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December 18th...time for Volume 3 of the "metallic lockdown files" - daily videos! Today I will show you unreleased footage from MANILLA ROAD FESTIVAL from 2014 (Dittigheim, Germany) - a nice GoPro-angle for the great song "Cage Of Mirrors". Beside that we will have a beer together: The Schultheiss Winterbock! And in the end of the video I will put the original Manilla Road album "Metal" - Roadster Records - on my turntable...to have the rest of my beer with all of you! Enjoy and bang some head!
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Members Bryan "Hellroadie" Patrick
Andreas "Neudi" Neuderth
Phil Ross
Past members Mark "The Shark" Shelton
Scott "Scooter" Park
Randy "Thrasher" Foxe
Rick "Ziggy" Fisher
Josh Castillo
Cory "Hardcore" Christner
Vince Goleman
Harvey "Crow" Patrick
Scott Peters
Mark Anderson
Myles Sype
Manilla Road was created by guitarist and vocalist Mark Shelton in 1977[5] along with fellow roommates Scott Park at the bass and Benny Munkirs at the drums and Robert Park playing rhythm guitar. The band name "Manilla Road" came to be one night when Shelton and Munkirs were both drinking while watching Monty Python's Flying Circus. After playing in local bars around Wichita, the group first gained attention with their song "Herman Hill", inspired by the Herman Hill riot. Following an accident that took the life of the band's head sound and light engineer, drummer Benny Munkirs decided to leave the band along with Robert and was replaced by Myles Sype on drums. The band then proceeded to record a three-songs demo in 1979 titled Manilla Road Underground, which around a hundred copies on cassette were distributed to local radio stations and simply anyone who would listen.
Unhappy with Sype's drumming, the rest of the band found a replacement in Rick Fisher, a high school friend of Shelton. It was with this early line-up that Manilla Road released their first studio album Invasion in 1980 on the band's own label, Roadster Records. Between this time and their next release the band recorded material in 1981 for an album to be tentatively titled Dreams Of Eschaton, however this was not released until 2002 by Monster Records (under the name Mark of the Beast) as Shelton was not happy with the sound. Shelton has since been quoted as saying the music was "not metal enough" and "sounded like s**t". Despite this, Mark of the Beast was critically well-received when it was eventually released. Together with Invasion, these early albums have more in common with progressive rock and space rock than the band's later heavy metal sound.
The next studio album was Metal in 1982, which began to define the future musical direction of Manilla Road. Their "classic" sound was truly solidified with the release of Crystal Logic in 1983.[6] The reception of the Crystal Logic album resulted in the band getting exposure in Europe, which in turn landed them an overseas record deal with French label Black Dragon Records.
Second Line-up (1982–1991)
Manilla Road 2nd line-up; from left to right: Scott Park, Randy Foxe, Mark Shelton
Despite the success of Crystal Logic, drummer Rick Fisher did not felt at ease with the way the band was evolving musically. With Fisher agreeing to step down, a more thrash metal-oriented drummer in Randy Foxe was brought in. This second line-up would stay together for the next five Manilla Road studio albums (along with a live release, Roadkill, in 1988). Along with Crystal Logic, the new line-up's first two albums, Open the Gates (1985) and The Deluge (1986) are generally considered to be classics in the field of early epic heavy metal. Lyrics began to feature more and more of Shelton's recurrent allusions to fantastic elements from Norse mythology, Arthurian legend and other literary sources.
The Open the Gates studio album in 1985 was the first one to receive significant promotion from the start due to the efforts of their new label Black Dragon. According to an interview done by Mark Shelton in 2017, tens of thousand of copies were sold in the first months following the release. Their next studio album, The Deluge in 1986, followed up on that success. While commercial success never was a main goal for Shelton, the band's popularity in Europe at the time reached a career peak.[7]
The release of Mystification in 1987 coincided with the beginning of long-term financial troubles for Black Dragon Records in Europe, who soon after lost their distribution partners in both North America and Europe. Marketing malpractices by Black Dragon also resulted in several bands signed under them getting blacklisted by distributors in North America. Problems also began to surface for Manilla Road as Mystification suffered from exceptionally poor production quality, a result from the substandard equipment used at a new studio the band hoped would improve their sound.
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