Metal Music of South Africa

During in the early and mid-80s, there were ensembles such as Stretch, Lynx, Montreaux, Pentagon, Razor, Black Rose and Osiris. Then came the current breed of South African metal with an ensemble known as Ragnarok who were labeled as South African’s Metallic and it is the only ensemble during that time to have a cult following. They established in South Johannesburg in the year 1986 playing covers during a short period while and later they moved to the original music only. Throughout the late 80s and the early 90s, South Africa increased a well-known metal scene, marked by the release of the Johanns4burg based Odysseys’ self-titled album in the year 1991. There was an increase within the punk/metal scene in the main centers, especially encouraged on by Cape Town’s Voice of Destruction and Johannesburg based Urban Assault in the most extreme 80s. Johannesburg established a great metal scene in the year 1992 with emerging grindcore/death act Retribution Denied, Boksburg based macabre/death metal act Debauchery accompanied by Pretoria doom metal ensemble Funeral, Christian metal act Abhorrence strictly followed by Insurrection, Metamorphosis Sacrifice and Agro the latter two acts of whom still perform now. The Cape Town metal scene was very high during the mid-90s driven vastly by Pothile and Sacraphyx. Pothole would release two critically commended albums on South African’s extreme popular punk/metal label, Way-Cool Records and their album known as Force Fed Hatred is still top selling South African metal album still now. While many of the acts failed   to find commercial achievement in terms of CD sales, there was a devout following nationally and indigenous metal ensembles later opened the national travelling tour to a higher range than most other genre. It also interested international musicians to circuit the country most immediately after the passing of apartheid, with some of the extreme renowned international musicians having considered fit to visit the country since.

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