Psycho Savant

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Psycho Savant
Psycho Savant Album.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJune, 1991
Genre Thrash metal
Length54:13
Label Metal Blade
Producer Bill Metoyer
Intruder chronology
A Higher Form of Killing
(1989)
Psycho Savant
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Psycho Savant is the third and final studio album by the metal band Intruder. It was released in June, 1991, on Metal Blade and Warner Bros. Records. The album moved toward slower tempos and longer songs (all but one of the songs are over 6 minutes in length). It was also their only album Tom Harding did not produce. [2]

Intruder (American band)

Intruder is an American thrash metal band from Nashville, Tennessee. Formerly known as "Transgresser", the group began as a four-piece cover band. They saw the addition of rhythm guitarist Greg Messick after signing with Metal Blade Records.

Warner Bros. Records American record label

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1958 as the recorded music division of the American film studio Warner Bros., and was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations for much of its existence. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a convoluted series of corporate mergers and acquisitions from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a struggling minor player in the music industry to one of the top record labels in the world.

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"N.G.R.I." stands for "Not Guilty for Reason of Insanity." [3]

In the song "Geri's Lament (When)", the word 'Geri's' is short for 'geriatrics'. The song deals with the abuse of the elderly at senior care living facilities. The song was lauded for spreading awareness on a then relatively unknown problem.

Elder abuse is "a single, or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust, which causes harm or distress to an older person." This definition has been adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) from a definition put forward by Action on Elder Abuse in the UK. Laws protecting the elderly from abuse are similar to and related to, laws protecting dependent adults from abuse.

Institutional abuse is the maltreatment of a person from a system of power. This can range from acts similar to home-based child abuse, such as neglect, physical and sexual abuse, and hunger, to the effects of assistance programs working below acceptable service standards, or relying on harsh or unfair ways to modify behavior. Institutional abuse occurs within emergency care facilities such as foster homes, group homes, kinship care homes, and pre-adoptive homes. Children, who are placed in this type of out of home care, are typically in the custody of the state. The maltreatment is usually caused by an employee of the facility. Out of home placement care is meant to be temporary; however, it can be permanent. Many solutions are underway in preventing and protecting institutionally abused children (Denvergov.org).

Track listing

  1. "Face of Hate" - 06:12
  2. "Geri's Lament (When)" - 07:33
  3. "The Enemy Within" - 06:57
  4. "It's a Good Life" - 07:39
  5. "Invisible" - 06:46
  6. "Traitor to the Living" - 07:51
  7. "Final Word" - 04:31
  8. "N.G.R.I." - 06:44

Personnel

Production

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