Artist: Meliah Rage Genre(s):
Rock
Metal: Heavy
Discography:
Death Valley Dream Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Solitary Solitude Year: 1989
Tracks: 9
Kill To Survive Year: 1988
Tracks: 7
Comparable to Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth, Exodus and early Testament, Meliah Rage is among the clobber metal/speed metal bands that came along in the mid-'80s. Meliah Rage isn't as long-familiar as those bands; still, the Boston-based kit has enjoyed a small, enthusiastic cult following since the Ronald Reagan days. Meliah Rage was formed by guitar player Anthony Nichols in 1985; that class, Nichols (world Health Organization briefly played with the Beantown punk rock banding Gang Green) linked forces with lead singer Mike Munro, guitarist Jim Koury, drummer Stu Dowie and bassist Jesse Johnson (not to be confused with the Midwestern singer/guitarist world Health Organization played with the Time and was share of Prince's Minneapolis funk stone conglomerate in the '80s). Meliah Rage (whose bring up was divine the Meliah Indian tribe's practice of taking opium before loss into struggle) had been creating a buzz on the Boston scenery for trio long time when, in 1988, they landed a plow with Epic Records, which released their debut record album,
Kill to Survive, that class. Meliah Rage's first gear studio album was followed by
Live Kill (a live EP) in 1989 and the band's irregular full-length studio apartment record album,
Lonely Solitude, in 1990.
Unfrequented Solitude turned out to be Meliah Rage's net Epic release; in 1992, they left field the Sony-owned label. It was too in 1992 that Meliah Rage went through some batting order changes. When Jesse Johnson and Stu Dowie left the banding, two newcomers were hired: bassist Keith Vogele and drummer Sully Erna, world Health Organization spent 18 months in Meliah Rage before going on to become the pencil lead singer of the well-known, Boston-based alternative metal band Godsmack. During Meliah Rage's Erna/Vogele point, the banding recorded a demo coroneted Unfinished Business and shopped it to versatile labels. But major labels seemed unreceptive to the demonstration; in 1992 and 1993, stain was king, and A&R mass were busy look for the next Nirvana or the succeeding Pearl Jam. Major labels seemed to feel that Meliah Rage wasn't alternative sufficiency, although punk-influenced thrash metal and pep pill metallic element bands induce by and large fared much wagerer in a post
Nevermind climate than pop-metal and hair metal bands. Around 1994, some Meliah Rage members pursued side projects, but none of them worked stunned -- and in 1995 (afterwards Vogele and Erna had left), yet another Meliah Rage lineup was formed. This time, Bob Mayo (formerly of Wargasm) was on bass and Dave Barcos was on drums. After 1996's
Death Valley Dream, Meliah Rage bust up. But eight-spot old age by and by, Meliah Rage reunited with a modern 2004 batting order that united 3 original members -- Nichols, Koury and Johnson -- with drummer Barry Spillberg (some other ex-member of Wargasm) and new lead singer Paul Souza. Nichols had uttered interestingness in running with original lead singer Mike Munro once again, only Munro declined the offer in order to spend more time with his household -- and Souza over up getting the gig. With that new lineup in home, Meliah Rage recorded their low album in octet years,
Hardly Human, which was released on Screaming Ferret Records in August 2004.
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