Phasslayne

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Phasslayne
General information
origin Newcastle upon Tyne , England
Genre (s) New Wave of British Heavy Metal , Speed ​​Metal
founding 1982, 2014
resolution 1985
Current occupation
Micheal Maughan
Ian Mattimore
Brian Morton
former members
Electric bass
 Paul Gago
Drums
 Andrew Stidolph
singing
 Kev Wilkinson

Phasslayne is an English speed metal and new wave of British heavy metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne , which was founded in 1982, disbanded in 1985 and has been active again since 2014.

history

The band was formed in late 1982, with the core consisting of the songwriter duo Micheal Maughan and Paul Gago. The first appearances followed, with the line-up changing several times. At times the band was a quartet through the use of a singer, but it was decided that Maughan would take over the vocals in addition to the guitar. With Gago on bass and drummer Andrew Stidolph, a stable line-up was formed from mid-1984. A demo was then circulated in August . The band then signed a record deal with Neat Records on December 17, 1984 and recorded their first album in the label's Impulse Studios . This appeared in early 1985 under the name Cut It Up , which includes a cover version of Elvis Presley's King Creole . Shortly after the release, or possibly before the release as with Ethel the Frog , the band split up. While the album was released in the UK on Neat Records, the rest of Europe was released on Roadrunner Records . In 2014 the band got back together and was seen at the Brofest in 2015 .

style

According to Malc Macmillan in The NWOBHM Encyclopedia , the band has settled on the edge of the early speed metal scene that formed at the height of NWOBHM in northeast England. She was particularly influenced by bands like Raven or Avenger . Trying to play raw metal at high speed on Cut It Up results in the rest of the band not being able to keep up with the electric guitar. In the slower songs on the album, Phasslayne reminds me of Savage and Chariot . According to Martin Popoff in The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 2: The Eighties , the band sounds like a mix of other Neat Records bands like Hellanbach , Tysondog and Avenger on their album . He too found that the group sounded better in more commercial and slower songs. Phasslayne is one step ahead of a group like Warfare . Frank Kleiner from Metal Hammer states in his review of the album that you can hear unpredictable Metal on it. The singing is clear and occasionally drifts into the commercial. The instruments are hard and driving. Overall, the album is characterized by “variety, inventiveness and playing skills”. A few issues later, it was written that the group was influenced by Van Halen and Gary Moore .

Discography

  • 1983: Important Record Gosforth (demo, self-published)
  • 1984: Desert Sound Demo (demo, self-release)
  • 1985: Cut It Up (album, Neat Records )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d British Steel . Phasslayne. In: Metal Hammer . January 1986, p. 49 .
  2. ^ A b c Malc Macmillan: The NWOBHM Encyclopedia . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader GbR, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-931624-16-3 , p. 443 f .
  3. ↑ Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 8, 2016 . 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.rockdetector.com
  4. ^ Phasslayne. nwobhm.com, accessed March 8, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 2: The Eighties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2005, ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5 , pp. 261 .
  6. ↑ Frank Kleiner: Phasslayne . Cut it up. In: Metal Hammer . October 1985, p. 86 .