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Nice Noise

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Unchained Energy: True Metal Chronicles - Issue 2

LIVE

ARTILLERY/SLAYER

Mort was on location when Copenhagen experienced its heaviest concert ever. Here's his tale of thrash… and non-violence.

6.00 a.m.  
Aaaaarrrghhhh. Who dares, waking me up at 6 o'clock… what? Concert – which con… oh, I almost forgot. Today was THE thrashing day.

1.00 p.m.  
Finally – food!!!

3.00 p.m.  
First visit at Double Fun Records (the only record shop in Denmark with albums that you won't find elsewhere). What they might call "Slayer? They won't be here till 4 o'clock. If they come, that is."

4.00 p.m.  
Still waiting. Well, they come – we know that by now, but when?

4.30 p.m.  
At last – SLAYER arrives to sign some autographs. Dave is very interested in the latest Kerrang! album chart, while Jeff just looks like he's very tired (and sleepy). Kerry talks to Johnathon. Who knows Ken Ambuhl from Texas… what about Tom? He's just enjoying himself, having a great time, smiling and shaking hands with everybody.

6.15 p.m.  
I was with mixed feelings if I arrived at Carlton (yet another open-air cinema!) on Saturday. The show? Yes, of course this would be an exciting experience, an out-of-this-world event, these two acts. But two facts made me uncertain. 1) ARTILLERY had changed the formidable Carsten Lohmann with Fleming Ronsdorf, whose vocals on the new advance tape did not convince me (see review elsewhere). 2) The live-side of SLAYER's "LIVE UNDEAD" EP was a disappointment (to me).

7.00 p.m.  
Now the gates are finally open and people rush into the Rock Paladiz. (As a matter of fact, around 30 people suddenly fall down as the gate… stage doesn't rush in, but swung into gear very well, I must say).

8.05 p.m.  
ARTILLERY hit the stage in a big way. The new vocalist's performance on their new freshener with a fast and final cutting edge, but "Terror Squad" showed its "sauce-about. The all-time best Danish Artillery as they grind out furious super-heavy "Bitch!" From "SHELL SHOCK" the audience supports ARTILLERY heavily.

And in spite of a very bad sound-quality I think they did fine. Their set had a charisma of action and joy of playing to a degree seldom very seldom. If I should point out one song being not so good at the ARTILLERY set, it was 'Flemming Ronsdorf' - especially his loud attempts to scream out during the middle of the "Deeds ot Darkness" this wasn't the correct place for this kind of noise. Outch! screaming. Another thing is that his movements are already a cliche. Funny, though. It's alright!!! The next time I'll be seeing ARTILLERY is the second gig of their tour, so I'll be able to develop a lor. Anyway; SLAYER had much of in common with ARTILLERY, showing that the audience had no clear idea when including the fans that didn't know (first-time seers) had seen what SLAYER had no such gun-powers as MONANA) ELAGAN: and learn great deal from this bunch.

ARTILLERY played for 45 minutes, proving that they are a fantastic live-band.

??.?? p.m.
To the sounds of "Hell Awaits" SLAYER started their gig which should turn into a real thrasher's delight. I mean we're talking about one of the finest band alive, one who are able to produce some rather good music. In fact, I would dare say that they could be made into one that you say, "oh, they sure sound fantastic now". Honestly, I have seen them about 6-7 times now, and much much well before, maybe will it be possible to meet them at the next SLAYER gig I attend.

SLAYER played through the most of the "Hell AWAITS" album, including "HAUNTING THE CHAPEL" and selected goodies from "SHOW NO MERCY". With power and speed (yes, they played the Final Commands!) the hired arms, could truly were seriously in danger of falling off.

Also it was fantastic seeing how dynamic the 4 boys (I would rather say men ... e) were on stage. Desire and enthusiastic passage it was almost impossible not to feel a little of its body-action. All through Tom's announcements the moshed service overall was on the move, oh they had no problems. The crowd went with it, did!

