Triarchy

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Triarchy
General information
origin Gravesend , England
Genre (s) New Wave of British Heavy Metal
founding 1972
resolution 1983
Last occupation
Paul Gunn
Mark Dawson
Mike Wheeler
former members
Drums
 Mark Annal
Electric guitar
 Graham legg
Drums (session)
 Alan Tracy
Drums
 Martyn Newbold
Electric guitar
 Derek Lomas
singing
 Debbie
Electric guitar
 Justin
Drums
 Mark Newbold
Electric guitar
 Brian Galibardy
Electric guitar
 Pete "Tabby" Moore
Electric guitar
 Eddie Webb

Triarchy was an English new wave of British heavy metal band from Gravesend that was formed in 1972 and split in 1983.

history

Mark Newbold knew Mike Wheeler very early because they attended the same elementary school together from the age of five and their families lived only 150 meters apart. Together with his brother Martyn and Wheeler, who owned a Bontempi organ, they experimented and made the first recordings with Newbold's father's tape recorder. Wheeler received a semi-resonance guitar for his twelfth birthday in November 1972 and a ten-watt amplifier for Christmas. Together they continued to rehearse, with the first line-up consisting of drummer Martyn Newbold, Mark Newbold on keyboard and percussion instruments and Mike Wheeler as keyboardist and singer. In contrast to other local school bands, the group wrote their own songs and didn't just play cover versions. After a while Martyn Newbold lost interest and his brother took over the drums. Various friends then took over the piano, the electric guitar and the vocals. The first permanent line-up of Triarchy consisted of the singer, bassist and keyboardist Mike Wheeler, the guitarist Derek Lomas and Mark Newbold as drummer. A first demo followed in 1978, which had been recorded in Balham , as well as the first local appearances. On the first appearance, Mark Newbold was injured by the use of pyrotechnics and suffered burns. He then left for the next appearances, instead the drummer helped out the support band of the first appearance. For a short time, the band experimented with the use of a singer named Debbie, but there was only one appearance with her, so she soon left the band. A short time later, Lomas also left the band.

Their first release came in 1979 in the form of the single Save the Khan , with the band consisting of keyboardist, bassist and singer Mike Wheeler, guitarist Graham Legg and drummer Mark Newbold. Since it was a private pressing in a limited number of only 1,000 pieces, the single was re-released in 1980 on Bullet Records . The first edition was financed by the band itself, with recording and pressing costs of £ 600 . The recording work had taken place in the Airport Studios in London at the end of 1979 . The theme song was chosen by Geoff Burton for the weekly playlist in Sounds magazine . In the second half of 1980, Legg was replaced by Brian Galibardy. Then the band went to the studio on August 3, 1980 to record the EP Metal Messiah , which consists of the theme song from the songs Sweet Alcohol and Hellhound on My Trail and was released by Direct Records. The latter song is a Robert Johnson cover. As with Save the Khan , the recordings were self-financed by the band and took place at The Lodge Studio in Hertfordshire , which was operated by the progressive rock band The Enid . This time Bullet Records was responsible for pressing the sound carrier. The band initially only intended to record Metal Messiah and Sweet Alcohol . Before the songs were mixed that afternoon, you had an hour, after which you had decided to record Hellhound on My Trail . The sound carrier was recorded, produced and mixed within 13 hours. Songs from the two recordings were played by Alan "Fluff" Freeman and John Peel on their radio shows. Her version of Hellhound on My Trail was also praised by Tommy Vance . Several appearances followed the release, including a tour with Vardis . In their early days, the band had also recorded a demo with the two songs Play to Win and Wheel of Samsara . Legg had friends who ran a pirate radio station called Radio Free London, which aired the demo in 1980. Brian Galibardy had previously left the band. This was temporarily replaced by a guitarist named Justin. On June 16, 1981, the song Eockchild was recorded for the sampler Kent Rocks 2 in Orpington . The song didn't appear until 2001 after Mark Newbold had technically revised it. However, the song was only distributed to close friends on CD-R . After the recording, Justin left the band again, whereupon guitarists Eddie Webb and Pete "Tabby" Moore came to the cast. The sampler was never released. In 1982 the band played together with the Swedish heavy metal band EF Band in Essex . Meanwhile, Mark Annal was the new drummer in the band. However, Newhold still helped the band with various things backstage. After leaving, he devoted himself to photography, using a photo on the back of the later publication Before Your Very Ears . In the same year all members left the cast except for Mike Wheeler. A demo was recorded with drummer Paul Gunn and guitarist Mark Dawson, which contains the three songs Ghost of an Emotion , Before Your Very Eyes and Marionette . The demo was released in 1983. That same year the band split up. In 1995 the compilation Before Your Very Ears was released by Vinyl Tap Records . This consists mostly of old studio recordings with previously unreleased songs such as Marionette or Ghost of an Emotion . It also includes the song Hiroshima , which the band played live in the past, but which never made it to a release. For the compilation, the song was re-recorded at Goldust Studios with Mark Dawson as producer. The group consisted of Wheeler, Newbold, Galibardy and drummer Alan Tracy. In 2007 and 2015 two more compilations were released with Live to Fight Again and Save the Khan .

