Cutty Sark

Making use of their hilariously slapdash album covers and medieval macho-man musical mindset to complement, Germany’s obscure Cutty Sark gave better known steel warriors such as for example Manowar and Running Wild a operate for their profit terms of mid-1980’s “true steel” credibility, otherwise long-term success. A heading concern within the underground since as soon as 1976, the Bonn-based quartet of Conny Schmitt (vocals), Uwe Cossmann (electric guitar), Helge Meier (bass), and Micki Schmitt (drums) ultimately agreed upon with Belgium’s Mausoleum label in 1984 and quickly unleashed their descriptively called Hard Rock and roll Power E.P. and debut full-length Die Tonight. Both included elemental Euro-metal elements of your day, and would later on often become cited as early types of still germinating power metallic, but eventually lacked the songwriting maturity of all contemporaries. Hard attempting to the final, if nothing at all else, Cutty Sark still were able to squeak off another recording by means of 1985’s Heroes, but had been afterwards irretrievably dropped to rock memory — a short 1998 reunion (including fresh bassist Torsten Pitz for an recording known as Regeneration) notwithstanding.