BROCAS HELM News!!!!!!!
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jageorge72
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IOfTheStorm
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Yes their sound is quite similar to Slough Feg, due to the fact that they both were greatly influenced from Thin Lizzy (and Maiden). But Slough Feg say that they were not influenced by BH, even though they like them. I believe them. BH are more rough and simple.
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SLOUGH FEG said they weren't influenced by BROCAS HELM? Since when? I've met and talked to Mike and he says they're a big influence. They sound VERY similar.
Yes the PAGAN ALTAR review is gold, that's why I posted it. He's a very good friend of mine.
Yes the PAGAN ALTAR review is gold, that's why I posted it. He's a very good friend of mine.
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IOfTheStorm
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In all Slough Feg interviews i have read and Scalzi is asked if BH influenced their sound, he says that they know them, they like them, but they were not a serious influence.Evil_Legend said:
Yes, BenMech.
If he said that, that's not what he personally told me last summer. It's strange they would say that, cause if you do listen to BROCAS HELM, SLOUGH FEG is the only band that sounds closest to them. And! they do sound sooo much alike. Like you said THIN LIZZY and MAIDEN (and ofcourse BLACK SABBATH) influence is there.
On a different matter... I met the guy who sings in FORCE OF EVIL and he tried to tell me that KING DIAMOND didn't influence him, when it is definitely clear that he was trying to sing like him (especially the newer stuff).
I guess the point of two comments were to point out the fact that some bands can be in denial about their influences even though it's really clear who their real influences are.
If he said that, that's not what he personally told me last summer. It's strange they would say that, cause if you do listen to BROCAS HELM, SLOUGH FEG is the only band that sounds closest to them. And! they do sound sooo much alike. Like you said THIN LIZZY and MAIDEN (and ofcourse BLACK SABBATH) influence is there.
On a different matter... I met the guy who sings in FORCE OF EVIL and he tried to tell me that KING DIAMOND didn't influence him, when it is definitely clear that he was trying to sing like him (especially the newer stuff).
I guess the point of two comments were to point out the fact that some bands can be in denial about their influences even though it's really clear who their real influences are.
IOfTheStorm
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The thing is that 2 bands/singers/musicans/whatever may have a similar (or even identical) sound, but that doesnt mean that one influenced the other, their influences might be the same. For example i dont think that Warrel Dane was influenced by King Diamond (since you mentioned him), but they were both greatly influenced by Rob Halford
IOfTheStorm said:
I agree, but I still don't think SLOUGH FEG can seriously suggest that BROCAS HELM didn't influence them. I don't know why they would even say that in their interviews and when I did talk to Mike, he told me BROCAS HELM was an influence.
I agree and I don't think DANE sounds like DIAMOND (if that's what you're suggesting).
IOfTheStorm
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I do agree that bands can have different influences and sorta come off with the same sound. Maybe BH is more of an influence now to SF than back when they did interviews, cause I spoke with Mike about a year ago.
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Cool - I don't have "Into Battle" yet.
Re: influences, here's an excerpt from my very own interview!!!!......from just a couple of weeks ago....
JK: Whenever youre mentioned, youre always discussed in the same light as bands like BROCAS HELM or MANILLA ROAD, but do you associate yourself more with the NWOBHM?
MS: To be honest, I do associate myself more with the NWOBHM. When it comes to MANILLA ROAD, not really, and not because I dont like them but just because I was never influenced by them. BROCAS HELM on the other hand I didnt discover until 1996, but when I played a show with them was the first time I ever heard them. I have to say, Im definitely inspired by them now, and vice versa Im sure. Were really, really good friends. Theyre the best of those underground bands by far. People always mention CIRITH UNGOL too and MANILLA ROAD as if Id listened to them when I was a kid but I had no idea who they were! Its just because they werent that big and I like the early MANILLA ROAD stuff a lot, but Im not crazy about every one of their albums. Ive met them and theyre really cool, and CIRITH UNGOL, I like their stuff but it doesnt make me go nuts.
So I think it's clear that they became an influence in the later days, but you know, Slough Feg were a band for 6 years before Scalzi even heard Brocas Helm. To me, it might be a situation where you have two bands worshipping LIZZY and MAIDEN and you get similar results by coincidence, and now they just feed off each other.
Re: influences, here's an excerpt from my very own interview!!!!......from just a couple of weeks ago....
JK: Whenever youre mentioned, youre always discussed in the same light as bands like BROCAS HELM or MANILLA ROAD, but do you associate yourself more with the NWOBHM?
MS: To be honest, I do associate myself more with the NWOBHM. When it comes to MANILLA ROAD, not really, and not because I dont like them but just because I was never influenced by them. BROCAS HELM on the other hand I didnt discover until 1996, but when I played a show with them was the first time I ever heard them. I have to say, Im definitely inspired by them now, and vice versa Im sure. Were really, really good friends. Theyre the best of those underground bands by far. People always mention CIRITH UNGOL too and MANILLA ROAD as if Id listened to them when I was a kid but I had no idea who they were! Its just because they werent that big and I like the early MANILLA ROAD stuff a lot, but Im not crazy about every one of their albums. Ive met them and theyre really cool, and CIRITH UNGOL, I like their stuff but it doesnt make me go nuts.
So I think it's clear that they became an influence in the later days, but you know, Slough Feg were a band for 6 years before Scalzi even heard Brocas Helm. To me, it might be a situation where you have two bands worshipping LIZZY and MAIDEN and you get similar results by coincidence, and now they just feed off each other.
