Piledriver (band)

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Piledriver
General information
origin Toronto , Canada
Genre (s) Speed ​​metal , power metal , thrash metal
founding 1984, 2004 as The Exalted Piledriver
resolution 1989
Website www.exaltedpiledriver.com
Current occupation
Gord "Piledriver" Kirchin
Ken Gibson aka "Steele McFearsome"
Mark Macpherson aka "Hank Momscraper"
Steve Macpherson aka "Reverend Tom Cheapness"
former members
Electric bass
 Andrew Postmaster General
Electric bass
 Subslime facekicker
Drums
 Tupak Sade
Electric guitar
 Troy "Evil E" Ellis aka "DesTroyYa Hellis"
Electric guitar
 Ron the Tyrant
Electric bass
 Robert Tollefson aka "Lobo Elf Schnort"
Electric guitar
 Johnny "No Heart" butts
Electric guitar
 Gerry Keough aka "Glace Frothfritter"
Electric guitar
 Mark Antony aka "Kinky Pork Cream"
Electric bass
 Mike Paccione
Drums
 Robert Espizito
Electric guitar
 Edward Pursino
Electric guitar
 Leslie Howe
Electric guitar
 Bud Slaker
Electric guitar
 Knuckles Akimbo
Drums
 Former Lee ( drum computer )
Electric guitar
 Bruizer Bernette
Electric guitar
 John Savage
Electric bass
 Sal Gibson
Drums
 hammer
Electric guitar, vocals
 Jim Doherty
Electric guitar
 Sean Abbott
Electric guitar
 Randy Deeg
Drums
 Bend quieser
Electric guitar
 Randy Kirchin
Electric guitar
 Dave Copeland
Drums
 Ruston Baldwin

Piledriver is a Canadian power , speed and thrash metal band from Toronto that was founded in 1984, disbanded in 1989 and reunited in 2004 under the name The Exalted Piledriver .

history

The band was founded in 1984 by the singer Gord "Piledriver" Kirchin. For the following debut album guitarist Leslie Howe came to the band. The lyrics on the album were from Louise Remy. Afterwards Bud Slaker and Knuckles Akimbo joined the band as guitarists. Former Lee, actually a drum machine , was performed as the drummer . For the release of the album in North America , some obscene song titles were renamed: Alien Rape became Alien Dead , Sex with Satan Devil’s Lust and Sodomize became The Dead Twister . However, numerous copies of the uncensored version were already in circulation at the time. Kirchin left the band briefly to join the band Ice. For the second album Stay Ugly , however, he returned to Piledriver. The album featured anonymous contributions from David DeFeis and Eddie Pursino, both with Virgin Steele . In addition to Kirchin, the guitarists Bruizer Bernette and John Savage, the bassist Sal Gibson and the drummer Hammer could be heard as further members. The song Fire God was later to be heard in a revised form on Virgin Steele's album The House of Atreus - Act I. After that, Kirchin planned to go on tour with singer and guitarist Jim Doherty and guitarist Sean Abbott. In 1989 the line-up of the band had changed again, so that Randy Deeg was the guitarist and Bend Quieser was the drummer in the band. While working on the planned third album Shock , in which Gord's brother Randy was involved as the second guitarist, Quieser left the band. The group then consisted of Gord and Randy Kirchin, guitarist Dave Copeland and drummer Ruston Baldwin. The group broke up before the album was finished. Kirchin and Copeland later used the written material for their new project Dogs with Jobs , which produced two albums. Kirchin later explained that "[we] e as musicians [...] as young, eager to learn hillbilly folks, were nothing more than a plaything" of the operator of "a money-hungry, stupid record company". A few years after the albums were released, he tried unsuccessfully to find a stable line-up. Kirchin later tried a solo project called Sofa-Q, but it “didn't really take shape” and then “artistically completely disappeared from the scene”. When he discovered the Internet in 1995, he realized “that [sic!] Record companies had only lied to me all these years and that the PILEDRIVER albums were NOT failures, they were even underground classics! And that's when I first thought of bringing PILEDRIVER back to life. ”Ray Wallace, the former manager of the band Sacrifice , offered Kirchin his help, but the collaboration didn't work.

In 2004 the band was revived under the name The Exalted Piledriver, as it had its 20th anniversary in August 2004. She started working on the album Metal Manifesto in 2005 . Gord Kirchin was the only remaining member. The group also consisted of guitarist Ron the Tyrant, bassist Andrew Postmaster General and drummer Tupak Sade. A short time later, Subslime Facekicker joined the band as the new bass player, while Troy "Evil E" Ellis was added as the second guitarist. This line-up did not last long, however, as the new guitarists Johnny "No Heart" Butts and DesTroyYa Hellis joined Piledriver. The band recorded the Demo Metal Manifesto in 2005 and released the DVD Official Live Bootleg Shpinsk, Batslavia . The following year, Kinky Pork Cream joined Piledriver as the new guitarist and Glace Frothfritter as the new drummer. Lobo Elf Schnort was the new bass player in the band. In 2007 she took part in Keep It True . Kirchin explained with problems with the cast that the album Metal Manifesto was still unreleased two years after the demo recording of the same name was released; In 2006 he “found the right people. And damn it, if these three aren't the coolest, funniest people I want to be around for the rest of my life. If it didn't work with this line-up, then this was it! Then I'll get out! I would never try to continue PILEDRIVER. […] If one of them fails, the machine will collapse. Kinky, Lobo and Glace ARE damn PILEDRIVER. ”Former members were often only“ temporary placeholders ”, while Kirchin“ was waiting for the real PILEDRIVER band to arrive. To people who actually deserve attributes like 'mighty' or 'sublime'. ”He wanted it to be“ a quality album that is well recorded, mixed, mastered and produced. An album that is widely available and distributed sensibly. ”In 2008, the album Metal Manifesto was released , which was produced by Neil Kernon . In 2009 the band played at the Headbangers Open Air . Then the line-up of Piledrivers changed again. Various appearances followed, including an appearance at the Quebec Metal Fest.

