Fistful of Metal
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| Studio album by Anthrax | ||||
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Publication |
January 1984 |
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| Label (s) | Megaforce Records | |||
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
35min 33s |
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Carl Canedy |
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Studio (s) |
Pyramid Studios, Los Angeles |
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Fistful of Metal is the debut album by the American metal band Anthrax . The album is still assigned to power or speed metal .
Emergence
After Anthrax was signed by John Zazula's newly founded record label Megaforce Records , the band recorded their first full album in 1983. In response to the debut album Kill 'Em All by Metallica , also under contract with Megaforce , the band wrote faster pieces than before and placed more emphasis on rhythm guitar and double bass drumming. The combination of influences from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with high tempo was made possible in particular by the aggressive and fast play of drummer Charlie Benante .
The compositions are mostly by Dan Lilker and Scott Ian , who was still listed in the album credits under his birth name Rosenfeld . The lyrics are from singer Neil Turbin . The third track I'm Eighteen is a cover version of a 1970 Alice Cooper song .
The album was indexed in Germany in 1986 because of the record cover , as the Federal Testing Office for writings harmful to young people classified it as glorifying violence. The indexing is now barred.
Track list
- Deathrider (Benante, Lilker, Rosenfeld, Spitz, Turbin) - 3:30
- Metal Thrashing Mad (Belladonna, Bello, Benante, Lilker, Rosenfeld, Spitz, Turbin) - 2:39
- I'm Eighteen (Bruce, Buxton, Cooper , Dunaway, Smith) - 4:02
- Panic (Lilker, Rosenfeld, Turbin) - 3:58
- Subjugator (Benante, Lilker, Rosenfeld, Spitz, Turbin) - 4:38
- Soldiers of Metal (Lilker, Rosenfeld, Turbin) - 2:55
- Death from Above (Rosenfeld, Spitz, Turbin) - 5:06
- Anthrax (Lilker, Rosenfeld, Turbin) - 3:24
- Across the River (Lilker, Rosenfeld) - 1:26
- Howling Furies (Lilker, Rosenfeld) - 3:55
reception
Steve Huey from Allmusic complains that neither the line-up of the band nor their musical style had consolidated at the time of recording . For fans of later albums, Fistful of Metal is "deterrent", it sounds "more like a cheap copy of Judas Priest ". In his contemporary review, Frank Trojan from Rock Hard makes comparisons with Metallica and particularly praises the singing of Neil Turbin. He assigned the album to speed metal.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ian Christe: Sound of the Beast. The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal . It Books, 2004, ISBN 978-0-380-81127-4 , pp. 93 .
- ↑ Indexed sound carriers ( Memento from July 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive ).
- ^ Frank Trojan: Anthrax: Fistful of Metal . In: Rock Hard . No. 5 .
Web links
- Fistful of Metal at Allmusic (English)
- Fistful of Metal on MusicBrainz