Saturday, February 2, 2008

Nazgul





Nazgul were a Wellington 80s punk band who featured members, Craig and Dave from Compos Mentis. Nazgul formed after Compos Mentis split and were around in 87/88. Nazgul released a 12 inch on Out of Order records which is as rare as hen's teeth. Out of Order also released a compilation which features a Nazgul song. The entire 7 inch can be heard here. After the split of the band, Michelle the singer became involved the biker scene. I also remember reading in Wellington punk fanzine Anti-System that the drummer traded in his drums to buy a Harley-Davidson.


Nazgul Bebo page(yes, that's right) is the place to hear most if not all of their songs . To my ears they sound like The Avengers and the excellent Texan band Signal Lost but that could just be due to the strong female vocals. I really wish I'd caught Nazgul live.
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4 comments:

cultureshot66 said...

Hi Chris,
bit of a crack up that vid...they were so metal/hard rock. Craig was a nice guy i recall.
Ta for posting that up.

Did you get all those uploads?

Greg.

February 4, 2008 at 3:35 PM
Chris said...

Hey Greg,

Yeah, I haven't downloaded all the Snuff, Negazione or The Sound yet.

Thanks very much for all of them.

I have all roads lead to ausfahrt now.

February 5, 2008 at 11:30 AM
Anonymous said...

Michelle did not get involved in the biker scene. Dave and Craig bought Harleys.
She and their last bass player,Tim, jammed together before Tim went over to Australia to join a band over there.
She later became co-presenter on an Access Radio show "The Power Hour". It was a hardcore, black, and death metal radio show.
I should know as she is my Mum.

August 22, 2018 at 5:33 PM
Chris said...

Thanks for that info.

August 30, 2018 at 2:34 PM

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