Heavy Metal Breakdown

Heavy Metal Breakdown
Studio album by Grave Digger
Released	20 October 1984
Recorded	January, 1984 at Music Lab Studio, West Berlin
Genre	Heavy metal; speed metal; [1]
Length	36:38
Label	Noise (Europe); Megaforce (USA)
Producer	Karl-Ulrich Walterbach, Grave Digger
Grave Digger chronology

Heavy Metal Breakdown is the debut studio album by the German heavy metal band Grave Digger, released on 20 October 1984 by Noise Records. The music in this album is strongly influenced by German heavy metal band Accept and its then-vocalist Udo Dirkschneider.[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Although singer Chris Boltendahl was credited for all the music and lyrics, it was only a technical issue. "At the time we didn't have the money to enroll all four members to GEMA. So we only enrolled Chris", said Gerd Hanke then-manager of Grave Digger in book The Story of Noise Records. "Lyrics had always been a problem for Chris" - added guitarist Peter Masson. "His school English was quite bad. During my time with Grave Digger, Gerd wrote most of the lyrics."[3]

Track listing

Music composed and arranged by Grave Digger and lyrics by Chris Boltendahl, except where indicated

Side A
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Headbanging Man"		3:37
2.	"Heavy Metal Breakdown"		3:42
3.	"Back from the War"		5:35
4.	"Yesterday"	Beate Marquardt	5:06

Side B
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"We Wanna Rock You"		4:17
6.	"Legion of the Lost"		4:54
7.	"Tyrant"		3:17
8.	"2000 Light Years from Home" (The Rolling Stones cover)	Mick Jagger, Keith Richards	2:54
9.	"Heart Attack"		3:16
Total length:			36:38

1994 Japanese Bonus Tracks
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Violence"	4:43
2.	"Shoot Her Down"	3:39
3.	"We Wanna Rock You" (Single Version)	3:36
4.	"Storming the Brain"	5:05
5.	"Shine On"	5:14
6.	"Tears of Blood"	2:37
7.	"Don't Kill the Children"	3:16
8.	"Girls of Rock 'n' Roll"	3:41
9.	"Stronger Than Ever"	4:31
10.	"I Don't Need Your Love"	4:21
Total length:		1:17:21

Notes

The 1994 bonus tracks are from the following:

"Violence" is taken from the 1983 split album Rock from Hell - German Metal Attack
"Shoot Her Down", "We Wanna Rock You" and "Storming the Brain" are taken from the 1984 EP Shoot Her Down
"Shine On" and "Tears of Blood" are taken from the 1985 split album Metal Attack Vol. 1
"Don't Kill the Children" and "Girls of Rock 'n' Roll" are taken from the 1994 compilation album The Best of the Eighties
"Stronger Than Ever" and "I Don't Need Your Love" are taken from the 1986 album Stronger Than Ever, in which case they were called Digger at the time

Personnel

Band members

Chris Boltendahl - vocals
Peter Masson - guitars
Willi Lackman - bass
Albert Eckardt - drums

Additional musicians

Dietmar Dillhardt - keyboards on "Yesterday"

Production

Karl-Ulrich Walterbach - producer
Harris Johns - engineer, mixing

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References

Pemberton, Roach. "Review: Heavy Metal Breakdown". Allmusic. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
"GRAVE DIGGER – Heavy Metal Breakdown (1984) | Album / EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine". www.metalforcesmagazine.com. Retrieved 2017-11-11.
Gehlke, David E. (2017). Damn the Machine, The Story of Noise Records. USA: Deliberation Press. pp. 112–113. ISBN 9780692637135.

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[AMG-1] Pemberton, Roach. "Review: Heavy Metal Breakdown". Allmusic. Retrieved 16 October 2010.

[2] "GRAVE DIGGER – Heavy Metal Breakdown (1984) | Album / EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine". www.metalforcesmagazine.com. Retrieved 2017-11-11.

[3] Gehlke, David E. (2017). Damn the Machine, The Story of Noise Records. USA: Deliberation Press. pp. 112–113. ISBN 9780692637135.

Grave Digger
Chris "Reaper" Boltendahl Jens Becker Axel "Ironfinger" Ritt Marcus Kniep Lutz Schmelzer Peter Masson Philip Seibel Martin Gerlitzki Willi Lackman Albert Eckardt C.F. Frank Peter Breitenbach Tomi Göttlich Uwe Lulis Jörg Michael Frank Ulrich Manni Schmidt Thilo Hermann Hans Peter "H.P." Katzenburg Stefan Arnold
Studio albums	Heavy Metal Breakdown Witch Hunter War Games Stronger than Ever (as Digger) The Reaper Heart of Darkness Tunes of War Knights of the Cross Excalibur The Grave Digger Rheingold The Last Supper Liberty or Death Ballads of a Hangman The Clans Will Rise Again Clash of the Gods Return of the Reaper Healed by Metal The Living Dead Fields of Blood
Live albums	Tunes of Wacken 25 to Live The Clans Are Still Marching
EPs	Shoot Her Down Symphony of Death The Dark of the Sun Yesterday Pray The Ballad of Mary Home at Last
Compilations	The Best of the Eighties Die Definitive Biografie The History - Part One Masterpieces - Best Of Album Lost Tunes from the Vault Exhumation (The Early Years)
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