I’ve been waiting for a long time to be able to post these guys in Sunday Metal.
Kage – “Night Show”
Kage were one of the best unsigned metal bands in the Washington D.C. area in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Loved these guys. I wish they could have been bigger, I wish they could have gotten signed, but for whatever reason things didn’t work out despite all their local success.
Back in my college radio days, I did a sort of “song battle” on my show and Kage’s song “Darkness Descends” won for like 11 weeks in a row, so I had to retire them so someone else could get some rotation. Jeff and Alex came and hung with me one night in the studio, which was a lot of fun. Saw many of their live shows, hung with Jeff a few times (including one of his birthdays). Ah, memories.
There’s been a resurgence with the band recently. The “State of Mind” album was remastered and is available on iTunes. They’ve got a small website where a lot of freebies are being made available. Facebook page. There’s work afoot to remaster their other albums, and even a reunion show in 2012 (wish I could make it).
Check it out.
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Nice. The vocals remind me of a mix of Dio and Cinderella. Very good.
And any band that has Bill The Cat on the drum kit gets a +10 in style points
Jeff (vocals) was voted best metal vocalist in the Washington DC area music awards a few times.
Check out their album on iTunes… remastered and re-released. I thought “State of Mind” was a bit of a mix because of the time-span it spread (hey, unsigned bands, how it goes). After that they did an EP that I thought had much more solid songs on it. The EP won’t be being re-released but the following album “Shadow of Faith” included the EP songs on it. I think the EP songs remain some of my favorite.