The Fall of the King / The Fallen King (FULL VERSION) - Unknown Song, Artist | Help To Identify
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- This is not by any popular bands such as Black Sabbath, Metallica, Overkill, or Iron Maiden. Please stop mentioning them.
Update: Conquest, Sado, Blackmayne, and Pathfinder have been ruled out. Z'Rose has not been ruled out but their style doesn't seem to match this song, and they have also disappeared from the face of the earth so if anyone can find them, good luck
The most mysterious metal song on the internet. "The Fall of the King" or "The Fallen King", an unknown heavy metal song from the late 80's. Recorded from either Z-rock or Radio WJCU in Cleveland, OH. There is another recording by a different OP from Chicago although the quality is worse. It is not Bernard Cavazos, Red Barron, or Assault (the Ball & Chain). If you know the artist or title of this song, PLEASE let us know!!
Forum post by OP of this recording: forum.metal-ar...
Twitter post by the other OP: / 1336103548594098183
Original upload: • Unknown 1980s Metal So...
Ziro/Q upload: • Unidentified Song ("Th...
Video by @JustinWhangYt featuring the song: • Filthy Frank Kenya Son...
Lyrics:
The sky is filled with ash and smoke!
The towers burn, the walls they crumble!
The bodies lie about the fields,
No one is left to win the battle!
The people can't believe their eyes,
The king has fallen, see him die!
A time of mystery, a time of death,
The Evil One's promise has been kept
The fall!
The fall of the king!
The fall!
The fall of the king!
The night sky is filled with fire!
See the king on his royal pyre!
Fooled to think the king could win,
Against such evil, against such sin!
The people can't believe their eyes,
The king has fallen, see him die!
A time of mystery, a time of death
The Evil One's promise has been kept
The fall!
The fall of the king!
The fall!
The fall of the king!
(absolutely delicious guitar solo)
The king's time has come to pass!
The wicked one has come at last!
A time of fear, a time of pain,
Cannot escape the Evil One's reign!
The people can't believe their eyes,
The king has fallen, see him die!
A time of mystery, a time of death,
The Evil One's promise has been kept
The fall!
The fall of the king!
The fall!
The fall of the king!
The fall!
The fall of the king!
The fall!
The fall of the king!
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Bernard Cavazos is not the author of this song. He himself has said it is not his song and that his song "King's Fall" was different. Please stop mentioning Bernard Cavazos.
Pathfinder has also been ruled out by Rek Anthony himself.
I haven't seen an update in a year. Thanks.
Now we know that it isn't Bernard Cavazos, who's the next lead?
@@sethjedidiah3903 there are no actual leads right now for this song unfortunately.
Nothing major but I am looking into 2 Pittsburgh PA garage bands. Sceptre and Reign. Sceptre has an abandoned demo allegedly called "Dungeon Master" or "Master of the Dungeon". Reign allegedly had a song either called "The king shall fall" or "Tonight the king falls". But asides from word of mouth the only proof my team found of these bands existence is a document both bands tried to sue each other in June 1987.
@@CharlesMarkward okay, very peculiar theory, but what if those two bands are behind The Fall of the King?
In the story in the description, there were two tapes that this song was recorded onto; one in Chicago, and one in Cleveland. This upload is the Cleveland recording. I have never heard the Chicago recording yet. So what if the Chicago tape is a cover/remake of the Cleveland one, or vice versa? One of the band members of (let’s say for example) Sceptre heard their song being covered by Reign without their permission on the radio (vice versa could have also happened).That might be the reason that they sued each other.
A short summary for who have been perplexed by my writing: The Cleveland tape is a cover and the Chicago tape is the original song (or vice versa).
One of the two bands made this song, and the second of the two bands decided to cover this, which led to the first band suing the second band.
Hope this helps in some way!
A lot hinges on if these bands actually had anything to do with this song. But your theory is pretty much on par with what my team is thinking. I stated it's not too unreasonable a Pittsburgh band would have music played in Cleveland since the 2 cities are only a few hours apart. But until I find something that connects either band to THIS song all I have are plausible theories.
As for the court document, one band was seeking action against the other for stealing their music/songs and the other band was seeking legal action because they stole their looks/gimmick. But it doesn't say who is who, like is Reign saying Sceptre stole their music or is Sceptre claiming Reign stole their act etc.
Imagine being the lead guitarist, spending months upon months perfecting that solo, only for people to not even know what your band is or even the name of the song
depression
His face forever masked, his tomb forever unmarked
@@vidmastereon now that’s the most metal way to describe this song
Most metal bands never make it, so it's probably the reality for thousands if not millions of people since the 80's
@@_black_bird Makes you think how many other great songs were lost to time, never to be heard again
Now that The Most Mysterious Song has been solved, this is next on the "To Solve"-list.
Exactly, all of the effords should be on this one now
Can't believe we live in the time where "The Mysterious Song on the Internet" has been solved
This and CIA
oh there's A LOT more to solve, you wont believe it
If “Subways of Your Mind” is the final boss of lostwave music, then this is the post-game superboss.
Fr
I would say that he is the secret manager
Hidden boss
The boss of the second game
The unused and unfinished boss lost in the code
Celebrity Number 6 and TMMS have been found. Now it's time for the metal community's work
There's an universe where this song is a metal classic, and people are trying to figure out who made The Trooper
There’s a universe where you made original comments and not just ripoff the same overdone AU stuff.
Relax, Cynthia. It’s not hurting anyone. In fact, thanks to that comment, I went and listened to The Trooper for the first time.
I’m not mad, it’s just that this joke is getting repetitive and boring.
@@CynthiaOrtega-zq8fu good for you. Just keep scrolling then
my myself in this universe is crazy about finding whose song is that one called "You take my life" haha!
now thats tmms is solved. this is the new "the most mysterious song on the internet" (at least for me)
@@mossuroo I think Light the Lanterns/Illumination Night is more mysterious
Out of all the lost songs, this is the one I want to be found the most. I love it.
this one I can't believe hasn't been found yet
@@lostwavefinder587 I'd assume this was recorded sometime around 1984-1987 and you have NO idea how many metal bands sprang up, recorded a demo or two, and collapsed when said demo got rejected by every label they sent it to. There are thousands of songs just like this that have been completely forgotten, this one was just lucky enough to have been found on a tape of a 30-year-old radio show in someone's attic. I'm willing to bet if somebody sifted through every record label's physical archive (assuming they don't regularly throw out the old demos) they'd eventually find the original recording of this.
I've listened to it tons of times. Total quintessential metal song!
This should be the new popular "everyone knows that" song, shocked it hasn't been found yet.
