#Megaforce Records

[myvinylplaylist]

Frehley’s Comet: Live + 1 (1988)

Promotional Window Card

[themetalyears]

Over Kill - Feel The Fire - 1985

Great New Jersey band, kinda thrash I guess! Loved their demo’s - always had them on heavy rotation on my Walkman!! This is their first album, including a Dead Boys cover, before it was cool to cover punk bands.

[mymelodic-chapel]

Anthrax- Fistful of Metal (Speed Metal, Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal) Released: January 6, 1984 [Megaforce Records] Producer(s): Carl Canedy, Jon Zazula

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Audio: Philly's Vixen77 Shares a Gritty and Defiant Rocker

New Audio: Philly's Vixen77 Shares a Gritty and Defiant Rocker @megaforce @RetroCityStudio @girlieaction @delkin03 @rosieboyd

Philadelphia-based guitarist Caitlin D’Agostino has dreamt of playing in an all-women rock band since she was in high school. And after playing in the City of Brotherly Love’s punk scene for a handful of years, she decided to put in dream in motion in late 2018 when she started Vixen77, her latest band, which references female energy and the influence of the ’77 punk rock revolution. Fittingly,…

[rockyoushow]

METALLICA With Special Guest RAVEN Announce Special Jonny & Marsha Zazula Tribute Show November 6 at Hard Rock Live Seminole, FL

METALLICA With Special Guest RAVEN Announce Special Jonny & Marsha Zazula Tribute Show November 6 at Hard Rock Live Seminole, FL

METALLICA With Special Guest RAVEN Announce Special Show November 6 at Hard Rock Live Seminole, FL Tribute To Jonny and Marsha Zazula Playing Songs from ’83 and ’84 Metallica goes back to their roots with early labelmates Raven to honor the Zazula Family with a Tribute Concert for charity. “We’re excited to add one more night to the tour calendar this year with a special show at Hard Rock Live at…

[tonguesofdestruction]

Metallica kündigen Special Concert für Jonny und Marsha Zazula an

Metallica kündigen Special Concert für Jonny und Marsha Zazula an

Metallica haben angekündigt, das Leben, das Erbe und die Erfolge von Megaforce Records-Gründer Jon “Jonny Z” Zazula und seiner Frau Marsha Zazula mit einer Special Show bei Hard Rock Live, Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, am 6. November 2022 zu feiern. Die Band Metallica dazu: “This night will be extra-special as we’ll be celebrating the life, legacy, and achievements of…

[m3t4ln3rd]

Metallica and Raven announce special tribute show celebrating Megaforce Records founders Jonny & Marsha Zazula

Official press release: Metallica goes back to their roots with early labelmates Raven to honor the Zazula Family with a Tribute Concert for charity. Metallica said: “We’re excited to add one more night to the tour calendar this year with a special show at Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, on Sunday, November 6, 2022. This night will be extra-special as…

[metalsongoftheday]

Friday, October 13: Testament, "The Haunting"

A sizable portion of Testament’s fanbase still considers The Legacy among the best things they’ve ever recorded, if not actually the best.  No doubt a lot of that is based on nostalgia, but perhaps another reason is that relative to the other thrash records released during that 1985-1988 golden stretch, their debut had a darkness to it that went well beyond the snarky nihilism of Death Angel and Overkill towards something more malevolent and extreme.  “The Haunting” had the same level of frenzy and aggression that was common to mid ‘80s thrash, but Alex Skolnick and Eric Peterson wrote nastier riffs and arrangements, and while Steve Souza’s words were typical thrash fare, Chuck Billy helped invent death metal with growling that, although not without coherence and traces of melody, was much more bellicose than the nasally snarling of a Blitz, Zetro or Mark Osegueda.  This was meaner and just plain evil, though to be sure Testament hadn’t fully locked in as a band- it wouldn’t take them long to mature as writers, arrangers and players, but they weren’t there yet.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Blue Cheer –Parchment Farm

[karenjacksons]

Glad to see Tommy and Ethan reunited!

[kill-em8all]

Some pics from the Kill 'em All recordingzzz

It was originally gonna be called "Metal up your ass" But the distribution outlet of their label, Megaforce, said the record stores wouldn't take it because of the "inappropriate" name.

While trying to come up with a new name, Cliff was really pissed dude, so his reaction was “Aw, man, f--k ‘em. F--k those f--kers! Just kill ‘em. Kill ‘em all,” and that's how the new album title got accepted.

