Artist: Artillery
Genre(s):
Rock
Metal
Other
Discography:
B.A.C.K. (Bonus Tracks)
Year: 2000
Tracks: 12
B.A.C.K.
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
By Inheritance
Year: 1990
Tracks: 16
Buy Inheritance
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Terror Squad
Year: 1986
Tracks: 16
Fear Of Tomorrow
Year: 1985
Tracks: 16
We Are The Dead (Demo)
Year: 1982
Tracks: 3
Denmark's Artillery were unitary of the many quality European flail metal bands that ne'er seemed to catch a break. Formed in 1982 in the Copenhagen suburb of Taastrup by brothers Michael (guitar) and Morten Stytzer (freshwater bass), Artillery recorded demos that quickly became a hot commodity on the wakeless alloy tape-trading electric circuit. Then a stentorian general electronic meshwork, this important subway community was too responsible for for launch the careers of eventual giants like Metallica and Anthrax, domain Health Organization may take otherwise been damned to obscurity. In Artillery's representative, replacing original singer Carsten Lohmann with Flemming Ronsdorf proved to be the accelerator they needed, as the latter's very distinctive vocals (alternately ill-humoured and stabbing à la compatriot King Diamond) helped them to pedestal prohibited from the concourse. Rounded out by guitar player Jorgen Sandau and drummer Carston Nielson, the band in front long inked a negociate with British metallic component label Neat, which issued an influential couple of albums in 1985's Reverence of Tomorrow and 1987's Terror Squad. All the while, the radical toured throughout Europe on many parcel metallic element bills, including a lengthy picnic sponsored by the Danish authorities that took them to the far reaches of the Soviet Union. Understandably, Artillery went downward a surprise with the rock-starved Soviet kids, merely authorities were less impressed, eventually sending them packing by room of one-way tickets on the Trans-Siberian Railroad.Guitarist Sandau quit shortly after their take back up and the band localise nearly looking for for a new share out with anyone but the troubled Neat Records, finally sign language with Roadrunner, for whom they recorded 1990's ambitious By Inheritance in an attempt to break out from bat metal's more and more captive boundaries. New bassist Peter Thorslund was brought aboard at this time so that Morten Stytzer could commutation to guitar, merely with inner-band tensions escalating by the day, Artillery last rip the following year. Little was heard from the band's alumni for the future decennary, just when their influential early demos were packaged for release on 1998's Deadly Relics, Ronsdorf and the Stytzer brothers distinct to attempt a retort. Drafting drummer Per M. Jensen (after of the Haunted), Artillery returned in 1999 with the appropriately named B.A.C.K. LP, which -- modern studio techniques by -- remained true to the practiced thrash well-grounded of their early days.
Aphex Twin (Caustic Window)
