VICIOUS RUMORS – Reveals Lineup Changes

VICIOUS RUMORS has issued the following statement:

“BRIAN ALLEN is back in VR! The newest addition: 18 year old guitar virtuoso Gunnar DüGrey from Portland, Oregon! Line-up 2017:

Thorpe, Howe, Hudrap, Allen, DüGrey! The Razorball is ready to roll!!! And it’s sharper than ever before! Get ready!”

Vicious Rumors is an American heavy metal band founded in 1979 in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. The band co-created the bay area metal scene in it’s beginning. Brainchild of Geoff Thorpe, the band has been active on the metal scene since forever, actively touring through the last 30 years. Vicious Rumors is recognized for their guitar works and harmonies, as well as the variety of their tracks.

Born in the Bay Area of San Francisco, in the years when the metal scene was really becoming stronger and stronger in that part of the States. Bands like Laaz Rockit, Metallica, Megadeth, Testament, Exodus, Death Angel are all seeing the light in the same years. Even though Vicious Rumors shared the same stages, venues and were (still are) even close friends to many of these young musicians, they focused on another music direction, only marginally influenced by the bay area thrash that in a few years will become very popular worldwide. VR, without a definite line-up, (between 1982 and 1985) plays everyhere in the US and appears on the compilations KMEL’s “New Oasis”, U.S. Metal vol. III and U.S. Metal vol. IV gaining finally an important record deal with legendary Shrapnel Records.

The first album Soldiers of the Night published in 1985, is considered a cult milestone in US-power metal and features a future guitar hero Vinnie Moore(guitar, UFO). The second album Digital Dictator in 1988, fixed Vicious Rumors’ classic and most famous line-up with one of the best singers in heavy metal history, Carl Albert (Villain, Ruffians) and the guitarist Mark McGee (Overdrive, Starcastle) along with Geoff Thorpe and Larry Howe.

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