In Your Face

TKO | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 24, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Divebomb / Lumberjack
• ASIN: B001914V5O
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #236,247 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Divebomb Records is proud to present the first official (re)release of TKO's classic In Your Face album. Following the success of their 1979 debut, Let It Roll, TKO vocalist Brad Sinsel decidedly moved the band towards a considerably grittier edge and with a new lineup recorded In Your Face in Hawaii in the summer of 1981. Shockingly, this groundbreaking metal classic didn't see the light of day until 1984 via Combat Records and Music For Nations, at which time it still held up against the flood of metal releases marking metal's golden era. Indeed, the album is a metal classic by any standard including notable Ô80s hard rock anthems like "I Wanna Fight," "Give Into The Night," "End Of The Line" and "Working Girl." Sadly enough, TKO were continuously plagued by a revolving door of band members and were never really able to capitalize on the strength of the press and fan response to the mammoth stadium rock of In Your Face. It's now 2008 (fully 27 years after it was recorded) and In Your Face still remains a smash slice of American metal, every bit as swaggering and expensive sounding as records from Ratt, Dokken, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot recorded years later. A proper release of In Your Face has been long overdue considering the countless bootlegs that have surfaced as well as a miserable attempt to release an inferior version of those sessions. The 2008 Divebomb Records issue contains not only the original version of In Your Face but previously unreleased remixes by original producer Rick Keefer who remixed the tracks before shutting down his studio in 2001. TKO's ranks have included members who eventually went onto bands such as FIFTH ANGEL, HOUSE OF LORDS, ALICE COOPER, WAR BABIES, CHASTAIN and Q5.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars About time, September 9, 2008

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Mark Brockton (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In Your Face (Audio CD)

I have been waiting for this album to be released on cd for years and as soon as I found out it was I got it.
I first discovered this in record form in about 1987 when I was heavily into drumming (I was in a band at the time) and my favourite drummer was Ken.K.Mary who went on to become Alice Coopers drummer in the late 80's.
If you like big sounding albums then this is for you because as the name suggests it is "In Your Face" from the first song.
"I wanna fight" pumps out of the speakers with huge drums and massive guitars.
Brads vocals on this are gritty and powerful all the way through and its just a shame that they didn't do more stuff like this because TKO were ahead of their time considering this was produced in the early 80's.
The version I got has the whole album remastered on the same disc which gives a more polished sound but I prefer the original because it sounds much more raw.
It would have been better to put some long lost songs or maybe a few live versions on here instead of the same songs again but hey.....it still rocks!
If you like early Van Halen and bands like XYZ then you will like this.....Buy it!

4.0 out of 5 stars Into the Way Back Machine, August 1, 2011

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MJRydsFast "MJ" (Arizona, for now.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In Your Face (Audio CD)

I bought this on vinyl from Important Records via mail after hearing them on the radio show "Metal Shop" in 1983 or so. Ozzy Osborn stated, at that time, that his favorite metal tune of all time is Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" but said his second favorite was "by this new band called TKO" and the song was "Run Out of Town". I remember liking all but two tunes on here and could roll side two all the way through. Great album because although its sound is dated, strong songs never go out of style. I rank this one up there with Ray West's APW and Mind Bomb as being two great ones that are sadly overlooked.

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic 80s metal that packs a punch!, May 6, 2011

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Christopher Fryer (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In Your Face (Audio CD)

I completely missed the boat when this album came out. None of my friends had it and I don't recall mediocre magazines like Hit Parader or Circus giving them any print. I had Adam Bomb's underrated debut solo album Fatal Attraction on cassette but I had no idea about his past. About a dozen years ago I got the double CD of demos etc called In Your Face & Up Your Ass and I was impressed. Brad's vocals were strong and gritty and the guitar work was good. But most importantly the songwriting was there. I finally found this album on CD a few years ago as part of a 2 on 1 with Canada's Fist, and then I got the new version. Of the ten songs on this album I think six are classic and the other four ain't bad. With rockers like I Wanna Fight, Run out of Town, Give into the Night, and Working Girl you can't go wrong picking this up.