I can´t believe "TMS" was found before this one. Still my favourite Lostwave song, I wanted it to be found so much. 😭
Ok. I don't know if this will help anyone or not. But I'm a guitar player so I pick up on small things like this. The guitar part seems to have been recorded with a Rockman amplifier. It was a small compact amp meant for headphones or plugging directly into the soundboard. It had a very distinct sound that sounds like nothing else. You can hear it on songs like Hall Of The Mountain King by Savatage, Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins, as well as the Afterburner album by ZZtop. Some people would run an equalizer through it to beef it up.
Now WHY is this important?
The Rockman that has this sound was invented in 1982 and was produced until the early 90s. Which means Fall Of The King could only have been made no earlier than 1982.
The reason this helps, is if you find an 80s metal band that had this strange guitar tone in their other songs, you might be on the right track
This is very helpful information, thank you!
As far as i know, nobody used those amps. It sounds like Rockman distortion, from the headphones. The guitar sound, on Slayer South of Heaven, sounds like rockman distortion. Guessing they are not using, Rockman. They just use effects, probably on Marshalls.
the audio quality is too low to know for sure.
so we can narrow it down to 1982-84
It's just high mids
My 2 oldest sisters (born in 1970 and 1972) actually remember this song being played by garage bands and local talents in the Coatesville PA area. However, they both swear on mom and dads ashes that the first time they heard this song, a local music festival in Exton PA, I was NOT born yet (I was born in 1984). Even back then nobody could say who it was or what the title was. In fact the one band from Downingtown PA used to refer to it as "The Dungeons and Dragons song". And by that i mean, according to my sisters the lead singers girlfriend (or his sister....they could never tell?) would be in the crowd and when they were ready to end their performance she would shout "Play the Dungeons and Dragons song". My sisters also remember the adults thinking this song was somehow a promotional thing for the PA Renaissance Fair. Unfortunately they cannot offer any clues to the identity of this band or songs title, their guess, back then and still today, was Manowar.
our biggest lead currently is a band called Z'Rose from Texas
@@lostwavefinder587 I have seen that name tossed around a lot on forums and random chats (this being one of them). Most people way smarter and better with this music than myself seem to have the opinion that it is not Z'Rose. They range in reason from: the equipment sound professional and they were not, the dates don't add up, Z'Rose only did covers so even it is them in the recordings it's still not their song.....one individual (a supervisor at work who lived in Texas during this time frame) actually said "Z'Rose wouldn't have been sober enough to finish that song". I have only heard 1 Z'Rose recording, and unfortunately the person who recorded it (I think the date says 1989?) spends the majority of the 5 minute video talking during the performance so all i hear is them and not the singer. I have to emphasize about %99 of this info i'm presenting is NOT from me but people who know this genre of music way better than me....i'm more Symphonic metal and neo folk (Corvus Corax, Heilung, Faun etc.
@@CharlesMarkward probably this tape recording was an attempt from them to make something of their own, many bands have started this way, an example is the Brazilian power metal band Angra, they were first meant to be an Iron Maiden tribute but as things went by, they have decided to release things of their own...I couldn't find anything about this "Z'Rose" band in metal-archives, neither at Google with a simple research, but the data gathered until this moment make sense: the Z Rock radio is from Texas, the so called "Z'Rose" band is also from Texas, it was the 80's, so, without internet, this was the way bands used to promote their work...but your story adds some drifts from this sensible data available until now...they are/were from Texas, ok...but until then, they weren't any big group, which means they were probably 9 to 5 salarymen whose musician activity was on weekends and the money earned wasn't enough to keep up with, so, a trip from TX to PA is a long ranged one and expensive for their then standards, I can remember when I've read the Mick Wall's Metallica biography, in which they highlight how hard was for them to go all the way from CA to NY to record Kill em' All, well, unless someone sponsored the so called "Z'Rose from Texas" (like the Zazula couple to Metallica) to play in the events you've mentioned in PA...which means they were good and had potential (this "mysterious recording" doesn't let me lie), because it takes a lot for someone at the other eastern extreme of a big country like the USA to call someone all the way from TX to play in an event when probably there were good bands around and without the need of a sponsorship to travel and get some place to sleep and eat...
@@aSome1 There's some confusion, my sisters never said Z'Rose was playing the song in our hometown area. Local teenage to early college yrs bands were playing it. They recognized this song when I was on a family Zoom chat, i had this song on in the background (by accident actually lol) and my oldest sister (#1 born in '70) asked what i was listening to. I turned it up and she shook her head and asked the other sister (#2 born in '72) "Oh my gosh isn't that that stupid Manowar song Erik and his brother used to play all the time?". Erik was the name of her high school boyfriend. They remember hearing it first at an amateur music fest when my brother (born in '82) was still a baby. Mainly they remember mom fitting all of them in her old "Batmobile" station wagon. By the time i was born in '84 that station wagon was gone for at least several months. The band names they specifically remember playing this, and keep in mind these were "Garage bands" from the 80's were: Venomous Vomit, Razors in your Coffee (Erik's band), Ash to Ash, Cauldron Kings, Coven of Metal, Pridesville, South of Hell and Purgatory. They said there were a few more, but didn't remember....or care....to know their names. (Disclaimer: Several peoples associated with those mentioned bands have been contacted by me and several have replied.....the most common reply is "How the hell do you know us!?" lol)
Also, i am not the one saying it's not them. People much better with much more access to metal archives/records are saying it's not them. BUT, everything you said makes perfect sense to me and I have no argument against any of it. It would make perfect sense if it was a possible pitch demo Z'Rose recorded and kept along for a few years before a station played it. My sisters are %98 certain it was a Manowar song, the only other band they mentioned as a possibility is a Greek band i can't find anything about called something like Sarassa??
@@CharlesMarkward Dude, it's not Manowar lol. You keep saying that. Manowar isn't some obscure band like you & your sister think. They're pretty much mainstream. If it were Manowar, the search for the artist would've taken minutes. It's been years of hundreds of people searching & inquiring into the band's identity. You just popped up like yesterday saying "my sister said it's Manowar" lol
Damn whoever cooked this up is straight a legend 🔥🔥🙏this a banger fr 💯
we need to find them fr
Fr
Imagine if this fell through the cracks and got completely lost and forgotten, we may not know created it, but I'm very glad that at least we can listen to it, because it's fucking good
think of all the awesome music like this that no one recorded and is lost forever :( :(
@@lostwavefinder587 Think of the Rhys D record... if Rhys had never came across it, we would've likely never have known the existence of "The Days Of Wine And Roses," "Hold Back The Night," "I Don't Mind Going Out," and "Sad Songs Go Straight To The Heart..." I suppose there isn't much use to be had moping around about these kinds of situations, though, and we should at least appreciate that we had gotten to see these instead.
@@is_ley agreed 💯
@@is_leywhat album are you talking about? I looked these song titles up and could find them
@@Scoobyjew678 ruclips.net/video/eSmWmFWFvx0/видео.html
These songs were all unknown once, but they've since been solved
My brother is sitting on a holy grail of z rock tapes that may have this song and maybe the artist.... but they haven’t been played since 94
That would be incredible! We have a discord server that is highly invested in the search for this song, would you like an invite to it?
