RAVEN “Stay Hard” /LP/

Embroidered bordered woven patch.

110x40mm 

Re-release of the second full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy Metal band.
“Wiped Out” was released just a few months after Raven’s acclaimed debut “Rock Until You Drop” in order to ride the wave of success for this power trio of NWOBHM.
A blasting collection of 12 new songs that maintain the freshness of their Judas Priest inspired debut. If you're a Metalhead who has never experienced the bombastic, Judas Priest-influenced pleasures of Raven, it's best to cut to the chase and go directly to the British headbangers' most essential and enduring output. That means skipping Raven's inferior Atlantic work and starting out with its early recordings. 1981's "Rock Til You Drop" is Raven's best album, but 1982's "Wiped Out" runs a close second. When guitarist Mark Gallagher, drummer Rob Hunter, and the Rob Halford-influenced lead singer John Gallagher rip into such blistering, ferocious classics as "Star War", "Fire Power", "Battle Zone", and "Live at the Inferno", you're hearing a band that was very much in its prime and had yet to lose any of its freshness, imagination, or vitality.
"Rock Til You Drop" and "Wiped Out" are definitely the gems to start out with!
In 2005, “Wiped Out” was ranked number 495 in Rock Hard Magazine's book of “The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time”.
Earmark (Get Back/Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.)/Abraxas Srl, 1982/2002 (41038). Made in Italy. 180g vinyl.


Tracklist:

Side One
1. Faster Than The Speed Of Light 4:24
2. Bring The Hammer Down 4:19
3. Fire Power 3:02
4. Read All About It 3:08
5. To The Limit/To The Top 7:54
6. Battle Zone 3:34

Side Two
7. Live At The Inferno 3:57
8. Star War 5:35
9. UXB 3:22
10. 20/21 1:36
11. Hold Back The Fire 5:51
12. Chain Saw 5:14

Total playing time: 51:56 min.

The thirteenth full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy/Speed Metal band.
If ever there was a band to walk hand in hand with Motörhead into war - it’s Raven. Apart from Motörhead, it’s fair to say that this trio has transcended all trends by way of continuing to churn out no frills hammering Heavy Metal. Raven is the sort of band that is very much part of Heavy Metal furniture; a trio which at times we’ve taken for granted due to their immovable sound and vision.
With their 13th full-length studio slab of concrete, and their first opus since 2009’s "Walk Through Fire", these guys continue to march through the trends and destroy all in their wake; forget Glam Metal, forget Grunge, and forget Nu-Metal, because Raven plows on like a war machine operated by lunatics hell-bent on wasting all those who do not bow down to their command. And so is it really a surprise then that the aptly titled "ExtermiNation" is another crushing slab of Old School Metal? Of course not!
Raven occupies the same sort of scrap-metal yard which the likes of Accept have made their home. Raven is one of those primitive forces with a no-care, can-do attitude – as reliable as hell and yet not just content with filling up their records with average lumps. Raven remains lethal in whichever path it takes; John Gallagher’s vocals always bubbling with malice in order to work in cohorts with the latest steaming riff, frothing bass-line and hammering drum.
"ExtermiNation" is one of those albums you’ll slap on when you’re pissed off or feeling at a loss with the Heavy Metal genre, because not only do this terrible trio reinstall faith in the genre, they will pump your lungs full of lead, and get your heart beating on a diet of molten steel!
Steamhammer/SPV, 2015 (SPV 267962 CD). Made in Germany. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Destroy All Monsters 6:04
2. Tomorrow 4:25
3. It's Not What You Got 3:27
4. Fight 4:03
5. Battle March / Tank Treads (The Blood Runs Red) 5:26
6. Feeding The Monster 3:42
7. Fire Burns Within 4:59
8. Scream 3:04
9. One More Day 5:12
10. Thunder Down Under 4:47
11. No Surrender 3:53
12. Golden Dawn 0:53
13. Silver Bullet 4:15
14. River Of No Return 5:25
Bonus Track:
15. Malice In Geordieland 3:03
Total playing time: 62:38 min.

The third full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy Metal band.
Released in 1983 by Neat Records, it was their last album outside a major label. Produced by Michael Wagener and Udo Dirkschneider, it didn't quite measure up to their classic debut, "All For One", but is a marked improvement over the second album, "Wiped Out". Largely credited with sowing the seeds of Thrash Metal along with fellow New Wave of British Heavy Metal trio Venom.
For those more familiar with the N.W.O.B.H.M., standout cuts such as "Break the Chain", "Take It Away" and "Mind Over Metal" help make this disc quite a treat!
Neat Records/Base Records, 1983 (NEAT 1011). Made in Italy. First press. Used (cover/disc): VG+/NM.


Tracklist:

Side One
1. Take Control 3:18
2. Mind Over Metal 3:30
3. Sledgehammer Rock 4:09
4. All For One 3:30
5. Run Silent, Run Deep 5:40

Side Two
1. Hung, Drawn & Quartered 5:17
2. Break The Chain 3:46
3. Take It Away 3:36
4. Seek & Destroy 3:49
5. Athletic Rock 4:32

Total playing time: 40:48 min.