Metal for Muthas

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Metal for Muthas
Compilation album by various artists

Publication
(s)

February 15, 1980

Label (s) EMI

Format (s)

LP , CD

Genre (s)

NWoBHM

Title (number)

10

running time

40 minutes, 50 seconds

Metal for Muthas (also Metal for Muthas, Volume 1 ) is an influential compilation of songs by various bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal . It was released on February 15, 1980 by the British music label EMI and contains, among other things, two of the first recordings by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden .

Emergence

Iron Maiden's two contributions were recorded in the studios of EMI's London headquarters in November 1979 . It is the first recorded or first published version of the songs Sanctuary and Wrathchild . Both songs were reused in the form of later re-recordings: Sanctuary was released in May 1980 as a single and on later reissues of the debut album Iron Maiden as a bonus track , Wrathchild, however, was part of the following album Killers . The contributions of other bands also appeared on other releases, for example Captured City by Praying Mantis as a single in 1979 and Tomorrow or Yesterday by Samson on their debut album Survivors , also from 1979.

London DJ Neal Kay wrote liner notes for the compilation.

Track list

  1. Iron Maiden - Sanctuary
  2. Sledgehammer - Sledgehammer
  3. EF Band - Fighting For Rock And Roll
  4. Toad the Wet Sprocket - Blues in A
  5. Praying Mantis - Captured City
  6. Ethel the Frog - Fight Back
  7. Angel Witch - Baphomet
  8. Iron Maiden - Wrathchild
  9. Samson - Tomorrow Or Yesterday
  10. Useful boot liggers

Publications

Metal for Muthas was released on EMI record in 1980 . A second compilation called Metal for Muthas, Volume II: Cut Loud , was also released by EMI in 1980, which included songs by lesser-known and successful bands such as White Spirit . At the end of the series, an EP called Muthas Pride with four songs was released that same year , including another song by White Spirit. Neal Kay revived the name in the early 1990s for a release called Metal for Muthas '92 . This compilation , only released in Japan by Pony Canyon , features British hard rock bands without a record deal .

The first album was later re-released in the 80s by Wishbone Records on the Backbone Records label. The first two albums were released individually as re-releases on CD in 2000 on Air Raid Records, the label of Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson . There is also a double CD with both albums and the subtitle Essential New Wave of British Heavy Metal , released in 2003 by Sanctuary Records .

Cover

The cover is based on an illustration by Peter Campbell and is based on the contemporary look of the cover of Heavy Metal (in Germany Schwermetall (Comic) ), a magazine for fantasy, science fiction and horror. It shows a cyborg figure stylized as a feminine robot / knight (with breasts and a kind of metal woman's hairstyle), wielding an electric bass (a Fender model) as a weapon and wearing a purple cloak . The figure (possibly the "Metal Mutha") rides a steel horse, which in turn shoots laser beams from his eyes. The background consists of two-dimensional color gradients of yellow, red and white and is continued on the back in a post-apocalyptic space landscape through which a spaceship glides (which is vaguely reminiscent of the starfighter from Star Wars ). The hybrid mix of archaic motifs and future-oriented SciFi topics is both genre-typical and style-defining for the NWOBHM.

reception

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Metal for Muthas
  UK 16 02/23/1980 (7 weeks)
Metal for Muthas, Volume II: Cut Loud
  UK 58 06/14/1980 (1 week)

The album entered the UK album charts at number 22 and improved to 16 in the second week of its release. It stayed in the charts for a total of seven weeks. Volume II reached number 58 on the charts in June 1980. Both albums received three out of five possible stars at Allmusic .

The German metal band Roxxcalibur named a cover album in 2009 with songs from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal NWoBHM for Muthas .

trip

As early as 1979 Iron Maiden played occasional concerts with Angel Witch , Toad the Wet Sprocket , Praying Mantis and Nutz. In February 1980 Iron Maiden finally went on the Metal for Muthas tour, with Praying Mantis and DJ Neal Kay playing as the opening act . After eleven of the approximately thirty concerts originally planned, Iron Maiden broke off the tour in order to record their self-titled debut album, and in March 1980 to accompany Judas Priest on their British Steel tour through Great Britain. The band later made up for the unusual concerts as part of their Iron Maiden tour in spring and summer, where Praying Mantis and Neal Kay could be heard in the opening act as originally planned.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doug Stone: Metal for Muthas, Vol. 1 . Allmusic , accessed September 5, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b Metal For Muthas . The Iron Maiden Commentary , accessed September 5, 2011.
  3. ↑ Doug Stone: Metal for Muthas, Vol. 2: Cut Loud . Allmusic , accessed September 5, 2011.
  4. ↑ Metal for Muthas in the Official UK Charts (English)
  5. ↑ ROXXCALIBUR . NWoBHM for Muthas . In: Rock Hard , No. 265, June 2009. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
  6. ^ Metal For Muthas Tour . The Iron Maiden Commentary , accessed September 5, 2011.
  7. ↑ Iron Maiden Tour 1980 . The Iron Maiden Commentary , accessed September 5, 2011.

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