After a 6-year gap between LPs, it’s hard to deny the power Killswitch Engage can still create after 25 years via 'This Consequence.' ...
For Whitesnake, he only appeared on the US mix of their 1984 album Slide it In as well as the band’s 1987 album which is known by different names in different countries. He was also a member of NWOBHM ...
Eventually, he joined the Tygers of Pan Tang, an icon of the “New Wave of British Heavy Metal” era when bands like Iron Maiden came alive. This musical stint was also short-lived as he ...
Crushed.” Born in 1959, John Sykes picked up the guitar as a teen, and – after a stint in the band Streetfighter – was recruited by the “New Wave of British Heavy Metal” (NWOBHM ...
Sykes made a five-track demo with the band Badlands, then in 1980 he answered an ad to join another NWOBHM outfit, Tygers of Pan Tang, in time for their second album, Spellbound (1981).
The first band Metallica toured with have admitted that they didn’t think the metal juggernauts had a bright future ahead of them. John Gallagher of British metal veterans Raven, who headlined ...
After growing frustrated with the band, he quit Tygers and joined Thin ... “His work with Tygers of Pan Tang was by far my favourite of the NWOBHM [New Wave of British Heavy Metal].
John Sykes, guitarist with Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy who co-wrote the hit singles 'Still of the Night' and 'Is This Love,' has died. He was 65.
I can't help but sing these embarrassing nostalgic hit songs when they come on but only when no one else is around.
Before joining Thin Lizzy around 1982, Sykes played with Tygers of Pan Tang, part of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal movement that also included bands like Iron Maiden and Def Leppard.
Heavy metal heroes Dio’s classic albums will be packaged together in the massive 7LP box set 'The Complete Albums 1983-1993.' ...