Deliverance- Evil Friendship

[Goosebumples]

I never heard about those bands being manufactured. Weird if true in this case as their sound is so unorthodox.

Thats what I was thinking, evil friendship has a very off kilter and unusual sound to it. Seems utterly bizzare that if they were an attempt to cash in on popularity that this approach was taken!

Cool record thou, cheers for the recommendation.

[open face surgery]

Mad theory about Infernal Majesty. Never heard that before and given None Shall Defy is 10/10 and there's no proof, I choose to ignore it. I'd say it must come from them looking like glam fruits on the back of the lp.

[Eoin McLove]

I would like to read more about this phenomenon/ conspiracy. It's all new to me.

[Goosebumples]

None Shall Defy is 10/10

looking like glam fruits

Add in a mascot cover and you have all the attributes of an 80s commercial success...very interesting 

[Mithrandir]

Yeah, I've never heard anything really substantiated about Infernal Majesty tbh so probably not a good example. None Shall Defy is one of the greatest albums ever.

I think the whole thing about these bands was that they didn't need to sound good, look up Metal Enterprises, they had like 30 bands that are incredibly shit. I think they just needed to look the part in a time when people were blind buying records based on the cover and name alone.

The Virgin Steel guys wrote and played on the Exorcist, The second Piledriver album and the Original Sin album under pseudonyms on Cobra records just to shift records. All completely made up.

Here's a more in depth write up about it from the Corroseum I found on wayback:

https://web.archive.org/web/20251102165554/https://thecorroseum.org/features/metalenterprises/index.php

[Goosebumples]

Yeah, I've never heard anything really substantiated about Infernal Majesty tbh so probably not a good example. None Shall Defy is one of the greatest albums ever.

I think the whole thing about these bands was that they didn't need to sound good, look up Metal Enterprises, they had like 30 bands that are incredibly shit. I think they just needed to look the part in a time when people were blind buying records based on the cover and name alone.

The Virgin Steel guys wrote and played on the Exorcist, The second Piledriver album and the Original Sin album under pseudonyms on Cobra records just to shift records. All completely made up.

Here's a more in depth write up about it from the Corroseum I found on wayback:

https://web.archive.org/web/20251102165554/https://thecorroseum.org/features/metalenterprises/index.php

Cheers for that. Gonna spend an evening wading through the sewage that is that labels catalogue for the laugh