Sure
@@kevin2400 Did you ever get into the server?
@@lostwavefinder587 can I join the server please, why never ask me?
I am highly able to investigate into a song.
@@lostwavefinder587 hello?
Now that Like The Wind has been found, hopefully more help will be given to this song being found!
So here's a potential lead for everyone: I was just playing this song for a friend who is obsessed with all metal music. She asked me "Where did you get that Talon song?" Talon was/is a German heavy metal band from the early 80's that released several demos and full on albums between '83-'89. Almost all of there songs were medieval themed, especially their 2 demos. Herr's the thing, they supposedly have 3 unnamed tracks from both demos, one allegedly called "King Slayer". I listened to a bunch of there songs and I have to say there are several songs where the singer sounds exactly like our mystery singer, but then the next song they sound nothing alike. There was one song called something like "Execution" that the opening guitar sounds like this songs opening only slower? I'm not saying it is Talon, but it is possibly something to look into or at least consider?
Correction, the song I think sounds familiar in the opening is called "Neutralized" not "Executioner"
Sounds like a great lead. I hope it gets looked into.
@@Thomas-ry8xqI am looking into it.......and by that I mean I'm listening to as many of their songs as I can to compare and pestering people way better with this music than myself lol. Several songs have parts, singing or music, that sound very similar to this, but there just snippets of similarities. I haven't found one that I can safely say "SOLVED, IT'S THEM!".
I *highly, highly, HIGHLY* doubt it will end up being a non-American band, the singer might be British or German but I am 100% certain the band themself is American
@@lostwavefinder587Not saying it is or isn't a European/NON USA band. I was just letting people know of a possible lead and seeing if anyone else knew Talon and could chime in Yay or Nay.
TMMS got solved , now it is time for this song 🎉
REAL
*not fully solved yet but it looks very likely
@lostwavefinder587 yes thats why i said maybe in bracket and edited
@@lostwavefinder587 yeah it's still being confirmed
Its official.....
I don't know how such a banger song fades into such obscurity like this, this fuckin ROCKS
no, it METALS
0:36 "A time of mystery"
You got that right.
So New Years Eve i did my thing at the bar with my own little "booth" i mentioned. Once again the majority of people thought it was ME self promoting lol. After "me" people thought it was the usual: Manowar, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Overkill. One person thought it was a band called "TSA" from Poland. I am actually old enough to remember TSA but i never heard them sing in English. The guy then showed me a video of their singer Marek Piekarczyk doing an interview in English from '87. His speaking voice, did sound very similar to our mystery singers singing voice, but I didn't think it was as dead on as he thought. TSA apparently does have a lost demo of 4 songs, all sword and sorcery related, but I cannot find anything about it except it was supposedly recorded between '78 and '80? Another person and his wife thought it could be a band called "Sauron" based on it's medieval fantasy vibes. Another couple suggested "Black Knight" for the same reasons.
And then i encountered "Eviscerator" lady. WOW did she make an entrance!! (seriously, i looked for a camera crew to see if they were filming some sort of gothic horror or Satanic occult independent film with the entrance she made!!) lol This is everything she remembers about seeing Eviscerator: She saw them perform twice, once in '85 and again in '88. Both times they performed in what used to be a shoe factory (specifically the factory made boots for police and firemen) just outside of London's city limits. Both times they performed, the venue was so amateur that each band had to use each others equipment. So after each performance each band just left the equipment on stage for the next one to use. Eviscerator had 3 guitarists and the one guitarist seemed to be the "leader" instead of the vocalist. When that guitarist introduced each member, they all had the name Eviscerator before their stage name, so it was "Eviscerator Johny", "Eviscerator Matt" etc. The only name she remembers is the Leopold LeStat she mentioned before. I asked why and she stated his was the only name that didn't sound like something ripped off of Lord of the Rings or Dungeons and Dragons. She also remembers that when all the band members said their names, Leopold and another guitarist sounded like they had New York accents. This song was allegedly followed by another song describing "The evil one's" reign but the only lyrics she remembers from it is the chorus of "The evil ones reign has begun, across the sky rides the dragon", and "All the power, all the hate, the wicked one has sealed your fate". Once again she stated that Eviscerator claimed they wrote this song for the movie Heavy Metal, but she herself felt that was just a claim for attention.
I found her account to be interesting....not saying it is completely true and accurate, but i don't think it was something she cooked up to play me. I believe she did in fact see a group who went by "Eviscerator" perform, I believe they may have played this song as well as the sequel she described and all the Nazareth and Lucifer's Friend (does anyone but me know that band? lol) covers she mentioned they did. My gut tells me Eviscerator may have been just another amateur band who used threw this song with their covers to get people interested. Are they the makers of this song and did they write it for Heavy Metal.....I can't say Yes or No? I will lean towards No, especially since she herself felt like they were just saying that for attention but I will not put a bet on either.
early TSA is basically Rainbow-alike stuff LMAO
not to mention, if any band can played this in 1978, I'd like to see it
@@SLON-sh2jgI am %99.999 sure it is NOT TSA. Asides their singers English talking voice sounding similar to this songs singing voice there just isn't anything for me to think of them as a serious contender. Yes they supposedly have a lost demo, but that seems to be a recurring theme. As for a band playing like this is 1978, I think the bands Angelwitch and Witchfynde came out in '78. Not quite as fast or intense as this song but within the same boat. I do agree with you that TSA sounds like Rainbow lol
As a Polish guy, this is definitely not TSA, due to following reasons.
1. Marek Piekarczyk's singing voice is completely different from what we hear here
2. They did not write primarily in English. Their only releases in English, Spunk EP and Heavy Metal World LP were re-recorded versions of the songs already released in Polish, and none of the songs on these releases sounded like this.
3. This does not sound like TSA's style at all. This song sounds more Iron Maiden-ish, meanwhile TSA was always closer to AC/DC imo.
4. Even if we ignore the previous points, I don't think there would be any chance for a song from beyond the iron curtain to be played in a Texan radio station.
@@Gregorio_Amareno Dzien Dobry Pan. I don't know what happened but I made a post ruling out TSA several weeks ago? It was basically EVERYTHING you touched on, except I didn't take into consideration the Iron Curtain part. I agree that TSA sounds NOTHING like this song, unless you know anything about their alleged missing demo? I have also stated many times this song, to me, sounds like Bruce Dickinson.
I have no idea but i do know this is an absolute banger
Wild NathanNS spotted
Didn't know you like Heavy Metal lol
I was contacted last night by one of my former professors (name withheld) from Immaculata University. She was going through old student research papers and found a students paper from 2014 that references this song! The student paper was "Lost Music: The unspoken sibling of Lost Films". The part about this song reads: "Or the infamous "Fall of a King", played in the south Jersey and Philadelphia area before finding its way to Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Atlanta, Huston, Dallas then finally Chicago in the mid 1980's. Itself Manowar or Iron Maiden like sound entranced listeners and broke radio station phone lines with people scrambling to get the answers "Who was that, and what is that name".
