Guys, this is a compilation made in early 1980 by EMI company to promote the bands of the NWOBHM. Unfortunately and very strange, Saxon and Def Leppard were left aside, no one knows why...
Maiden had the honour of having two tracks here, Rod demanded that, one on each side. The tracks are Sanctuary and Wrathchild, very different versions of the ones feature on the albums. The Wrathchild song is in a much more slower tempo, but its great and has a fenomenal guitar solo, nowadays you can find this two tracks on the first Virus digipack Cd ( cat.nº: UK CDEM 443).
On the back sleeve we have some thoughts from Neal Kay about this album. Neal Kay was a very important figure in Maiden and NWOBHM history. In the Seventies and Early eighties, he was the Headmaster of the London rock club, the Bandwagon Soundhouse, and it was there that the Soundhouse Tapes ( in 1978 it hadn't yet that name, just in November1979 when the guys decided to release it they choose that name because it was there that the tape was first played),start to reach the metal fans hears.
There is also a Japanese pressing of this issue and a Cd released in 2000.
Some songs from the other bands are good, some are crap but you know...its a bit of history ain't ya?
Maiden had the honour of having two tracks here, Rod demanded that, one on each side. The tracks are Sanctuary and Wrathchild, very different versions of the ones feature on the albums. The Wrathchild song is in a much more slower tempo, but its great and has a fenomenal guitar solo, nowadays you can find this two tracks on the first Virus digipack Cd ( cat.nº: UK CDEM 443).
On the back sleeve we have some thoughts from Neal Kay about this album. Neal Kay was a very important figure in Maiden and NWOBHM history. In the Seventies and Early eighties, he was the Headmaster of the London rock club, the Bandwagon Soundhouse, and it was there that the Soundhouse Tapes ( in 1978 it hadn't yet that name, just in November1979 when the guys decided to release it they choose that name because it was there that the tape was first played),start to reach the metal fans hears.
There is also a Japanese pressing of this issue and a Cd released in 2000.
Some songs from the other bands are good, some are crap but you know...its a bit of history ain't ya?
Cat.nº: UK EMC 3318/ 0c 062-07202
