We also contacted a Bernard Cavazos from Houston on Facebook, but he says he wasn’t involved in our mystery song.) (Decibel contacted Sylvia for this story, and while she says she does not know Bernard she said she would ask some old DJ friends if anyone remembers the song. The best sleuthing yet was by an eagle-eyed commenter who found a copyright notice for a song called “King’s Fall” by Bernard Cavazos (which lines up with the lyrics), from 1987, and who noticed that a Sylvia Cavazos was a program director at a Houston radio station at the time Bernard’s copyright originated from Houston. Will Palmer of Angel Witch and the organizers of the Keep It True fest, among other metal musicians, experts and journalists have all sounded off on the song, but no one has been able to identify it. It’s also apparently not Kinetic Dissent, another band whose name has come up a few times during the hundreds of comments about this song on Christe’s posts and on message boards from around the world. Members of Redd Barron (one of the bands that people were suggesting this might be), Jag Panzer and Helstar have denied it is their bands. Z Rock DJ Mike Paine, who hosted a demo show on that station, has been contacted but does not remember the song.

Christe could not, but started asking around on his radio show and social media.īut shit got kinda weird when a 2009 post on The Metal Archives was uncovered and revealed that an entirely different person, who goes by the username sled1025, had at that point attempted to ID this song, also using a recording from the radio from way back then. It all started when Sirius XM listener Armador Thrash sent Christe, who hosts the excellent Roots show on Sirius, a tweet asking if he could identify a particularly raging old-school power metal song (Helstar is probably the best point of sonic reference) that he had taped off of Z Rock radio back in 1987 outside of Chicago. You must help Sirius XM DJ, Bazillion Points head honcho and friend of Decibel Ian Christe figure out the perplexing mystery of a 33-year-old metal song.

We realize you’re busy with the holidays and all, but scrap all that immediately: We have a massive metal task for you, faithful longhairs.

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