Intended to set Howe’s nom de guerre as producer, it eventually stood in for his publishing company. “In Mainstream, Les’ nickname was ‘Long John Silver’ for his love of money,” Kirchin remembers. A lot of the aliases were callbacks to their shared bar band past. He penned the original liner notes that gave the players their jokey pseudonyms, finalizing the fake band charade. Busic did not respond to interview requests.)Īccording to Kirchin, he chipped in more than vocals. While Leslie and Zoran were only interested in making a quick buck on a few thousand copies, I knew from the get-go that this was going to be sooooo much bigger than that.” (I was unable to reach Howe and Reny for comment. I actually felt that if this album tanked, there was something truly wrong in the metal world. And those ear-shredding guitars! Yes, I knew. “It had shades, hues, variations, groove, intensity, drama, detail, and all those musical and lyrical hooks. “I was on cloud nine, knowing what we had just laid down was a very, very solid 40 minutes of truly great metal that made you move,” Kirchin writes to me in an email. Gord knew that Metal Inquisition was going to be a hit. Already a ludicrous song packed with hilariously debaucherous one-liners, his over-the-top selling made sure tracks like “Sex With Satan” oozed with… uh… a lot of things. He took Leslie Howe and Louise Reny’s melodies and “went for madness,” cracking everyone up as his Piledriver performance became more outsized. Read part one here.Īfter stepping out of the vocal booth, Gord Kirchin felt good. This is the second part of a two-part series on Piledriver’s 1984 album Metal Inquisition.
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