Warlock β True as Steel
- intothewellsabyss
- Aug 21, 2023
- 2 min read
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August 21, 1986 β Warlock released their third studio album, True as Steel via Mercury/Polygram Records in the US (Phonogram/Vertigo Records in Europe). (Listen)
The EP Fight for Rock, which contained many songs from this album, was Warlock's first success outside of Europe, charting on the US Billboard Hot 100; the music video for the song Fight for Rock was aired on MTV's HeadBangers Ball.
Background:
In late 1985, after the tour for Hellbound, guitarist Rudy Graf left the band and was replaced by Niko Arvanitis, a former bandmate of Frank Rittel in Stormwind.
This updated line-up recorded the album True as Steel in MayβJune 1986, produced again by Henry Staroste and mixed in the US by Michael Wagener.
The album received mixed reviews, but was Warlock's highest-charting in Germany, climbing up to No. 18, and got a fair amount of radio airplay in the US, due to the single Fight for Rock.
The band's first music video was made for Fight for Rock, which appeared on MTV. (Watch video)
Touring for True as Steel:
On August 16, 1986, Doro Pesch was the first woman to front a band at the Monsters Of Rock festival at Castle Donington, England, where Warlock played on the same stage of MotΓΆrhead, Def Leppard, Ozzy Osbourne and Scorpions.
Warlock also opened the Monsters of Rock festival at the MaimarktgegelΓ€nde Eisstadion in Mannheim, West Germany, with a roster similar to the British show and the addition of McAuley Schenker Group and Bon Jovi.
1986 and 1987 were spent on a tour which included UK dates supporting W.A.S.P., and European dates supporting Metal Gods Judas Priest, during their 'Fuel for Life' tour.
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