List of biker metal bands explained

This is a list of biker metal bands. Biker metal is a fusion genre of punk rock, heavy metal, rock and roll, and blues.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Flash Metal Suicide: The Almighty . Grinder . Sleaze . . 23 September 2018 . Otherwise, it's state of the art biker metal, right down to the ridiculous hollow-drum production..
  2. Book: Smith, E.R. . Extreme Metal: The Story of Punk and Metal's Interwoven History .
  3. Web site: TSOL and Anti-Nowhere League – The Observatory – May 16, 2014 . DISTEFANO . ALEX. May 16, 2014 . .
  4. Web site: 25 Most Anticipated Metal Albums of 2016 . BIENSTOCK . RICHARD . . 23 September 2018 . Former Ozzy Osbourne guitar man Zakk Wylde spends most of his time these days churning out doomy biker metal with Black Label Society.
  5. Ozzfest 2002 . .
  6. Web site: Dome . Malcolm . Orange Goblin/Karma To Burn/Black Moth at Electric Ballroom, London live review . . 23 September 2018.
  7. Rivadavia . Eduardo . Chrome Division .
  8. Book: McIver, Joel . Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
  9. Web site: Girlschool - Nightmare At Maple Cross / Take A Bite album review . Beaumont . Mark . 5 August 2016 . . 23 September 2018 . Failing to graduate alongside contemporaries Motörhead and Maiden, come 1986 they went looking for rejuvenation in their biker metal roots..
  10. Web site: Cult Heroes: The Godz - the crazed story of America's great lost biker band . Grinder . Sleaze . 9 December 2016 . . 23 September 2018 . After writing a fistful of screeching biker metal anthems, the band hit the road..
  11. Web site: RYAN MCCAFFREY'S TOP 50 GAMES OF ALL TIME . MCCAFFREY . RYAN . . 23 September 2018 . Its mix of a dystopian Western setting, Schafer's brilliant writing, gorgeous art direction, a stellar biker-metal soundtrack by The Gone Jackals that was so good I bought the album, and a remarkable voice cast (including a hell of a turn by Mark Hamill as the villainous Adrian Ripburger) made for an unforgettable ride that I still fire up every year or so.
  12. Web site: Yardley . Miranda . BAND OF THE DAY: BIKER DOOM LORDS EARTHRIDE . . 24 August 2010 . 23 September 2018.
  13. Web site: The Sound Of Impact: Noise Rock In 1986 . Gardner . Noel . 2016 . . 23 September 2018 . Which maybe means that it's High Rise who don't belong here... nah, this is zero parallel sense-strafing rock & roll demolition and it deserves to be blasted from every conceivable platform. They used to go by the name Psychedelic Speed Freaks (keeping it for their record label) and it's hard to put it better than that: freeform biker metal blaze with half-submerged vocals and no real beginning or end..
  14. Web site: Flash Metal Suicide: Steve Jones . Grinder . Sleaze . 7 March 2016 . . 23 September 2018 . So naturally, Jones wanted to keep the motor revving. And as we rolled into the last gasp of the 80s, biker metal was where it was at. COP, Warrior Soul, Zodiac Mindwarp, Spread Eagle, Horse London, Two Bit Thief, The Cult, Four Horsemen, I mean, everybody had long hair and dangling earrings and black biker boots and snorted whiskey and guzzled gasoline in '89. Biker metal was glam metal gone Mad Max, basically, and 1989 was truly the Year of Manly Living..
  15. Web site: "Spin" Goes Back To Beck . . 23 September 2018 . Then he read the text, and learned that Kath used to be known as Ethan Deth, bassist for the biker-metal band Kill Cheerleader..
  16. Web site: The 21 Best Heavy Metal Albums of 2013 . WISE . LAUREN . . 23 September 2018 . Georgia's pretty damn good at producing great stoner sludge metal: In addition to Mastodon and Baroness there's Kylesa, who fuses basement punk and biker metal on Ultraviolet..
