Heavy Metal Maniac

Heavy Metal Maniac is the first studio album by the Canadian speed metal band Exciter, released through Shrapnel Records in 1983. The album was reissued by Megaforce Records in 2005.[3]

Heavy Metal Maniac
Studio album by
Exciter
ReleasedJanuary 14, 1983
RecordedThe Dungeon Studios, Aylmer, Quebec, August 1982
GenreSpeed metal, heavy metal
Length37:59
LabelShrapnel
ProducerJohn Belrose
Exciter chronology
Heavy Metal Maniac
(1983)		 Violence & Force
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal6/10[2]

Heavy Metal Maniac was inducted into the Decibel Magazine Hall of Fame in a special issue regarding the Top 100 Old-School Metal Albums of All Time.[4]

Track listing
Side heavy
  1. "The Holocaust" (John Ricci, Dan Beehler) – 1:39 (instrumental)
  2. "Stand Up and Fight" (Beehler, Ricci) – 2:47
  3. "Heavy Metal Maniac" (Ricci, Beehler) – 3:47
  4. "Iron Dogs" (Beehler, Ricci) – 5:58
  5. "Mistress of Evil" (Allan Johnson) – 5:13
Side metal
  1. "Under Attack" (Beehler, Ricci, Clint) – 4:17
  2. "Rising of the Dead" (Johnson, Beehler) – 3:32
  3. "Black Witch" (Ricci, Beehler) – 6:59
  4. "Cry of the Banshee" (Johnson, Beehler) – 3:47
2005 CD edition bonus tracks
  1. "World War III" (Recorded at Nimbus Sound Stage Studios, Toronto, June 1981)
  2. "Evil Sinner" (Recorded at Pyramid Sound, Ithaca, N.Y., November 1983)
  3. "Interview # 1A"
  4. "Interview # 1B"
  5. "Interview # 2"

Credits

References
  1. Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Exciter Heavy Metal Maniac review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-10-08.
  2. Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
  3. "Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
  4. "Top 100 Old-School Metal Albums of All Time Special Issue". Decibel. Retrieved 2018-08-06.


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