Griffin

   
Artist: Griffin

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Wasteland Serenades

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11

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A San Francisco band with ties to the local thrash scene, only whose additional influences from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (read: Iron Maiden) and all mode of curious time signatures predated future eccentrics like the Lord Weird Slough Feg and Hammers of Misfortune, Griffin recorded two independent albums in the mid-'80s that have since become cult collector's items. Founded in 1982, the band honed its sinful good o'er the class of 2 demos before sign language with the Shrapnel label for the release of 1984's Escape of the Griffin, which featured the lineup of William McKay (vocals), Rick Cooper (guitar), Rick Wagner (drums), Thomas Sprayberry (bass), and Mike Jastremski (guitar). The latter mate would be gone (Jastremski having dependent up with thrashers Heathen) by the prison term of 1986's Protectors of the Lair, which besides proved to be Griffin's cast song.





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