Nothing Exceeds Like Excess

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Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
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Studio album by
Released1988
Recorded1988
StudioUCA Recording Studio, Utica, New York
Genre Heavy metal, speed metal
Length49:12
Label Combat
Producer Raven
Raven chronology
Life's a Bitch
(1987)
Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
(1988)
Architect of Fear
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 5/10 [2]

Nothing Exceeds Like Excess is the seventh full-length album by the band Raven, released in 1988. It was Raven's first album with drummer, Joe Hasselvander.

Contents

Track listing

All songs by John Gallagher and Mark Gallagher, except tracks 1, 4, 6 and 11 by Raven

Side one
  1. "Behemoth" – 1:05
  2. "Die for Allah" – 4:58
  3. "Gimme a Break" – 3:19
  4. "Into the Jaws of Death" – 6:08
  5. "In the Name of Our Lord" – 3:46
  6. "Stick It" – 3:10
Side two
  1. "Lay Down the Law" – 4:45
  2. "You Gotta Screw Loose" – 4:22
  3. "Thunderlord" – 4:30
  4. "The King" – 4:25
  5. "Hard as Nails" – 5:06
  6. "Kick Your Ass" – 3:18

1999 re-issue bonus track

  1. "Lay Down the Law" (live)

Personnel

Raven

Production

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References

  1. "Raven Nothing Exceeds Like Excess review". AllMusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  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. 286. ISBN   978-1894959315.