Killer fox
| Killer fox | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin |
Manchester , New Hampshire , United States
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| Genre (s) | Thrash metal |
| founding | 1986 as Killer Foxx |
| resolution | unknown |
| Last occupation | |
| Vivian Fox | |
| Mick Stryker | |
| KK Fox | |
| John Deacon | |
Killer Fox was an American hard rock and metal band from Manchester , New Hampshire in the 1980s that formed under the name Killer Foxx . The band released two albums, after which the band's career ended in a fatal car accident involving singer Vivian Fox and bassist KK Fox.
Band history
Original tape
Killer Fox was founded in 1986 in Manchester, New Hampshire as Killer Foxx and consisted of singer and guitarist Vivian Fox, guitarist Mick Stryker, bassist KK Fox and drummer John Deacon. Their appearance was based very much on the band Kiss and released the album All You Can Eat in 1986 , and later the album Going Under in Europe under the name Killer Fox as an imprint on the German label Metal Enterprises . In 1987 Vivian and KK Fox died in a car accident, after which Metal Enterprises released All You Can Eat again under the title The Night .
Killer Fox II
| Killer fox | |
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| General information | |
| origin |
 Germany
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| Genre (s) | Heavy metal |
| founding | 1990 |
In 1990, Orgasm of Death was another album under the name of the band, but it was recorded exclusively by studio musicians and had nothing to do with the original band. Metal Enterprises owned the rights to the first album and practiced this practice with the band Thrash Queen . Since Killer Fox and Thrash Queen both broke up in the late 1990s, the idea of both bands to produce two more albums came up. Studio musicians were hired to imitate the style, the original line-up is unknown.
Music style and reception
Thrash Queen, along with Killer Fox, are considered one of the worst metal bands of all time and cemented Metal Enterprise status as one of the worst metal labels. In fact, after producing several Böhse Onkelz albums, the record company tried to build a reputation as a right-wing rock label. Philipp Roser vom Crash noted in his review of Going Under that the band is just a cheap Kiss copy. The singing is unspeakable and annoying and one can hardly speak of music when it comes to the songs. In the purely instrumental passages, "[the] headbanger skull [...] definitely shakes". Götz Kühnemund from Metal Hammer also reviewed the album and described it as superfluous garbage. In addition, it is annoying because the album had already been released in the USA under a different name with a different cover and already received only negative reviews. He thought the cover was ridiculous, which meant that the band couldn't be taken seriously either. The music is poorly produced "garage thrash". Martin Groß from the same magazine also found the music annoying in his review of Orgasm Of Death . Here, too, one could not take the group seriously and provide for involuntary comedy. The band is “stupid”, consists of “wigs” and plays “mud metal”. Holger Stratmann, rock hard publisher, declared the album the "ass bomb of the month". The songs are convulsively trimmed to be demonic or annoying “eunuch metal pieces”, also accompanied by a “bad drum computer”.
Discography
- The Night (Lanslyde Records, 1986)
- Orgasm Of Death (Metal Enterprise, 1990)
Web links
- Killer Fox at Discogs (English)
- Killer Foxx at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Hunter Brawer: Killer Fox - Orgasm of Death. ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Review on the page "Satan stole my teddybear; Retrieved October 11, 2015.
- ^ Metal Enterprises. The Corroseum, accessed July 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Philipp Roser: Killer Fox . Going under. In: Crash . September 1987, p. 71 .
- ↑ Götz Kühnemund: Killer Fox . Going under. In: Metal Hammer . May 1987, p. 53 .
- ↑ Martin Groß: Killer Fox . Orgasm of Death. In: Metal Hammer . January 1992, p. 49 .
- ↑ Holger Stratmann: Killer Fox. Orgasm of Death . In: Rock Hard . No. 59 , March 1992, Ass Bomb of the Month, p. 69 .
