Year : 2022
Style : Heavy Metal , NWOBHM
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 147 mb
Bio:
Quartz dates back to as early as 1974 when they were known as Bandy Legs.They signed to Jet Records in 1976 and supported Black Sabbath and AC/DC. The band changed their name to Quartz for their 1977 debut album, Quartz. The album was produced by Tony Iommi and Quartz toured with Black Sabbath to support this release. Queen guitarist Brian May handled guitar on "Circles," which also features Ozzy Osbourne on backing vocals. This track did not appear on the album but would turn up as the B-side to the "Stoking the Fires of Hell" single.Quartz toured heavily during this time, playing the Reading Festival three times (1976, 1977 and 1980) and touring in support of some of the larger hard rock bands of the time (Iron Maiden, Saxon, UFO and Rush).Quartz released their second studio album, Stand Up and Fight, in 1980 and their third, Against All Odds, in 1983 before calling it quits. In 1979 Geoff Nicholls left to join Black Sabbath. He contributed keyboards and songwriting from 1980s Heaven and Hell to 2004.In 2004, doom metal band, Orodruin covered "Stand Up and Fight" on their album Claw Tower.Prior to the founding of Quartz, Hopkins had played in Wages of Sin, a short-lived Birmingham band which toured as a backing band for Cat Stevens in 1970.After that band's dissolution, two of his bandmates, expatriate Canadians Ed and Brian Pilling, returned to Canada and formed the band Fludd; Hopkins briefly joined that band in 1972 as a replacement for founding guitarist Mick Walsh, but left by the end of the year after they were dropped from their original record label.Quartz reformed in 2011 playing a reunion gig on 16 December 2011 at The Asylum in Birmingham, England. The line up consisted of Geoff Nicholls, Mike Hopkins, Derek Arnold, Malcolm Cope and vocalist David Garner.
Album:
New studio album from legendary NWOBHM - influencing Quartz.Featuring founder Quartz members Mick Hopkins, Derek Arnold, Malcolm Cope and Geoff Nicholls, with vocals from Geoff Bate and Dave Garner.Including the final songs and recordings from Black Sabbath keyboard player Geoff Nicholls and guest vocals from Sabbath’s Tony Martin.For fans of NWOBHM/Black Sabbath.Although Quartz are often viewed as mainstays of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, in truth they were more of an influence on the movement, their origins predating the NWOBHM by a number of years.The significance, relevance and importance of this album cannot be simply measured in just terms of music, because it’s so much more than that. The band hope that this will give the listener an insight into the amount of work, under some extreme difficulties and associated emotional feelings involved, in the completion and the eagerly anticipated release of their latest studio album that both honours and pays tribute to Geoff Nicholls’ legacy.
Line Up:
Geoff Bate - Vocals (1983, 2022-present)
Derek Arnold - Bass (1977-1980, 2011-present) - See also: ex-Copperfield
Mick Hopkins - Guitars (1977-1983, 2011-present) - See also: ex-Copperfield, ex-Denny Laine and the Diplomats, ex-Fludd, ex-Gerry Levene and the Avengers, ex-Lemon Tree, ex-Nicky James Movement, ex-The Idle Race, ex-The Wages of Sin
Malcolm Cope - Drums (1977-1983, 2011-present)
Tracklist:
01. Freak Of Nature
02. Death Or Glory
03. They Do Magic
04. Master Of The Rainbow
05. Night Of The Living Dead
06. Evil Lies
07. Angels At The Crossroad
08. Keep Up The Fight
09. Brainwashed
10. Babylon Is Burning
11. What Love Is
12. Dirty Disease
13. World Of Illusion
14. Highway To Madness
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