HELL ON WHEELS TOUR 1987 – That’s it at the top! That’s my Hell On Wheels Tour 1987 cassette! This (now historical) tour featured: Grim Reaper, Armored Saint and Helloween. Whoa! As you can see, this cassette was a free sampler!. I obtained this old school Metal cassette sometime last Winter, at a thrift store. I paid a ridiculous price of 50 cents (U.S.) for this very cool cassette too. Yes, it plays just fine!
This tour was sponsored by MTV Headbangers Ball; yet there is no print or logo stating this on the cassette. The inside of the cassette jacket is blank. Notice the crack on the cassette tape box? That’s old school man!
Back in 1987, the Hell On Wheels Tour did not pass through the state I was living in; that being the very expensive state of Connecticut. Can’t see ’em all, I guess. Still, it super sucks I never saw this tour.
Here is what the spine of this cassette looks like:
Hell On Wheels Tour 1987 – Track Listing:
Side One:
Hell On Wheels Medley – Rock You To Hell / Isolation / Halloween
Grim Reaper – Night Of The Vampire
Side Two:
Armored Saint – Raising Fear
Helloween – Future World
Here is what the backside of the cassette tape jacket looks like:
The 3 record label logos printed on this cassette tape jacket are: RCA, Concrete and Chrysalis.
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Here are the studio albums that the bands were respectively supporting on this tour:
Stone’s Note: All 3 albums are a MUST for all generations of Metalheads! Metal be thy name!
GRIM REAPER – Rock You To Hell – (1987) RCA
ARMORED SAINT – Raising Fear – (1987) Chrysalis
HELLOWEEN – Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I
(1987) Noise Records
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Speaking of Power Metal pioneers HELLOWEEN… their 14th studio album, Straight Out Of Hell, will be released on January 18th, 2013! Whoa! Metal be thy name! Yes, I’m psyched-out about this! Are you?
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* For more info on all 3 legendary Metal bands featured above:
facebook: Steve Grimmett’s Grim Reaper
LONG LIVE HELLOWEEN.
LONG LIVE ARMORED SAINT.
LONG LIVE GRIM REAPER.
Stone.
Armored Saint is an Old School Heavy Metal band, a band that proved to me years ago, they were all about Metal. One listen to any album from the Armored Saint catalog and one will understand what I mean about all Metal. One album in particular, that really drives the message home as to the serious Heavy Metal Music that Armored Saint delivers is “Revelation”, (released on March 7, 2000, on Metal Blade Records). I bought this album as exactly such… on vinyl. This album is a twelve song, two record set, with three songs per side of each album. There still is a cool Metal rush I experience when holding onto an actual record, placing it on a turntable, then letting the Heavy Metal roar. Armored Saint does exactly that, they storm out of the Heavy Metal gates on “Revelation”, this album sets me on the Metal path I belong on. It is going on ten years since this album was released, yet the Heavy Metal that blasts from “Revelation”, is just as exhilarating as any new Metal music releases I have heard lately.
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