Wiped Out (Raven album)

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Wiped Out
Raven - Wiped Out.jpg
Studio album by
Released3 June 1982
Recorded1982
StudioImpulse Studios (Wallsend, England)
Genre
Length51:53
Label Neat
Producer Raven and Keith Nichol
Raven chronology
Rock Until You Drop
(1981)
Wiped Out
(1982)
All for One
(1983)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 10/10 [2]

Wiped Out is the second full-length album by British heavy metal band Raven, released in 1982. [3]

Contents

Reception

In 2005, Wiped Out was ranked number 495 in Rock Hard magazine's book The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time. [4]

Track listing

All songs written by Gallagher, Gallagher, and Hunter.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Faster than the Speed of Light"4:22
2."Bring the Hammer Down"4:19
3."FirePower"3:08
4."Read All About It"3:01
5."To the Limit – To the Top"7:54
6."Battle Zone"3:34
Side two
No.TitleLength
7."Live at the Inferno!"3:54
8."Star War"5:35
9."UXB"3:25
10."20/21"1:36
11."Hold Back the Fire"5:40
12."Chainsaw"5:17
CD reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
13."Crash Bang Wallop"3:03
14."Run Them Down"2:59
15."Rock Hard"3:06
16."20/21" (outtake)1:44

Personnel

Raven

Production

References

  1. Henderson, Alex. "Raven - Wiped Out review". AllMusic . Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  2. Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 283–284. ISBN   978-1894959315.
  3. "Raven (Gbr) - Wiped Out". Encyclopaedia Metallum . Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  4. Best of Rock & Metal - Die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten (in German). Rock Hard. 2005. p. 9. ISBN   3-89880-517-4.