The recordings started around May 10th 1983 in the Music America Studios in Rochester, New York and ended on the 27th of the same month, later in July 25th 1983 the legendary album Kill 'em All got published.

This album's brilliant and I really love it bc of how RAW the instruments sound, also James voice is really raspy and always screaming, yk, the little things truly do a great album.

follow and reblog for more sick and cool factos abt Metallica nyeehehheh

[myvinylplaylist]

Ace Frehley: 12 Picks (1997)

Megaforce Records

[themetalyears]

Overkill -  Taking Over - 1987

Overkill’s second album - the first one was genius, and got them signed to Atlantic as the money moved in on thrash metal! These guys are named after the Motorhead album - which is no bad thing :)

[what-the-whump]

Febuwhump 2024 Masterlist

All through January I had been going back and watching a lot of the shows that I was obsessed with when I was younger. Power Rangers was something pretty high on that list, had a bit of a record of where my favourite characters had some whump so when I went through the Febuwhump prompts I thought it was be fun to try and do all of them with Power Rangers whump, including as many different series as I could.

All my posts are linked below and the colours of the prompt are referring to which ranger (or rangers) are getting whumped

Happy Febuwhump Everybody!

DAY 1: helpless - Power Rangers Jungle Fury, 1x27, Tigers Fall Lions Rise.

DAY 2: solitary confinement - Power Rangers S.P.D, 1x30, Missing.

DAY 3: ALT "I love you" - Power Rangers Time Force, 1x22, Lovestruck Rangers

DAY 4: obedience - Power Rangers Samurai, 1x09, I've Got a Spell on Blue

DAY 5: rope burns - Power Rangers Ninja Steel, 1x16, Monkey Business

DAY 6: “you lied to me” - Power Rangers Dino Charge, 1x08, Double Ranger Double Danger

DAY 7: suffering in silence - Power Rangers Mystic Force, 1x05, Whispering Voices

DAY 8: “why won’t it stop?” - Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, 1x35, The Green Candle Part II & 1x50, Return of an Old Friend Part II & 2x07, The Green Dream & 2x08, The Power Stealer & 2x09, The Beetle Invasion

DAY 9: bees - Power Rangers Megaforce, 1x05, United We Stand

DAY 10: killing in self defence - Power Rangers Super Samurai, 2x18, Evil Reborn.

DAY 11: ALT last man standing - Power Rangers Mystic Force, 1x11, The Hunter.

DAY 12: semi-conscious - Power Rangers Turbo, 1x18, Passing the Torch Part I.

DAY 13: “you weren’t supposed to get hurt” - Power Rangers Dino Thunder, 1x21, Copy That.

DAY 14: ALT human weapon - Power Rangers R.P.M, 1x13, Brothers Keeper.

DAY 15: “who did this to you?” - Power Rangers S.P.D, 1x33, Badge.

DAY 16: came back wrong - Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, 1x31, The Last Ranger.

DAY 17: hostage situation - Power Rangers Jungle Fury, 1x13 and 1x14, Ghost of a Chance Part I & II.

DAY 18: too weak to move - Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, 1x14, Shark Attack.

DAY 19: “please don’t” - Power Rangers Wild Force, 1x08, Soul Searching

DAY 20: ALT human shield - Power Rangers In Space, 1x05, Never Stop Searching.

DAY 21: unresponsive - Power Rangers Ninja Storm, 1x12, Return of Thunder Part III.

DAY 22: “you weren’t meant to be there” - Power Rangers Super Megaforce, 2x20, Legendary Battle.

DAY 23: presumed dead - Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, 1x14, Curse of the Cobra.

DAY 24: “i’m doing this because i care about you” - Power Rangers Dino Fury, 2x13, Love Hate.

DAY 25: ALT Found Footage - Power Rangers Dino Thunder, 1x04, Legacy of Power

DAY 26: “help them” - Power Rangers Time Force, 1x12, Worlds Apart.

DAY 27: left for dead - Power Rangers Beast Morphers, 2x10, Intruder Alert

DAY 28: “no… not like this” - Power Rangers Cosmic Fury, 1x01, Lightning Strikes.

DAY 29: not allowed to die - Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, 1x32, Crown and Punishment.

[phant0m-l0rd]

I wanted to share this cool find I made a few weeks ago while going through some of my uncle's old music magazines from the early 80s : an article from June 1984 written by Hervé Picart about a little up and coming band called Metallica... Finding this article felt like opening a time capsule.

