The world's most underrated metal band is..

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

LIZZY BORDEN!

Why did these guys never get big? Nobody ever talks about them.

They have a distinctive sound, the shock factor, outrageous image and stage show, lots of attitude, Lizzy has a great and unique voice, they have great songs.... they have all the ingredients to have been huge, but never were.

I put it down to just having bad management/promotion.

Everybody who hears Lizzy Borden ends up loving it and saying it rocks, but even people I know who are full-out '80s metalheads often say "Lizzy Borden, hmmm I've heard of them, what are they like?"

They should've been huge I think hehe.

Anybody here a fan or anything?

This post was inspired by today's purchase of their first live album "The Murderess Metal Road Show" on double vinyl hehe.

 

[KoichCPA]

Lizzy Borden, hmmm I've heard of them, what are they like?

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Heheh I'm not sure if that's just a joke coz I wrote that, or if you really want to know and used that line to add a joke into the reply hahahaha! So I will give a rundown for those who aren't sure anyway:

Theatrical shock rock/heavy metal/hair metal heheh.

Kinda like a lighter sounding WASP, with Maiden/Priest touches here and there, a bit of Kiss and Motley Crue thrown in, King Diamond type themes and "twisted" feel in places and a bit of a similarity in the vocal style but not as high, and a very Alice Cooper style stage show (women in black lace tied up, Lizzy weilding an axe, blood everywhere, etc).

I was just reading some stuff on the net then, all these people who saw Malmsteen in 2001 with Lizzy as the support band were like "I've never seen a headliner be upstaged by the support act so much!" hehehe.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Oh yeah and they've been going since 1985 but their album "Deal With The Devil" in 2000 was their first since 1990.

 

[phlogiston]

I think I've got a video clip on an old "Metal Magazine" video somewhere.

 

[Kem]

Originally posted by Koichi
Lizzy Borden, hmmm I've heard of them, what are they like?

Damn! I was gonna write the exact same thing for my reply

 

[KoichCPA]

Ahaaaah beat ya to it kem.

Going to see Dungeon and Chalice tonight,oh yeah.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Ahh cool I've never seen any of their clips

 

[Wrathchild]

Lizzy Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one

Why don't they teach kids nursery rhymes like that anymore? I guess it's because they don't want them to grow up psychopaths. Tragic waste of potential really...

Now as for Lizzy Borden the band, I've heard *of* them but never heard them. Have to keep my eyes open at future record fairs I think.

W

 

[Mark]

They've always sounded like shite to me