Together with Grim Reaper and the mighty Savage, Chateaux from Gloucestershire form the Big 3 of the legendary Ebony label from Hull. Alec Houston (bass, vocals), Andre Baylis (drums, vocals) and Tim Broughton (guitar) originally found each other around 1981 under the name Stealer. It didn't take long and the piece "Young Blood" found its way to the compilation "Metal Maniaxe" released by Ebony in 1982. In the same year, Chateaux's debut single "Young Blood" was released (with "Fight To The Last" on the B-side). 1983 saw the light of day with "Chained And Desperate", one of the most undervalued debut albums of the entire NWOBHM. Chained And Desperate "moved on a quite high level of playing technique and changed stylistically between traditional metal (" Chained Ad Desperate "or" Straight To The Heart ") and epic songs (" Shine On Forever "or the incredible" The Dawn Surrendered "). A certain Steve Grimmett is only listed on the back of the album as a "guest musician", but at the time of recording he was a permanent member of Chateaux and shines with his vocal performance on the whole album. (First a little later Grimmett was supposed to start his own formation Grim Reaper. Chained And Desperate "was unavailable as vinyl for more than three decades. The official re-release of "Young Blood" and "Fight To The Last" also includes the two songs of the first single (on which Steve Grimmett can also be heard on vocals)
