Standing The Test Of Time

Attacker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 27, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Chavis Records
• ASIN: B000XT1P0M
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #412,711 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Call On The Attacker 2. Slayer s Blade 3. Disciple 4. The Hermit 5. Zero Hour 6. Captives Of Babylon 7. Desecration 8. Revelations Of Evil 9. Soul Taker 10. Jack 11. Sleepy Hollow 12. The End 13. The Unknown 14. Nail It Down 15. I Am Sinn 16. This Is Power - Attacker

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not Really Standing the Test of Time, January 30, 2011

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Hailing from New Jersey, Attacker was your generic traditional metal band that offered little more than screaming, Haldford like vocals over speedy riffing and harmonized guitar leads. Fellow US bands like Metal Church, Jag Panzer, Omen, Virgin Steele and even Warlord were exploring that same musical territory at the time, but with much more panache and talent, and their intensification of Maiden/Priest clichés would eventually inspire Iced Earth into building its distinctively American power metal style in the early 90s.
They released two albums in the mid to late eighties and after breaking up in 1989 they would reform fifteen years later on their 2004 album Soultaker to a completely indifferent metal community, apparently disbanding after their fourth album, 2006's The Unknown.
This sixteen track compilation features four tracks from each of their albums arranged chronologically, which is not a very good idea, since it gives the false illusion that somehow the band's newest tracks may be as relevant as the oldest material could've been, but even if in its heyday, this was just another ordinary, run of the mill mid-80s US metal band with nothing unique or special to offer.
Fan of US based mid 80s traditional metal are much better off tracking the band's classic albums, 1985's Battle at Helm's Deep and 1988's The Second Coming than this pedestrian compilation.