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the_rocknrollah
Blackie told something like an new album is coming. Can't fucking wait! He's last two records was really AWESOME... as always, yeah! >:E \m/
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Eleven-The-End
oh yea did you see that video of the song Ball Crusher with the footage from the movie Elvira: Mistress of the Dark? that was awesome, this guy on youtube does more WASP songs with footage from various movies.
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UssoWebbing
Chris Holmes made it through a surgery or disease. Chris Holmes doesn't like jimi hendrix or lenny kravitz. Chris Holmes says, get a Jackson guitar...or get out of my way.
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Eleven-The-End
They toured I saw them on the 25th anniversary of the Crimson Idol in 2017 in Europe.
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DreadnoughtSI
They really are sooooo good. I don't know how I only started listening to them in 2020. I even have some of their earlier vinyls (got them from my dad) yet never listened to them. Blackie Flawless :D
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ChaosDevin
The debate over them being glam rock/glam metal/hair metal is ridiculous. They're clearly a heavy metal band.
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L57NT
It is not necessarily mutually exclusive, but even if you consider them a pure heavy metal band, they are still clearly on a catchier and softer side of the genre. They aren't on par with Vicious Rumors, Savatage, Acid, Exciter, Tysondog, Running Wild, Grave Digger and such. WASP never had a single slab of speed metal steel in the vein of Judas Priest's Exciter or Accept's Fast As A Shark (I could forgot something, so you're welcome to prove me wrong). They were just like Twisted Sister, stradding between "real metal" and all that MTV stuff.
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L57NT
I'd say WASP are comparable with more melodic and sometimes commercial-inclined heavy metal, like some NWOBHM or some Teutonic metal under the influence of Scorprions, which makes use of power ballads and all. However, WASP had melodic element genuine to LA (glam) scene, which makes them a bit more akin to Ratt, and some other hair metal bands in my books. On the contrary, USPM bands are just exactly high-velocity classic heavy metal, probably another sub-genre/local scene, but not a distinct thing, just like brutal death and OSDM are still the parts of the same thing: death metal. PS I wouldn't call Priest because they set the standard of high-octane, aggressive heavy metal with 'Exciter', 'Dissident Aggressor' and other songs (USPM is really just a direct continuation of this), although they had poppier and commercial side as well. Iron Maiden is a better comparison, but, yeah, WASP had also that touch of glam...
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Eleven-The-End
They were much more aggressive and heavier than the other glam bands of that era, it's not even comparable to stuff like Motley Crue, Ratt, or Tesla, poison Deff Leppard, they were way heavier and more savage, and the lyrical topics were dark, they were shock rock, and maybe glam sounding the first 2 years, then it was pretty much like traditional heavy metal, Kill Fuck Die was more like Industrial Metal, also The Headless Children I'd say was a bit prog-related, I'd say with Ken Hensley from Uriah Heep, giving it more the classic heavy metal feel.
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L57NT
Not comparable in terms of heaviness to Ratt, but pretty comparable to glam-era Pantera, Diamond Rexx, Ana Black, and so on. This is not about aggressiveness, but about special sense of melody and a kind of 'sleazy' commercial hard rock element in music. I agree that many WASP songs were essentially pure heavy metal, but the others fit glam metal quite well, in my opinion. Currently I consider them a borderline case. Not exemplary glam metal, sure, but excluding them from it completely still feels like an undeserved retconning - they were part of the scene, at the very least.
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L57NT
Hair/glam metal was extremely diverse sound-wise to begin with. There were glam metal bands who were as heavy as or heavier than WASP. Check out Tigertailz, Teeze, early Wrathchild, Madison, Ana Black, hell, even some 1981 or 1985 era Mötley Crüe (1983 album borrows too much from pure classic heavy metal I think), or harder edge songs by Stryper. People tend to think of hair metal as AOR/pop-rock stuff like Bon Jovi only, while in fact it have started either as radio-friendly metal with hook-driven choruses, or as a bouncy "party-metal" variety, or even as AOR with metallic riffs (sometimes referred as melodic metal by some people). All these types of glam simultaneously existed until genre's death in early 1990's. I believe there is really no 'canonical' hair metal sound per se.
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The_Red_Borsch
Stupid jagoff who mastered the reissue for Spotify (especially the live bonuses), go to h***, merda.
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RussianMeloman
Называть их глэмом это настоящее оскорбление, хотя я нормально отношусь к глэму. И по форме, и по имиджу, чистый хэви-метал, несмотря на пошлые тексты на первом альбоме. Неподражаемый звонкий голос Блэки до сих пор пробирает, хоть он и исписался на последних альбомах (хотя Golgotha чудо как хорош). Несмотря на это, "The Headless Children" и "The Crimson Idol", полное исполнение которого мне посчастливилось услышать ы Москве, подлинные шедевры рока и метала.
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The_Red_Borsch
Да. Неудивительно, что Никки Сикс не принял подарок от Блэки в виде Wild Child. Mötley Crüe тупо не вытянула бы такую вещь.
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L57NT
Мне кажется, вы под глэмом понимаете нечто совсем уж вырожденное в духе Бон Джови и Воррент. Если взять первую волну глэма начала-середины 80х в виде Ratt, London, Icon, Stryper, да и тех же Mötley Crüe, то WASP смотрятся в этом ряду вполне органично. И совершенно однозначно WASP были плоть от плоти частью этой сцены. Поначалу глэм и был переработанным хэви с акцентом на большем мелодизме и "хуковости", с заимствованиями из глэм-рока, мелодичного хард-рока и даже панка. Другой вопрос, что затем всё докатилось практически до подражания AC/DC (Cinderella и Britny Fox), либо до пудельно-одомашненной версии, пограничной с AOR (Bon Jovi и Vixen).
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RachelCarrie
They are an inseparable part of the glam scene of the 80s, which is silly to deny.
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