Hellanbach

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Hellanbach
General information
origin South Shields , Tyne and Wear , United Kingdom
Genre (s) New Wave of British Heavy Metal
founding 1979
resolution 1985
Founding members
Jimmy Brash
Dave Patton
Kev Charlton
Steve Walker
Last occupation
singing
 Jimmy Brash
guitar
 Dave Patton
bass
 Kev Charlton
Drums
 Barry Hopper

Hellanbach was a Northern English New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWoBHM) band that was formed in 1979 and disbanded in 1985.

history

In South Shields , Tyne and Wear , in the north-east of England, singer Jimmy Brash, guitarist Dave Patton, bassist Kev Charlton and drummer Steve Walker founded a band in 1979 with the name, which was phonetically derived from the phrase "Hell and back" Hellanbach. On the Guardian Records label, the band released the self-subsidized EP Out to Get You in 1980 , the four compositions of which still have demo characters. There was not enough money to put a tape photo cover on all the pressed copies. This unintentionally created a rarity that was coveted by fans and collectors. The brisk sale of the promising material aroused the interest of Neat Records in a collaboration. Before the recordings for an LP started, the NWoBH-specialized label planned to present four of their new signings on a split EP. The title of the EP recorded live in the studio is One Take No Dubs and it includes Hellanbach, Alien , Avenger and Black Rose , all from the same region. In another neighboring band, which traded under the name Fist, bassist Charlton earned something as a roadie . In September 1982 it went to Impulse Studios, where the album Now Hear This was created under the direction of producer Keith Nichol . The split EP was released in late 1982 and the album in early February 1983. Now Hear This was positively received, but the band found it disturbing that the critics had apparently aimed at a Van Halen comparison. Light of the World from the EP was taken as a revision under the title Look at Me on the eleven-song album. Among them is a rather unusual one, because the final piece is a cover version of Everybody Wants to be a Cat from the Disney film Aristocats . With a lot of experimentation, they adapted the musical template to their own croaking-clinking guitar style. A tour with Raven followed. The band members had youthful vigor and the desire to conquer the world, but received no support from Neat Records. They complained in interviews that they couldn't be played any further south than Durham .

There were rumors that Hellanbach had given up or was at least looking for a label. In fact, the second album was tackled again with Neat, only the drummer Barry Hopper was new. It came from a band called Mythra that had started at the same time and in the same town as Hellanbach and hadn't gotten very far. It had just finished its dissolution. For The Big H , the band covered a song from a different stylistic environment. However, Elton John's Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting in its original version is already designed to be rocky , so that the adaptation on Hellanbach's album does not stand out. Rather, this achieves the homage to the rockabilly band Stray Cats called Daddy Dig Those Cats (once again it's about "music-making cats"). The practice of reworking a song from the EP was also used again. In Little Darlin 'you can therefore hear the melody line from Nobody's Fool . The album, which was released in late 1984, did not sell more than its debut and the band was more or less left to its own devices. It was almost inevitable that it was dissolved in 1985.

The three instrumentalists Patton, Charlton and Hopper joined the local band Bessie & The Zinc Buckets, which was founded by ex-Mythra Maurice Bates. This formation is said to be based on rockabilly, which subsequently the rockabilly trip to The Big H explained. On top of that, Patton was able to make appearances once more on an insignificant production by an equally insignificant band. The other time as a tour guitarist in the 1995 band of Glenn Hughes . Charlton and Hopper were fortunate in that bands they were previously affiliated with reformed. In 2000 Charlton took part in the Fist Reunion and Hopper revived Mythra in 2003.

In 2002, the Sanctuary Records label combined all of the group's published recordings (including a cassette version) into a comprehensive anthology on a double CD.

In retrospect, it is occasionally admitted that the all too frequent pointing of the press to Van Halen was unfair. He had done the group a disservice because he was a burden.

style

Hellanbach play “madly fast” (“fast and furious”) noted succinctly The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal . Martin Popoff ( The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 2: The Eighties ) heard “eccentric, guitar-driven, melodic hard rock” . Dave Ling, author of the biography in the booklet for the anthology double CD, described the style most extensively (especially more flowery than reproduced here) . It contains ostentatious vocals, snotty refrains, powerful solos and frenzied rhythms. It is recognized that Hellanbach's legacy is an “undervalued classic”. So part of All Systems Go (early versions nor with the parenthesis "Full Scale Emergency") among the most popular songs of the band. Malc Macmillan compared it in his book The Encyclopedia NWOBHM with Killing Time by Sweet Savage .

