Laaz Rockit is tagged as: thrash metal, speed metal, heavy metal, metal, thrash
Founded in the bay area hills of Berkeley, California in 1982, vocalist Michael Coons and guitarist Aaron Jellum began forming the heavy metal band that would come to be known as LAAZ ROCKIT. These guys were young (Coons, at 17, was just finishing high school and Jellum, 18, was busy attending college and riding motorcycles), but they both knew the musical direction they wanted to pursue. After doing a few shows with various members in the burgeoning bay area metal scene, Coons and Jellum came across guitarist Phil Kettner and drummer Victor Agnello in late 1982 and early 1983. Bassist Willy Lange completed the true classic original line up later in 1983 that would record 4 albums and tour across the United States and Europe for the next 6 years.|San Francisco produced many of the golden-era metal acts (most notably, Metallica, Testament, Exodus, and LAAZ ROCKIT) and provided LAAZ with a rabid fanbase that caught the record industry’s attention in America in 1983. LAAZ ROCKIT signed with Target Entertainment (the label that released RATT’s original EP) that year and recorded their first album, “City’s Gonna Burn” (still considered a classic) and released it in the spring of 1984. The album received great reviews and the tour in support of “City’s...
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