The Oz - III Warning - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Euro metal pioneers OZ were formed in Nakilla, Finland, in 1977. The original incarnation of the band consisted of Tapani Hämäläinen (Ape DeMartine) on vocals, Kari ELO on guitar, Tauno Vajavaara (Tani) on bass and Pekka Mark (Mark Ruffneck) behind the drums. After playing up and down Finland, OZ moved to Stockholm in 1983 and signed a long-term deal with Börje Forsberg's Tyfon Grammofon AB tag. They went on to become one of the most important heavy metal bands in Scandinavia recording five studio albums all in all before splitting up in the winter of 1991/92. Originally Released in 1985, Decibel Storm was the bands fourth album It followed OZ (1982), the band's landmark album Fire In The Brain (1983) and III Warning (1984).

Alan Stivell - Reflets [VINYL LP] Reissue date 01/12/2024

Euro metal pioneers Oz were originally formed in Nakilla, a small town in Finland, in 1977. The band consisted of Mark Ruffneck (aka Pekka Mark) on drums, lead vocalist Ape de Martini (aka Eero Hämäläinen), bassist Tauno Vajavaara and Kario ELO on guitar. It took the four Fins five years to come up with the material for their legendary debut album Heavy Metal Heroes - Hey You. With the success of the album not only in Finland (but all over continental Europe), Oz decided to permanently move to Stockholm, a much larger city than their original hometown, in order to follow a professional recording career. The follow-up album, Fire In The Brain, was released in 1983. With high-energy heavy metal anthems such as InchFortune,Inch InchMegalomaniac,Inch and InchGambler,Inch it was an even more striking effort than the band's debut record. In his Collector's Guide To Heavy Metal, Canadian metal journalist Martin Popoff awarded the album 9 out of 10 points and remarked InchFire In The Brain is a dark, depressing freight train of a record, a richly European work, which pounds relentlessly from the opening heaves of the brilliantly apocalyptic 'Search Lights,' through the slow death trudge of 'Black Candles', to the violent concluding wails of the title track.Inch