Bulldozer
In the early 80's thrash metal was nearly emerging on the musical scene, only to gain popularity in the following years. While Americans had its Bay Area, where bands spawned one after another, in Europe the thrash revolution had a more difficult way ahead of itself. Still, thrash groups were not unfamiliar to the European scene. One of these rare and noble examples is Italian legends Bulldozer. Although officially formed by the end of 1983, its beginnings reach the years 1980, when musicians Dario Carria (bass), Andy Panigada (guitar) and Emilio Galli (drums) joined forces to create the early Bulldozer. The band, however, soon split up, with Panigada forming his own project, which fell apart very quickly as well.Right about that time Alberto Contini (aka AC Wild), the charismatic composer and vocalist, came into play: "I met and Rob in 1982 and we made one session and one concert, but in '83 Dario contacted Andy again, since he saved some money and wanted to reform Bulldozer to produce a 7" single. Andy listened to Dario's ideas and the melody of the song proposed by Dario, and after a few days he asked me to create with him a couple of songs. I suggested to make something aggressive for those times; then we met Dari and Erminio and proposed our ideas. They liked them and in 1983 we started recording "Fallen Angel" and "Another Beer". The 7" single was ready by early '84. We sent copies to shops, magazines, distributors and we sold them all." Reunited and ready for action, the band decisively marked its presence in the music business and soon the name Bulldozer was on the mouths of more and more Italian metal fans. Asked why the band took this particular name and does it have anything to do with the titles of Motorhead's song, Contini replies: "Once I asked Dario why he chose Bulldozer as the band's name. He said he was inspired by Tank, it was his favorite band."
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