And above all, there was something very special in the air that night. I'm fully sympathetic to the audience's desire, I am likewise happily when overall smile to hear some eternal noise. "Hey! Great!" I mean, you didn't see Dave, 'em. Was him jumpin' up and down behind the drums."

*MORT*

Thrash Chronicles: Slayer's Day in Copenhagen

There is a light at the end of the tunnel for ARTILLERY, one of Denmark's best and most professional bands. MORT takes a look at what has happened since February.

"ARTILLERY are simply to­tally mind-devastating. Why the fuck haven't the record-companies discovered this ultra-heavy Danish band. I think they could earn some good money".

Those were my last words when reporting on ARTILLERY in No. 1. Several things have happened since then, the most important being the signing of a contract with NEAT-RECORDS. Due to band spokesman JOHN KLUGE "We negotiated with MAUSO­LEUM too. But in the end we decided on NEAT as they are well-known for their hard­core-releases".

But let's start with the beginning. March 1985 CAR­STEN LOMHOLT, the band's very good vocalist, left the band due to educational problems. FLEMMING R0NSDORF replaced him. But this brought no, actually a lot of problems, as after 4-5 months CARSTEN re-joined and FLEMMING remained as second vocalist.

The only fact disturbing this is FLEMMING's living in another part of the country, but this will not be for long as he's getting a flat in ARTILLERY-town soon.

With two vocal-parts ARTILLERY re-arranged the new tracks. At the moment they have more than ten completely new songs which are different to the "DEEDS OF DARK­NESS" and "SPEED METAL". These two tracks will be worth the price of the LPs so grab your copies now.

So, now ARTILLERY were to hit the studio to record these two tracks. At the same time they recorded 5 new tracks each of them showing how much potential these 5 thrashers have and proving that ARTILLERY have progressed since "DEEDS OF DARKNESS". Of these 5 tracks, that will all be on their first LP, are only "BAPTISM OF FIRE" and "THE ALMIGHTY" on the forthcoming "Fear of Tomorrow" release. Of the recordings the band says "the only thing I could want was a stronger vocal-appearance from FLEMMING R0NSD0RF".

And I'm sure that the LP will be one of the best releases of 1985. Here's the track listing:

**Side 1:**

- Time Has Come
- The Almighty
- Show Your Hate
- King, Thy Name Is Slayer
- Out In The Sky

**Side 2:**

- Into The Universe
- The Eternal War
- Fear Of Tomorrow
- Deeds Of Darkness

Also on the live-front, something ls happening for ARTILLERY. On June 1th they supported SLAYER in Copen­hagen (see review else­where).

Rising from the Underground: ARTILLERY's Journey to a Record Deal

# PROPHECY

PROPHECY are a young band from Odense, Denmark, comprising:

- T. ASKHOLM - vocals
- P.M. HANSEN - guitar
- C. FREDERIKSEN - bass
- P. RASMUSSEN - drums
- M. BODIN - guitar

Their music is to be influenced by METALLICA, DIO, and MERCYFUL FATE, but we have developed our own unique style including skin-beating "extra ordinaire" and a very exciting collaboration between guitars and bass, not to mention the "most powerful vocals", as the info states.

Both music and lyrics are to be influenced by feelings like aggression, depression, and frustrations.

Their first demo is (probably) out during October.

PROPHECY FANATICS  
POSTBOX 353  
5000 ODENSE C  
DENMARK  

PROPHECY  
C/O P.M. HANSEN  
HJAELMESVEJ 47, VAER.111  
5000 ODENSE C  
DENMARK

Emerging Danish Metal: The Rise of PROPHECY

other category than Thrash/-  
Death would be a mistake.  
So also HUND a friend of  
mine, a hardcore punk, has  
heard us and he says we'll  
beat the shit out of CELTIC  
FROST. Well that takes  
quite a bit I should think,  
but let's see.

SAMHAIN is a relatively  
young 4-piece comprising:  
HUND - bass + vocals  
ESBEN - guitar  
MAX - drums  
KJÆR - guitar

BUT WHAT INFLUENCES DO THEY  
HAVE?

