September 02, 2018

W.A.S.P. - Inside The Electric Circus (1986)

Country: U.S.A.
Genre: Heavy Metal, Hard Rock
Label Number: CDP 7 46346 2

© 1986 Capitol Records
AllMusic Review by Greg Prato
While W.A.S.P. remained a gimmick-heavy live act (around this time, Blackie Lawless had a codpiece that would shoot sparks!), they attempted to grow musically with each successive release -- most evidently beginning with 1986's Inside the Electric Circus. While Lawless was the band's main leader and songwriter from the beginning, he had even more of a say in the musical direction by switching to rhythm guitar from bass when original guitarist Randy Piper exited the band (ex-King Kobra member Johnny Rod joined on bass). By selecting a pair of early-'70s hard rock classics to cover -- Humble Pie's "I Don't Need No Doctor" and Uriah Heep's "Easy Living" -- it was clear that W.A.S.P. wanted their fans to pay more attention to the music. But it's not to say that the group completely abandoned their brash heavy metal roots -- the U.K. single "9.5.-N.A.S.T.Y." and the album-opening title track packed plenty of scream-along excitement. [The 1998 reissue contains a pair of B-sides previously unavailable on CD: "Flesh and Fire" and "D.B. Blues."]

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4 comments:

  1. Hi bro.. AAC link looks like no longer avaliable.. thx

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  2. hey there can you please upload this album please? Thank you

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    1. All W.A.S.P. links have been updated: https://www.mediasurfer.ch/search?q=WASP

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