Banshee came together in the middle of the 1980s when Tommy Lee Flood took the microphone, Terry Dunn handled guitar, Bill Westfall played bass, and Ken Burnham sat behind the drums. The quartet occupied a stylistic middle ground between the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal and American power-metal acts, emphasizing piercing vocals along with elaborate instrumental passages. Their first release appeared on Roadrunner Records and presented a bold yet lackluster display of the band’s approach, earning modest critical notice. That recording led to a move over to Titanium, an Atlantic Records imprint, where Race Against Time emerged as another commercial under-performer. By the end of the decade the four musicians had parted company.