That included in the students intro, i did not read the whole paper, I'm not even sure of she sent the whole thing or just that intro? My former professor thought of me because she remembered i was the ONLY student she had who wrote about Lost Films.
My former professor got in contact with the student who wrote this paper. She does NOT want her info given to me, but she did say she was ok with my former professor sending me the whole paper. She is also ok with corresponding through said former professor if I have any questions about her sources. The whole 39pg paper will be emailed to me sometime this week. Now the whole paper is NOT about this song, but this song under the name "Fall of a King" is included. Other songs included in the paper are "Like the wind", "Downtime in London", "Crisp breeze", "Unlock my heart" and "My frozen lips"......asides from "Like the wind" I have never heard of these other ones.
@@CharlesMarkward Why why why was found via an 1986 radio broadcast . which was in youtube all years long , so this might be hiding somewhere I guess ..
@@XxxXxx-bv4veThe full essay has been emailed to me, all 43pgs (1 opening page, 39 content, 4 sources) as of yesterday. Unfortunately the hospital I work at has been super busy and I have not had the time to scour through to "Fall of a King" section. But hopefully next week will be better.
That’s super awesome of your professor!
@@CharlesMarkward Any update?
This sounds like one of those cool heavy metal songs you'd hear in a runescape montage from the late 2000s, it's nice.
THE SKY IS FILLED WITH ASH AND SMOKE, THE TOWERS BURN, THE WALLS THAT CRUMBLE!!!
the bodies lie about the fields
NO ONE IS LEFT TO WIN THE BATTLE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
The most downright EPIC song I’ve ever heard!!!
The guitar solo is PERFECTION!
Makes me feel like I’m He-Man!😎🔥🔥🔥
(Picture matches perfectly too!)
Bobby Blitz and Bobby Gustafson from Overkill might know who this is, because that's Gustafsons exact guitar tone. This band is definitely from New Jersey.
I remember three years ago listening to Liquid Metal on SiriusXM when they played this song and discussed it a bit. They were as stumped as everyone else and those guys are pretty knowledgeable when it comes to metal.
In this 2024 yesr, we found soo much hard lost media that was tagged as unsolvable!
Even brilliant of lost media "the most mysterious song in the Internet"!!!
So there's all chance that we're gonna find it amd that would be nice to find it in this year 🙏
1:33 this part is extremely good
This sounds so fucking awesome, I hope the band gets found soon!
I think it might be safe to say.......where ever this band, or studio project came from, it was from some remote place, in the middle of nowhere, where there was no kind of metal scene, and no demo tapes sold. they probably sent it to the radio station, and it was not hand delivered. They probably sent out a couple tapes, and then the band was traveling in a car, and drove of a cliff, and all died.
Probably just a very small local band. There are many cases just like this. This track however has high quality production and mixing, and that guitar solo-- 🤌🤌
I was thinking the same theory! But mine applies to Like The Wind
Definitely some kind of new wave of british heavy metal, just trying to get this out there since I'm REALLY sure about it
Unrelated question but why is browser pfp 9/11?
*bro
In my last comments i mentioned a bar i went to was going to have a mini concert featuring bands that specialize in black metal and 80's tribute metal and i would play this song to see if any of the band peoples or concert goers would chime in. I did just that and got a few hits on the radar with a few of the band members. The one band, Inviaat, the singer says he remembers this song being played on a radio station in Philly PA for an entire summer because that station was trying to find the band. He does not remember the specific station but said it was near the Taylor University campus (my understanding is that there is several?) because the station thought it was the students from that university's music program. When i asked him when exactly that would have been he said Summer of 1983 because he was married on Halloween 1983 and was hoping the station would find the band so they could play at his wedding. A member from the local band "inductus Mortis" said he recalls that song being played "somewhere in the mid 80's" but does not remember if he heard it in Chicago or Cleveland because he bounced between them. I asked several bands, include the Venom tribute band Poisonous Whisper if anyone had ever heard of a band name Eviscerator from the 80's. Only one person thought he heard the name but it wasn't a band name it was a compilation album of NWOBHM from roughly '83-'84, but couldn't tell me anything other than that. As for the other concert goers, the #1 response i got from them was along the lines of "Dude you can sing, you should go pro!".....in other words they thought it was me promoting myself (I wish i could sing like that!!). the #2 response was people thought it was Manowar. After those 2 the guesses were the usual ones i have seen here and everywhere else this topic comes up: Blackmaine, Axis, Overkill, Overdrive, Black Sabath, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Slayer, WitchAxe and 2 people even asked if it was an Ozzy Osbourne demo.
Sounds a lot like Overkill tbh but I know it isn't.
@@laserbae97 There is an Overkill song that I mentioned on here a while back that the beat is almost dead on with a slightly slower version of this songs beat.
Holy crap for some reason my last post got cut in half and didn't include the following info, sorry! So the individual i spoke to and got the new possible lead is the former singer of the one band my sisters mentioned, Purgatory, (i do NOT have his permission to use his real name but his stage name was Tarantula). He confirmed he played this song "once or twice" but didn't know the lyrics so they just repeated several "blocks" over and over again. He heard it from a band in NJ and when he asked if he could use the song they replied along the lines of "It's not our song, we don't care" but gave no indication who it was or they even knew who it was? He suggested the band "Knightmare" because they were from Texas and he remembers all of their songs being medieval or medieval fantasy related. Supposedly they wore what looked like full on plate armor (he does not know if it was actual metal armor or something made to look like it). He saw them perform a handful of times because he spent summers in Texas on his grandfathers (mistakenly said uncle in my last post, sorry) ranch and would sneak off at night to "the metal scene" (i do not know if that was a club name or if he just meant that in general?). He began visiting his grandfathers ranch in 1980 and stopped when his grandfather retired in 1992. He gave an estimated timeline for "Knightmare" of 1981-1989.
Interestingly, my supervisor at work lived in Texas during this timeline (roughly mid 70's to mid 90's from what i can gather?) and when I asked him about Knightmare he had no idea. But when i mentioned they dressed up like knights in armor he suddenly looked startled and said "That wasn't their name, their name was Battle Battalion or some s*** like that".
There was a Knightmare from houston tx that had 3 demos.
This sounds so cool I really hope this is all true
In a parallel universe this is a world hit and Crazy Train is lostwave
The thing is, whoever this is will have more songs. Nobody would write one song, never perform it, record it, without writing others as well. Especially with this type of production.
Even the metal exploitation "bands" like piledriver and exorcist had entire records(exorcist-nightmare theater, piledriver-stay ugly/metal inquisition). I almost guarantee whoever this artist is they at least have an ep or demo, something more than just this one song.
