BANG Another Time, Another Tomorrow Perry M. Grayson The term "old school" gets thrown around when metal of the eighties is talked about. Now we're going to go back even further. Bang, who formed in 1970, were one of the few bands whose sound defined what heavy was before the term metal was ever coined. The first notes of "Lions, Christians" on Bang's self-titled 1972 LP stands tall with other monolithic slabs of proto-metal like Blue Cheer's fuzzed-out Vincebus Eruptum (1968) and Black Sabbath's first doomy album (1970) Perhaps you've even seen Bang mentioned in the pages of METAL MANIACS. Now we'll journey with them from the basement to the big time, from unsigned obscurity to stadium gigs and major label madness. It was this madness that threatened to-and ultimately did-cause the power trio to founder at the height of their youth and popularity. For bassist/vocalist Frank Ferrara, drummer/lyrics Tony Diorio and guitarist Frankie Gilcken, the music will BANG into the new millennium.