Released February 1985 Armed and Dangerous
(1985) I'm the Man
(1987) Release date February 1985 Genre Thrash metal | Length 27:02 Artist Anthrax Label Megaforce Records Producers Carl Canedy, Jon Zazula | |
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Recorded Pyramid Sound Studios, Ithaca, New York, 1984 | ||
Armed and Dangerous is the first EP by American heavy metal band Anthrax, released in February 1985 through Megaforce Records. The band produced the album with Carl Canedy and Jon Zazula acting as executive producer. This is the first Anthrax release to feature Joey Belladonna on vocals.
Contents
The 1992 issue includes the songs "Soldiers of Metal" and "Howling Furies" as its last two tracks. The line-up for those two tracks is Neil Turbin, Scott Ian, Dan Spitz, Greg D'Angelo (except where Charlie Benante rerecorded the drums), and Dan Lilker. It was released as a double album (along with Fistful of Metal) in Germany in 2000.
The song "Armed and Dangerous" also appears on the album Spreading the Disease with a different mix, which does not include the fade-in intro leading into the initial acoustic guitar melody. That intro was omitted from the album version for unverified reasons but it is possible that it was for album continuity.
The song "Raise Hell" was an original Anthrax recording exclusive to the EP, and "God Save the Queen" was originally recorded by the Sex Pistols on the Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols album. Despite being marked as live versions, "Metal Thrashing Mad" and "Panic" are the studio re-recordings of tracks featured on the band's debut album.
Anthrax armed and dangerous studio version
Personnel
Songs
1Armed and Dangerous6:07
2Raise Hell4:03
3God Save the Queen3:02