Retrospective
They had Ratt's manager. They had Ratt's guitarist as their producer. They were nearly fronted by Warrant's Jani Lane. For seven years across four albums, Lillian Axe were the band the industry kept handing the right introductions to, and the audience kept walking past.
By Deep Cuts · Issue 01 · · 18 min read
Retrospective
A gold debut, a respectable follow-up, and then the strangest stretch of legal and creative chaos in late hair metal. A retrospective on a band who recorded their third album twice, released the wrong version of it, and missed the only window they had left.
By Deep Cuts · Issue 01 · · 16 min read
Retrospective
They had the songs, the look, the magazine covers, and a debut album that critics still call a lost classic. Then their label collapsed, an ex-Guns N' Roses drummer walked into the picture, and the 1990s happened. A retrospective on a San Francisco band who kept making records nobody was listening for.
By Deep Cuts · Issue 01 · · 16 min read
Retrospective
They beat Nirvana and Alice in Chains for an American Music Awards in 1992. By 1995 they were quietly exporting themselves to Asia. A retrospective on a band who did everything right, at exactly the wrong moment.
By Deep Cuts · Issue 01 · · 12 min read
