{"id":150,"date":"2009-01-24T11:46:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T17:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2009-02-01T19:25:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T01:25:03","slug":"impaler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Impaler"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIf we had brains…we’d be dangerous<\/strong>
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My personal favorite Minnesota metal band.\u00a0 Impaler.\u00a0 I first discovered these guys from my friends in Death Squad.\u00a0 Impaler & Death Squad were both from the St. Paul area (like myself) and backyard keg party’s and metal just seem to go together….so it’s fitting that the first place I was Impaler play was in my friend Dave Benson’s garage.\u00a0 Not your Slayer\/Metallica speed metal, but more of a hard rock\/metal with a whole lot of blood and guts thrown in.\u00a0 They call it "Shock Rock" and I’d have to agree.\u00a0 The influence of cheap b-movie horror flicks on these guys can not be overstated.
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\nImpaler put out an EP on the pre-Combat Records label IRD.\u00a0 Then the Combat full length LP (both later released\u00a0 on a single CD).\u00a0 They would continue right up to today releasing albums themselves of on smaller labels and with each passing year seem to add more and more gore to the stage shows.
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\nSo why am I posting metal here?\u00a0 Because, thanks in large part to Impaler, metal & punk have always been to very complementry to each other.\u00a0 In other cities you might have punks and metalheads fighting…not so here.\u00a0 Impaler used to have punk bands open for them.\u00a0 Their first full length album was produced by Bob Mould (and is highly saught after by die-hard H\u00fcsker D\u00fc fans).
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\nGet the LP here<\/a> .
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\nImpaler’s Website<\/a> & MySpace<\/a> page
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\nSome Early Demos<\/a> were posted on the "True Punk & Metal<\/span> " blog by former guitarist\/roadie Johnny Stradinger that are well worth downloading.\u00a0 Head over and get the LP, and read all the comments posted.\u00a0 I re-posted it here, because it’s easy to miss in the comments section:
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\nstradinger said… <\/em>
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\nI left the comment before about us still being around,but felt the need to say more.. I was a roadie from day one and guitarist on Wake Up Screaming.. Impaler was influenced by old school punk and metal, glam rock, pro wrestling and horror movies. Lead singer Bill Lindsey tried to incorporate all of these into his music. We got lumped in with all the other thrash metal bands, but had more in common with the punks than with the headbangers. But then again, stuck in the middle , we were either fags or posers…
\nAnyway, Bill is still around playing.
\nHere is a post I left at guitars 101, if anyone wants some demos and a live show from way back, this is the 1st 2 demos and a rare live show from 1983. At this time the band had Mike Senn as 2nd guitarist, it contains unreleased and early versions of songs that would later be on Rise of the Mutants, If We Had Brains, and Wake Up Screaming. This is the best versions you will get. I was the only one from the band who kept copies of the early stuff.<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.megaupload.com\/?d=MFL822U8<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n

Impaler \u2013 (US)Demo #1 1983
\n1. Impaler
\n2. Assassin
\n3. City in Chains
\n4. Witchqueen
\n5. Island of the Damned
\n(US)Demo #2 1983
\n6. Vicious Dreams
\n7. Heavens Force
\n8. Shock Rock
\nGoofy\u2019s Upper Deck Mpls, Mn 8\/21\/83 (SB)
\n9. Intro Set #1 \/ City in Chains
\n10. Assassin
\n11. Hit With An Axe
\n12. Shock Rock
\n13. Crack That Whip
\n14. Intro set #2 \/ Impaler
\n15. Go Back to Hell
\n16. Island of the Damned
\n17. Witchqueen
\n18. Poison
\n19. Heavens Force<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Decay If we had brains…we’d be dangerous My personal favorite Minnesota metal band.\u00a0 Impaler.\u00a0 I first discovered these guys from my friends in Death Squad.\u00a0 Impaler & Death Squad were both from the St. Paul area (like myself) and backyard keg party’s and metal just seem to go together….so it’s fitting that the first place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37],"tags":[217,38],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impaler","tag-impaler","tag-shock-rock"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s39jV0-impaler","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}