Germain, Ray St. James, Ginger St. Jean, Michael St. Stunning under the name N. They opened shows for local music heroes the Demics. Soon they were writing and recording their own material. After a decade of recording, touring and releasing records with little more than underground notoriety and the advent of Grunge , the band called it a day; The band members would spend the next decade in musical projects and career paths. Old grievances were long forgotten and the band began writing new material.
This brought them to the attention of RCA Records who licensed the album and re-released it the same year along with two singles. He passed away May 2, Albums Mania! Albums S. Several albums and tours followed but Carlo struggled to keep his band afloat in the early s, members Reid, Armstrong and Mills quit Razor to re-form Samhain under the new metal-friendly moniker S.
Mills quit shortly thereafter and they recruited Rich Oosterbach on drums. In S. By Carlo and the band had patched up their differences, Mayhem was let go and they became the new version of Razor. Vancouver author Chris Walter released the definitive biography on S. Currently the band is working with Cursed Blessings Records in Toronto. Harmer left the band in the early s and formed Weeping Tile before having a successful solo career. With Sean Dean bass and Andrew Scott drums the band released a home-made cassette.
Their reputation as a live band gained them record industry friends in artists like Blue Rodeo, The Tragically Hip and Neko Case β who would often use them as her solo backing band. Albums Pilgrim PMC Their very first live performance took place on June 13, at a club about sixty miles from Toronto. Although most other bands at the time were performing cover tunes exclusively, Saga decided from the beginning to stick to their convictions, and play only their own music.
Shortly thereafter they landed their first recording contract with Polydor Records. June saw the self-titled debut album released in Canada and then something interesting happened: one of the Toronto record stores noticed that German record importers were showing an unusually intense interest in the album; within a few weeks the album sold about 30, copies in Germany as an import. Polygram Records in Europe quickly jumped on the bandwagon and signed the group to a multiple territory contract.
