Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac
Tracklist
01. The Holocaust02. Stand Up And Fight
03. Heavy Metal Maniac
04. Iron Dogs
05. Mistress Of Evil
06. Under Attack
07. Rising Of The Dead
08. Blackwitch
09. Cry Of The Banshee
Additional info
Reissued by Roadrunner in 1986.Reissued by Megaforce Records in 2005 with the following bonus tracks:
10. World War III (Recorded at Nimbus Sound Stage Studios / Toronto / June
1981)
11. Evil Sinner (Recorded at Pyramid Sound / Ithaca, NY / November 1983 /
Produced by Carl Canedy)
12. Interview # 1A: Dan Beehler, John Ricci / November 7, 1982 / CKCU / Ottawa
13. Interview # 1B: Dan Beehler, John Ricci / November 7, 1982 / CKCU / Ottawa
14. Interview # 2: John Ricci with Jim Hurcomb / CHEZ 106 / Ottawa (Backstage
before opening for Black Sabbath at Ottawa Exhibition)
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Megaforce is very low profile, I hardly see many of their titles in the market including this one. Only some Testament's and Overkill's titles are frequently available at music stores. What a shame ! (Another awful thing is all of their titles are analogue, they've never remastered any album in the past 30 years, claiming that's their best effort to maintain the "original sounds". Actually just an excuse of not willing to spend extra money and effort for listeners. What a stingy bag !)
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It's old school speed alright. Maybe even a bit too straightforward stuff IMO. Good album in overall, that lacks those really good/killer songs, only the title track being something exceptionally great.
---- My vision is augmented
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They're coming to my country along with Sacred Reich and Night Demon. I should listen to this. I hope all those bands are great live.
---- Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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Nice and energetic album. I like it.
---- "Cross is only an iron,hope is just an illusion,freedom is nothing but a name..." "Build your walls of the dead stone...Build your roofs of a dead wood..Build your dreams of a dead thoughts" 
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This is goodm speed metal, motorhead, bad attitude. When I start listen metal to me this was real sound of it. Good sound, seems way to good for unknown bands from Canada what put album out in the 80's
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"  I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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Posts: 2792 Written by Bad English on 09.02.2021 at 21:07 They were good only in the first three albums (1983-1985). The debut being their best imo.
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Posts: 1068 Written by Dr. Strawberry on 28.11.2014 at 10:28 Why wouldn't you want the original analogue recording? Digital remasters are the scourge of vinyl enthusiasts everywhere, so good on Megaforce for not going down that route. Heavy Metal Maniac and the follow up Violence & Force are speed metal master classes.
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What a debut. I realy like nearly every Exciter album but the debut is special! Hard and raw! Faves: HMM, ID, UA, Blackwitch and CotB
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One of my favourite speed metal albums of all time still to this day. Part of the fun comes from the fact that they were so early that the common genre cliches barely even existed, so there's no rapid fire bass drums, screaming vocalist, fantasy lyrics or anything like that. Instead I hear a lot of Motörhead-worship, D-beats and that good old working man's metal tone and imagery mixed together. There's so many newer bands playing speed and thrash metal these days, but nobody does it like Exciter.
---- You've got a lot of guts. Let's see what they look like!
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