"Well, as a matter of fact  
it's a bit difficult to  
answer that question. As a  
matter of fact it is any-  
thing that sounds good to  
our ears. Well, to name a  
few... well, let's say  
CELTIC FOST, SLAYER, and  
VOIVOD. All great hardcore  
bands."

DO YOU HAVE ANY PLANS FOR  
RECORDINGS YET?

"Yes, as a matter of fact  
we hit the studio on 27  
July to record our 2-la  
titles production and a  
track, entitled "Evil-  
track", including "Salva-  
tion", "An Isolated Regress-  
ion", "Prince of Evil", "King of  
Slaves", ant the title-  
track."

IT IS OBVIOUS WHEN SEEING  
YOUR TITLES THAT YOU HAVE  
CERTAIN SATANIC INFLUENCES.  
IS IT SO?

"Well, yes, but most hard-  
core bands have".

YES, BUT MOST OF THEM ARE  
RATHER PSEUDO-SATANIC. WHAT  
ABOUT YOU?

"We are kinda anti-reli-  
gious. You see, we are in-  
spired by the bible - the  
satanic one I mean, and  
we believe in the ideology,  
but not necessary the  
rituals and the like as  
I don't think many sa-  
tanists are."

DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL  
'MESSAGE' THEN?

"First there's the demo.  
Then Esben's going to spend  
some months in uniform, so  
not much to inform. We  
would like to play at  
Wembley, though...."

If anybody wants to check  
out the band write to:

MARTIN HUNDP  
TOMMERBAKKEN 18  
8240 RISIKOV  
DENMARK  
TEL +45 - 21 19 82

And watch this space for  
more info.  

25

Rising Hardcore Punk: SAMHAIN's Journey Ahead

SAMHAIN

In June, one my good friends from the Danish band SAMHAIN called me and asked if I was willing to cover them in no. 2.

Well, yes, I said, just send me some info, and I'll write something on that. But they actually had no band info yet! "But couldn't you do a quick interview with me?"

I think you've got the basic idea by now. This isn't some very intellectual stuff, rather a short intro to further articles on the band.

Frankly, I have heard just one SAMHAIN track (without song and just one guitar) but to place them in any

Introducing SAMHAIN: A Glimpse into the Danish Band's Journey

NIGRO MANTIA (se UNCHAINED  
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sanger!

Vi spiller eksperimenteren-  
de, progressiv Metal - har  
demoet "POETRY OF SUBCUL-  
TURE" ude og har modtaget  
god respons i udlandet. Vi  
har desuden kontakt med et  
engelsk management.

Band erfaring kræves ikke;  
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ingen rolle, bare du er pa-  
rat til at udfordre dit  
talent.

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AMONG OTHER THINGS  

**INTERVIEWS WITH**
  
trouble  

VULTURE  

MERCIA HANTA  

Manager: JOHN SMLATNAK  

GODZILLA (MONOLITH)  

Seeking Lead Singer for Experimental Progressive Metal Band

# Nigro Mantia

After our article on the Danish prog Metal band NIGRO MANTIA in issue 1, they lost their second vocalist too. Since then this young talented band have not been able to find anyone who fits in their style.

Contrary to the statement in UNCHAINED ENERGY No. 1, the demo is for sale at dkr. 40.00 at the address below.

The band have had rave reviews on their demo "POETRY OF SUBCULTURE," and have been approached by a British manager, but so far no contract has been signed. Also they have been offered an Italy-tour, but luckily they have of course not been able to accept this.

Watch out for an interview in UNCHAINED ENERGY No. 3.

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DENMARK  

Challenges and Opportunities for Danish Prog Metal Band Nigro Mantia

THE END OF A LEGEND,
THE BEGINNING OF A NEW?

Mercyful Fate

U.S.-TOUR, 1984

Here is the rest of no. 1's MERCYFUL FATE by US-TOUR story, written by FATE's sound-engineer, RUNE HØYER.

