Dagger has a very unique sound reminiscent to the 80's/90's, heavy like Skid Row, a groove like Ratt, an edge like Metallica and guitar shreding like George Lynch from Dokken.
Dagger was a short-lived French-Canadian band that mixed fancy-pants Euro-metal with flash-rock guitars and goofball, sub-Sweet, gang-land choruses. They only lasted for one album and they are remembered, mostly, for the quite-alarming cover shot of the band.
The third guy on Dagger’s thanks list is “Mario Brisson”, the maniac who did their hair and make-up. I can only assume Mario is in jail now. If Dagger had any chance at all to ‘make’ it in the cut-throat world of 80’s flash metal, it was dashed completely as soon as the dirty denim devils of the metal nation got an eyeful of their Cinderella-meets-“Cats”- meets-Manowar-meets Dead or Alive-at-the-gay-disco look on the cover of “Not Afraid”. Now, I understand that they were from Quebec, so maybe there was a language barrier involved, but Jesus, they look like they ought to be flying around on wires, and shit. It’s pretty funny that the album is called “Not Afraid of the Night”, because I guarantee you that these fuckers were afraid to walk around at night in these get-ups.
Anyway, the Dagger story is short and uneventful. They formed as Hell’s Dagger in 1982, and, after a few years of honing their craft and payin’ the dues, they landed a spot on the Moose Molten Metal comp (Capitol Canada, 1985), a mind-boggling early 80’s collection of hack Canuck metal bands* that also boasted worldeaters like Stormbringer, Witchkiller, Sadwinder, and the Creepy Family. Amazingly, Dagger’s track dazzled the folks at Attic records (also the home of Lee Aaron and Anvil) enough to sign ‘em on their sub-label, Viper, and just a scant few months later, Shazam, the debut album hit the racks. Somehow or another, it did not light the world on fire, and Dagger fizzled out soon after.
“Not Afraid of the Night” was reissued on CD, for some reason, by Attic records in 1995, so you can find digital copies, if you search around.
They reformed the band in 2005 and recorded a 5 song CD. After that, Burnie Lezott joined the band as lead vocalist in Jan 06' to finish up the line up.
Since 2006 they have added numberous new originals and covers to their song list.
Band Members
Bernie Lezott- Lead Vocals
Joseph Mente- Bass
John Harper- Drums
Scott Allan- Guitars/vocals
Garrison Vest- Lead Guitars/vocals
Discography
Not Afraid of The Night 1985
Another Stab 2005
Official Website: http://www.myspace.com/daggeraz
Dagger was a short-lived French-Canadian band that mixed fancy-pants Euro-metal with flash-rock guitars and goofball, sub-Sweet, gang-land choruses. They only lasted for one album and they are remembered, mostly, for the quite-alarming cover shot of the band.
The third guy on Dagger’s thanks list is “Mario Brisson”, the maniac who did their hair and make-up. I can only assume Mario is in jail now. If Dagger had any chance at all to ‘make’ it in the cut-throat world of 80’s flash metal, it was dashed completely as soon as the dirty denim devils of the metal nation got an eyeful of their Cinderella-meets-“Cats”- meets-Manowar-meets Dead or Alive-at-the-gay-disco look on the cover of “Not Afraid”. Now, I understand that they were from Quebec, so maybe there was a language barrier involved, but Jesus, they look like they ought to be flying around on wires, and shit. It’s pretty funny that the album is called “Not Afraid of the Night”, because I guarantee you that these fuckers were afraid to walk around at night in these get-ups.
Anyway, the Dagger story is short and uneventful. They formed as Hell’s Dagger in 1982, and, after a few years of honing their craft and payin’ the dues, they landed a spot on the Moose Molten Metal comp (Capitol Canada, 1985), a mind-boggling early 80’s collection of hack Canuck metal bands* that also boasted worldeaters like Stormbringer, Witchkiller, Sadwinder, and the Creepy Family. Amazingly, Dagger’s track dazzled the folks at Attic records (also the home of Lee Aaron and Anvil) enough to sign ‘em on their sub-label, Viper, and just a scant few months later, Shazam, the debut album hit the racks. Somehow or another, it did not light the world on fire, and Dagger fizzled out soon after.
“Not Afraid of the Night” was reissued on CD, for some reason, by Attic records in 1995, so you can find digital copies, if you search around.
They reformed the band in 2005 and recorded a 5 song CD. After that, Burnie Lezott joined the band as lead vocalist in Jan 06' to finish up the line up.
Since 2006 they have added numberous new originals and covers to their song list.
Band Members
Bernie Lezott- Lead Vocals
Joseph Mente- Bass
John Harper- Drums
Scott Allan- Guitars/vocals
Garrison Vest- Lead Guitars/vocals
Discography
Not Afraid of The Night 1985
Another Stab 2005
Official Website: http://www.myspace.com/daggeraz
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