I feel like this song needs to be found,i know this is in the power metal genre I’m not a huge power metal fan but this song is great,it does sound like Iron maiden and Judas Priest but we all know it’s not those bands,I think that if we look deeper into it and make sure to look carefully this song will be found! Hope it does get found as it is great!🤘
When is someone gonna find a high quality version of this 😔
it's raw and perfect, as metal should be, no need for the high quality
have anybody here ever considered if it one of the many bands thrown out that it could possibly be one of them as one of their demos with a different singer before finding their current one which they stuck with? its a possibility you have to admit. and with this song, i'd say it comes from a tape of some kind and was restored or remixed to better quality cause at 2:00 to 2:04 the left channel fades out and in again which often happens on tapes.
I wish someone would find this band already, this goes so hard and I can only assume everything else they put out goes just as hard.
my thoughts exactly!
Well we finally have a lead so here's hoping it gets found
THE LOST WAVE DLC
Where did someone find the full version???? This is my first time hearing it and not the chopped radio version that Ian Christe had uploaded. Definitely feels like this was taken from an orginal demo tape.
Okay so this was a totally different recording, not recorded by Armador. Also from Z-rock but it was a completely different airing, the ending is different. Here is the OP "sled1025" forum.metal-archives.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=44082&start=40
This needs to be found after EKT.
how will we know without searching...
@@lostwavefinder587 Onward! To the Hub!
@user-mw3co8hg9fI’m aware lmao
@@lostwavefinder587That's one intense porn session
Erm...
Banger
I love this song.
same
didn't know samuel molina marin was metal like that
2024 is Definitely The LostMedia and LostWave Year. We may soon find this absolute Banger Along With Like The Wind And Stop Making Me Cry And La Cancion De Alicia
Don't Forget Poor-Christmas
@@lostwavefinder587 oh yea
@TheAmazingDrLOL also I didn't see what video this was on, La Cancion de Alicia just got solved idk if you knew
@@lostwavefinder587 wait! WHAT! YES!
7 solves today dude
Would be funny if one of the members is sitting here reading all these comments laughing
epic trolem
@@lostwavefinder587 hell yea lol
I don't know why the dude wouldn't come forward at this point. There's clearly some passionate people interested in his music. For most musicians, fame and interest is a good thing.
Well, Christopher Saint Booth of Everyone Knows That/Ulterior Motives fame said he had no idea until his son told him one day “Hey dad, you’re Internet famous.”
You know, you may not be far off. It’s probably very likely this mystery has been solved, but the original artist is denying it on purpose as a troll move just to keep the mystery alive.
To be honest. That song got me into diving deeper into metal music. Id love to find out who is behind this masterpiece. Like, the riff, the solo, the voice of the frontman, the whole composition. Its incredible. It sounds just like some of Iron Maiden old stuff, but the vocalist is different, he doesn't sound like Bruce at all. Id do anything for knowing who made this.
i feel you!
There is a clip of Bruce Dickinson covering Tom Jones "Delilah" on a game show or talk show from the mid 80's. In that specific video myself and a lot of other people's think Bruce sounds like this singer. Some people say it's a %100 match. I say it is EXTREMELY close, but I can't give a definitive. I am NOT saying this song isBruce Dickinson or Iron Maiden, only stating that they sound very close.
ruclips.net/video/1l7a9hK1tIo/видео.htmlsi=VIL-5kIk7UYL9uHJ
This is beast metal rock in my life so cool but im sad but artist is a mystery 😢
"wait dude, did we write our names on the cassette?"
"oh flip"
I don't care who made this... all I care is that i found it lol...
But thanks whoever made this anyway : D
Do you know the artist?
@@lostwavefinder587one
year
later
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nothing
Yeah this is definitely a false lead
@@QuaixiAnimations Never claimed I had info on band lol... I just said I'm glad I found this song as its really good. Never saw that uploader replied to me only saw that now : P
Probably didn't notice it on notifications.
I might have to listen to more songs like this because this slaps 😭
How is it fair that this masterpiece becomes lost media and Biebers’ “Baby” doesn’t?
Modern music in general is just bad. Fun thing about most lostwaves is that they get people interested in older music :)
To me, it also sounds like he's saying "The fallen king", but the way he says it makes it inconclusive
I was contacted by "1983 guy" late last night. Here is what he remembers: he worked at a Keebler warehouse in Ben Salem PA, most of the times he heard this song was from a coworkers personal radio in the break room. He believes it was a Temple University station because of a jingle that would play "All of Philadelphia and all of you, this is Temple U" (he remembers the person doing the jingle sounded like James Earl Jones 😂) From what he remembers the radio hosts/dj's on that station or possibly another were offering a $100 reward to anyone who could identify it. He does not recall ever hearing people call the station on air guessing who it was, but he does remember the hosts saying it's not Judas Priest, Cirith Ungol, DragonSlayer or Iron Maiden. He did recall several hosts conversations asking if it was the students of Taylor University because they had all sorts of music related courses and would allow students to record on campus in semi professional studios. He was really hoping someone would crack this because he wanted to ask this band if they would play at his wedding, Halloween 1983 (his wife's maiden name was King and where they grew up "fall of a king" was a innuendo for.....you get it lol). His wife remembers hearing this song "maybe a handful of times" at the employee gym she would work out at (a VA hospital) but she does not recall if it was on the air or someone's personal radio. His guess, like numerous others, it's an abandoned Manowar piece. Manowar or the band "Heavy Load" because they were the only band he knew at that time with a sound as close to this (the beat does sound similar to "Angels in Leather" by Heavy Load).
I think the Keebler factory he referenced is the old Nabisco factory (now I think it's a mall?)? I actually do remember a similar radio jingle on many Philly stations like "All of us and all of you, this is Temple U", but I'm fairly certain it was an advertisement for Temple not a station? I asked my sisters about Taylor University having a music program, yes they did and yes they would record demos from students as a Production lesson, however they do not know if they ever released the demos recorded there. As a long shot I asked him about the band that mystery lady told me about, "Eviscerator". He remembers the name, but he thought that was a stage name for a singer not a band or album. When I asked if he remembered what band he replied "I never knew, I just heard the name now and then".
One thing that I feel added to his credibility, I asked what percent he is certain it was THIS song and he said "high 80's, low 90's range". That's way better than the usual "I'm 100% and how dare you question me!" I usually get.
Thanks brooo so it was supposedly a temple uni band
I don't think that's what he was implying, only the station was either Temple University's or another station that advertised for Temple (based on the jingle). I do not know if Temple had their own station in '83, so my guess is that it was just a genral Philly station that advertised for Temple........but since I am NOT familiar with Temple or it's history I can't give a Yay or Nay.
