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The ROAD-MOVIE - private behind-the-scenes footage from the MANILLA ROAD tours 2011 to 2018. Europe, USA, South America. Drummer Neudi did these little features during the tours and shared them on his Facebook. But there was more footage found and can be seen now in this rockumentary. Featuring Mark The Shark Shelton, Bryan Hellroadie Patrick, Neudi and the bassplayer Josh Castillo and Phil Ross. Featuring Ace Frehley, Cirith Ungol, Magma, Melvins, Doomstress, The Skull, Rick Fisher, Richard Cathey, Gianluca Silvi, Raven, Joe Hasselvander....and many more! Enjoy and...RIP Mark Shelton!
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Manilla Road was an American heavy metal band from Wichita, Kansas, founded by Mark "The Shark" Shelton (vocals and guitar) and Scott "Scooter" Park (bass guitar). Beginning in 1977, the early years of Manilla Road were spent playing mostly progressive rock and space rock but eventually became noticeably heavier with time, the band's later heavy metal sound becoming more and more apparent with the release of Metal in 1982.
Achieving moderate success in the mid-80s with several well-received releases such as Crystal Logic (1983), Open the Gates (1985) and The Deluge (1986), the band became known for both the nasal voice of vocalist Mark Shelton and his eclectic style of songwriting, with many of his compositions taking place in fantastical universes combining elements of ancient mythologies and of popular culture mythos such as Robert E. Howard's Conan and H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu.
After a major breakup in 1992, the band was reformed by Shelton in the mid-90s, although without co-founder Scott Park and a record label. The following years for Manilla Road were spent mostly by taking gigs in underground mid-western shows without the release of any new material. Seemingly forgotten, Manilla Road was re-discovered by the metal scene after performing at the Bang Your Head festival in 2000,[1] which resulted in the band signing a new record deal and the eventual releases of Atlantis Rising in 2001[2] and Spiral Castle in 2002.[3] This second era of Manilla Road continued until the death of founder Mark Shelton, who died in 2018 the day after the band played in an outdoor festival in Germany.[
A European tour took place in late 2011, where Manilla Road was invited to perform at the Hammer of Doom VII festival in Germany. After the festival, Andreas "Neudi" Neuderth started his role as the band's new drummer as Christner became unable to tour anymore with the band. A long-time fan of Manilla Road, Neuderth was also the webmaster of Manilla Road's first official website and would later take charge of remastering several of the band's previous releases to better fit modern sound quality standards.
On September 22, 2012, a major record deal was signed with Golden Core, a subsidiary label of ZYX Music. Soon after, Mysterium, the band's sixteenth studio album, was released on February 1, 2013. The 11-minute song serving as the album's title track is a retelling of the last days of Shelton's great-great-great uncle, Ludwig Leichhardt, a 19th-century German explorer who vanished in the Australian interior during an expedition. The next and penultimate studio album for Manilla Road, The Blessed Curse, was released on February 13, 2015 and is a Sumerian-themed double album. With a length surpassing 98 minutes, The Blessed Curse would become Manilla Road's longest studio album.
A double CD re-issue of the Mark of the Beast album (bundled with the 1979 demo Manilla Road Underground and After Midnight in-studio live performance) was released in 2016 by High Roller Records, this time under the correct original 1981 title Dreams of Eschaton. A final change was made to the line-up right after The Blessed Curse, with Phil Ross replacing Josh Castillo at the bass.
On May 26, 2017, the band released their first ever single, "In the Wake". This was followed with the release of To Kill a King, Manilla Road's final studio album.
On July 27, 2018, a week before the band was booked to perform at Wacken 2018, band founder Mark Shelton died in a German hospital the day after the band played in the Headbangers Open Air festival the previous night. The cause of death was attributed to a heart attack having been precipitated by severe heat exhaustion. A GoFundMe campaign established to help fund Shelton's body repatriation to the United States and subsequent funeral expenses was met with quick success with over US$40,000 raised in less than 48 hours. A memorial service in his honor was held on September 22, 2018 at the Cotillion Ballroom in Wichita, Kansas
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