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METAL CHURCH
line up: Howe (vocals)
Kurt Vanderhoof (guitar)
Craig Wells (guitar)
Duke Erickson (bass)
Kirk Arrington (drums)
Guitarplayer Kurt Vanderhoof, born by Dutch (!!) immigrants, founds in 1979 in
San Francisco his first band. Band members coma and go, and the bands Anvil
Chorus, Leviathan and Metal Church swap members like in a game of cards. When,
end of '82 Metal Church completely split up, Vanderhoof moves to Seattle, and
founds cover-band Shrapnel. When he finally has a good line up, With David
Wayne on vocals, and Wells, Erickson and Arrington, he renames the band again
into Metal Church and starts to play own songs. They record demo's and this
leads to a place on the compilation albums "Metal Massacre V" and "Northwest
Metalfest", both released in 1984. Later in the same year the small company
Ground Zero releases the debut album "Metal Church". This record is a smash
hit, and also thanks to their friends from Metallica, they get a contract with
Elektra. End of '85 this debut is remastered and the rest of the world can
enjoy Metal Church with their good compositions, tight playing and variation.
The band gets a big budget to record the second album, "No Exit", with even
better composition, but less real ups, and a bit more into speed metal. In a bi
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tour with Metallica they make worldwide a good impression. Rumours that David
Wayne has left the band (something he has done more than once, but he always
returned) are correct, when Mike Howe is presented as the new singer. Howe is
from Heretic and met Vanderhoof during recordings of the Heretic album
"Breaking Point", produced by Vanderhoof. He decides from now on only to
compose songs and produce albums. He's replaced by John Marshall, a previous
Metallica-roadie and member of the band Blind Illusion. In 1989 the third album
is released: "Blessing in Disguise"
albums: Metal Church (Ground Zero '84/Elektra '85)
No Exit (Elektra '86)
Blessing in Disguise (Elektra '89)
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