{"id":2971,"date":"1983-10-01T00:00:07","date_gmt":"1983-10-01T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2012-01-16T18:40:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T18:40:48","slug":"demo-review-deathslayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/demo-review-deathslayer\/","title":{"rendered":"DEATHSLAYER &#8211; Demo (1983) | Demo Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; color: #c80000;\"><strong>DEATHSLAYER<\/strong><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"smalltitle\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; color: #c80000;\"><strong>Deathslayer (1983)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/deathslayer1983promophoto.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>A young Brooklyn, New York-based band to watch out for is Deathslayer. They\u2019ve just surfaced on the local club circuit and feature a hot guitarist in Johnny Hearts. Hearts claims his main influence as Randy Rhoads, and provides some impressive licks on the band\u2019s four-track demo. The tracks are; \u2018Journey For Life\u2019, \u2018Witches Haven, Devils Cove\u2019, \u2018Need For Life\u2019 and \u2018Passion Flight\u2019 and all bare an Iron Maiden-type sound.<\/p>\n<p>In the vocal slot is Suzanne Hearts, who resents the \u201cwomen can\u2019t be metal\u201d attitude and is ready to prove it. The other members of the band are John Forte (bass) and Steve Alliano (drums).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Philip DiBenedetto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 2 (1983)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEATHSLAYER Deathslayer (1983) A young Brooklyn, New York-based band to watch out for is Deathslayer. They\u2019ve just surfaced on the local club circuit and feature a hot guitarist in Johnny Hearts. Hearts claims his main influence as Randy Rhoads, and provides some impressive licks on the band\u2019s four-track demo. The tracks are; \u2018Journey For Life\u2019, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deathslayer","category-demo-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3856,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}