And so it was that from the ashes of the Warrior there was formed a mighty Battleaxe… So runs the ancient legend.
Sometimes legends can be true. Sometimes legends can be modern. From the ashes of a band called Warrior there came Battleaxe. Back in the early 1980s in the north-east of England four young men joined forces to embark on a heroic quest – to be one of the best heavy metal bands around.
REWIND is a hardcore/death metal band from Ankara, Turkey. The band was established by Metin Atahan (Hazy Hill), Baris Tarimcioglu (Hazy Hill) and Yakup Senem (Crestfall) back in 2002. REWIND recorded 2 demos in 2005 and 2006. After some line-up changes the band recorded a 3 track demo in 2007, after Emek Ataman (Pera, emekataman) joined the band. The band is currently working on an album, and continues performing on local shows and festivals.
Slint was a math rock band consisting of Brian McMahan (guitar and vocals), David Pajo (guitar), Britt Walford (drums), Todd Brashear (bass on Spiderland) and Ethan Buckler (bass on Tweez). They formed in Louisville, Kentucky, United States in 1986. Though they disbanded circa 1991, they are considered to be a major influence on the post-hardcore, math rock, and post-rock scenes. Slint's first album Tweez was recorded by legendary engineer Steve Albini in 1987 and released in obscurity on the Jennifer Hartman Records label in 1989.
Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was a famous and prolific American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. Goldsmith was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards (winning one, for The Omen), and also won five Emmy Awards. Goldsmith learned to play the piano at age six. At fourteen, he studied composition, theory and counterpoint with teachers Jacob Gimpel and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Noiseworks was a rock band that formed in Sydney, Australia in 1985. The lineup of Noiseworks was Jon Stevens (lead vocals), Stuart Fraser (guitar), Steve Balbi (bass), Justin Stanley (keyboards) and Kevin Nicol (drums).
Considered to be one of Australia's more successful rock bands of the late 1980s, their self-titled debut in 1987 had a series of successful singles, such as "No Lies," "Take Me Back," and "Welcome To The World.
Lili-Marlene Premilovich, better known as Lene Lovich (March 30, 1949) is an American singer of Serbian and British parentage. Lovich was born in Detroit, Michigan to a British mother and a Serbian father, but after her father became mentally unstable her mother took her and her three siblings to live in Hull, England. Lovich met the guitarist/songwriter Les Chappell, who became her longtime collaborator, when they were teenagers.
The Origin hails from San Diego, California, and was formed in the mid to late 80s by Gary Jules and Michael Andrews. Their music is reminiscent of The Church, Echo & The Bunnymen, and Crowded House, to name a few. Gary Jules left the band and Michael Andrews was left as songwriter and frontman for the band when they signed with Virgin Records which released their self-titled debut album in 1990.
Michael Henderson (July 7, 1951-present) is a bassist and vocalist best known for his work with Miles Davis in the early 1970s, providing a deep funky groove to early fusion albums such as A Tribute to Jack Johnson, Pangaea (album), and Live-Evil. He was the only musician to play with Miles in both phases of his electric period, starting in 1970 at the age of 18 and continuing until Miles's semi-retirement in 1976.
