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Marseille

Marseille was a NWOBHM band from Liverpool, England. Marseille was formed in 1976, and released their debut album, Red, White and Slightly Blue on the label Mountain in 1978. Members included Paul Dale (vocals), Neil Buchanan (guitar) and Steve Dinwoodie (bass). Marseille gathered a small fanbase while promoting their first album as support for other groups such as UFO.[1] Their debut, that suffered somewhat from lack in promotion and limitation of release, had very raunchy lyrics[2]

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Pariah

There are 5 artists/bands under the name of Pariah. 1. Pariah was a British heavy / thrash metal band, one of the side ways of Satan (UK) who changed their name into Blind Fury and later to Pariah in 1987.
Pariah released 2 albums (The Kindred - 1988 and Blaze Of Obscurity - 1989) before splitting up in the early 90's.
After the departure of the band, Steve Ramsey (guitar) and Greame English (bass) played in Skyclad.

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Blitzkrieg

TThere are mutliple artists with this name: 1) Blitzkrieg is a NWOBHM-band. Their song 'Blitzkrieg' was covered by Metallica.
Website 2) Blitzkrieg was a black metal band from Sweden. They existed for a short time in the mid-1980s, but soon changed its name to Therion. Two short Blitzkrieg tracks can be found on a fanclub CD issued by Therion and available in their webstore. 3) Blitzkrieg was a hardcore punk band that existed from the mid-80s to early-90s in the U.K. The lineup was Spike on vocals, Gaz and Ales on guitar, Mal on bass, and Freddie Doyle on drums.

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Virtue

There are at least 4 artists under this name. An English NWOBHM band from Oxford, a female singing group, a Hip-hop MC/producer, and a hardcore band. Virtue/DJ ear.2.ear (n. Steve Tyson), began experimenting with producing, mixing, and spinning since childhood, but didn't actively pursue it until enrolling at Franklin & Marshall College in southeastern PA. Alongside his partner in rhyme T.R.E. (Trained Revolutionary Emcee/ Truth Remains Eternal), they have won a variety of competitions, as well as opened for hip-hop icons The Spooks and Talib Kweli.

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Wrathchild

Formed in 1980 and coming from Evesham, Worcestershire - WRATHCHILD almost and should have hit the big time. After original guitarist Phil Wrathchild (later to be Phil Volken of Persian Risk) departed, the above line up became the definitive Wrathchild. Live they were unparalleled. Hair raised to the sky, made up to the hilt, leather, studz, flashbombs .... WRATHCHILD were trash rock's greatest exponent and one of the founders of the worldwide 80's glam revival.

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Hundred

English "epic" heavy metal formed in 2006. Released "Riders of Ardenland" demo in 2011. Lineup:
Alex Storrsson - Vocals and Guitars
Adamo Corazza - Guitars and Backing Vocals
David Pike - Guitars and Backing Vocals
Patrick Douetil - Bass Guitar and Backing Vocals
Eddy Knight - Drums and Percussion

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Richter

Richter are a contemporary electropop band from Toronto, Canada.
Richter is also the online alias of a member of OverClocked ReMix. Richter coordinated the "Hedgehog Heaven" project to ReMix the game "Sonic the Hedgehog 2." Finally, Christoph Richter is an austrian artist who released his full-length debut album Audioexile in 2006 on DZihan & Kamien's Couch Records. Just like back in the days, when you turned on your favourite record and nothing else really mattered, Richter takes you there again.

Read more about Richter on Last.fm.

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