Fistful of Metal
Occupation
Fistful of Metal is the debut album by American heavy metal band Anthrax. The album is still associated with the power and speed metal.
Formation
After anthrax was taken by John Zazulas gegründetem new record label, Megaforce Records, the band recorded their first full-length album on 1983. In response thought of contracted also at Mega Force on Metallica 's debut album Kill ' Em All, the band wrote pieces faster than before, and put more emphasis on rhythm guitar and double bass drumming. The combination of influences from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal at high speed was possible, in particular through the aggressive and fast-paced game of drummer Charlie Benante.
The compositions are mostly from Dan Lilker and Scott Ian, who was led into the album credits under his birth name Rosenfeld. The texts were written by vocalist Neil Turbin. The third title I'm Eighteen is a cover of a song by Alice Cooper from the year 1970.
The album was indexed in Germany in 1986 because of the record covers, since the Federal Review Board writings having regarded as glorifying violence. The indexing is meanwhile time-barred.
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Reception
Steve Huey of Allmusic criticized that the time of admission, neither the line up of the band have yet consolidated their musical style. For fans of later albums Fistful of Metal was " daunting ", it sounded " more like a cheap copy of Judas Priest". Frank from Trojan Rock Hard pulls in his contemporary review comparisons to Metallica and specifically praised the song by Neil Turbin. He ordered the album to the speed metal.