We had now been playing 7 concerts on the Westcoast and we experienced a real "old-lief": The organizers seemed to lose interest, and if we were going to please any fans thirsty for music, we had to drive all the way across the country in a Chevy Van. 4 days and 4 nights of non-stop driving later, the crew was half dead (the two cooks were cooking the best of American food for us. (But God did we miss a Danish steak.)

A thing that I must not forget to mention is the American girls. The girls in the USA are absolutely crazy, when it comes to rock-musicians. They use every kind of imaginative tricks to get into the dressing-room, busses, and hotel-cars, and they're good at it. It's a style of life which we don't know at all in Europe. A funny example from the band's first autograph-session (which I did already mention): after the session our drummer came to the band with something in the hand to the rest of us when he came in through the door: "Some thing like monks you think we can prepare for a party with roses." 7 naked American girls had invited our guys! And in every of them appeared such and such to be missing something of it took hours. They were several to them: The girls are horribly horribly, but crazy!!!!

We now left the Westcoast and crossed the country - destination NEW YORK. We played in Denver, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, and Montreal and then travelled on towards NEW YORK. We arrived at night-time in Manhattan with all its skyscrapers was big and shining. From our hotel rooms we could look directly at the World Trade Center. It was a fantastic sight.

The next day we played the first of our 2 concerts in NEW YORK, and it was incredible reception as never too. The organizers of course enjoying the people and even though their had to make special arrangements for it. T-shirt sales that they had ever experienced there. We sold T-shirts for about 70,000 dkr. that night. Here we also met Danish MIKE TRAMP (ex-MABEL) and we should give his regards to you.

Another very important thing happened in NEW YORK - we got a manager with a significant name NINA ROSSI, who is actually managing rock-group KISS !!!! what they are today. Today we also knew NINA's clear way for MERCYFUL FATE, a cooperation for everyone is looking forward to that, everyday life. Although there were no offers from other people in America, she's doing well. We have NINA's DOKTOR as our own management PHONE, and among others Max MOUSHAINE Al Catt and Devin ROSS.

What now happened was that our tour was extended with an extra month. For instance now we saw HOLLYWOOD in a most fantastic way. AS a gesture because we had been able to sell that many T-shirts, our American manager, now booked rooms for us in one of HOLLYWOOD's best hotels near the famous and huge swimmingpool, such as each concert knew of bathroom with multiples, water, fruitcakes that changed in like - place, and last but two least, a balcony with a view of all things happening in town, all of SKYROCKETS as blackjack or surprised, or whisky drink perfect view, and you need to have a personal collection of it own Inner vision. Later we have booked rooms just for our manager and studio for a professional studio. Two times we left among those of the 2 days and cooked exquisite dishes, which we ate while looking through so huge window seeing LOS ANGELES and HOLLYWOOD at our feet. Later on one of her servants told us that her neighbour was BETTE MIDLER.

Then we went to SANTA BARBARA, a beautiful little Spanish town at the Westcoast with palm lined alleys and a couple of us couldn't help feeling like being in a romantic elderly film with gangsters, Chicago of the underworld, and brothers' channel. The next day was actually a day off and after the Atlantic is wild. Of course as well. No, Claudia Jensen, who's incidentally anyway. She got all the new-hungrying for him surrounding the air-drummed him till he reached out: How we made it I'd rather keep as a secret. THE END:  
Our first US-tour was over now and we were going home. We had crossed the United States three times, driven 30,000 kilometers and seen all kinds of American nature. Western sceneries, desserts, sunsets over the Rocky Mountains, snowy areas, animal sanctuaries, big cities, and not the least - wonderful sunny California with all the pretty girls.

We were really treated like kings and were proud to come back home with a lot of success.

By the way, there IS a story which I have forgotten to tell: The story of how we almost had to stay for 6 months more in America. You see, the law there is somewhat different to Europe. On our T-shirts we wrote: WE WILL BE BACK!

"Definitely," because actually there had been offers waiting for us. We even signed one agreement on the last day of our tour, but unfortunately they forgot something after the concert in Copenhagen on 11 April, King told the rest of them that he did not want to continue in the band. It was these news that shocked me.