In The Guinness Who's Who of Heavy Metal Second Edition , Colin Larkin noted that the transition from the first to the second album to metallic heaviness had added even more melodiousness. He also mentioned branding as Van Halen epigones . Andreas Kraatz from Musikexpress was one of those who, when the debut was released, emphasized the "guitar runs that were clearly trained on Eddie van Halen". The Van-Halen comparison was also made or cited by Eduardo Rivadavia for the Internet platform Allmusic , Garry Sharpe-Young in the book The Ultimate Hard Rock Guide (then of course on the website he initiated rockdetector.com ) and the aforementioned Martin Popoff. Otger Jeske also said in the Iron Pages book about the New Wave of British Heavy Metal that the continuation of Van Halen's 1979 debut could have sounded like Now Hear This . (A statement that, according to the anthology booklet, Neil Jeffries had already made in Kerrang! ) On The Big H , the band has become more commercial in places (within a reasonable framework). Oliver Klemm, on the other hand, saw more than just a slight impact in more commercial realms in the Metal Hammer . His colleague from Rock Hard , Frank Trojan, fared no differently; he literally warned against a bad buy.

Discography

  • 1980: Out to Get You (EP, Guardian Records)
  • 1982: One Take No Dubs. Live in the Studio (Split EP, Contribution All Systems Go (Full Scale Emergency) , Neat Records)
  • 1982: 60 minute plus. Heavy Metal Compilation (cassette compilation, contribution All the Way , Neat Records)
  • 1983: Now Hear This (Album, Neat Records)
  • 1983: All Hell Let Loose (compilation, contribution: All the Way , Neat Records)
  • 1983: Metal Battle. The New Generation Heavy Metal Sampler (compilation, contribution Dancin ' , Roadrunner Records)
  • 1984: The Big H (Album, Neat Records)
  • 1993: Metal Masters (4-CD box compilation, contribution: Al Systems Go , Castle Communications)
  • 2002: The Big H: The Hellanbach Anthology (compilation, Sanctuary Records)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hellanbach. In: metalkingdom.net. Retrieved May 30, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Dave Ling: Hellanbach. The Big H . In: Hellanbach. The Big H: The Hellanbach Anthology . December 31, 2001 (booklet of the double CD anthology).
  3. ↑ a b c d e Matthias Mader, Otger Jeske, Manfred Kerschke et al: NWOBHM. New Wave of British Heavy Metal . 1st edition. Vol. 2. IP Verlag Jeske / Mader, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-931624-03-X , Hellanbach, p. 117 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Malc Macmillan: The NWOBHM Encyclopedia . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader GbR, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-931624-16-3 , Hellanbach, p. 282 f .
  5. ↑ Michael Honegger: Hellanbach: Out to Get You. (No longer available online.) In: metalpage.de. January 17, 2011, archived from the original on May 30, 2016 ; accessed on May 30, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.metalpage.de
  6. ^ A b Eduardo Rivadavia: Hellanbach. The Big H: Hellanbach Anthology. Allmusic Review by Eduardo Rivadavia. In: allmusic.com. Retrieved May 30, 2016 .
  7. ↑ a b c d Hellanbach. (No longer available online.) In: rockdetector.com. Archived from the original on May 13, 2016 ; accessed on May 30, 2016 (English). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rockdetector.com
  8. ^ A b Garry Sharpe-Young, Horst Odermatt & Friends: The Ultimate Hard Rock Guide Vol I - Europe . Bang Your Head Enterprises Ltd, 1997, Hellanbach (UK), p. 265 .
  9. ↑ Mythra. (No longer available online.) In: underground-empire.com. August 11, 2003, archived from the original on May 30, 2016 ; accessed on May 30, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.underground-empire.com
  10. ↑ 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 , Hellanbach (UK), pp. 146 f .
  11. ↑ a b 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 , Hellanbach - The Big H, p. 155 f .
  12. ^ Colin Larkin: The Guinness Who's Who of Heavy Metal Second Edition . Guinness Publishing, Enfield, Middlesex, England 1995, ISBN 0-85112-656-1 , Hellanbach, pp. 165 f .
  13. ↑ Andreas Kraatz: You're usually right with Neat . In: Musikexpress / Sounds . No. 330 , July 1983, Hard Rock / Heavy Metal, p. 61 .
  14. ↑ Oliver Klemm: Hellanbach. "The Big H" . In: Metal Hammer . Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Poster Magazine! February 1985, p. 63 .
  15. ^ Frank Trojan: The Big H. In: rockhard.de. Retrieved on May 30, 2016 (from issue 10).

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