Glow (Raven album)

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Glow
Raven Glow.jpg
Studio album by Raven
Released 1 March 1994
Recorded Showplace Studios, Dover, New Jersey, USA, 1994
Genre Heavy metal
Length48:31
Label SPV
Producer Raven
Raven chronology
Architect of Fear
(1991) Architect of Fear1991		Glow
(1994)		 Destroy All Monsters/Live in Japan
(1996) Destroy All Monsters/Live in Japan1996
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 6/10 [1]

Glow is the ninth full-length album by the band Raven, released in 1994 (see 1994 in music).

Raven (British band) English heavy metal band

Raven are an English heavy metal band associated with the new wave of British heavy metal movement. They have released thirteen studio albums to date, and had a hit with the single "On and On". Their music is often referred to as "athletic rock", and the band are considered one of the key influences on the thrash metal genre, including bands such as Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Testament, Exodus, Kreator and Sodom.

1994 in music Overview of the events of 1994 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994.

Contents

"The Rocker" is a Thin Lizzy cover.

Track listing

All songs by Gallagher, Gallagher, Hasselvander unless noted.

  1. "Watch You Drown" – 4:36
  2. "Spite" – 2:26
  3. "True Believer" – 4:42
  4. "So Close" – 4:14
  5. "Alter" – 4:33
  6. "The Dark Side" – 3:52
  7. "The Rocker" (Phil Lynott, Brian Downey, Eric Bell) – 3:07
  8. "Turn on You" – 3:43
  9. "Far and Wide" – 5:21
  10. "Victim" – 3:51
  11. "Gimme a Reason" – 4:02
  12. "Slip Away" – 4:04

Personnel

Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Joe Hasselvander musician

Joe Hasselvander is an American musician who has been playing professionally since nine years old in 1966. He was self-taught, playing the violin and later the drums. He has been the drummer of the NWOBHM Raven since 1987, and was a member of the influential doom metal band Pentagram.

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References

  1. ↑ Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 362. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
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