Rock and Heavy Metal Music of Cyprus: the First Era from 1970s to 1990s

The history of the Cyprus rock and heavy metal music starts a few years after the war of 1974, which is during the late 1970s; in that era it is known as the first rock era of Cyprus. One of the initiator of the rock/metal scene in the Cyprus is the group that is known as Kimstyle TR (TR which stand for Teenage Revolution), this group was the first to bring and introduce the live shows of the rock to the Island. The group’s first pop/rock single was known as the Lady and the Parrot that was so ahead of its era for the standard of the Greece and Cyprus, which the song were found offensive, therefore, this was stopped by the CyBCTV and the copies of the single were burnt by the customs officials. This laid several teenagers to begin forming groups and that brought the competitions amongst them in the movie theatres. Kimstyle and Kim Nicolaou’s rock and reggae show for the first of its kind broadcast by the CyBC, who later was influenced by the group Armageddon in the mid-1980’s, with their traditional heavy metal sound  that was considered to have taken rock music on the Island on one step further. The longest running group was traced, they have managed to be identical to the Cyprus metal scene throughout the years, with a quality launches and a few visits abroad. The recent, they have moved more into the progressive side of the metal.

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In the early 1900s, the God blood began in the local black metal scene that acted the first in the school band, and continue with their small record label that is known as the Throne Productions, they have parted and only some of them can recall some of the shows they had in Cyprus with the group from Greek scene such as Rotting Christ which is an international festival in Israel in the late 1990s. There was also a couple of active Thrash metal groups during that period which give the great live shows like Regicide (which is supported by the Epidemic) and then Scotoma.