@@CharlesMarkward okk bro
1983 guy just texted me as I was driving to work. Last night I asked him if he ever heard anyone say this song was possibly a promo for the PA Renaissance Faire, he gave a very clear NO, he never heard of that. He just texted me he asked his wife about that and she did remember people thinking that, specifically her work out pals.
This is all I needed, personally. Sounds dynamite.
THIS IS GOING ON MY MIXTAPE.
the fallen king
just like how tmms was king of lostwave, but he fell
I love this song I’m gonna record it on Cassette tape to save it for all time or until we find the full song ;)
This is the full song, we just need to find the song name and band name
@@recordcollector0665 wich I hope we do ;)
Now this is seriosuly fasciniating! A really cool song. It has the vibes of the less-than popular bands of the NWoBHM like Holocaust, Dark Star, and Hollow Ground. I wish I knew where this was from. I'm sorry I can't help.
Getting sick of all these go-nowhere leads. I feel like all these people making comments on all the pages, are like 5 years old - "its Iron Maiden" - "Its Z"Rose" - "It's Overkill, i know it is". Can imagine how frustrated, the guys that recorded the tapes off the radio must feel.
don't forget the 'my uncle had this album but forgot the band name' type comments
@@tuhaiottenutounnuovoforno Exactly! Glad some other than me brings this up.. appreciate though the intentions of @lostwavefinder587 to solve the riddle by letting anyone comment.
This sounds a lot like the Norwegian band Artch. It’s not on either of their albums, but it might be a B-side or an unreleased track.
Their singer Eirikur Hauksson (Eric Hawk) also sang in a couple of Icelandic bands before moving to Norway.
It absolutely sounds like a bonus track on Overkill's Feel The Fire
it's not overkill or any popular known band. If it was it would have been found by now or never lost in the first place
This song sounds extremely similar to “Asesino” by Heavy Madness. Exact same guitar tone and style! Could it be this band????????
Also sounds a tad bit like Thrills In The Night by KISS
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@@batmanhelpingspider-man2342 vocals do sound quite a bit like Paul Stanley, but I feel like it’s ever so slightly too different to be him (plus it would be very unlike KISS not to claim the track by now)
the guitar sounds like iron maiden tbh
This song was actually played on an old Philly/NJ station on the segment "Della names your tune" in 2009. I was able to get in contact with "Della" (real name withheld by her request) who at first stated "I played thousands of unnamed songs bud, I probably played this one 100 times, sorry i wont be much help" . Then a few days later replied "I do recall this one, it was sent in from a local listener who had it labeled as Dungeon Master or maybe Dragon Master on a CD with a bunch of old early Manowar, JudaPriest, Iron Maiden, Megadead, Metallica and AngelWitch songs. He or she claimed their father had this song on a tape from his college days. Nobody knew what or who it was back in '09 or '10 and as far as I know nobody figured it out when I left the program in '15."
Disclaimer: I know some of those bands are misspelled, I purposefully left it that way because that's how she sent it to me.
Interesting
That local listener may know it but its impossible to find him
@@EducatedSquirrel I went down that road, you nailed it right on the head. There is no way to track down who that listener was. The only hint she had, in the form of the note attached to the CD was the person said they were from Radnor PA.
@@CharlesMarkward if her dad had this song that means it is very old , older than 1983?🤔
@@EducatedSquirrel I couldn't tell you because the other songs kind of bounce around in terms of year: there's a Judas Priest and an Angel Witch song both from 1980 but then there's a song from Megadeath (I believe Megadeath came out in '85?) and a Metallica song from '86?
Absolutely amazing, I don't know why but I think I've heard it in like 2008?
I feel like I heard this from somewhere before.
Tfw you don’t even know the song’s name, but it still slaps.
This song kicks serious ass. I really wanna find out what else they’ve done
We think the band may be Z'Rose and they have a few other tracks online but there isn't much information about them.
@@lostwavefinder587u hear someone say “zero”
@@Everything_60 what
@@lostwavefinder587 theres a video which has the audio but its 1 seconds longer and u hear someone kinda say zero
@@Everything_60link it
What in the Duke Nukem is this song? I love it!
One of the names thrown about here and there on posts about this song is a Steven Linfield ("Lindi") who bounced between Chicago and NYC in the 1980's. His alleged involvement varries between being the DJ who allegedly played it on a NYC station, to being a Chicago stations record manager/clerk etc etc. I got in contact with him yesterday. He denies having ANYTHING to do with the airing of this song and does not know how or why his name came up. While he did work at 2 stations (NYC, then Chicago during the summer) he was an overnight watchman (security). However, he does recall this song being played on "some amateur hour crapshoot" in '86 in NYC a bunch of times. At that point in '86 he claims people were referencing it as "The King Song" or "The song of the King" (drawn out to match the singers "The Faaaalllll, the fall of the kiiiiiing") and it was already 2 or 3 years old at that time. He did explain that at least at the Chicago station there was an amateur drop-off slot that the dj's would pick through and play random "no namers" labeling them as "space filler". Because they would be played, literally just to fill space, they were NOT mandated to keep any records of them. Sometimes the dj's would just make up names to some of these. One of his main duties was to check the drop-off to make sure there were no bad things thrown in there instead of cassettes. Another dead end, but at least we rulled out one theory......silver lining??😂
Seems like they were a small band. The 80’s were filled with tons of bands that many have forgotten about. I know a few bands in the early 2000’s in the Bay Area that have not gotten big nor people in forums know about. These types of bands will forever be forgotten by time. It’s super sad especially with this song since it’s a great song. Maybe it was a one single that they made or didn’t distribute enough to be remembered.
@@Izeazzy I agree with EVERYTHING you said there lol. I can name a few garage bands, from my high school and college years that fits this description perfectly. Out of those I can only think of 1 that even made it far enough to record a 4 song demo, FrostFire (Nightwish/Dark Sarah wannabe). And most people in my area only knew FrostFire because they had a female drummer who was............keeping it G rated, let's say very appealing for her......talent lol
LINDFIELD, not Linfield. Darn autocorrect on this phone.
Sounds like something the troops would've listened to during desert storm
Pretty awesome
maybe this is the reason why it reminds me of Reign of Terror by Sabaton :)
just imagining some hyped up twenty somethings roaring through the desert in a bradley
Even though this song is unknown it still slaps hard
This is METAL! I hope this gets solved soon
i absolutely freaking adore this damn song
"the king has fallen, SEE HIM DIE!!!!!!!!" it is like a blend of absurd goofy and awesome and i love it somuch
im glad this exists goodbye
This sounds like something my dad would listen to, he really likes metal
ask him
@@Blunderjam55I did, but he didn't know :(
I don't usually listen to rock a lot, but because of the background of this song, I love the song.
I was randomly recommended a video from a channel called "Heavy Metal Rarities," it was a song called Rider of the Night by Earthquake. I listened to it, and almost had a heart attack hearing the opening riff. That's just how dang similar it sounded to the opening riff here.
