Oliver Magnum
| Oliver Magnum | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Enid , Oklahoma , United States |
| Genre (s) | Speed metal , power metal , heavy metal |
| founding | 1983 |
| resolution | 1997 |
| Last occupation | |
| Dan Kurtz | |
| Curt Daughtery | |
| Monte Humphrey | |
| Mark Mueller | |
| former members | |
singing |
James Randel |
singing |
Jimmy King |
Oliver Magnum was an American metal band from Enid , Oklahoma that was formed in 1983 and broke up in 1997.
history
The band was formed in 1983 by bassist Dan Kurtz and drummer Curt Daugherty. A short time later, guitarist Monte Humphrey joined them. In their first year, the band only played instrumental covers of Judas Priest , Iron Maiden and Saxon before singer Mark Mueller joined the band. The first appearances and the demo 01986 followed . The sound carrier was named after the year the demo was recorded and was financed by winning a Battle of the Bands in Tulsa , with the first edition of the demo limited to 500 copies. After all of these were sold out, around 2000 more copies were sold in the following two years. The song Old World Nites was also included on the compilation Metal Massacre IX . In 1989 the self-titled debut album followed on New Renaissance Records , whereupon James Randel could be heard as the new singer. Randel was soon to be replaced by Jimmy King, before the original singer Mark Mueller returned to the band in 1991. After several years of struggle for survival including their own performance organization including advertising and equipment sales and a few other little-noticed demo releases, the band broke up in 1997.
style
The band played fast heavy and power metal, comparable to the works of Helstar and Agent Steel . The complex guitar riffs and the demanding vocals are particularly characteristic.
Discography
- 1986: 01986 (demo, self- publication )
- 1989: Oliver Magnum (album, New Renaissance Records )
- 1992: Drive By (demo, self-published)
- 1992: Demo 1992 (demo, self-published)
- 1993: Troubled Life (demo, self-published)
- 1993: Necessary Evil (split with Foul Play, Bright Green Records )
- 1993: Wrath of Deathrash (split with Judgment Day , Excidium and Deceiver, Wrath Records )
Web links
- Oliver Magnum at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Matthias Herr: Matthias Herr's Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 3 . Verlag Matthias Herr, 1991, p. 96 f .
- ↑ Matthias Breusch: Concentrated feed from the prairie. Oliver Magnum . In: Metal Hammer / Crash , 21/1989 (October 1989), p. 87.
- ^ Markus Uelhoff: Oliver Magnum . In: Revelation , No. 6 (2nd half of 1993), p. 19.
- ↑ Oliver Magnum , accessed May 19, 2013.
- ^ Eduardo Rivadavia: Oliver Magnum , accessed May 19, 2013.
- ↑ Paul Batteiger: Classic Review: Oliver Magnum - Oliver Magnum , accessed on May 19, 2013.