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FIRST IMPRESSIONS
"Looking back twenty years on an album often highlights production flaws if nothing else. Not so 1987, which in this cleaned over reissue could just have easily been issued this week as a new album. It set standards which proto metal bands still aspire to, and listening to the drums rattle through the speakers at times one fears for the structural safety of the house.
 Yes, it was an album which caused mixed reaction among many older fans, myself included, mainly for seeming to abandon everything that had gone before or, if not, then radically reworking it (Crying In The Rain for eg). But twenty years on this is much less of a worry and you can enjoy it for what it is. And let's face it, any album which kicks off on such astonishing form with Still Of The Night deserves at least a little of it's legendary many times Platinum status.
The packaging here is as OTT as the music, with a multi page booklet and elaborate fold out digipak protected by a plastic slipcase. The extra tracks are nothing of the sort as you'll already own them, but you do get four promo videos on a bonus DVD.
Full review in Issue 59, so send us your thoughts."
Simon
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