Members: john - vocals/bass/bass pedals mark - guitars/vocals rob - drums/vocals
Writers: john/rob/mark
Instruments: john - fender precision/kramer 8 string bass custome explorer bass with trem/taurus bass pedals mark - esp custom telecaster/fender tele/squire strat rob - same tama kit retro fitted with roto toms as his main toms!!
Production Notes: michael wagener & udo dirkschneider
John's Review: we’d had enough of the restrictions of our old studio & insisted the next album was done in a real studio with a real producer - we loved the sound on the accept albums “breaker” & “restless & wild” so we contacted mike wagener who was now partners with udo from accept…we did a weeks worth of pre-production with them in this horrible basement rehearsal studio, and recorded at a studio in the west of london…this was all a big step for us... we’d consiously slowed down the songs & made the arrangements more powerful... mike brought that out even more!! we persuaded udo to guest on a couple of songs released on singles later... still possibly our fans fave album & i can see why!!
Tracklisting: take control / mind over metal / sledgehammer rock / all for one / run silent run deep / hung drawn & quartered / break the chain / take it away / seek & destroy / athletic rock **cd reissue has the following extra tracks: born to be wild / inquisitor / ballad of marshall stack
