Manilla Road
Manilla Road is an American epic metal band from Wichita ( Kansas).
History
The band was founded in 1977 in the town of Wichita in the State of Kansas by the musicians Mark " The Shark" Shelton, Robert Park, Scott "Scooter" Park and Ben Munkirs.
Although the band is quite important for the Epic Metal, has even co-founded the term, it is almost exclusively to insiders, the metal scene known. Their album Crystal Logic can clearly be described as a milestone of the genre and is called by many bands over and over again as a reference.
The 1992 album The Circus Maximus was actually a side project of Mark Shelton, but was of the damaligem record label Black Dragon Records falsely under the name Manilla Road published in order to increase sales.
After the band broke up in 1990, there was a reunion in 2001 by Mark Shelton with new musicians.