style

Kirch founded Piledriver, initially as a fun project, due to his rejection of hair metal bands and was inspired by artists like Frank Zappa and Alice Cooper . The songs are "extremely simple" but, according to Hawk from The Metal Observer, have "that certain something". According to him, the first four tracks on Metal Inquisition are "absolutely essential for any fan of 80's Power / Speed ​​Metal "; Since the songs Sex with Satan and Sodomize the Dead were reenacted by the Swedish black metal band Marduk on the Glorification EP, he also recommends the band to black metal musicians. Both he and Martin Loga from Powermetal.de compared the theme song with Razor and Tank . Witchhunt, on the other hand, reminded Hawk of a "rough mixture of the first EPs by Armored Saint and Ratt ". According to Loga, the song is “arranged in an absolutely simplistic way and is the undisputed groove monster of this release. This title is bursting with groove over a length of seven minutes . ”According to him, the“ powerful, medium-high vocals ”have“ somehow a bluesy , rough note ”, but he“ still passes for a thoroughbred metal singer ”,“ not many of them have such an unmistakable, distinctive voice like the PILEDRIVER fronter ”. In addition to Tank and Razor, Loga saw slight borrowings from Motörhead . The only flaw he named was "somewhat brittle and wooden-looking drum work"; Former Lee is “a drum computer that was programmed really well for the conditions at the time. This fact doesn't detract from the fun and mosh factor of ' Metal Inquisition ' [sic!]. ” Numerous Metal clichés have been parodied on Metal Inquisition . Kirchin's demeanor, in turn, had something like that of Fee Waybill from the band The Tubes as Quay Lude: “Something like the brokenness of an ALICE COOPER with a little more SM influence and a bit of rock'n'roll piracy, paired with one lustful, pounding rhythm and a proper metal inferno. Alice Cooper was out of the picture at the time and pretty drowned. The world just needed another crazy metal monster. And Marilyn Manson was still in elementary school back then, so I took over the Piledriver. ”Matthias Herr recognized humorous traits in the songs in his heavy metal lexicon, which can be seen in song titles such as Metal Inquisition , Sodomize the Dead and Sex with Satan could know. According to Oliver Klemm vom Metal Hammer, the album stood out from the usual Thrash Metal releases, which is particularly evident in the song Sex with Satan , as it parodies all Black and Death Metal clichés. According to Loga, Stay Ugly "unfortunately couldn't keep the class of this debut album".

According to Loga, Metal Manifesto has become "a worthy PILEDRIVER work that bangs in a good way and also leaves the second album 'Stay Ugly' qualitatively far behind". It contains groove-heavy pieces like Blood Bath and The Things I Give , the thrash-heavy Unsuck My Cock or the rock-'n'-roll-heavy Battle Ax , which " bring that 80s feeling to life".

Discography

as a piledriver
as The Exalted Piledriver
  • 2005: Metal Manifesto (demo, self-published)
  • 2005: Official Live Bootleg Shpinsk, Batslavia (DVD, Dog Bite)
  • 2008: Metal Manifesto (album, Northern Storm Records )
  • 2011: Night of the Unpolished Turd (Live Album, Sick Fuck Records )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e sonictherapy: Sunday Old School: "The Exalted" Piledriver , November 13, 2011, accessed September 21, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Martin Loga: PILEDRIVER - Metal Inquisition , November 1, 2007, accessed on September 21, 2013.
  3. ↑ Garry Sharpe-Young : AZ of Thrash Metal . Cherry Red Books, London 2002, ISBN 1-901447-09-X , pp. 315 .
  4. ↑ a b PILEDRIVER. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on September 27, 2013 ; Retrieved September 21, 2013 . 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.musicmight.com
  5. ↑ a b c d e Martin Loga: PILEDRIVER: Interview with Gord Kirchin , October 25, 2007, accessed on September 21, 2013.
  6. ↑ Manuel Liebler: Keep It True . Lääz Rockit + Diamond Head + Sabbat + Lethal + Destructor + Piledriver + Defender + Twisted Tower Dire + Bullet + Cauldron Lauda-Königshofen: Tauberfrankenhalle. In: Metal Hammer . June 2007, p. 140 .
  7. ↑ a b Martin Loga: (THE EXALTED) PILEDRIVER - Metal Manifesto. Powermetal.de , accessed on September 21, 2013 .
  8. ↑ a b c Hawk: Piledriver - Metal Inquisition , accessed September 21, 2013.
  9. ↑ Matthias Herr: Matthias Herr's Heavy Metal Lexicon Vol. 1 . Verlag Matthias Herr, 1993, p. 129 .
  10. ↑ Oliver Klemm: Piledriver . Metal Inquisition. In: Metal Hammer . October 1985, p. 87 .