Episode 41 - 1986 (ft. Baby Tuckoo, Queensryche & Loudness)

In this episode of the Enter Sadmen podcast the lads are travelling back to explore another year from hard rock and heavy metal's golden era of 1970 to 1995. This time, they're slap bang in the mid-80s - they year Bon Jovi's hair exploded and you weren't anyone unless you had a keyboard player in the band.

 

First up was Baby Tuckoo, a blink-and-you'll-miss-'em melodic hard rock band out of Bradford with their second - and. as it turned out, final outing Force Majeure. Lead singer Rob Armitage would briefly join German metallers Accept, but their two-album tilt at the big time left the world with some superior tunes that should have been bigger than they were.

Next up, Seattle's other prodigal son Queensryche who followed up their debut album The Warning with Rage For Order, the record that would essentially lay down the marker for both sound and partiality to a concept album.

 

And rounding off the episode, a jaunt to the Land of the Rising Sun and the gazillionth album from the mighty Loudness - this time launching their own bid for superstardom with the Max Norman-produced Lightning Strikes.