Neat Records
Neat Records (later also: Neat Metal ) was an independent record label based in Newcastle, UK. The label was founded in 1979 by David Wood. The label was sold in 1995 by its then owner, the former Tygers of Pan - Tang vocalist Jess Cox, on Sanctuary Records.
Label history
In 1979, David Wood, the label Neat Records. Initially it was planned to set up a second label called Tidy, a two- character ( "pretty" and " clean " ), the idea was rejected. The first two releases were the singles All I Wanna Be Is Your Romeo by Motorway and One and Only Girl by Janie McKenzie. Fairly quickly, thanks mainly to Tygers of Pan Tang, the label has become a pure metal label, the first two singles were exceptional. With Raven, Satan and Jaguar, the group had some locate attractive behalf of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal at the start. The band Venom, whose member Conrad " Cronos " Lant was working for Neat Records, many of today's known New Wave of British Heavy - Metal bands discovered at concerts and his band procured a contract with Neat Records, should also " the search for more brutality really get the ball rolling "and as thrash and black metal pioneer to one of the most influential groups of Metal.
1987 returned Tygers of Pan - Tang singer Jess Cox returned to Newcastle to perform in the course of his work as a music journalist an interview with the new owner of Neat Records. He remained, first as a press agent, then as a partner. His first publications were two to unpublished Sweet Savage and Blitzkrieg albums, and an album of Lants solo project Cronos. For this he invented the label Neat Metal. Between 1995 and 2001, Cox brought about 40 new albums from old bands, including Savage and the Holocaust, as well as new groups such as Marshall Law out. His second label, metal label Edgy, but became more and more priority so that he decided in 1995, Neat Metal on Sanctuary Records cede.
Importance
The label is well known for the early releases of the band Venom from Newcastle, had a significant impact on the emergence of more extreme Metal - currents, and numerous classics of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. While none of the bands of Neat Records recorded mainstream successes were mainly Venom, Raven, Blitzkrieg, Holocaust and Jaguar important influences for a number of major U.S. thrash metal bands like Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax. In particular, Metallica took some cover versions of various Neat Records bands (lightning war, Holocaust, Sweet Savage ) on their EP Garage Days Re - Revisited, the album Garage Inc., and various singles.
Bands (selection)
- Blitzkrieg
- Geordie
- Holocaust
- Jaguar
- Raven
- Sweet Savage
- Tygers of Pan Tang
- White Spirit
- Wishbone Ash
- Venom