Artist: Nitro: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Folk: Moldavian and Romanian Metal Other Discography: Minus Year: 2007 Tracks: 8 Un baiat, o fata Year: 2002 Tracks: 2 Gunnin' For Glory Year: 1999 Tracks: 10 II Year: 1991 Tracks: 11 O.F.R. Year: 1989 Tracks: 9 Heavy metal outfit Nitro boasted "the fastest, loudest, highest wakeless about" -- frontman Jim Gillette's chief claim to renown was his office to attain a scream so high-pitched and sharp that it literally tattered the imported crystal wine goblets he carried onstage for each execution. Gillette commencement met guitar musician Michael Angelo at a beach political party, and they presently collaborated on the former's 1987 solo album, Proud to Be Loud. While the isaac Bashevis Singer was already known in metal circles for his instructional video recording serial, Jim Gillette's Metal Power, Angelo was far-famed for inventing the Double V-Neck guitar, and in Nitro he pushed the construct to its garbled uttermost with the Quad Guitar X-400, an ax with four necks in an X formation, each featuring seven string section. Gillette and Angelo formally formed Nitro in 1988; bassist T.J. Racer was ascertained via unmatched of Gillette's instructional courses, spell drummer Bobby Rock was best known for his stint in the Vinnie Vincent Invasion. The band's debut LP, O.F.R., followed in 1989. In big part a showcase for Gillette's all over the crest vocal artistry, the album featured the singer holding a 32-second screeching and reach an amplifier-exploding soprano high D note. Shortly after its release, Rock left the group and Nitro toured with drummer K.C. Comet. Only Gillette and Angelo remained by the prison term of the follow-up, 1991's H.W.D.W.S. (Hot, Wet, Dripping With Sweat), which featured Ralph Carter on sea bass and Johnny Thunder on drums. The dance band dissolved presently after, with Gillette subsequently marrying alloy queen Lita Ford. The Nitro demonstration assembling Gunnin' for Glory appeared in 1999. |