Fastway was a metal supergroup of sorts, formed by former Motörhead guitarist "Fast Eddie" Clarke and UFO bassist Pete Way. Given that the band name is a word combination, you know I have to like them. They recruited former Humble Pie drummer Jerry Shirley as well, but one of my favorite bits of music trivia relates to their previously unknown singer, Dave King. While King fronted Fastway and other metal bands (and quite adeptly at that) in the '80s and early '90s, he is better known as the founder and lead singer of Celtic punk band Flogging Molly. Anywho, Fastway created the soundtrack to the 1986 heavy metal-tinged horror film, Trick or Treat, which featured cameos by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne. The soundtrack was more successful than the movie, and this is the title track. The video features the slain metal singer from the movie, so that's not actually King on screen.
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