This album "First Strike" by the German Speed Metal band: Warrant , is their first official recording and contains 6 tracks. The album front cover artwork was done by Phil Lawvere a cover illustrator in Berlin in the early eighties, when thrash metal was born. He created covers for bands such as Celtic Frost, Rage, Kreator, Vendetta, Death Row, and Helloween. The photo of the Warrant band on the back cover was taken by Fred Baumgart. A photographed since the mid-1980's several German Heavy Metal bands, including: Warrant, Ballantinez, Kreator, Rage, Deathrow, Voivod, Tankard.
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Speed Metal |
Album Production information: The album: "WARRANT - First Strike" was produced by: Horst Müller and Warrant Sound/Recording Engineer(s): Horst Müller This album was recorded at: Caet Studio, Berlin, Germany Caet Studios, Berlin is a popular sound recording music studio used by many German Heavy Metal bands. During the 1980s "Caet Studios" has been used by "Celtic Frost", "Running Wild", "Destruction", as well as many other bands. Album cover design: Warrant Cover Painting: Phil Lawvere (Artwork) Cover Layout: L+Z Grafik Design Album cover photography: Fred Baumgart Horst Mueller - a sound engineer from Germany and has engineered the records of several German Metal bands, notable Destruction, Running Wild, Warrant and the Swiss Celtic Frost band, as well as many others. He has used several different aliases/pseudonyms, aliases used by Horst Mueller include: Horst "Hoddle" Muller, Horst H.I.F. "The Crazy Frog" Muller, Horst "The Only One" Muller, "Mad" Horst Muller Phil Lawvere was a cover illustrator in Berlin and in the early eighties, when thrash metal was born. While working with Karl-Ulrich Walterbach he created album covers for bands such as Celtic Frost , Rage , Kreator , Vendetta , Death Row and Helloween . Karl-Ulrich Walterbach founder and owner of "Noise" records ( Noise Records being a sub-label of Modern Music ). Producer and Executive producer of countless mainly Germany Heavy Metal albums. L+Z Grafik Design, a number of graphics artists have been working at "L+Z Grafik Design" and creating the album cover artwork for bands like: "Warrant", "Witch Hunter", Rage. Graphics artists which worked for L+Z Grafik Design include Phil Lawvere and Ken Kelly. Fred Baumgart photographed since the mid-1980's several German Heavy Metal bands, including: Warrant , Ballantinez , Kreator , Rage , Deathrow , Voivod , Tankard . |
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Record Company & Catalog number: | Noise - N0019 |
Media Format: |
12" Vinyl Stereo Gramophone Record Total Album (Cover+Record) weight: 230 gram |
Year and Country: |
1985 Germany |
Personnel/Band Members and Musicians on: WARRANT - First Strike |
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Complete Track-listing of the album "WARRANT - First Strike" |
The detailed tracklist of this record "WARRANT - First Strike" is:
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High Quality Photo of Album Front Cover "WARRANT - First Strike" |
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Album Back Cover Photo of "WARRANT - First Strike" |
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Photo of "WARRANT - First Strike" 12" LP Record - Side One: |
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Photo of "WARRANT - First Strike" 12" LP Record - Side Two: |
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