RAVEN - "All For One" Re-Release with bonus tracks via High Roller Records - Release date: May 14, 2021 #raven #allforone #nwobhm

RAVEN – “All For One” Re-Release with bonus tracks via High Roller Records – Release date: May 14, 2021 #raven #allforone #nwobhm

OVERVIEW
RAVEN – “All For One” (Re-Release)
Label: High Roller Records
Release date: 14.05.2021
Format: LP
Distribution: Soulfood

For their third album “All For One”, released in August 1983, the Newcastle-based trio of bassist/vocalist John Gallagher, his guitarist brother Mark and drummer Rob Hunter set about making some major changes. Playing a number of dates in America at the end of 1982 had been an eye-opener for RAVEN, and they decided that “All For One” would be less about speed and more about muscle. And to help them achieve the album they could hear in their heads they wanted the use of more elaborate equipment than Neat Records’ Impulse Studios could offer, together with a producer of their choice. Top of their list was Michael Wagener – because of his work on Accept’s “Breaker” LP – who unbeknown to the band was working at that time with Accept’s frontman Udo Dirkschneider.
The production team proved to be a lethal choice, and the resulting album was an incredible roller-coaster of power and passion, evidenced from the off by the teaser single ‘Break The Chain’. It was inevitable that the band would get the Accept frontman into the vocal booth for a duet, and Udo sang with RAVEN on two songs, ‘Inquisitor’ and ‘Born To Be Wild’, both of which also appeared as a single in various formats.
This release features the original album, as well as the non-album B-side ‘The Ballad Of Marshall Stack’, the two duets with Udo Dirkschneider and ‘The Power And The Glory’, which at the time was consigned to the vaults.
Original transfer, audio restoration and mastering by Patrick W. Engel at TEMPLE OF DISHARMONY in June 2020. Mastered from an unreleased Megaforce sterling cutting. Best sounding version ever! Cutting by SST Germany on Neumann machines for optimal quality on all levels… The ultimate audiophile edition of this eternal NWOBHM classic!

HRR 770, ltd 1000, 300 x black, 350 x purple, 250 x olive green + 100 x grey vinyl (HRR mail order exclusive), 425gsm heavy cardboard cover with 5 mm spine, poster, lyric sheet, insert, bonus 10″ with p/s

TRACKLIST

1. Take Control

2. Mind Over Metal

3. Sledgehammer Rock

4. All for One

5. Run Silent Run Deep

6. Hung Drawn and Quartered

7. Break The Chain

8. Take it Away

9. Seek and Destroy

10. Athletic Rock

11. Born to Be Wild