Now this obviously not our band, and they are from Sweden as well. I'll give the link to it anyway, so anyone else who wants to hear it can do so.
ruclips.net/video/rCeP2tBqj1Q/видео.htmlsi=0YryxwT44RtTyEJQ
Also, it is evident that the lost song "Run For Your Life" has been solved. However, there appears to be no absolute evidence yet.
That does sound uncannily similar, however I do believe that this song is by an American band or at the very least Canadian due to the circumstances surrounding the recordings. Worth a shot though.
The singer was definitely influenced by Dickinson in tone, cadence, and theme. Rhythm guitar was standard metal riffing but the solo sounded British, much unlike the shredding that was popular in the US at that time.
EKT was found so I have hope for this one.
This, Dream Your Dream/SBMS, and Poor-Christmas are my most wanted unknowns
I've said many times that I personally feel this vocalist sounds extremely close to Bruce Dickinson. There is a clip of Bruce singing Tom Jones' "Delilah" on either a talk or game show, and his opening of that song is nearly identical to this Fall of the King vocals! Tone, tempo, cadence, pitch......it's really really on spot. I am NOT saying it is Bruce, I'm just saying whoever it is does a good job singing like him.
This is characteristic for US power metal bands of the mid 80s which drew influence from NWOBHM and made it heavier but not to the degree of thrash
@Kriegter
After finding a video on the missing song with just a 17 seconds sample “ulterior motives” aka “everyone knows that” I just been in a rabbit hole of other unknown songs that lead to dead ends it seems so far? (examples: like the wind, how long will it take, the grass is green, light the lanterns, ride this wave forever, dance for hours a day aka dance floor was his name , love just comes and goes, this one specific song from the channel kylie boggly in one of her Reddit mystery videos that sounds sorta like the smiths?) and NOW THIS ONE.
All these songs are so good 😞 which makes these cases even more frustrating 💔
How Long Will It Take has been solved
@@lostwavefinder587 Just saw!! Barely opened this app and I immediately got the original author of the song video on my recommendation!! :D
So were Ride This Wave Forever (Wavestation) and Dance for Hours a Day (Royal Treatment Plant - Funky).
Johnny/The Grass is Green was also solved. Piero Cotto - Johnny in the Middle of the Park
Okay, it's THE FALL OF THE KING that the singer is singing. That's why it's so difficult to discern. Bcz he's squeazing too much into that space in the song. Great video, art, and METAL. Much thanks❤
Man that singer sounds like Blitz from Overkill! His pronunciation of “Fire” is so close it has to be him.
Hell yes, when I first heard it I thought. Sounds unbelievably similar to Overkill's Bobby Blitz especially in the era of Overkill's first album "Feel the Fire" from 1985. I even thought it might actually be Blitz. But someone contacted "Bobby Gustafson" the former guitarist of the band since 1981 - 1990 and he assured that this song is NOT from Overkill.
@@benhard8832 could Bobby have been involved in other work at the time? I'd ask him to confirm yes or no that it's him singing. An unreleased track from Overkill's earliest lineup with Rob Pisarek, perhaps. Maybe a Bobby Blitz collab with Savatage I dunno...........so many theories.
Great remaster,
Good job.
So a few days ago I got in contact with someone who claimed to have had a tape with this song on it. He claimed it was one of those "found in a room during a renovation" deals. He also stated there were 4 other songs on the tape that sounded like this band. So I met him, I listened.....and although there were 5 songs something seemed off to me. Well my instincts and hesitancy to write about it paid off. The guy created it with an AI program!! My biggest issue, the one songs voice sounded very close to that "Song of Alice/Under the stars" original singer. So I almost got scammed, and almost made a ENORMOUS fool of myself to all of us. Too close!
Would someone be able to make a guitar tab for this? Such an awesome guitar riff!
Might be a band called Z-Rose. I'm not quite sure on instrument sound, but the vocalist is pretty damn close to this. As close as Alvin Dean and Like The Wind.
A lot of people think it's them unfortunately they fell off the face of the earth (Alvin Dean style apparently) and we can't find any of the members to contact and confirm if this piece is theirs
There's a band called matrixx that has been giving me interest. They were only around for two years due to financial struggles in their stage. If you look up attaxe and fiinal notice they share two members of matrixx. Their drummer and guitarist sound very similar to the band from this song. It's pretty crazy too because they have a song called defy the king. They also had a label to produce their songs which is called Suma Recording Studios. This may be the reason why the audio sounds too good for a small band. I hope that this is the band! Too many good clues that I found
only thing is that we don't have any audios from matrixx.
Where did you find tge info about it?@@Izeazzy
@@EducatedSquirrel I was going into a deep conversation with my neighbor last night. He's(maybe 50) from the Pittsburgh Area and listened to a ton of metal bands from the North and East coast. He recommended a few bands and I got some similarities. I live in the Bay Area so the scenes from there to here are totally different. The Bay Area back in the 80's was mostly thrash groups and this is for sure power/speed metal which is mostly Ohio and Illinois I started doing more research on groups from that part of the country and came across Matrixx. It was hours of research that took me and finally decided that it may be Matrixx. Also, I did find one more band that a member was a part of, and made me 90% confident that it has to be Matrixx. They don't have much info but the members have joined other bands which leads to more discoveries.
One of the best lostwaves
As anyone ever found a song with a similar riff to the one in the intro of the song? Because I found one extremely similar in the song "Way Of The Hunter" by the band "Bloody Six". The vocalist of that band doesn´t sound similar, but maybe of one the band members might have later been involved in the making of "Fall of The King" in some other band.
It is insanely similar, so I wonder if there is a connection (even if in the end that Rek Anthony guy happens to be the singer of "The Fall of the King").
Exciters Heavy Metal Maniac has a slightly similar opening riff, but it's a huge stretch.
Can't be the same band. This one has a more US Metal sound than that of Switzerland's Bloody six
So a little bit ago i mentioned a band name "Knightmare" as a possibility for this song. Well the band was actually called "KnyghtBlyde" (Knight Blade) and i got in contact with the daughter of the vocalist last night. I played this song for her and after some confliction/hesitation she said it is NOT her dad. The biggest thing was all of her dads songs were based of Aruthurian lore and filled with references to Camelot, Arthur, Morgana, Lancelot, Excalibur etc. Since this song has none of that, its not them. She has no idea who this is.
Right now the best lead is Conquest - War for the King, a demo tape from an unspecified year, band is from Texas so the region and title checks out.
