Artist description Progressive-melodic metal with driving riffs and intricate tempo-changes. Fantastic guitar work and a pounding rhythm section.

Music Style Heavy Metal

Musical Influences Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Queensryche

Similar Artists Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Queensryche

Artist History Hawaii's premier metal band, 1981-1987. Released three albums, 'Sacred Rite', 'The Ritual' and 'Is Nothing Sacred'.

Group Members Mark Kaleiwahea - Guitar, Lead vocals / Jimmy "Dee" Caterine - Guitar, Backing vocals / Peter Crane - Bass, Backing vocals / Kevin Lum - Drums, Backing vocals

Albums 'Sacred Rite', 'The Ritual', 'Is Nothing Sacred'

Press Reviews From ‘METAL FORCES’ no 5 (England) 1984 - Sacred Rite are a young four-piece metal band from Honolulu, Hawaii and on the strength of this, their debut album, look to have a bright future ahead of them.The band can probably best be described as a progressive Iron Maiden with touches of early Tygers of Pan Tang, especially on the opening track ‘Wings Of Pegasus’, the albums best cut along with the very Maidenish ‘Revelation’. The musicianship is of the highest quality throughout and Mark Kaleiwahea’s vocals remind me a lot of Geoff Tate.The remaining numbers ‘Angels Never Die’, ‘The Blade’, ‘Executioner’ and the Queensryche sounding ‘R.I.P.’ are all tinged with class metal while only the somewhat commercial HR of ‘White Boy’ falls below the high standard of material set by a band who look likely to cause quite a stir around the metal world before too long. A great debut from a great band! (Bernard Doe)9 out of 10 / From ‘AARDSHOK’ no 27 (Netherlands)1985 - After the release of their brilliant debut album, I was very curious to their new album. The LP would consist of one studio and one live side. The studio side contains four new songs, all of them are great. Very heavy, up tempo stuff with the necessary breaks and again great vocals of Mark Kaleiwahea. Fans of Maiden/Queensryche/Fates Warning will die for Sacred Rite! Height between the heights on side 1 is ‘1812 : The Battle’. Both guitarists Mark and Jim are well attuned to each other and put up a brilliant guitar-wall.The production of Pierre Grille is tip-top, both on the studio and live side as well. The live side also contains four songs, of which two new ones and two of the first album, namely ‘Executioner’ and ‘Revelation’. The performance of both songs is absolutely brilliant! ‘Witch’s Fury’ is one of the new songs; a very fast pounding song, with good vocals and melody are on the first place. ‘Second Row’ starts with nice plucking, it’s just an intro for a very powerful song. ‘Revelation’ closes the album in flashing tempo with great solos, pounding drumwork of Kevin Lum and super basswork. To my opinion the best band Hawaii ever had. Sacred Rite is one of my favorite bands with no doubt. 10 out of 10 / From ‘THE NOTE’ (Kansas City)1986 - Music, like movies, runs through fads; and with ‘Metal’ being the fad of the late ‘80’s, there is a lot of trash in this vein that has to be weeded through to find the truly worthwhile acts. Sacred Rite is one worth looking for. They combine some of the early metal sounds (early Judas Priest) with the newer metal (WASP) and add a touch of what has been called ‘Scruff Rock’ (Agent Orange) to cook up some of the hottest metal around. ‘I Will Survive’ and ‘Take Me To The Kingdom’ will thrill rockers who still remember Priest’s ‘British Steel’ album. ‘Ni4Ni’ combines elements of Priest and Kansas, believe it or not, in the vein of ‘Magnum Opus’. Their version of The Beatles’ ‘Eleanor Rigby’ is worth purchase of the tape alone. Without changing the basic structure of the song, they combine the Metal sound with an Agent Orange guitar line to produce a brilliant new version of the song. Finally, ‘As It Was Told’ takes the listener through a land where fantasy meets reality via a slow, grinding ballad that pits love against hatred...and these guys are from Honolulu, Hawaii! What a country! (Mike Nichols)4 out of 5

Location Honolulu, Hawaii - USA

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