 1993, since 2014)
bass
 Allan James Johnson (until 1988, since 2014)
John Ricci (until 1985, since 1992)
former members
singing
 Shmoulik Avigal (1986)
guitar
 Brian McPhee (1986-1988)
singing
 Rob Malnati (1988)
singing
 Jimmy (also: Jimi) Kunes (1988)
bass
 David Ledden (1992)
bass
 Jeff McDonald (1993)
singing
 Steve D. Carter (1999)
bass
 Marc Charron (1996-2002)
singing
 Rob Degroot (2003)
bass
 Paul Champagne (2003)
singing
 Jacques Bélanger (1996-2001, 2003-2006)
Drums
 Richard "Rik" Charron (1996-2014)
bass
 Rob "Clammy" Cohen (2004-2014)
singing
 Kenny "Metal Mouth" Winter (2006-2014)

Exciter is a Canadian speed metal band that appeared in the early 1980s . She is now considered to be one of the pioneers of Thrash Metal , which also emerged in the early 1980s.

Band history

1978-1990

Exciter was founded in 1978 under the name Hell Razor in Ottawa . Founding members were drummer Dan Beehler and bassist Allan Johnson, who had been making music together for eight years, and guitarist John Ricci, whose band had fallen apart at the same time. The fact that Beehler also sang was initially a stopgap solution, but it established itself. In May 1979 the name was changed to Exciter, after a Judas Priest song.

In 1980 a demo was recorded that contains two songs. It was sent to Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records . He used the theme song World War III 1982 for his sampler U.S. Metal Vol. II . Shortly before, on August 27, 1982, Exciter opened a Black Sabbath concert on the “Mob Rules Tour” in Ottawa, where they played their entire previous repertoire . The first LP Heavy Metal Maniac was released in 1983 by Shrapnel. At first it was only available as an import version in Europe. 25,000 copies sold at the start were a remarkable result, especially for a niche label. The knife-holding arm protruding into the picture should become the recurring record cover motif of the early years. Inside the band, the figure belonging to the arm was called "East Side Slasher". Tours as the opening act for Motörhead , Riot and Accept (1985 in Germany) followed.

In February 1984 the successor Violence & Force appeared on Megaforce Records , because Jon Zazula's company promised a better promotion . With Metallica and Anthrax things went well. Shortly thereafter, the debut was also available in Europe via Megaforce. This was followed by a tour with Anthrax and the first US tour in support of Mercyful Fate . The album sales have now reached the 75,000 mark. A tour was also planned together with Metal Church , which was canceled due to insufficient ticket sales.

The album Long Live the Loud was released in May 1985 by the Music for Nations record company . A European tour with Accept and a US tour with Motörhead and Megadeth followed. The last release with John Ricci was an EP called Feel the Knife towards the end of the year . Undiplomatic band decisions with negative effects were pissed off to the guitarist. In his opinion, this was why Megadeth and Anthrax, for example, made the breakthrough while Exciter was thrown back. Brian McPhee replaced him. The three musicians brought together knew each other from an earlier common band membership. Since then, McPhee had not gotten beyond the status of a member of various bar bands.

The album Unveiling the Wicked , produced in Nick Mason's ( Pink Floyd ) London studio and released in 1986, was followed by a European tour with Manowar and once again with Motörhead. Exciter also appeared in the support act for Venom in Brazil in the fall and was able to indulge in the storms of enthusiasm of the numerous South Americans who appeared. Exciter no longer presented itself in an excessive leather and rivet outfit, but freed from the burden that hindered movement. You don't want to look like any other Thrash band, stand out from it, just as you clearly distinguish yourself from other bands due to the lack of singing front man.

But soon the resolution no longer applied: Dan Beehler only played the drums on the next, self-titled album. The album is also known under the name OTT . The position of the singer had been handed over to Shmoulik Avigal by the Dutch band Picture, who was however enticed by The Rods . Then the task went to Jimmy Kunes (ex- Savoy Brown , later Cactus ), which did not last. It was eventually taken over by Rob Malnati. A tour of Canada followed the release of the album, but Johnson had made the decision to give up his career completely and so it became quiet around the band, especially since sales were falling and the fans left moaning.