Later on I talked to somebody who had been at the very last FATE concert and they told me that the mood there sure was tense! And it turned out that King had been really bad at the end. They had experienced a lot of troubles with King. A sore throat? He "KANE was just standing there like a statue," somebody else said. I don't know if they knew anything about the professionalism you need. If they still want FATE in Denmark, just look at me. There was no danger of losing what we had fought for: success, professionalism, and good press-clippings. But it all ends up on the US-tour!

Mercyful Fate

On 12 April 1985, three and a half years after they were formed, MERCYFUL FATE split up. When I received this message I was set in a state of deep shock. After all, MERCYFUL FATE had been THE Danish Metal band, and top one of the world's top 5 bands.

So let's have a look at the past. FATE started as BRATS, a punk-band with an LP release on CBS, who finally turned them down for being too heavy. Luckily, I must say, otherwise FATE might just not have been born.

Now, Denner, Shermann, Grabber, Ruzz, and Diamonds - after a year or 21 months or so started their struggles for world top.

Though not exactly the world top, in 1982 they proved they existed right up to the necks of the metal top.

What surprised me the most when hearing of the split-up, was that Hank Shermann wasn't going to be in the band. "I don't think Hank was the mainstay," said the guitarist of the two and he was best not confused. FATE can easily live without this. "Hank went in another split," said the ex-guitarist. FATE said more when I heard his line. I've now had time to live and breath MERCYFUL FATE again. "I know that Mercyful Fate meant a lot at FATE's spiritual music of both parts," said the same. But then I start wondering—what's the real reason of what's happened to them, FATE (funny haha) and not in the future. But what's most certain about the band was their names more obvious: "No."

As can be seen in many aspects of the Danish and German Metal reality: FATE have really followed up. Have solved all problems and are now quite secure, even if people would not like the change. After all, it's been clear that one day MERCYFUL FATE had to end. Though another thing is that they hadn't expected it to end so early. After all, they had at least planned something few tours around the world. Yet they can still almost limit themselves almost themselves in the choice list.

For the three and a half years they lasted, FATE achieved to become one of Heavy Metal's best named bands. As a matter of progress, FATE was able to make more than one LP record that just met... And they have set their comprehensive sound-and-concept achievement.

Also, they got really heavy coverage in the underground HM-press and even had large articles in most ultimate Heavy Metal(!) magazine Kerrang! Not to mention, they reached several holy-hero covers in famous heavy metal newspapers. And surely, this growing popularity got extended ambitious releases and amazin' images enn by front names. Alright, so if FATE make it alive again(?) some doubt, once been, they're still only one band, but that’s maybe all the doubt FATE can create in the end.

MERCYFUL FATE discography:  

1980-1982  
- DEMO  
- Walking Back To Hell  
- Running Free  
- Black Masses  
- Hard Rocker

CONTINUES NEXT PAGE 2. DEMO  
Curse Of The Pharaohs  
Return Of The Vampire  
A Corpse Without Soul  
Burning The Cross  

A CORPSE WITHOUT SOUL - EP  
ON RAVE ON  
Doomed By The Living Dead  
Devil Eyes  
Nuns Have No Fun  
A Corpse Without Soul  

1983  
26. November  
MELISSA - LP ON RR  
Evil  
Curse Of The Pharaohs  
Into The Coven  
Sound Of The Demon Bell  
Black Funeral  
Satan's Fall  
Melissa  

December  
BLACK FUNERAL - 12"/7"  
PICTURE  
Black Funeral  
Black Masses  

1984  
24 August  
DON'T BREAK THE OATH - LP ON RR  
A Dangerous Meeting  
Nightmare  
Desecration Of Souls  
Night Of The Unborn  
The Oath  
Gypsy  
Welcome Princess Of Hell  
To One Far Away  
Come To The Sabbath  

1985  
12 April  
THE END!  

Mercyful Fate: A Journey Across America and Tales from the Road 

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