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Doomsday for the Deceiver

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Released
  
July 4, 1986

Length
  
55:05

Release date
  
4 July 1986

Label
  
Metal Blade Records

Recorded
  
Jan - Mar 1986

Artist
  
Flotsam and Jetsam

Producer
  
Brian Slagel

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Doomsday for the Deceiver(1986)
  
No Place for Disgrace(1988)

Genres
  
Thrash metal, Speed metal, Power metal

Similar
  
Flotsam and Jetsam albums, Thrash metal albums

Flotsam and jetsam doomsday for the deceiver studio version


Doomsday for the Deceiver is the debut album by Flotsam and Jetsam. It was released on July 4, 1986, on a budget of $12,000, and recorded in two weeks. It is the only album by Flotsam and Jetsam with Jason Newsted before his departure for Metallica. Most lyrics were written by Newsted. The album was re-released in 2006, including a re-mastered version, DVD, and original release. This album was the first of only a handful to ever receive a 6k rating from the influential British magazine Kerrang!. The album cover can be seen in the 1988 movie Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers.

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Reception and awards

Doomsday for the Deceiver was ranked at number six on Loudwire's top ten list of "Thrash Albums NOT Released by the Big 4".

Track listing

All songs written by Kelly David-Smith, Edward Carlson, Eric A.K., Jason Newsted, Michael Gilbert. All lyrics by Jason Newsted except "Iron Tears" by Jason Newsted and Jennifer Lowe, "Metalshock" by Jason Newsted and Eric A.K., "U.L.S.W." by Jason Newsted and Edward Carlson.

20th anniversary special edition bonus tracks

Disc 1: Iron Tears Demo

  1. "Iron Tears" – 4:05
  2. "I Live You Die" – 6:06

Disc 2: from 1985's Metal Shock

  1. "Hammerhead" – 6:34
  2. "The Evil Sheik" – 5:26
  3. "I Live You Die" – 6:26
  4. "The Beast Within" – 4:09

Band

  • Eric A.K.: lead vocals
  • Edward Carlson: guitars, vocals
  • Michael Gilbert: guitars, vocals
  • Jason Newsted: bass guitar, vocals
  • Kelly David-Smith: drums, vocals

    • Other

  • Brian Slagel and Flotsam And Jetsam: producing
  • Bill Metoyer: engineering

    • Allusions

  • "She Took An Axe" relates the story of Lizzie Borden who had been suspected of murdering her parents in 1892. The song has a jump-rope rhyme written about her at the time as a refrain.
  • "Der Fuhrer" refers to Adolf Hitler. The lyrics are more or less a story about Hitler, in which he is portrayed as being evil and a 'demon'. The lyrics were not meant to be sympathetic towards Hitler or the Nazi Party.

    • Songs

    1Hammerhead6:17
    2Iron Tears3:54
    3Desecrator3:52

    References

    Doomsday for the Deceiver Wikipedia
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