Out of the Abyss

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Out of the Abyss
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ReleasedJuly 1988
Studio
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Length42:35
Label Leviathan
Producer Manilla Road, Max Merhoff
Manilla Road chronology
Mystification
(1987)
Out of the Abyss
(1988)
The Courts of Chaos
(1990)
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The Metal Crypt8/10[ citation needed ]

Out of the Abyss is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Manilla Road. It was first issued in 1988 on Leviathan Records, then re-released in 2005 on Cult Metal Classics. Though the band had been constantly increasing the thrash metal influence to their music since their album Open the Gates , this album was its peak, being almost completely thrash metal.

Track listing

  1. "Whitechapel" – 7:16
  2. "Rites of Blood" – 4:18
  3. "Out of the Abyss" – 3:25
  4. "Return of the Old Ones" – 6:22
  5. "Black Cauldron" – 2:57
  6. "Midnight Meat Train" – 3:00
  7. "War in Heaven" – 4:58
  8. "Slaughterhouse" – 3:40
  9. "Helicon" – 6:39

Credits

Manilla Road
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