(Magazine: BEST N°191, June 1984, French.)

I translated the article to English for the non-French speakers- translation after the cut:

Everything is currently changing on the good old West Coast. Just as we thought Frisco and Los Angeles forever attached to FM rock, poppy hits and beach boy philosophy, a surprising push of hard fever has come to contaminate them. Van Halen is no longer alone. Mötley Crüe, Heaven, and many others are shaking up the prophet kingdom in California, to such an extent that it might soon be necessary to rebaptise the Golden Gate "Metal Gate". Among all these new groups which are currently candidates to convert Jerry Garcia to heavy music and force everyone to trade their flower patterned bermuda for a black leather jacket, Metallica is without a doubt the most significant, and the most jostling act. These Californians have only released one album as of right now, but an album of such power, and accompanied by such emotion that a regular dose of Metallica has become a priority for all metalheads worthy of that name. There is no doubt both from a musical standpoint and from a purely emotional one that America now beholds its own Iron Maiden. Nothing less.

Like always in the case of rising waves, it was a compilation of various heavy groups, created in 1982 by the little local label Metal Blade Records and baptised "Metal Massacre", which revealed to the public of aficionados and curious minds alike the existence of Metallica. Their unique title, the henceforth mythical "Hit the lights", crushed all competition like Maiden's "Sanctuary" had done on the legendary "Metal For Muthas". "Hit the lights", it was a sort of sonic whirlwind which makes one want to take from all bands known for their label of "speed" that very label and reserve it for Metallica. The gang was then at the tail-end of their first chapter and was finishing off their work with their first formation, as five, with two guitarists.

Of this initial quintet, today there only remains the singer/rhythm guitarist James Hetfield and the drummer Lars Ulrich. The others, exhausted, passed the baton to the bassist Cliff Burton (speaking of which, treacherous minds have said ever since his solo "Anesthesia" that he had a dinosaur for a teacher), and the electrifying lead guitarist Kirk Hammett. As evidenced, Hetfield and Hammett are the two poles of Metallica, one with his warm and powerful voice which lends itself well to choruses of miraculously melodic quality amongst such chaos, and the other with his totally insane solos. Visibly, Kirk Hammett has learned to play his Flying V thinking it was a machine gun because he seems to create blasts more than anything. His virtuosity, the speed of his going along the fretboard inevitably make you dizzy.

After having blown minds from the get-go thanks to "Hit the lights", Metallica found a peculiar glory as immediate as it was underground, as those wired into heavy music consider it the pinnacle of power to be able to share, like sharp conspirators, precious copies of cassettes of demo tapes the band had made in order to make the rounds among record labels. While some official labels, rather frightened, quickly closed the door on them, the incredible interest from the underground scene acted like propaganda for the group, from Frisco to LA. Metallica then decided to play this game in their favour and opted for the small label Megaforce in order to release their first album, the crushing "Kill 'em all", very quickly released in England by the knowing people of Music for Nations, then later here by Bernett.

This more than mighty album does a good job in presenting two different aspects of Metallica. On one hand, relatively short songs, but hyper-accelerated, like "Hit the lights", the famous "Motorbreath", or the terrific "Whiplash". On the other, much longer tracks, composed of various sequences which battle each other, superposing riffs, rhythmic sections syncopated to an extreme, and more labyrinthine tracks that undeniably make one think of Iron Maiden. And all of that magnetised by the two bewitching Flying Vs, that of Hetfield which sounds like a metallic cavalcade (that of the "Four horsemen" of the apocalypse), and that of Hammett which comes again and again like a Mirage plane attacking. Midway between Motörhead and Maiden, then.

Ever since this incandescent record which has made them appear in Europe like the saviours of American rock, Metallica is progressively emerging from its lair. This spring, they were in Europe recording a new album. "Ride the Lightning", which will come out in June when they'll come to shake the first swarms of French fans, will give you all the occasion to fully integrate their healthy maxim, "Bang that head that doesn't bang"!!!

- Hervé Picart

Discography:

- In French pressing: "Kill 'em all" (Bernett- Musidisc)

- Imported:

"Seek and destroy " (max 45 live tours)

"Metal up your ass" (other version of "Kill 'em all")

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OG Metallica: Kill ‘Em All CD

(megaforce records)