Does anyone know Babylon A.D.?
Maybe I should rephrase the question: does anyone in Italy know Babylon A.D.?
Music lovers in the US should know this band, but in Italy I don't think they were ever released. I, at least, never heard of them in the 80s and 90s.
Back then I spent a lot of time in record stores looking for records and artists I didn't know.
Of course, digital downloads didn't exist, that marvel of technology that today allows any artist to be released all over the world. But today it exists, and I like to hunt for artists I couldn't have known in my time.
This Californian glam metal band released their debut album, Babylon A.D., in 1989, two years after their inception.
The second album, Nothing Sacred, is from 1992.
Therefore, it's not surprising that it did not arrive in Italy.
Unlike other bands of the time, Babylon A.D. didn't hit the US charts with their debut album, which would have made their music exported immediately. And they didn't have a chance to grow later because by the time of their second album, grunge was already all the rage. Goodbye glam metal and hair bands.
The band broke up in 1994 but has reunited several times since 1998, always with Derek Davis and Ron Freschi, respectively founding singer and guitarist.
To find out news about the group, there's - in addition to the social channels - an official website: babylonadband.com.
Bang Go the Bells, the song in the video at the beginning of the post, is a single from the debut album Babylon A.D..
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