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Badlands is a Synth-pop act. Their sound grew out of Led Zeppelin and The Eternal Idol. Those roots explain a lot about how Badlands arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Whitesnake, Tesla, Y&T, Great White and Damn Yankees, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Great White, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 17 connections around Badlands, reaching back through Led Zeppelin and forward to Great White. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Badlands was an American heavy metal band founded by former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee, former Black Sabbath members Ray Gillen (vocals) and Eric Singer (drums), as well as former Surgical Steel bass player Greg Chaisson. After the first Badlands album, Singer was replaced by Jeff Martin. Compared to the sound of the members' former bands, the sound of Badlands was more in a Led Zeppelin-influenced blues/hard rock vein. The group lasted from 1988 to 1993 and released three albums. Badlands (1989) and Voodoo Highway (1991) were released before Gillen left and was briefly replaced by singer John West. Gillen's death in 1993 effectively ended any hopes of reuniting the project. The album Dusk was released in 1998 with then-recently deceased Gillen on vocals.
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Badlands grew out of Led Zeppelin and The Eternal Idol, shares an orbit with Whitesnake, Tesla, Y&T and Great White, went on to shape Great White. 17 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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