style

According to Malc Macmillan in The NWOBHM Encyclopedia , the band was one of the more regionally innovative. The music has a progressive character and is comparable to the regional bands Spitzbrook and Legend . The use of synthesizers was unusual for the time, which was later adopted by Marquis de Sade and Dawnwatcher and then further developed by Bleak House , Legend from Jersey and Shiva . Macmillan gave a statement by Mike Wheeler that all members had been influenced by New Wave bands like Japan and Ultravox . The EP Metal Messiah is closer to traditional metal and comparable to the music of Gaskin and Limelight . Jürgen Hegewald also found in the book NWoBHM New Wave of British Heavy Metal The glory Days that Triarchy was "one of the few bands that used synthesizers at the time and could also use them". As a result, the band has a high recognition value, but the commercial success still failed to materialize.

Martin Popoff wrote in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties about Before Your Very Ears that it was a mixture of Diamond Head , Rush of the late 1970s or Witchfynde , Demon or Nightwing . The music belongs to the more creative and courageous of the NWoBHM scene.

Matthias Mader wrote in Rock Hard that Triarchy is difficult to compare with other NWoBHM bands. Similar to Praying Mantis , the group managed to create its own style through the use of keyboards. She was deliberately a trio to reduce the music to the essentials and "but also as a small tribute to Rush, the lowest common denominator for the three English musicians". In an interview with him, Mike Newbold stated that at that time he and Wheeler on the one hand hard rock - and metal bands like Black Sabbath , Ted Nugent and Rush on the other hand punk and new wave bands like The Clash , The Stranglers , Gang of Four and Ultravox. They also liked Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground . Galibardy was influenced by country rock bands like Little Feast and by various country blues bands. In addition, some members were influenced by keyboard-heavy progressive rock such as Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Genesis and classic hard rock with keyboards such as Rainbow . The band is also a supporter of Rock Against Racism .

In an interview with Bart Gabriel from metalpage.de , he stated that he and his brother sang in the church choir as a child , while privately they heard songs such as Razamanaz von Nazareth , Aladdin Sane by David Bowie and Black Sabbath's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath . In its early days, the band was influenced by groups like Emerson Lake & Palmer, Genesis, Black Sabbath, Rush and Kiss . From 1976 the group was influenced by punk and new wave. Graham Legg has Marc Bolan , Slade , Led Zeppelin , XTC and classic punk as influences. The group of Emerson Lake and Palmer and later Ultravox had the influence of the synthesizers.

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Bart Gabriel: Triarchy. (No longer available online.) Metalpage.de, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; Retrieved December 19, 2015 . 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.metalpage.de
  2. ^ A b Matthias Mader, Otger Jeske, Manfred Kerschke: NWoBHM New Wave of British Heavy Metal The glory Days . Iron Pages, Berlin 1995, p. 150 .
  3. ↑ a b c Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; Retrieved December 17, 2015 . 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. ↑ a b c d e f g Matthias Mader: Triarchy . Rock against racism. In: Rock Hard . No. 342 , November 2015, p. 71 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e Malc Macmillan: The NWOBHM Encyclopedia . IP Verlag Jeske / Mader GbR, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-931624-16-3 , p. 650 f .
  6. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 457 .