Liege Lord

Liege Lord is an American speed/power metal band, active in the 1980s and considered to be a pioneer of the genre. It was formed by Matt Vinci, Anthony Truglio and Frank Cortese.

Reaching cult status in the Metal world with their three releases, the band featured Joe Comeau, who would later go on to play with thrash metal bands Overkill and Annihilator. Guitarist Anthony Truglio went on to play in the band Gandhi with Page Hamilton from ], and also played in the new version of Helmet. Guitarist Paul Nelson received a Grammy nomination as guitarist and song writer with Johnny Winter on Virgin/EMI, and he reached and performed on Late Night with David Letterman tv program with Johnny Winter in 2012 in support of WInters Megaforce/Sony release entitled ROOTS which he performed on and producedBillboard chart's top 200 with the band Halifax. Nelson did guitar work for WWE (then WWF) on nationally broadcast television specials.

• 'Master Control' was recorded from 3/22 to 4/11/1988. The album was produced by Terry Date and Liege Lord.

As of August 2012, Liege Lord has been active again and will headline the Keep It True XVI festival, which will take place from April 19-20, 2013 at Tauberfrankenhalle in Lauda-Königshofen, Germany.