Inside the Electric Circus
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Inside the Electric Circus is the third studio album by American heavy metal band W.A.S.P., released in October 1986[1] through Capitol Records; a remastered edition featuring two bonus tracks was reissued in 1997 through Snapper Music.[2] The album is the band's first to feature singer and bandleader Blackie Lawless playing guitar, having switched from bass to rhythm guitar.[2] It reached No. 60 on the US Billboard 200 chart,[3] where it remained for 19 weeks.[4]
Critical reception
Template:Music ratings Greg Prato at AllMusic gave Inside The Electric Circus three stars out of five, calling it "[an attempt] to grow musically with each successive release".[5] Canadian journalist Martin Popoff considered the album "slightly more simplified and hard rock-based" than previous works and reminded in his review how Lawless "in retrospect considered this record a failure."[6]
Lawless himself has been critical of Inside The Electric Circus, going as far as to name it his least favorite W.A.S.P. album, calling it a "tired record done by a tired band".[7]
Metal Hammer included the album cover on their list of "50 most hilariously ugly rock and metal album covers ever".[8]
Track listing
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Personnel
- W.A.S.P.
- Blackie Lawless – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, producer
- Chris Holmes – lead guitar
- Johnny Rod – bass, background vocals
- Steve Riley – drums, background vocals
- Production
- Duane Baron, Alex Woltman – engineers
- Hans Peter Huber, Kevin Lehue – additional engineering
- Michael Wagener, Garth Richardson – mixing
- George Marino – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York
Charts
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References
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- ↑ "W.A.S.P. UK Record Collector - August 1989" Template:Webarchive. waspnation.com. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
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- ↑ [[[:Template:BillboardURLbyName]] "W.A.S.P. - Chart history"]. Billboard. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
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