Meanstreak

Mostly of the all-female thrash metallic rings on record, Westchester Region, NY’s Meanstreak were formed in 1985 by guitarists Marlene Apuzzo and Rena Sands, who also along with potential bandmates Bettina France (vocals), Lisa Speed (bass), and Diane Keyser (drums) struck a blow contrary to the traditionally “manufactured” condition of girl organizations by placing songwriting and musicianship before commercial dreams. This rare mixture of skill and integrity would help property the quintet using the effective Loud and Happy organization, which at that time also handled the professions of established rings like White colored Lion, Overkill, and Tyketto, and setup Meanstreak with great local gigs, starting for rings like Manowar, Zebra, and Anthrax. In credited period, these on-stage encounters naturally educated the band’s intense however melodic and usually technically accomplished make of thrash, in order that when Meanstreak released their debut recording, Roadkill, in 1988, through Mercenary Information, it showcased an exceptionally confident and qualified heavy metal music group. Regrettably, the record non-etheless failed to stick out from the a large number of thrash produces crowding record shops in the past due ’80s, and despite quickly changing departed drummer Keyser with Yael Devan in order to stay from the street, Meanstreak gradually dropped both their momentum and their once effective backers, ultimately winding down their actions by the first ’90s, when two individual demos didn’t garner record label curiosity. In the long run, Meanstreak’s brief profession — though therefore promising in the first place — became something of the footnote in the higher scheme of metallic history; the potential of three from the band’s music artists continued to be intertwined by the most beautiful of coincidences, since Marlene Apuzzo, Rena Sands, and Lisa Speed all continued to marry users of progressive metallic giants Dream Theatre: drummer Mike Portnoy, guitarist John Petrucci, and bassist John Myung, respectively.