In the first quarter of 2021, the Golden Core label will release no less than rarities from the years 1980 and 1981. Despite stylistic differences, these Differences, these albums have one thing in common: they sound like the missing the missing link between the (Hard)Rock of the seventies and what was and what became heavy metal in the early eighties Piledriver make the beginning with "Letters Of Steel". It is neither the metal band from Canada, nor the Dutch Status Quo cover dutch Status Quo cover group, but the first ones to bear that name, influenced, of course, by the first truly really cracking Status Quo record called "Piledriver". At the end of the seventies the band was playing in the Stuttgart area and soon made a name for themselves as an energetic heavy rock band Group, which led to a record deal with the freshly founded company GAMA (label: Sri Lanca) as a result. In the in-house Spygel Studio (named after the folk band Eulenspygel, because the two The owners of GAMA played there) the first and unfortunately only lP "Letters Of Steel" was recorded. Together with "Steven", the also only LP from Requiem, Piledriver started Piledriver more or less started the round of GAMA, which was to continue with bands like Bands like Sinner, Stormwitch, Gravestone or Tyrant a few months later was to offer some real metal