  17. Web site: McIntyre . Ken . Almost Famous: Five brilliant 90s bands who shoulda been huge. But weren't. . . 23 September 2018.
  18. Web site: How Metallica Could Have Saved "Load" and "Reload" . Plowman . Alec . . 23 September 2018 . The albums weren't thrash, but the greasy biker-metal sound the band mostly went for wasn't a complete sonic deviation either..
  19. Web site: 20 YEARS AGO: METALLICA LOCK AND 'RELOAD' . WIEDERHORN . JON . 2017 . . 23 September 2018 . Reload, by contrast, was more experimental, blending biker metal, southern rock and unconventional arrangements into a bracing batch of songs that were familiar, but refreshingly adventurous..
  20. Web site: Law . Sam . SIX THINGS WE LEARNED AT DESERTFEST 2018 . . 23 September 2018.
  21. Book: Berelian, Essi . 2005 . The Rough Guide to Heavy Metal . . 203 .
  22. Book: Popoff, Martin . 2017 . Speed Metal . Martin Popoff.
  23. Book: Jones, Martin . Lover, Buggers, and Thieves . Headpress . 63 .
  24. News: Pehling . Dave . British Metal Heroes Saxon Headline Cornerstone In Berkeley . 15 April 2018 . Gritty anthems like "Princess of the Night," "Denim and Leather" and "Wheels of Steel" established the band's biker-metal aesthetic . . 9 January 2023.
  25. Web site: The Hair Metal 100: Ranking the '80s Greatest Glam Bands, Part 2 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220819013107/https://www.vh1.com/news/g7xhgb/hair-metal-100-part-2 . live . August 19, 2022 . . 23 September 2018 . One of glam's most fascinating misfires, the diabolically decadent Sea Hags soared up out of pre-grunge Seattle and landed in thrash-era San Francisco, where they won fans with an especially sleaze-basted take on biker metal.
  26. Web site: Flash Metal Suicide: Steve Jones . Grinder . Sleaze . 7 March 2016 . . 23 September 2018 . So naturally, Jones wanted to keep the motor revving. And as we rolled into the last gasp of the 80s, biker metal was where it was at. COP, Warrior Soul, Zodiac Mindwarp, Spread Eagle, Horse London, Two Bit Thief, The Cult, Four Horsemen, I mean, everybody had long hair and dangling earrings and black biker boots and snorted whiskey and guzzled gasoline in '89. Biker metal was glam metal gone Mad Max, basically, and 1989 was truly the Year of Manly Living..
  27. Book: Jones, Jones . Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol . .
  28. Web site: Hard Reviews by Martin Popoff . Popoff . Martin . Martin Popoff . 23 September 2018 . First up, Tank's This Means War combined a scampered biker metal with epic war tales, sorta like Motorhead crossed with Maiden..
  29. Web site: CHROME DIVISION - DOOMSDAY ROCK 'N ROLL . Popoff . Martin . Martin Popoff . 24 July 2006 . . 23 September 2018 . The theme is biker metal, along the lines of Motorhead and Tank meets Turbonegro.
  30. Popoff . Martin . Martin Popoff. The top 25 NWOBHM records . Goldmine. 23 September 2018 .
  31. Web site: Flash Metal Suicide: Steve Jones . Grinder . Sleaze . 7 March 2016 . . 23 September 2018 . So naturally, Jones wanted to keep the motor revving. And as we rolled into the last gasp of the 80s, biker metal was where it was at. COP, Warrior Soul, Zodiac Mindwarp, Spread Eagle, Horse London, Two Bit Thief, The Cult, Four Horsemen, I mean, everybody had long hair and dangling earrings and black biker boots and snorted whiskey and guzzled gasoline in '89. Biker metal was glam metal gone Mad Max, basically, and 1989 was truly the Year of Manly Living..

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