Strength of Steel

by Anvil

Strength of Steel cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 May 1987
  • Label: Metal Blade
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 42:05
  • Community rating: 2.75/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Ian Dickson, Dave Allison, Paul LaChapelle, Lips, Robb Reiner

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Struggling to maintain the momentum of their pioneering early work, the Canadian metal legends delivered a noticeably more commercial and mid-tempo offering. 'Strength of Steel' focuses on heavy, rhythmic hard rock grooves, stripping back the breakneck velocity of their celebrated speed metal origins. While commercially successful in the short term, it marked a highly polarizing shift for their dedicated underground fanbase.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Strength of Steel (3:30)
  2. Concrete Jungle (5:21)
  3. 9-2-5 (2:56)
  4. I Dreamed It Was the End of the World (4:14)
  5. Flight of the Bumble Beast (2:25)
  6. Cut Loose (3:28)
  7. Mad Dog (3:13)
  8. Straight Between the Eyes (3:18)
  9. Wild Eyes (3:26)
  10. Kiss of Death (5:21)
  11. Paper General (4:49)

Credits

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