The Fall Of The King

The Fallen King or Fall of the King is an unknown song taped off Dallas Texas radio station, Z-Rock, in the mid-to-late 80s by Sled1025 on the HMR Forums and Armador Thrash on twitter.

Origins

On September 3rd 2009, user Sled1025 of the HMR forums, a hub for conversations about metal bands, posted a query about a song taped from the Dallas based rock and metal station, Z-Rock. Sled1025 said that all the songs on the tape were released in 1988 or earlier. They transcribed the lyrics and provided an MP3 file of the track. The search went quiet after this.

Revived Search

On December 3rd 2020, Armador Thrash tweeted asking for help with finding an unknown metal song recorded from Z-Rock in 1987. They tagged the user Metalattackers in hopes that they would spread it and other enthusiasts would remember the song. A day later, discussion about the song moved to back to the HMR Forums, where it was suggested that the lyrics could be searched on the Metal Archives. When this proved fruitless, the song was uploaded to Youtube. User Poserkiller suggested the song could be "Fall of the King" by Redd Barron, giving the song its placeholder name. On the 15th of December, the Youtube upload was shared to the Cult Metal Classics Facebook page.

Around 2021, the song was submitted to Power Metal Station SIRIUSXM and it was speculated the DJ that played the song on Z-Rock was Pat Dawsey. A post was made about the song on r/lostwave which created a lot of community speculation.

Debunked or Partial Leads

Redd Barron was one of the first leads to be raised, as they had a song titled "Fall of the King" which matched key lyrics in the song, however, fans of the band said this was purely a coicidence and Redd Barron uploaded a version of their song in 2020 which proved that the two songs were different.

Haven was a band discussed in the 2020 HMR Forums posts that was also quickly debunked. Another group, Z-Rose was brought up as a possible lead, however by 2021, this had been debunked by reaching out to members of the band.

Fall of the King is a hard lostwave to reaserch confirmed information about as many leads have been raised without follow up and a lot of bands cannot be contacted or haven't been contacted, so most threads are left dangling. For example, the band Blackmayne was raised as a possibility but could not be contacted on Facebook, leading to the theory only being debunked by circumstantial evidence rather than rebuttal.

Currently a Californian band called Draggone, formally named Zion, is being investigated, with a song called "Glory to the King" from 1987 being attributed to them.

Outside Links:

The original tweet: https://twitter.com/ArmadorThrash99/status/1334615162830118916

The Forum Posts:

https://heavymetalrarities.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=210&t=45084#gsc.tab=0

The r/lostwave Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/kcsui4/unknown_80s_power_metal_band/