Conquest or Conqueror? There were 3 bands with the name Conquest, one was a Metallica like band. Another was an early death metal band, growling vocals and all. And one was more like a funk/Fleetwood Mac like band. I mentioned Conqueror because they were from Texas, but they were actually pretty popular and had several tapes (their lead singer looked like Dolph Lundgren 😂)
I did a quick search "Conquest 80's metal band Texas" and found 3 results. Conquest from San Antonio, split in either '85 or '87. Conquest from Dallas, '86 - '90. Khan'quest (possibly same band as Khanquistador?), no location given but split up in '88 then reformed in 2000 then......nothing? I could not find anything about any of their songs or demos or releases or band members. But it's obvious I was thinking of the wrong Conquest bands 😂
Conquest was ruled out. Someone who owns the tape was contacted and told us this isn't them.
THIS GOES FUCKING HARD AS HELL
So i posted a few months ago about this song, my sisters remember garage bands in the area playing this and commented on professional bands people have suggested such as Manowar, Iron Maiden, Blackmane, Axis, Overdrive/Overkill (half the people i speak to say it's the same band, half of them say they're different....i can't tell?). One thought has been in the back of my mind about this: Has anyone contacted these mainstream professional names and asked if i'ts either their song or if they might know who it is? I understand some bands may not exist anymore, but for the ones who are still around has anyone made contact with them?
Also, has anyone listened to Overdrive's 1982 song "On the run", the opening guitar sounds identical to the opening guitar of this song just slightly slower. At least to me it does. Also, has anyone heard of a band called "Knightmare" from Texas roughly 1981-1989'ish? That name popped up when i was corresponding with a member of the one "garage band" my sisters mentioned. The former member had an uncle who had a ranch in Texas he would spend Summer vacation at and remembers "Knightmare". He does not know if this song is them or not, but he remembers the guys dressed up in what looked like plate armor and all their songs were medieval/sword and sorcery fantasy themed.
I checked every band called Knightmare on Metal Encyclopedia and it doesn’t look like it’s our band.
@@MichaelAnthonyPresents Forgive my French.....Damn. I thought maybe it could have been a lead but i guess like dozens of others I've come across, dead end. I did a quick search for Knightmare a few weeks ago and I got all excited i saw one band dressed up like monks or Druids, but that band only came out in 2017. I think it's safe to say the name has been used by many bands.
Does the name "Battle Battalion" show up on any Metal "pedia" sites? That's what my supervisor claims this "dressed up in medieval armor" bands name was?
@@CharlesMarkwardI saw some bands with Battalion on the metal encyclopedia and discogs and none of them are our band. I don’t think we should go based on what a band wears as our lead.
'On The Run' actually has a similar melody to this mystery song, have you considered that perhaps it Overkill and they just got a new lead vocalist and this mystery song was recorded with their original lead singer? cause 'On The Run' has vibes of this mystery song. i'm sorry if i sound far fetched but i just had that thought and wanted to share it.
I’ve been a metal head since my preteen years. You have to remember the 80’s was like peak metal years in my opinion. There were tons of small bands that could have made this song. I’ve ran into small metal bands from the early 2000’s and gotten their cassette and disc copies. The only way to find out who made it is by getting that physical copy to actually identify them once and for all. I was just talking to my fiancé about this song. No way we’re going to find who made it. Like I said 80’s had tons of people create their small bands. Maybe they disbanded after this. Sad to see this going unsolved. Been 30+ years
It's incredible that this song is baffling even the most metal of metalheads. It is now believed this song was submitted as part of a talent contest and won, which is why it was played on multiple occasions and on different stations. I think it is possible to get identified we just need the right person to recognize it. At least we have the full song in somewhat decent quality.
@@lostwavefinder587That is "1983 guy" and a few others theory. This was probably a contest winner that the hometown station wasn't generating enough buzz so they sent it to other stations.
@CharlesMarkward what I can't determine is whether or not this is a demo or an official release. It sounds really well produced, the guitar solo is top notch and the mixing seems well done. If this wasn't released I would be very surprised.
@@lostwavefinder587 Thats why a lot people I have introduced to this song think it's a professional band, or at the extreme least an amateur band playing with top level equipment/sponsor? 1983 guy stated they sound like they have equipment his garage band "couldn't even afford to dream about looking at yet alone use". It's also one of the reasons my 2 oldest sisters insist this is a professional band (sister #1 says Manowar, #2 says Manowar or Sarissa) because there are no goofs or mistakes or errors. My sisters gave an example of a garage band from their Kutztown university days, "Freefall Abyss" that self released a demo and in one song you can hear a telephone ringing in the background and in another you can hear a fan or ac unit going.
The internet has solved far bigger mysteries than that. Its just that not enough people are dedicated to this its a fairly small group of people
2 very small updates gor everyone:
1) The Viking/Pagan/Goth/Black Metal themed bar just around the corner from me is having a New Years event tomorrow night. They actually agree to give me a "booth" where i can have a "guess this song" set up. And, it will be right next to where the bands play...I'm going to be between the "stage" and the food truck lol
2) The one radio station i submitted this song to will play it on their "X hour" on 1/8/24. It is not a hugely popular segment, maybe a few hundred listeners, but it's better than nothing.
Here's to the New Year and hope this song and numerous others get solved!
For everyone, I hate small keys on my phone lol
@@CharlesMarkward legend. thank you for this!
Any news?
@@ant2manbee931 I made a new post about the New Years party.
I’ve been hitting up old heads that work at music stores. There’s a guy named asop at a record shop in Oakland. I currently live in Oakland ca. He was one of those dudes who would book shows for bands that were small and medium sized. Booked from holy terror, fog of war, dekapitator, and bands from all of the us. I think he’s from Pennsylvania. I talked to him about smaller bands he even knows them. I totally forgot to mention this song. He was booking shows all over the country in the 80’s. Once I go back I’ll give him the details on it. Crazy how he for real knows bands from everywhere even though they’re small where people wouldn’t recognize them
He said he would move frequently but had those connections to do all this. Guy has a memory of some superior being or something
@@Izeazzy Oh yes, please ask him about this song, he might know who this band is
I do not know if it is related or not but in the 80's through mid 90's there was a music store in West Chester PA called "Asop Metal: records, cassettes, recording and bookings". My sisters would shop there all the time. The building is now a skateboard/Rollerblade store.
"Aesop's Metal and Music: Cassettes, records, samples, recording studio and bookings" was the store I'm talking about.
ill probably hit up the store to confirm with him. Might be the same person since I didn't know how to spell his name. Been busy with work and the shop closes at 6pm pst.
As I mentioned this could be from another universe as a recruiting/help signal to make the evil king fall from his throne
what
@@lostwavefinder587 RAISE THE DEAD
ok time to get off the internet
Remind me of early power metal like Helloween hope the artist is found some day
I posted this on another forum and one listener suggested it might be a Judas Priest tribute band.
Judas Priest is one of the "top 5" people say this either may be or sounds like.
I am wondering if adjusting the head on the deck used for playing back the tape could restore some of the treble, it often helped back in the days.
You'd have to ask Sled 1025, the OP with the tape this particular recording came from
man this song is so good