Sacrilege BC

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Sacrilege BC
General information
origin Berkeley , California , United States
Genre (s) Thrash metal , crossover , hardcore punk
founding 1983 as Sacrilege
resolution 1991
Last occupation
scan
Matt Fillmore
Tim Howell
Electric guitar
 Gary Wendt
Strephon Taylor
former members
Electric bass
 Musashi "Moose" Lethridge
Electric bass
 Todd
Electric bass
 Sean Smithson
Electric bass
 Jim Larin († 1993)
Electric bass
 Dave Edwardson

Sacrilege BC was an American thrash metal band from Berkeley , California , which was founded in 1983 under the name Sacrilege and disbanded in 1991. During their career, the band played with groups such as DRI , Testament (back then still under the name Legacy), Exodus , Possessed and Death Angel .

history

The band was founded in 1983 by singer Strephon Taylor and guitarist Tim Howell under the name Sacrilege. In November 1984, drummer Matt Filmore, guitarist Gary Wendt and bassist Musashi "Moose" Lethridge completed the line-up. The average age of the members was around 16.5 years. Howell and Wendt had learned to play the guitar with the help of Joe Satriani . In November 1985 the band recorded their first demo Party with God . On the following album of the same name, which was produced by Mark Dentrom ( Clown Alley ), Sean Smithson came to the band as the new bass player, although this position should be associated with frequent line-up changes in the future of the band. After the group signed a contract with Alchemy Records , they changed their name to Sacrilege BC, as an English band of the same name already existed. The BC stood for "Berkeley, California". Party with God was released in 1986 via Alchemy Records, followed by the album Too Cool to Pray in 1988 , before the group split up in 1991. Guitarist Wendt later founded the band Skinlab .

style

Holger Stratmann from Metal Hammer assigned the album Party with God to classic Thrash Metal from the San Francisco Bay Area , although the pace was almost consistently high. Uwe Schnädelbach assigned the band to the classic crossover in the crash . According to classicthrash.com, the band plays perhaps the fastest Thrash Metal on the album without falling too deeply into hardcore punk. On Too Cool to Pray the band clearly declined with the speed.

Discography

as Sacrilege
  • 1985: Party with God (demo, self-release)
as Sacrilege BC
  • 1985: Demo 1985 (demo, self-published)
  • 1986: Party with God (Album, Alchemy Records )
  • 1988: Too Cool to Pray (Album, Medusa Records )
  • 1990: Demo 1990 (demo, self-published)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Uwe Schnädelbach: Sacrilege BC Party with God. In: Metal Hammer . July 1987, p. 48 .
  2. ^ Newcomer International . In: Metal Hammer . April 1986, p. 42 .
  3. ↑ Sacrilege . In: Metal Hammer . May 1986, p. 24 .
  4. ↑ Dennis Dread: Sacrilege BC. novemberfire.com, accessed October 3, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Garry Sharpe-Young : AZ of Thrash Metal . Cherry Red Books, London 2002, ISBN 1-901447-09-X , pp. 346 .
  6. ^ Sacrilege BC Discogs , accessed October 3, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Eduardo Rivadavia: Sacrilege BC Allmusic , accessed on October 3, 2013 .
  8. ^ Holger Stratmann: Sacrilege BC Party with God. In: Metal Hammer . July 1987, p. 67 .
  9. ↑ Classic Thrash - Reviews - S. classicthrash.com, accessed October 4, 2013 .