Shotgun Messiah - Shotgun Messiah (1989) (Divebomb Records Remastered 2015)

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Shotgun Messiah - Shotgun Messiah (1989) (Divebomb Records Remastered 2015)

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Shotgun Messiah - Shotgun Messiah (1989) (Divebomb Records Remastered 2015)

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Year : 1989 (Divebomb Records Remastered 2015)
Style : Glam Hard Rock
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + scans + Videos
Size : 139 mb


Bio:

Shotgun Messiah were a glam metal band originally from Sweden; they crossed over to industrial rock music during the early 1990s. In 2012, Zinny J. Zan and Stixx reunited as Shotgun to celebrate Shotgun Messiah's legacy.Sweden Rock Magazine has named Shotgun Messiah #38 on their "The Best Rock Bands Of Sweden Ever" list.The band originally went under the name "Kingpin" while in Sweden, recording the album Welcome To Bop City; the line-up featured Zinny J. Zan (vocals), Tim Skold (going by "Tim Tim") (bass), Harry K. Cody (guitar) and Pekka "Stixx Galore" (later simply "Stixx") Ollinen (drums). This would become the original line-up of Shotgun Messiah as the band changed their name and relocated to Hollywood, California. The album they released under the "Kingpin" name was re-recorded and released as Shotgun Messiah's self-titled debut album, Shotgun Messiah. The style of this album was glam metal typical of early 1980s American bands such as Mötley Crüe and Ratt.Frontman Zinny J. Zan departed the band in 1990 leaving Tim Skold to take over vocal duties; Shotgun Messiah drafted in American bassist, Bobby Lycon, to fill Skold's former position. In 1991, the band's follow up album Second Coming was released, spawning their most famous hit "Heartbreak Blvd". Stylistically, due to Skold's less conventional singing style, this era saw the band playing sleaze glam-styled hard rock, closer to Guns N' Roses and Faster Pussycat than their previous effort.A punk rock influence is also notable during this period. The band released I Want More, an EP featuring cover versions of songs by the Ramones, The Stooges and the New York Dolls; they were also known to cover the Sex Pistols live.1993 was the final year for the band; Harry K. Cody and Tim Skold were left as the only members of Shotgun Messiah and created what would be the last Shotgun Messiah album Violent New Breed. This album is significantly different from the previous efforts as it focused heavily on industrial rock stylings, bringing in live players for the "Violent New Breed" tour. Soon after the tour, the band split permanently citing artistic differences as the reason.After Shotgun Messiah, Tim Skold's acitivies have been the most notable. Building on the industrial rock of the band's last album, Violent New Breed, he released a solo album entitled Skold; this was followed by joining bands such as KMFDM, MDFMK and The Newlydeads. From 2002 to 2008, Skold joined the band Marilyn Manson creating two albums; he also replaced Twiggy Ramirez as the tour bassist and later became the tour guitarist. His latest release is a collaboration with KMFDM entitled Skold vs. KMFDM. Tim Skold stated in an interview that a Shotgun Messiah reunion is "very, very unlikely to happen."Harry Cody went on to form the band Coma with Saigon Kick singer Matt Kramer but the project was short-lived. In 1996, he teamed up with Rhino Bucket singer Georg Dolvio to make Das Cabal but the band only made it as far as to record a 3-track demo only to split up later because, according to Dolvio in an interview, Cody didn't want to play live. Cody later put together a 6-track demo called Stark and tried submitting it to various record labels but to little results. Recently, Cody has been collaborating with Tom Waits and appearing on his most recent albums Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards and Real Gone performing guitar and banjo.Zinny J. Zan has released a solo album and two albums with his new band "Zan Clan".Zinny J. Zan and Stixx reunited in 2012 referring to themselves as Shotgun to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Welcome to Bop City, the original debut album from the bands first incarnation as Kingpin before changing their name to Shotgun Messiah. They have also assembled Rob Marcello and Chris Laney to the line-up. Shotgun Line-up Zinny J. Zan - Vocals Rob Marcello - Guitar backing vocals Chris Laney - Bass backing vocals Stixx - Drums backing vocals.

