{"id":3251,"date":"1985-01-01T00:00:24","date_gmt":"1985-01-01T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2012-01-16T18:11:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T18:11:48","slug":"demo-review-troy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/demo-review-troy\/","title":{"rendered":"TROY – Demo (1984) | Demo Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

TROY<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nTroy (1984)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Troy are the band formed by ex-Tytan and Angel Witch drummer Dave Dufort. The line-up was finalised in September 1983 and alongside Dufort are Mike Baron (vocals), Frederic Avesque (guitar), George Hayes (guitar) and Richard Vernon (bass).<\/p>\n

Instrumentally, Troy remind me a lot of early Iron Maiden which is not a bad thing, especially as the material is very well constructed with plenty of variation to keep the listener\u2019s full attention. Both guitarists are responsible for some imaginative soloing, while up front there\u2019s the powerful vocals of Mike Baron, where comparisons can be made to Jon Deverill of Tygers Of Pan Tang fame, especially on the fast-paced \u2018Long Way To The Stars\u2019; my favourite track of five on the band\u2019s debut demo.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the excellence of the songs are ruined somewhat by the poor mix of the tape. Baron\u2019s vocals in particular are too far upfront and dominate just a little too much. Still, in a nutshell, Troy have brought that famed NWOBHM sound bang up to date, and with the likes of Tokyo Blade and Grim Reaper proving that there\u2019s still more than just mild interest in ye olde British metal, I can see no reason why these South Londoners shouldn\u2019t secure some sort of record deal soon. <\/p>\n

After all, it will make a change from all this American sounding British hard rock garbage that\u2019s currently being turned out by the majors. Long live British metal!<\/p>\n

Bernard Doe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review taken from Metal Forces, Issue 9 (1985)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TROY Troy (1984) Troy are the band formed by ex-Tytan and Angel Witch drummer Dave Dufort. The line-up was finalised in September 1983 and alongside Dufort are Mike Baron (vocals), Frederic Avesque (guitar), George Hayes (guitar) and Richard Vernon (bass). Instrumentally, Troy remind me a lot of early Iron Maiden which is not a bad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demo-reviews","category-troy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","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=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3787,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions\/3787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}