Worth the Weight

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Worth the Weight
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1992
RecordedDecember 1991 - April 1992
StudioQuest Recording Studios, Oshawa, Canada
Genre Heavy metal, speed metal
Length48:09
Label Maximum (North America)
Mausolueum (Europe)
Producer Anvil, Paul Lachapelle, Abdul Hasad Mohammed
Anvil chronology
Past and Present – Live in Concert
(1989)
Worth the Weight
(1992)
Plugged in Permanent
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 8/10 [2]
Rock Hard 9.0/10 [3]

Worth the Weight is the sixth studio album by Canadian heavy metal band Anvil. [4] It is Anvil's only release on Mausoleum Records and their only release with Sebastian Marino on guitar, replacing Dave Allison. [5]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Infanticide"Ian Dickson, Steve "Lips" Kudlow, Sebastian Marino, Robb Reiner7:41
2."On the Way to Hell"Dickson, Kudlow, Marino, Reiner6:04
3."Bushpig"Dickson, Kudlow, Reiner4:08
4."Embalmer"Kudlow, Reiner6:53
5."Pow Wow"Dickson, Kudlow, Marino, Reiner6:00
6."Sins of the Flesh"Kudlow, Reiner5:19
7."A.Z. #85"Dickson, Kudlow, Marino, Reiner3:12
8."Sadness" / "Love Me When I'm Dead"Kudlow, Reiner8:52

Personnel

Anvil
Production

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References

  1. Jeffries, Vincent. "Anvil Worth the Weight review". AllMusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 2011-09-06.
  2. Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 28. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
  3. Kühnemund, Götz (1992). "Review Album: Anvil - Worth the Weight". Rock Hard (in German). No. 58. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  4. "Anvil – Worth the Weight (1992, CD)".
  5. The ANVIL Homepage--Worth The Weight