Rock Until You Drop

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Rock Until You Drop
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Studio album by
Raven
ReleasedJanuary 1981 [1]
Recorded1980
StudioImpulse Studios (Wallsend, England)
Genre Heavy metal
Length46:36
Label Neat
Producer Steve Thompson and Raven
Raven chronology
Rock Until You Drop
(1981)		 Wiped Out
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 8/10 [3]

Rock Until You Drop is the first full-length album by British heavy metal band Raven, released in 1981. The album was the first of many heavy metal studio albums issued by British independent label Neat Records. [4] It reached position No. 63 in the UK Albums Chart. [5]

Contents

The song "Lambs to the Slaughter" was covered by German thrash metal band Kreator on their Out of the Dark... Into the Light EP, added to the re-mastered Terrible Certainty CD in 2000.

Music

Alex Henderson of AllMusic said Raven were "a product of the late-'70s/early-'80s British metal explosion" similar to Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Girlschool, and Saxon. According to him, "Raven was heavily influenced by Judas Priest, but projected an appealing, testosterone-driven personality of its own." [6]

Reception and legacy

Alex Henderson of AllMusic gave the album four and a half stars out of five. "Raven quickly went downhill after signing with Atlantic in 1985, but before that, the metal/hard rock outfit showed a fair amount of promise. [...] If headbangers allot themselves only one Raven CD, Rock Until You Drop is the ideal choice." [7]

Track listing

All songs written by Gallagher, Gallagher and Hunter, except where noted.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Hard Ride"3:10
2."Hell Patrol"4:43
3."Don't Need Your Money"3:22
4."Over the Top"3:51
5."39-40"0:51
6."For the Future"4:04
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
7."Rock Until You Drop" 4:02
8."Nobody's Hero" 3:50
9."Hellraiser / Action" (Sweet cover) Chinn, Chapman, Scott, Connolly, Priest, Tucker4:21
10."Lambs to the Slaughter" 3:51
11."Tyrant of the Airways" 7:16
CD reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
12."Wiped Out"4:30
13."Crazy World"3:57
14."Inquisitor"3:53

Personnel

Raven

Production

References

  1. ↑ "Metal Archives". 21 November 2022.
  2. ↑ Henderson, Alex. "Raven Rock Until You Drop review". AllMusic . Retrieved 26 June 2012.
  3. ↑ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 283. ISBN   978-1894959315.
  4. ↑ "Raven (Gbr) - Rock Until You Drop". Encyclopaedia Metallum . Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  5. ↑ "Rock Until You Drop The Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 25 March 2011.
  6. ↑ Rock Until You Drop - Raven | Album | AllMusic , retrieved 2 December 2025
  7. ↑ Rock Until You Drop - Raven | Album | AllMusic , retrieved 2 December 2025


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