Win Hands Down

by Armored Saint

Win Hands Down cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2 June 2015
  • Label: Metal Blade
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 51:00
  • Community rating: 3.44/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Wolfe Ballard

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Uncompromising and fiercely traditional, 'Win Hands Down' is the highly acclaimed seventh studio album from Armored Saint. Released via Metal Blade, the album boasts massive, hook-driven guitar riffs, thunderous drumming, and John Bush's legendary, soaring vocal power. The compositions balance high-velocity heavy metal anthems with sophisticated melodic passages, reinforcing their standing as peerless stalwarts of the classic American metal scene.

Genres

Descriptors: male-vocalist, melodic, rhythmic, riff-heavy, gallop

Tracklist

  1. Win Hands Down (5:06)
  2. Mess (4:35)
  3. An Exercise in Debauchery (6:00)
  4. Muscle Memory (7:14)
  5. That Was Then, Way Back When (5:08)
  6. With a Full Head of Steam (5:18)
  7. In an Instant (7:36)
  8. Dive (4:40)
  9. Up Yours (5:23)

Credits

  • Wolfe Ballard - primary artist
  • Murray Kellner - fiddle [uncredited]
  • Carson Robison - guitar [uncredited], whistling [uncredited]
  • Vernon Dalhart - harmonica [uncredited], vocals [uncredited]
  • Charles E. Roat - written-by
  • Floyd Thompson - written-by
  • Armored Saint - Primary Artist

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