VANEXA - The Last In Black (Full Album 2021)

Buy LP/CD: The Last In Black#shop Here’s the most prominent Italian Heavy Metal band to come out of the Metal Rock wave of the late 70s and early 80s. The band was formed in Savona in 1979 with a typical British sound in the wake of the NWOBHM and their debut album “Vanexa“ was deemed by the national press, back in '83, as the first Heavy Metal album ever released in Italy, and even rocketed to the top of the Heavy Metal charts in the Netherlands. The first real and important live performance of the band had taken place in 1980 in Belluno supporting the punk-rock act Skiantos and received an enthusiastic outcome. A remarkable occurrance, which will have led to a certain further exposure, happened in the '80s when the band got in touch with Saxon at one of their shows. They tendered them a demo with the aim of being possibly recruited one day as the opening act for them in tour. Unfortunately, the release of the next Saxon’s alb