Wiped Out (Raven album)

Wiped Out
Studio album by Raven
Released 3 June 1982
Recorded 1982
Studio Impulse Studios, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England
Genre Heavy metal, speed metal
Length 51:53
Label Neat
Producer Raven and Keith Nichol
Raven chronology
Rock until You Drop
(1981)Rock until You Drop1981
Wiped Out
(1982)
All for One
(1983)All for One1983
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal10/10[2]

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

Reception

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

Track listing

All songs written by Gallagher, Gallagher and Hunter.

Side one

  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

  1. "Live at the Inferno!" – 3:54
  2. "Star War" – 5:35
  3. "UXB" – 3:25
  4. "20/21" – 1:36
  5. "Hold Back the Fire" – 5:40
  6. "Chainsaw" – 5:17

CD reissue bonus tracks

  1. "Crash Bang Wallop" - 3:03
  2. "Run Them Down" - 2:59
  3. "Rock Hard" - 3:06
  4. "20/21" (outtake) - 1:44

Personnel

Raven

Production

  • Keith Nichol - producer, engineer

References

  1. Henderson, Alex. "Raven - Wiped Out review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 2016-11-20.
  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 2011-03-24.
  4. [...], Rock Hard (Hrsg.). [Red.: Michael Rensen. Mitarb.: Götz Kühnemund] (2005). Best of Rock & Metal die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten. Königswinter: Heel. p. 9. ISBN 3-89880-517-4.


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