Neat Records

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Neat Records (later also: Neat Metal ) was an independent label from Newcastle , Great Britain . The label was founded in 1979 by David Wood. The label was sold to Sanctuary Records in 1995 by its then owner, former Tygers of Pan Tang singer Jess Cox .

Label history

In 1979 David Wood founded the Neat Records label. Initially, the idea was to found a second label called Tidy, a two-man figure (“pretty” and “clean”), but the idea was discarded. The first two releases were the singles All I Wanna Be Is Your Romeo by Motorway and One and Only Girl by Janie McKenzie. Quite quickly, mainly thanks to Tygers of Pan Tang, the label became a pure metal label, the first two singles remained the exception. With Raven , Satan and Jaguar , the group had some strong names in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal at the start. The band Venom , whose member Conrad "Cronos" Lant worked for Neat Records at the time, discovered many of the now known New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands at concerts and got his band a contract with Neat Records, should also " get the search for more brutality really rolling ” and as Thrash and Black Metal pioneers they become one of the most influential groups in metal.

In 1987 Tygers-of-Pan-Tang singer Jess Cox returned to Newcastle to interview the new owner of Neat Records as part of his work as a music journalist . He stayed, first as a press agent, then as a partner. His first releases were two unreleased Sweet Savage and Blitzkrieg albums, as well as an album by Lant's solo project Cronos. For this he invented the label Neat Metal. Between 1995 and 2001, Cox brought out around 40 new albums by old bands, including Savage and Holocaust, but also new groups like Marshall Law . His second label, the metal label Edgy, gained more and more priority, so that in 1995 he decided to transfer Neat Metal to Sanctuary Records.

meaning

The label is known for the early releases of the band Venom from Newcastle, which had a significant influence on the emergence of stylistically extreme metal trends, and numerous classics of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal . While none of the Neat Records bands achieved mainstream success, Venom, Raven , Blitzkrieg , Holocaust and Jaguar were major influences for a number of major US thrash metal bands such as Metallica , Megadeth and Anthrax . Metallica in particular recorded some cover versions of various Neat Records bands (Blitzkrieg, Holocaust, Sweet Savage) on their EP Garage Days Re-Revisited , the album Garage Inc. and various singles.

Bands (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c Frank Stöver: Venom . In: Voices from the Darkside , No. 9, 1996, p. 13.
  2. ^ A b c d Geoff Barton: The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 11, 2011 ; Retrieved November 26, 2005 . 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.hmsoundhouse.com
  3. a b c Jan Fleckhaus, Christof Leim: The origin of hardness . In: Metal Hammer , No. 3, 2008, pp. 34-41.
  4. ^ Vinnie Apicella: Salutations from the "Metal Nation". Interview with NWOBHM Musician / Label Owner Jess Cox. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 17, 2011 ; Retrieved November 25, 2009 . 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.vinniesworld.com
  5. Label description. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 17, 2007 ; Retrieved November 26, 2005 . 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.bnrmetal.com