1991-1995

It wasn't until 1991 that Exciter made a name for itself again when the reunion of the classic line-up was announced. Nothing came of that, however, because Allan Johnson decided against joining the band after two rehearsals without giving any reasons, so that Exciter returned with the line-up of Dan Beehler (drums), John Ricci (guitar) and David Ledden (bass). Ledden had a musical past with an Exciter opening act in 1987 called Crypt, just like Malnati, who now fell victim to the near reunion, had been the case. Dan Beehler had taken over the vocals again. The first release was the song Born to Kill for the compilation Capitol Punishment on the new manager's own label. In 1992 Exciter moved to the German record company Noise Records . Her sixth album Kill After Kill was released there in the same year . The three Exciter musicians went on a three-week European tour as co- headliners with their label colleagues from Rage . In 1993 their first live album, Better Live than Dead , was released, on which Jeff McDonald can be heard for the first time as a bassist. The live album was the first official live album after three bootlegs . It consists only of songs from the first three albums, the melodic pieces have been left out.

After Ricci and Johnson had already gone through a crisis due to the flagging band success at different times and with different consequences, Beehler had a similar feeling of resignation - according to Ricci after the Rage tour on the flight home - over which the band is now up for the time being Ice lay.

1996-2013

In 1996, after a three-year hiatus, the band again had a new line-up, consisting of John Ricci (guitar), Jacques Bélanger (vocals), Rik Charron (drums) and Marc Charron (bass), who was not related to him. Already from 1985 to 1990, when Ricci did not belong to the formation and played the region with Blackstar, Bélanger had stood by his side. In 1997 the album The Dark Command was released on the French label Osmose Productions , which at that time mainly had black metal bands under contract. At the end of November Exciter toured Germany together with Anvil and Flotsam and Jetsam . In March 1999 Ricci and Bélanger fell apart so much that they split up. The release of a new album had already been announced in late summer 1998. However, the separation delayed this even further. The new singer in May was Steve D. Carter, who had been active in Ottawa from 1990 to 1992 with the band Dead Calm. After a discussion in September, the old situation was restored. As a result, the vocal parts for Blood of Tyrants , which - in addition to the singer's absence also due to a change of studio - was delivered a little late in July 2000, could be sung by Bélanger. In the same year the band played on Bang Your Head . In 2001 another festival appearance followed, this time at the Wacken Open Air . Due to artistic differences, the singer left the band again in September 2001, followed by Marc Charron's departure in 2002.

The new line-up with John Ricci, Rik Charron and the band members Rob Degroot (vocals) and Paul Champagne (bass), who joined in the winter of 2002/2003, were announced in 2003. Barely three months of membership, Degroot left again. A replacement was quickly found when Jacques Bélanger returned. In June 2003 the new bass player left again. New Testament was published in 2004 . The album contains new versions of old songs. The bass tracks were recorded by John Ricci before a new bass player, Rob "Clammy" Cohen, joined the band that same year. Meanwhile, Annihilator band boss Jeff Waters, also from Ottawa, remixed the early records as they were all to be reissued. In 2005 the group played again on the Bang Your Head. In September of the same year, Dan Beehler, who could not give up his passion , regarded his band project, simply called Beehler, as a failure.

In April 2006 the singer left the Exciter group again and was replaced by Kenny "Metal Mouth" Winter. The New Yorker was accepted after five Ottawa candidates failed to work out. Therefore the formation was not complete again until October. In 2007 the band separated from Osmose Productions. In 2008 the band played at the Rock Hard Festival in Gelsenkirchen . At the end of February 2008 she released her next album Thrash Speed ​​Burn on Massacre Records . In the same year the group played at the Rock Hard Festival . Two and a half years later, the next work Death Machine was finished. In 2012 the band played on the 70,000 Tons of Metal .

Since 2014

In 2014, the band announced surprisingly, without John Ricci to continue, because he has left. Thus, the band exists not only without an original member, but also without a member who can be heard on one of the first seven albums. It was claimed that he wanted to retire from the music business. On April 11, 2014, John Ricci announced the reunion of Exciter in the original line up with Dan Beehler, Alan Johnson and himself. The first appearance of the "new old" Exciter was on April 24th, 2015 at the German Keep-It-True -Festival in Lauda-Königshofen . He also said the exit was due to personal differences with one of the members. He just wanted to get away from the music at the moment, the retirement reports were an "exaggeration". A third appearance at Bang Your Head is planned for July 2015.

style

music

The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal from 1983 described the band's debut as hard rock and an alternative to Raven and Judas Priest.

