Heavy Heavy Metal! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Conrad Lant

Jeffrey is Venom's Mantas, Thomas is Sodom's Angelripper and Terrence is Geezer Butler.

Answer: "The Damned" (Plasmatics)

I wish they'd done all four, all great bands and great songs. "New Rose" is often cited as the first punk record, Poison Idea did a great version of it. Feederz were an abrasive bunch of loony leftists. G.B.H. are punk, but easy on the metal ears.

Answer: Tank

Tank's Algy Ward played bass and sang. Exciter fall into three of my favourite categories, i.e. singing drummers, Canadian metal, and bands named after Priest songs. Zoetrope are the dog's bollocks.

Answer: Nasty Savage

Nasty Ronny was proper mental. Savage Grace tried to wrestle with the lasses on their album covers. Detente's Dawn Crosby wrestled too, mostly with the bottle. Great metal legend, R.I.P.

Answer: Entombed

Entombed are from Sweden.

Answer: Sword

Great album, totally ignored at the time and since. Needs a rerelease. The false answers are nothing to sniff at either.

Answer: Tom Araya

Lemmy sang "Thirsty And Miserable", Mike Patton "Six Pack" and Biff stayed at home with a champion cup o' chai.

Answer: A German Green Party badge

Apparently, one of them got the badge whilst on tour in Germany with a previous band (Moral Fibre). Their line-ups are too hard to follow, Tony Demolition Man had the tough job of replacing Cronos in Venom for a bit, but is now back in the fold. Cracking name, great albums, good live band, criminally ignored.

Answer: The Prodigy

I read he says it was awful. Must have got a few quid at last though. Gizz then formed great melodic thrash act Wardance, and is now in Sabbat, playing bass. Proper journeyman.

Answer: Nancy Sinatra

Cracking version of "These Boots Were Made For Walking", although Nancy's version is raunchier.

Answer: Flotsam & Jetsam

Metallica famously covered lots of tunes, Overkill did Frankenstein, Sonic Reducer... Should have done "Ballroom Blitz". The great Flotsam cover can be found on "No Place For Disgrace", if you can find it, or as a single, that you won't find.

Answer: Slayer

They shared members with both Abattoir and Savage Grace, and rumour has it that John "mad as a box of frogs" Cyriis tried out for Megadeth around 1985. Nobody seems to know where he's ended up, or where he came from for that matter.

Answer: Pentagram

It took Cirith Ungol eight years to release "Frost And Fire", it took 21 years to get a Hell album, and Hellhamer never released an album. Hell were together for only eight of the 21 years, whereas Pentagram were together for 11 of the 14.

Answer: Samhain

Rudimentary Peni are one of the most intriguing bands to come out of punk. There have been a few Fear Of Gods, a blinding Swiss grindcore band, and Detente heroine Dawn Crosby also fonted an act of that name. Terrorain were an obscure UKHC band, well worth digging for. Samhain were post- Misfits Goth/Horror punks.

Answer: Unreleleased 1985 Album

Uninspired title, essential listening. Unknown Soldier, Master and Funeral Bitch (also an early name for the same-ish band) were Master songs. Their debut was called Master. Underground legends. Last heard of in the Czech Republic.