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Los Angeles grueling metal band Hellion was founded in 1982 by vocalist Ann Boleyn -- a self-willed and charismatic role whose tattle abilities, it's broadly speechmaking agreed, were in reality jolly inferior to her repulse as an entrepreneur, and talent for self-promotion. Somewhere betwixt proclaiming that her linage reached back directly to the splendidly beheaded distaff monarch, and launching the New Renaissance label with the express purpose of cathartic Hellion's albums, Boleyn managed to insure that her isthmus would whoop it up quite a chip of notoriety, and fifty-fifty some bar of commercial success, throughout the eighties (condescension their comparatively infrequent and wildly discrepant turnout). This, as anyone mightiness have a bun in the oven, ab initio consisted of respective demos and a split individual with the likewise female-fronted Bitch, in the lead up to the passage of a six-song EP in 1983, at which point Boleyn, guitarists Ray Schenk and Alan Barlam, bassist Bill Sweet, and drummer Sean Kelly were organism managed by none other than Wendy Dio, wife of alloy caption Ronnie James Dio. They were as well already grabbing headlines throughout the handsome metallic element rags thanks to Boleyn's aggressive self-mythologizing and ignominious stunts like pull up to a gig at L.A.'s Troubadour in a cooler! (Although, to her credit, Boleyn rarely used her gender as a marketing tool on the band's album covers.) Despite all this buzz, however, the group's musical talents had yet to attract whatsoever major labels, so later a few more age of thwarting and setbacks (including Barlam, Sweet, and Kelly's passing to shape Burn), Boleyn and Schenk took matters into their bear men and released 1987's
Screams in the Night album through their new launched New Renaissance imprint. They would do the same with the following year's
Postcards from the Asylum EP and 1990's
The Black Book LP (for which Boleyn literally authored a novel, as a companion spell) -- both of them recorded with part-time musicians and pronounced by unimpressive heavy tilt as anthemic as it was ridden with '80s metal clichés. Finally sexual climax to grips with the verdict of public stolidity, Boleyn distinct to recede Hellion at this point, refocusing her energies on running New Renaissance (by and and then a hotbed for underground fastness metallic element acts) and releasing the group's "superlative hits" as the
Up from the Depths ingathering in 1997. She has resurrected Hellion on occasion in the age since (near always with mate in criminal criminal offence, Schenk), and releases include the
Alive and Well in Hell LP (1999),
The Witching Hour EP (2000), the Queen of Hell condense (2000), and the
Volition Not Go Quietly LP (2003).
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