OBITUARY Release Debut Full-Length Album ‘Slowly We Rot’ June 1989 Tampa, Florida-based death metal group Obituary issued debut full-length album Slowly We Rot in June 1989 through Roadracer Records. The outing was cut between 1988-1989 at Morrisound Recording in Tampa, Florida, with Scott Burns handling production and engineering duties. Burns mixed Slowly We Rot alongside […]

TRYX Tryx (1989) Tryx were originally from Florida, before they relocated to L.A. The band have quite an original image, with each member having a different colour patent leather outfit with the same colour splotches in his hair. The band features: Jessie Star (vocals), Roxy Deveaux (guitar), Tracy Dahne (bass) and Brett Marks (drums). The […]

STYGIAN Earthly Homicide (1989) Now here’s a band that I’m keen to hear more from. Jamie Sarno (vocals), Mike Delmore (guitar), Bob Allen (guitar), James Harris (bass) and Dan Voykin (drums) create the original and interesting sound that is Chicago, Illinois-based Stygian. At first the name conjured up a doom metal band or Satanists, but […]

ROCKDOLLS Rockdolls (1989) Rockdolls seem to be everybody’s favourite band in Los Angeles at the moment. Former stack-heelers Halloween have developed into a sleazy style version of the UK’s Wrathchild; the ideas in the songs are so similar between the two. The band still feature my old china Rockey Fox (bass) with Jamie Rose (vocals), […]

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