The Handsome Beasts
Group · United Kingdom · Birmingham · formed 1972
musical artist
Timeline
1970s
Biography
Biography
The Handsome Beasts are an English heavy metal band who surfaced during the new wave of British heavy metal. Currently enjoying a resurgence in popularity, their album Beastiality is infamous for being featured on several "worst album cover of all time" lists.
Their vocalist, Garry Dallaway, died of a heart attack on 20 August 2006.
Original lineup
Garry Dallaway – vocals
Pete Malbasa – drums
Steven Hough – bass
James Stephen Barrett – lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Past members and contributors
Ray Richman – drums
Maz Mitrenko – guitar
Marco Foley – guitar
Mark Knight – bass
Nick Foley – Hammond organ, keyboards
Albums
Beastiality (Heavy Metal Records, 1981)
The Beast Within (Heavy Metal Records, 1990)
04 (Heavy Rock Records, 2004)
Rock and a Hard Place (Q Records, 2007)
Filthy Lucre (Heavy Metal Records, 2010)
Singles
"All Riot Now" EP (Heavy Metal Records, 1980)
"Breaker" EP (Heavy Metal Records, 1981)
"Sweeties" EP (Heavy Metal Records, 1981)
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 3 | 16th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 54 | 94.2th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put The Handsome Beasts head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 3 | 16th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 54 | 94.2th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7738739genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7738739seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handsome_Beastsbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handsome_Beasts
Why this artist is in the database
- List of heavy metal bands — rank #104
The Handsome Beasts | United Kingdom | 1972–present |
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Wikidata: Q7738739 · MusicBrainz: 057ae424-2979-477b-a23b-4da6869b9e59
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