Saber (band)
| Saber | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Croydon , London , England |
| Genre (s) | New Wave of British Heavy Metal |
| founding | 1980 |
| resolution | 1984 |
| Last occupation | |
| Geoff Gillespie | |
| Allan Angold | |
| Alan Beschi | |
Electric guitar |
Nick Fusco |
| John Ward | |
| former members | |
singing |
Nick Pyatt |
singing |
Rob Brown |
Saber was a British New Wave of-British heavy metal band from the London district of Croydon , which was founded in 1980 and disbanded 1984th
history
The band was formed in December 1980. A first demo followed in 1981 , on which Nick Pyatt can still be heard as a singer. Since the demo could hardly get the attention of a label, the group decided to part with him in November, whereupon Rob Brown came on as a new singer. This in turn was replaced by John Ward in early 1982. A new demo was then recorded. As a result, the band was represented twice in the Armed and Ready section of Kerrang magazine . This made Neat Records aware of the band, whereupon the label released the song Cry to the Wind on the sampler 60 Minutes Plus , which appeared in late 1982. The publication took place as a compact cassette . As a record , the sampler was released a year later as a somewhat shortened version under the name All Hell Let Loose . The band could now hold more gigs in Surrey and London. In early 1983, the single Miracle Man appeared on Neat Records with the song On the Loose as the B-side . A few months later, bassist Geoff Gillespie left the line-up to pursue other projects, which in 1984 marked the end of Saber. In 2002 On the Loose was featured on the sampler The Flame Burns On: The Best of Neat Records . In 2005 the compilation Roar to the Core , which consists of demo and test recordings, was released via Majestic Rock .
style
According to Malc Macmillan in The NWOBHM Encyclopedia , the dueling electric guitars in the sampler contribution Cry to the Wind are reminiscent of Iron Maiden . Overall, the band sounds like groups like Persian Risk , Virtue and early Tygers of Pan Tang in the song . The two songs on the single Miracle Man are full of energy and contain interesting, memorable riffs . Otger Jeske wrote in NWoBHM New Wave of British Heavy Metal The glory Days that with the single the band tried to become more melodic and to integrate keyboards. Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic also assigned the band to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and drew a comparison to their label colleagues Persian Risk and early Tygers of Pan Tang.
Discography
- 1981: Demo 1981 (demo, self-published)
- 1983: Miracle Man (single, Neat Records )
- 2005: Roar to the Core (compilation, Majestic Rock )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Matthias Mader, Otger Jeske, Manfred Kerschke: NWoBHM New Wave of British Heavy Metal The glory Days . Iron Pages, Berlin 1995, p. 133 .
- ↑ a b c d Biography. rockdetector.com, archived from the original on June 25, 2016 ; accessed on June 14, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Eduardo Rivadavia: Saber. Allmusic , accessed June 14, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Malc Macmillan: The NWOBHM Encyclopedia . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader GbR, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-931624-16-3 , p. 497 f .