Hallow's Victim

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Hallow's Victim
Vitus hallow.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1985 (1985-08)
Recorded1985
Studio Total Access Recording, Redondo Beach, California
Genre Doom metal
Length34:31
Label SST
Producer SPOT, Joe Carducci, Saint Vitus
Saint Vitus chronology
Saint Vitus
(1984)
Hallow's Victim
(1985)
The Walking Dead
(1985)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 7/10 [2]

Hallow's Victim is the second studio album by the American doom metal band Saint Vitus. It was released in 1985 by SST Records. This album was the last to feature original singer Scott Reagers until their seventh album, Die Healing (1995). Reagers also appears on The Walking Dead EP that was released the same year. It remained the only Saint Vitus album not to be officially released on CD until SST officially released the album on CD in combination with The Walking Dead in 2010.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Dave Chandler, except where noted.

Side one
  1. "War Is Our Destiny" (Chandler, Scott Reagers) - 4:05
  2. "White Stallions" - 5:21
  3. "Mystic Lady" - 7:37
Side two
  1. "Hallow's Victim" - 2:40
  2. "The Sadist" (Chandler, Reagers) - 3:56
  3. "Just Friends (Empty Love)" (Chandler, Reagers) - 5:40
  4. "Prayer for the (M)Asses" - 4:45
  5. "Outro" - 0:27

Personnel

Saint Vitus
Production

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References

  1. Rivadavia, Eduardo. Saint Vitus: Hallow's Victim at AllMusic. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  2. Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 304. ISBN   978-1-894959-31-5.