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1981 studio album by Holocaust
The Nightcomers Released April 1981 Studio Castle Sound Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland Genre Heavy metal Length 37 :28 Label Phoenix Record And Filmworks Producer Robert Bell
The Nightcomers is the debut studio album by Scottish heavy metal band Holocaust , released in 1981 at the apex of the new wave of British heavy metal phenomenon. The album was released by Holocaust's own label Phoenix Record And Filmworks and re-issued on CD by Edgy Records only in 2000. It was remastered and re-issued as a double CD by Castle /Sanctuary in 2003, including all the tracks from the "Smokin' Valves", "Heavy Metal Mania", and "Coming Through" singles and from the Live from the Raw Loud 'n' Live Tour EP.[3]
Track listing
Side one Title Writer(s) 1. "Smokin' Valves" Ed Dudley, John Mortimer 3:46 2. "Death or Glory" Mortimer 3:37 3. "Come On Back" Robin Begg, Dudley, Gary Lettice, Mortimer 3:06 4. "Mavrock" Lettice, Mortimer 5:22 5. "It Don't Matter to Me" Dudley, Mortimer 3:18
Side two Title Writer(s) 6. "Cryin' Shame" Begg, Dudley, Lettice, Mortimer 3:11 7. "Heavy Metal Mania" Mortimer 4:51 8. "Push It Around" Begg, Dudley, Lettice, Mortimer 4:01 9. "The Nightcomers" Dudley, Mortimer 6:22
2003 Remastered Edition CD 2 Title Writer(s) 10. "Heavy Metal Mania" (Single version) Mortimer 4:05 11. "Love's Power" Mortimer 3:10 12. "Only as Young as You Feel" Mortimer 4:05 13. "Smokin Valves" Dudley, Mortimer 3:43 14. "Friend or Foe" Dudley 2:55 15. "Out My Book" Lettice, Mortimer 3:42 16. "Lovin' Feelin' Danger" (live) Begg, Dudley, Lettice, Mortimer 4:40 17. "No Nonsense" (live) Mortimer 3:47 18. "Death or Glory" (live) Mortimer 3:26 19. "Forcedown Breakdown" (live) Begg, Dudley, Lettice, Mortimer 4:02 20. "Coming Through" Begg, Dudley, Lettice, Raymond Marciano 3:40 21. "Don't Wanna Be (A Loser)" Begg, Dudley, Lettice, Marciano 3:33 22. "Good Thing" Begg, Dudley, Lettice, Marciano 4:11
The Song "Death Or Glory" was covered by American Death Metal band Six Feet Under on their 1997 album Warpath , as well as by German Power Metal Band Gamma Ray (band) , in their 2013 EP Master of Confusion . Gamma ray also covered the Song "Heavy Metal Mania" in 1995, in their single Rebellion In A Dreamland (later included as bonus track on the album Land of the Free re-issued).
Personnel
Band members
Gary Lettice – vocals
John Mortimer – guitars
Ed Dudley – guitars
Robin Begg – bass
Paul Collins – drums
Additional musicians
Raymond Marciano – drums on tracks 20-22
Production
Robert Bell – producer
Calum Malcom – engineer
References
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