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Part 4: Turning Rock Into Metal

10.12.2020

We kept rehearsing in my parents’ garage, and I came up with some new songs, but the guys weren’t happy with them. Too much rock. Not enough metal. The stuff I wrote just wasn’t tough enough to separate us from the hair metal (that wasn’t yet called hair metal) scene. “Rock the Crowd? Why Rock … More Part 4: Turning Rock Into Metal

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Part 3: It’s Alive

10.12.2020

In May 1989 we got a chance to play our first gig. The local live music association Sessio had this idea of bringing back something they called “school parties”. It meant a bunch of local bands playing in a school gym hall. The party we played at ended up being the first and the last … More Part 3: It’s Alive

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Part 2: Scorched by the Fire

10.12.2020

Danger Zone split up before we got to play any gigs, but we weren’t to be stopped. Assu got his first drum set (he had to shovel a lot of snow before his dad agreed to buy it), and in early 1989 I convinced my long-suffering parents to let us rehearse in our garage. We … More Part 2: Scorched by the Fire

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Part 1: Through Danger Zone

10.12.2020

SHORT STORY LONG: ARCHED FIRE 1989-1990 It was such a long time ago. But I do remember. Tiny steps for mankind, giant leaps for us. “You know, in a year or so, we’ll have a great band”, Assu assured me. It was late 1988 or early 1989, and the weather was freezing, and we were … More Part 1: Through Danger Zone

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