Shotgun Messiah (album)

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Shotgun Messiah
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Studio album by
Released12 September 1989
StudioCCM Studio, KMH Studios, Can-AM Recorders
Genre Glam metal, heavy metal, hard rock
Length38:32
Label Relativity
Producer Harry Cody, Tim Tim
Shotgun Messiah chronology
Shotgun Messiah
(1989)
Second Coming
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Shotgun Messiah is the debut album by Swedish hard rock band Shotgun Messiah, released on 12 September 1989 through Relativity Records. The album is a remix of the album Welcome to Bop City , released under the band's former name Kingpin. Described as "cocky, loud and rough", Shotgun Messiah would go on to sell almost 500,000 copies. [2] [3] The band toured North America in support the album.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bop City" Harry Cody, J.K. Knox, Tim Tim, Zinny J. Zan 3:54
2."Don't Care 'bout Nothin'"Cody, Knox, Tim4:20
3."Shout It Out"Cody, Knox, Tim4:11
4."Squeezin' Teazin'"Cody, Knox, Tim4:05
5."The Explorer"Cody, Tord Jacobsson3:52
6."Nowhere Fast"Cody, Tim3:59
7."Dirt Talk"Cody, Tim Zan4:30
8."I'm Your Love"Cody, Tim4:53
9."Nervous"Cody, Knox, Tim, Zan4:07
10."Carnival Exit" (hidden track) 0:38
Total length:38:32

Personnel

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References

  1. "Shotgun Messiah – Shotgun Messiah". AllMusic.
  2. "MORE MEAT ON THE BASS". The Washington Post. 7 January 1990.
  3. Olivier (22 January 2022). "Zinny Zan recalls how close Shotgun Messiah's original line-up came to reuniting about 2.5 years ago". Sleaze Roxx. Retrieved 9 November 2023.