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My headbanger friends and I always discussed the past weekend's Metal Mania show at school on Monday morning My pal generously offered to record the album onto a cassette tape for me, as was the custom at the time, since we were all perennially broke teenagers -- if one of us bought an album, we'd make copies for the rest of our gang; then the next time another member of the group would make an album purchase and spread it around to the rest.
If memory serves, he recorded the soundtrack to "This is Spinal Tap" on the flip side of that tape. Many years later it would occur to me that Spinal Tap was the perfect companion piece to Metal Inquisition and its heady Canadian brew of over the top guitar histrionics, offensive-on-purpose lyrical content and vocals that seemed to come from the depths of Hell itself. Though the title track was far and away the best song on Metal Inquisition , the rest of the tracks were not slouches either.
Every groove of the LP overflowed with pounding bravado and ear-splitting guitar abuse made for shaggy year-olds to headbang along with. The lyrics were hilariously macho, gory-to-the-extreme comic book nonsense about alien invaders marauding their way across Earth "Alien Raid" , sentencing witches to violent deaths "Witch Hunt" , and of course, that awesome title track, which praised all things METAL and warned anyone into disco or country music that they were going to get their asses royally kicked.
Eventually my brother and I obtained our own copy of Metal Inquisition and pretty much played it to death. We were sure that Piledriver would soon rise to the status enjoyed by underground heroes like Metallica and Slayer and we dreamed of seeing the band live one day so we could worship at the altar of "The Pile.
Piledriver stuck around for one more album, 's Stay Ugly , and then they seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth, leaving only the stench of brimstone behind them.
Several years later a college friend scored an original Canadian pressing of Metal Inquisition on the Canuck "Cobra Records" label and I was surprised to learn that it contained two tracks that weren't on the U. I also learned that one of my favorite tracks, known as "Alien Raid " on my copy, was actually titled "Alien Rape," according to the Canadian pressing. By the late s, metal fanzines and web sites began to wonder, "Whatever happened to Piledriver, anyway? The Metal Inquisition tracks were whipped up by Leslie Howe and Louise Reny, a pair of Canadian musicians who then called in a young singer named Gord Kirchin, with whom they'd previously jammed in a band called "Mainstream," to provide vocals for their pre-existing songs.
Aside from Gord on vocals, the only other "member" of Convict was studio musician Conrad Taylor. The second Piledriver album, 's Stay Ugly, continued this arrangement. Though a new lineup of bogus musicians were listed on the album's credits, all the songs on Stay Ugly were written and performed by David DeFeis and Edward Pursino of Long Island, New York power-metal band Virgin Steele, with Kirchin once again providing vocals.
In spite of these revelations, the band and their albums had already achieved Cult Classic status. Sadly, the first two Piledriver albums have been out of print for many years.
They were "re-issued" on CD several times during the s and '00s in poor quality bootleg form, and even those discs have become pricey collector's items. With a slight name change to "The Exalted Piledriver" and fronting an all new lineup, Kirchin released the first new Piledriver material in nearly 20 years in with the demo tape Metal Manifesto , followed by 's studio album of the same name.
Piledriver played its first- ever live shows! The Exalted Piledriver's most recent release, a live disc from called Night of the Unpolished Turd , shows that they're still alive and kickin' and just as sick as ever. According to The Exalted Piledriver's official Facebook page, writing has begun on a new studio album, which will be entitled Humans Suck Sign in or sign up and post using a HubPages Network account.
Comments are not for promoting your articles or other sites. Thanks for the kind words n' corrections, Sir Piley! Tis an honor to have the High Priest of the Metal Inquisition himself stop by! I will make the appropriate edits ASAP!
Excellent article, thank you for the kind words, you warm my black heart! While I thought we got most of the iffies in check, there are a few that remain.. The Convict 'Go Ahead Make My Day' album was not written or conceived by Leslie and Louise. It was one Conrad Taylor who wrote and performed the studio tracks and I was brought in to sing on it. Most interestingly, the two tracks on Metal Inquisition that were balked at by the US distros weren't actually mere Convict leftovers.
WeaselDick the RecordWeasel had them recorded specifically to replace the offending ditties. Like no-one would notice the completely different writing and production. Also, you mentioned the PMRC hearings! Piledriver lyrics were read into American congressional record in those hearings by Rev. This to me was one of the highlights of all my Piledriver achievements, haha! And, yes, the High Priest of The Metal Inquisition still struts out the ugliness for fans of fun metal. We just yesterday got home from an epic tour of Brazil and boy are my spikes tired..
Thanks to The Exalted Piledriver himself, who provided some clarifications about the band's history via Facebook!! Hi Skipp - very cool, I found Piledriver's FB page recently and it looks like the band is playing some Euro metal festivals this summer.