Manic Impressions

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Manic Impressions
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Studio album by
Released1 May 1991
RecordedRoyal Recorders, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, January–February 1991
Genre Speed metal, progressive metal, thrash metal
Length52:44
Label Metal Blade/Warner Bros.
Producer Kenn Nardi
Anacrusis chronology
Reason
(1990)
Manic Impressions
(1991)
Screams and Whispers
(1993)
Professional ratings
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Manic Impressions is the third studio album by the American thrash/progressive metal band Anacrusis. Manic Impressions was remastered and reissued in 1999.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Paint a Picture" (Kenn Nardi) – 5:58
  2. "I Love the World" (Robert Heaton, Justin Sullivan) – 4:49 (New Model Army cover)
  3. "Something Real" (Nardi) – 5:59
  4. "Dream Again" (Nardi, John Emery) – 3:20
  5. "Explained Away" (Nardi, Emery, Kevin Heidbreder) – 6:01
  6. "Still Black" (Nardi, Heidbreder) – 6:08
  7. "What You Became" (Nardi) – 5:10
  8. "Our Reunion" (Nardi, Heidbreder) – 4:53
  9. "Idle Hours" (Nardi, Emery) – 4:36
  10. "Far Too Long" (Nardi, Emery, Heidbreder) – 5:50

Personnel

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