An iconic San Francisco-based band with loyal fans from the US to Europe, especially loved in Germany and Greece. True old school heavy metal.
Despite the fact that Brocas Helm appeared around the same place and at the same time as speed metal (in 1982 in California), their music has very few trash elements from Exodus, Metallica and others. Along with the equally underrated Manilla Road and Warlord, the band held onto the classic traditions of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Black Sabbath. Their loyalty to the old school earned them contracts with the American label First Strike and the German label Steamhammer, which released their medieval-inspired debut album Into Battle in 1984.