Album:

Eighties hard rock fans know the name SHOTGUN MESSIAH very well. The Swedish combo delivered two awesome albums of hook-filled sleaze ’n’ roll with 1989’s delf-titled Shotgun Messiah and 1991’s Second Coming.Divebomb Records is the label that finally did it: they are presenting Deluxe Remastered reissues of both albums. The original tapes have been remastered by Jamie King at The Basement Studios, and feature expanded liner notes, including essays on Shotgun Messiah’s journey from Scandinavian rising stars to Sunset Strip heroes.If that weren’t already enough, the reissues also include newly unearthed photos, plus archival features from Kerrang! and Metal Forces magazines.Shotgun Messiah may never have become a household name, but they garnered a 'cult' audience (count me in) and copies of their long-out-of-print CDs have become hard-to-find, often-pricey collectibles on the secondary market over the years.These reissues mark the first time both Shotgun Messiah and Second Coming have been available at music retailers since the ‘90s. And of course remastered for the first time.SHOTGUN MESSIAH's self-titled debut is a blast. This is what I call a badass rockin' band.The band originally formed in Sweden in 1985 as 'Kingpin' - an outrageously over-the-top glam-to-the-max act whose neon-colored stage costumes (and unintentionally hilarious band photos) completely overshadowed the music on their debut album, Welcome to Bop City - which was released on a tiny Swedish label in 1988.The album was mostly ignored in their homeland, where clean-cut melodic rock acts like Europe were ruling the roost... so Kingpin decided to head to America and try their sleazy luck in Los Angeles - the Glam Metal capital of the world at the time.After a trans-Atlantic flight, a name change (there was already a band using the Kingpin name in L.A.) and a much-needed image makeover - more black leather and denim, way less neon - the newly christened Shotgun Messiah signed a deal with Relativity Records, a well established indie label signed to its Combat Records imprint.Welcome to Bop City was remixed, repackaged, and re-released worldwide as Shotgun Messiah's self-titled debut album in 1989."Shotgun Messiah" is sleaze glam hard rock, there’s no question of that. But amongst the screeches and tired entendres, there are glimpses of other influences.Released in 1989, it starts off with the very Motley Crue-esque “Bop City,” which has guitars so hooky as to differentiate them from all the other bands of the era.And this is the Ace of Spades of Shotgun Messiah: guitarist Harry Cody. The guy delivered a terrific set of riffs,licks and solos with a killerrrr sound that even put George Lynch into shame.“Don’ Care About Nothin’” is a similar follow-up, but “Shout It Out” is the first song where there’s something a little different going on than the usual Californian hard rock. With rapid-fire lyrics and hoodrat attitude, the song is broken,body-moving, and catchy.“Squeazin’ Teasin” comes next, and on this track is where you can really see Zinny J. Zan’s vocal range - because he does have a vocal range, and is able to move Faster Pussycat screeches to a lower Cult-growl.On “Dirt Talk,” for example, again sounds like a completely different singer from the rest of the album. Now we edge into L.A. Guns territory.“Nowhere Fast” is a personal favorite. A kick ass hair metal sleazy stomper with a razor riff, swirling lead guitar and a 'monsta', simple but tremendously effective chorus.Shotgun Messiah is, basically a best of the ‘80s Los Angeles hair metal scene as imagined by a band 6000 miles away in Scandinavia.The album ends with “I’m Your Love” and “Nervous.” While the former has a nastier edge, complete with a Marq Torien whine (that is, best of ‘80s LA hair metal), the latter is what a Runaways/Scorpions lovechild would sound like. Angry punky kid chorus chants with a soulful bridge. Probably wouldn’t be the most attractive child (that’s what we’d call 'a face made for radio'), but a good listen at any rate.In fact, that’s Shotgun Messiah in a nutshell; not so easy on the eyes, but great personalities all around!Shotgun Messiah debut wasn't a smash in the U.S., but it performed respectably enough thanks to a pair of flashy music videos for "Don't Care 'Bout Nothin'" and "Shout It Out," which got play on MTV's 'Headbanger's Ball' and helped the album achieve a peak position of #99 on the Billboard charts.However, before they could celebrate their newfound success, vocalist Zinny J. Zan abruptly announced that he was quitting the band and heading back to Sweden.Without missing a beat, bassist Tim Skold promptly stepped up to take over the frontman position, and Shotgun Messiah came back with a vengeance on album number two: the Hard Rock masterpiece 1991's 'Second Coming'."Shotgun Messiah" (and 'Second Coming' to be featured here soon) are essential albums to understand the evolution of '80s hard rock / glam / sleaze in years to come. Both albums influenced tons of bands (Crashdiet would not have existed without Shotgun Messiah), and defined a particular sound in the L.A. scene.I have both albums in its original editions (a treasure) and this Remastered Reissues have improved the original sound updated to modern times 2015.

Line Up:

Zinny J. Zan - vocals
Harry Cody - guitar
Tim Tim - bass
Stixx - drums

Tracklist:

01. Bop City
02. Don't Care 'Bout Nothin'
03. Shout it Out
04. Sqeezin' Teazin'
05. The Explorer
06. Nowhere Fast
07. Dirt Talk
08. I'm Your Love
09. Nervous
10. Hidden track

+ Video "Don't Care 'Bout Nothin" (Official Video)
+ Video "Shout It Out" (Official Video)



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