RAW DEAL (KENT)
NWoBHM • United Kingdom
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Confusingly, there were at least three different bands named Raw Deal making the rounds in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal underground in the early '80s, and all of them fared equally miserably.
This Deal featured Rob Childs (vocals/guitar), Paul Reynolds (guitar), Brian Smith (guitar), Ade Jones and Steve Richardson (drums), and hailed from Kent, where they are rumored to have formed as early as 1978, and then struggled along with the lot of the era's underappreciated heavy metal bands until being spotted by the small independent White Witch label.
The label promptly hustled Deal into a studio for garbage-time recording sessions, which proved to be such an ordeal that the studio crew's much-relieved cheering could be heard towards the end of a song called "Cut Above the Rest"; that song was eventually selected for 1981's Kent Rocks compilation.
Thankfully, the same sessions also spawned what would become Raw
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