In their early days, Andreas Kraatz from Musikexpress Exciter, together with other then new metal bands such as Torch , Metallica, Slayer , Tsunami , Bitch , Great White , Sortilège , Barón Rojo and Mercyful Fate, described their style and their "choice of musical means [... ] - or even conventional patterns - […] neither 'new' nor actually 'in'. Rather, these bands - like Iron Maiden or Def Leppard before them - are oriented towards tradition, towards the greats who wrote the relevant chapter in rock history. ", Bitch, Metallica, Exciter and Torch are" only the talented tip of an iceberg who makes himself noticeable with all his might ”. The “future of heavy metal” they are “certainly not in the sense that there is fundamentally new music to come. […] It is the future of heavy metal insofar as it continues the tradition into this very future. ”Joel McIver also stated in the book Extreme Metal II that the band's thrash and speed metal were important for the scene at that time was, but not innovative enough to really stand out. "We try to capture the power of Black Sabbath, the tempo of Judas Priest and the rhythmic elasticity of Saxon , mix this together and hope that the result is something that sounds like Exciter," Kraatz quotes guitarist John Ricci regarding the composition of the Debut album Heavy Metal Maniac from 1983. This is now considered one of the first speed metal albums. As a result, the metal press has been honoring the album for years with terms such as "absolute killer album", "cult album", "classic", "milestone", "music history", yes, it "turned the world off its hinges back then". The Rock Hard Encyclopedia writes: "The music fires faster, more aggressively and uncompromisingly out of the speakers than a cervical vertebra would have ever dared to dream [...]." Matthias Herr ( Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 2 ) invented the compound "Powerspeed." ". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music only uses the first part of the term . The debut is "Motörhead-influenced Power Metal ". Violence & Force mostly kept the style. The Rock Hard Encyclopedia judges it to be "hard like its predecessor, the sound much better, but the songs lack the well-formed crispness". Her most successful album, Long Live the Loud, from 1985 contains more heavy metal elements. The same lexicon: “This time the sound is even cleaner, but the hardness suffers.” Jens Häfner and Matthias Mader noted in the book US Metal Vol. 3 the high speed of the songs on Heavy Metal Maniac . Songs like Cry of the Banshee and Blackswitch are classics. In addition, it is extraordinary that the drummer is also the singer. As a result, the singing would occasionally get out of step, but the singing would match Exciter. While Violence & Force didn’t reach the class of its predecessor, Long Live the Loud was less unbridled. Exciter's early works are considered formative for Thrash and Speed ​​Metal. Their first album was released before the genre classics by Metallica and Slayer. Despite the time advantage, Exciter is considered an underground band. The Minotaur sound of the Bathory album The Return ...... was influenced by Exciter . and according to Andreas Himmelstein from the Rock Hard Enforcer

Unveiling the Wicked from 1986 brought a change in style. The Thrash and Speed ​​Metal styles took a back seat, the album is very melodic and can best be assigned to North American Power Metal. And so it is said in Herr's Metal Lexicon that there has been a “style change, away from uncompromising power speed in the direction of power with melody”. At that time, the Metal Hammer said that it offered "besides super-fast songs [...] a lot of melody". While the Rock Hard Encyclopedia makes a violent counterpart to the style that has become quieter in the wildly acting singer / drummer, the Encyclopedia of Popular Music believes that a feeling of tiredness lies on the work. On the next, self-titled album, there was nothing left of the old speed metal style. In the words of the Rock Hard Encyclopedia : "Lame pieces, played tense and sleepy, make Exciter appear completely sucked out." On Exciter , speed was reduced further and only occasional fast passages were used, as Häfner / Mader put it more cautiously.

Kill After Kill makes it clear which predicament Exciter was in . For Andreas Schöwe ​​from Metal Hammer , the main thing was that the band returned powerful and varied. In the Musikexpress , too , the focus was on recollection. Kill After Kill offers “straight, speed and thrash-heavy Metal without unnecessary frills.” Jürgen Tschamler from Break Out felt strongly reminded of the debut. Metal star reviewer Olli Kube cautiously criticized it as a “slightly antiquated sounding Power Metal album”. Detlef Dengler was in the Heavy, or what !? not going back by calling the variety embarrassing because it was out of date. The summary in the Rock Hard encyclopedia is that the “super fat” impression left by the album makes you forget the dustiness.

