Heavy Metal Breakdown

by Grave Digger

Heavy Metal Breakdown cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 1984
  • Label: Noise
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 57:03
  • Community rating: 3.36/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Releasing alongside concurrent foundational records by Running Wild and Helloween, this uncompromising debut helped cement Noise Records as a bastion of German speed metal. Chris Boltendahl's raspy, raw vocal style powers through anthemic, fast-paced riffing that owes as much to Mot枚rhead as it does to traditional metal. The relentless title track immediately became a staple anthem of the Teutonic metal scene.

Genres

Tracklist

  1. Headbanging Man (3:37)
  2. Heavy Metal Breakdown (3:42)
  3. Back from the War (5:35)
  4. Yesterday (5:06)
  5. We Wanna Rock You (4:17)
  6. Legion of the Lost (4:54)
  7. Tyrant (3:17)
  8. 2000 Light Years from Home (2:54)
  9. Heart Attack (3:16)
  10. Shoot Her Down! (3:39)
  11. We Wanna Rock You - Mega Mix (3:38)
  12. Storming the Brain (5:06)
  13. Violence (4:44)
  14. 2000 Light Years from Home - Alternate Version (3:12)

Credits

  • Willi Lackmann - bass
  • Bernd Gansohr - cover, painting
  • Albert Eckardt - drums
  • Peter Masson - guitar
  • Chris Boltendahl - vocals, lyrics by
  • Dietmar Dillhardt - keyboards
  • Keith Richards - written-by [uncredited]
  • Mick Jagger - written-by [uncredited]

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