Mother's Ruin (English band)
| Mother's ruin | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | London , England |
| Genre (s) | New wave of British heavy metal , rock music |
| founding | 1981 or earlier |
| resolution | 1987 |
| Last occupation | |
| Dale Nathan | |
| Phil Hunt | |
Electric guitar, later also electric bass
|
Malcolm Jones |
| Martin Bell | |
| former members | |
Drums |
Geoff Cooper |
Electric bass |
Ron Cunnington |
Electric bass (studio) |
Andy Brown |
Mother's Ruin was an English rock and new wave of British heavy metal band from London that was founded around 1981 and split up in 1987.
history
After the band was formed, the single Streetfighter with the song Leaving You as the b-side was released in 1981 via Spectra Records . Due to the distribution through Pinnacle Records , the sound carrier was sold quite well. The following year, the debut album Road to Ruin also followed with Spectra Records . Since the band had problems with the line-up at that time, Andy Brown is featured on the album as a studio bassist. In the same year, the two singles Say It's Not True with It's Illogical as the B-side and Streetlights with Turn Another Corner were released as another song. Streetlights was listed in the Top 30 Kuts in the April 1982 issue of Kerrang . A few months later, the single reappeared there. After further appearances, the band broke up in 1987. During her career she performed with Motörhead and Dire Straits , among others . A few years later, the group briefly reunited under the name The Beat Street Band and released the single Beat Street .
style
Malc Macmillan wrote in The NWOBHM Encyclopedia that the A-side of Streetfighter is melodic rock and heavy metal , while the B-side is a ballad. The group can best be compared with NWoBHM bands like Frenzy , Alkatrazz or Mama's Boys , but Mother's Ruin can hardly really count as a representative of the ethos of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. With Road to Ruin , the band tried to play chart-friendly and American- sounding pop rock , which fluctuated between something adult-oriented rock in the style of Foreigner and Boston and even more melodic mainstream material, comparable to that of the Eagles or Steely Dan , so that HGB , Trader and Angel Street could be named as comparable bands . Matthias Mader said in NWoBHM New Wave of British Heavy Metal. The glory days that much of the album sounded more like Electric Light Orchestra than Judas Priest . Martin Popoff summed up in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 2: The Eighties along that Road to Ruin chart friendly, by pop -influenced "soft metal " in the style of New England and touch plays the electric guitar to Thin Lizzy remember would. In The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal , the band's music is referred to as good, melodic pomp rock .
Discography
- 1981: Streetfighter (single, Spectra Records )
- 1982: Streetlights (single, Spectra Records)
- 1982: Say It's Not True (Single, Spectra Records)
- 1982: Road to Ruin (Album, Spectra Records)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Malc Macmillan: The NWOBHM Encyclopedia . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader GbR, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-931624-16-3 , p. 401 f .
- ↑ Mother's Ruin. nwobhm.com, accessed October 28, 2017 .
- ^ Matthias Mader, Otger Jeske, Manfred Kerschke: NWoBHM New Wave of British Heavy Metal. The glory days . Iron Pages, Berlin 1995, p. 124 .
- ↑ Martin Popoff: The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 2: The Eighties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2005, ISBN 1-894959-31-0 , p. 232 .
- ↑ 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 , pp. 226 .