Heathen!

What's happening with their new album?! Demo 2005 was incredible!

Here's an old video for Save the Skull (87): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GPQom_HyGA

Heathen rules!

one of my faves from the Bay Area days. they shouldve been alot more popular than they were, man did they have some killer riffs!!

As I just posted on another thread.
a way overlooked band.
Vtictims of deception stands with anything the 'Big 4' did.
It is full of thrash/mosh riffs. Love it.
Similar in vibe to Weapons of our warfare in that, they are not always the greatest songs but the riffs compel me to stomp around in a circle:D

Yeah, the demo they put out in 2005 was awesome!

FINALLY!!!!!!



Veteran San Francisco Bay Area thrashers HEATHEN
are tentatively scheduled to ener the studio in October/November 2007
to begin recording their new album. The as-yet-untitled effort is
expected to be released in March 2008 via Holland's Mascot Records.




As many fans will recall, HEATHEN were one of the most unique bands
to rise from the Bay Area thrash explosion of the '80s/'90s, having
released a groundbreaking debut album, "Breaking the Silence", in 1987
went on to sell close to 100,000 copies worldwide.





Reborn six years ago, the band are now looking to rise up once more and reclaim the throne of thrash metal.




HEATHEN's entire 2005 demo is available for free download at this
location. The tracks featured on the demo are "Empty Nothingness",
"Dying Season" and "Arrows of Agony".




HEATHEN released their latest CD, "Recovered", independently in the
spring of 2004. The effort featured covers of songs from QUEEN, THIN
LIZZY, TYGERS OF PAN TANG and SWEET SAVAGE, as well as an original
track, "In Memory of…" (written and dedicated to former band member
Randy Laird and singer David White's brother Jeffrey).

looking forward to the new one.

stepcousin wrote:

one of my faves from the Bay Area days. they shouldve been alot more popular than they were, man did they have some killer riffs!!

I lived in the Bay Area during that mad 80's thrash metal rush and I think what did 'em in along with bands like Exodus, Testament, Death Angel and the like is that because the mad rush to sign the next 'Metallica', 'Anthrax' so on and so forth, was that the market became too saturated... too many choices too fast.

The same thing happened with the whole 'hair metal' explosion.... You had "Poison", "Bon Jovi", "Ratt" so on and it just became too much... too quick and the eventually the bands that had the chops just got burried with the garbage bands too. {who remembers Shotgun Messiah, The Bullet boys, Bang Tango.... just to through some names out...)

Some of the newer signees did ok Testament, Exodus comes to mind, but what about Heathen, Forbidden, Vio-lence.... for those in the know they were accepted but not on the larger scale as the others....

I used to love heathen back in my thrashin' days(circa 1988-94)!