The rock-hard book release continues with regard to The Dark Command , this album captivates "with brutal, fast-paced [m] old school speed metal". True Metal was mentioned in the issue . The Iron Pages decided on Power Metal.

With a few exceptions, Blood of Tyrants contains fast, relatively short numbers with lashing vocals, rumbling drums and captivating riffs, was read in Rock Hard .

David Perri wrote in The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s about New Testament that it would play the band's classics, re-recorded, with better production and 21st century influences. However, Perri criticized the sound of the electric guitars. The material is on par with everything that Overkill has ever published. On Thrash Speed ​​Burn the speed of the songs is consistently high. The group proved that it would not get worse with age, as is the case with Anvil, for example.

Musikreviews.de describes Death Machine as “mangy, punk-tinged speed and thrash metal of the very old school”, the “alibi material for stuck hypertrue mid-forties that demonize everything new”. Almost identically, metal.de states that Exciter stands “unchanged for dirty, catchy clamoring-up tempo-speed / old-school Thrash Metal”, whereby the band “does not value modern influences or even a corresponding sound”. Metal-observer.com has no doubts when it comes to the categorization that it is Speed ​​and Thrash Metal; however, it would not ignite as it did then. The relatively often changing music style, the lack of continuity, self-serving record companies and, last but not least, their origins diminished their status in the scene.

Daniel Bukszan and Martin Popoff give the following summaries in their metal encyclopedias: Bukszan emphasizes in The Encyclöpedia öf Heavy Metal that Exciter was one of the first better-known speed metal bands alongside Anvil. In addition, some would claim that Heavy Metal Maniac was one of the first speed metal albums ever. In the course of their career, the group has become less aggressive and more melodic. Popoff is in the book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 2: The Eighties that the band plays fast and somewhat innovative speed and thrash metal on Heavy Metal Maniac . The group should be classified between the chaotic Venom and the regulated Metallica. The album is a classic; In retrospect, however, it almost only sounds like noise. On Violence & Force , Exciter continues to try to compete with Manowar as the “heaviest” band. The speed in the songs would be on par with punk. Long Live the Loud has punk and thrash metal influences, but the album is nowhere near as successful as its predecessor. Also Unveiling the Wicked offer speed metal, but of a bit variable and quiet either as the predecessor. Nevertheless, the release was out of place at the time, as other bands at the time had experimented with a mixture of Thrash and Progressive Metal . On the self-titled album you notice the change of singer, but it is very similar to Beehler's. The group say goodbye to Thrash Metal in the style of Venom and Razor . Even though the group slowed down, the songs would still suffer from predictable music and lyrics. The music can not keep up with that of Metal Church, Megadeth and Pantera . Popoff notes in The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties that the band on Kill After Kill is still playing a mix of speed and thrash metal like they did in 1983, which now sounds very old-fashioned. The group on The Dark Command does not deviate from their style . He also writes that it sounds like Manowar would meet punk.

Texts

According to a presumption on the Musicmight website, Mike Varney took offense at the lyrics because of the threatening content and did not place any value on further collaboration. Whatever the reason for the switch from Shrapnel to Megaforce, criticism of the lyrics continued to be loud.

Around the line of text “Violence and Force”, which was chosen as the album title and thus raised to a conceptual rank, further texts were “knitted”, which the Musikexpress described as “idiotic”.

Jacques Bélanger qualified the texts of the Ricci era, which he had to interpret uncritically, as "really bad" after his first departure.

The website metal-observer.com criticized the sloppy lyrics on the 2010 album Death Machine , which consist of endless repetitions and which thematize violence .

On Kill After Kill the musicians processed their negative experiences in the music business “with record companies, […] managers, promoters, merchandisers and false friends” and named the piece after the English idiom for “everyone against everyone” Dog Eat Dog .

In general, Beehler stated that their musical aggressiveness came from their dissatisfaction with the middle class , from which they came and which usually produce “spoiled assholes”. The lyrics told of the darker side of life, of hatred, violence and crime. "And the message is to defend yourself against it, to stand up for your rights, to believe in what you do yourself."

Discography

Albums

Live albums and compilations

  • 1993: Better Live Than Dead (Live album, Bleeding Hearts Records)
  • 2004: New Testament (new recordings, Osmose Productions)

EPs

  • 1985: Feel the Knife (Music for Nations)

Demo recordings

  • 1980: World War III
  • 1983: Under Attack
  • 1983: Heavy Metal Maniac

Web links

Individual evidence

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