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Sons Of Steel - Soundtrack (1989)
Revised version of Black Alice, with help from Cichon and Johnston from Rose Tattoo to provide the heavy metal soundtrack for the science fiction film Sons of Steel in which Hartley starred.

you used to be able to buy this on CD from here but link is dead

Something In the Air
Sons Of Steel
There's Hope
Hard Lover
Rock n Roll Reck
Mr System
Fighting for You
With You
The Burn
Walkin the Blues

The Band
Lead Vocals: Rob Hartley
Guitars: Jamie Page
Bass: Andy Cichon
Drums: Scott Johnston
Keyboards: Paul Radcliffe
Upright Bass on Walkin the Blues: Craig Scott
Percussion/ Back Vocals: Rod Keady

Sons Of Steel

email recieved

Hi,

please correct the information you have on the Aussie metal band 'Black Alice'. I am the co-producer of the the album 'Endangered Species' and writer director of the film 'Sons of Steel'. You have credited RCA as having financed the recording of the album in Singapore, this is totally incorrect. The album was financed by West Coast Records, Perth, of which I was managing director at the time. I had an output deal with Powderworks Records in Sydney owned by Phil Israel. Powderworks were an independent distributed by RCA, that's where the connection comes in. Powderworks never released the album only a single 'In the Hall of the Ancient Kings'. The album was only ever released in Europe with a deal I did with John Glover of 'Street Tunes', who owned the library of Paul Kossoff.
Black Alice were badly done by. The album Endangered Species was excellent and totally original, a little ahead of it's time for Australia. Even Kerrang voted it in 1984 as one of most original albums to come out of Australia. Like a lot of Australian albums at the time 'Endangered Species' got caught up in the independent 'hassle'. Because the album was made without major record company support and because the band was from Perth, there was little chance of getting a deal direct with a major and thus no hope of gaining promotion to promote the album and the band.

The other correction you must make is to the players credits. Paul Radcliffe did not play on the album 'Endangered Species', the album was performed by the band members only with only two overdubs, one by a violinist in Singapore' who played a colonial jig in the song 'Man of Metal' (about Ned Kelly - title forerunner to the later movie title 'Sons of Steel' ). This song was left off the album along with 'Hellhouse' but later added to the 'No Warning' release in Europe only. I wrote both those songs as well as 'In the Hall of the Ancient Kings'.
Paul Radcliffe played keyboards on the Sons of Steel soundtrack album with Andy Cichon on bass, Scott Johnson drums, Jamie Page guitars and Rob Hartley vocals.

Please link to our website:

http://www.sons-of-steel.com

Thanks

Gary Keady