LAST EXIT

IRON PATH

  1/  Prayer                                     (Last Exit)                   4.37
  2/  Iron Path                                  (Last Exit)                   3.28
  3/  The Black Bat (for Aki Ikuta)              (Last Exit)                   4.33
  4/  Marked For Death                           (Last Exit)                   2.19
  5/  The Fire Drum                              (Last Exit)                   4.18
  6/  Detonator                                  (Last Exit)                   3.47
  7/  Sand Dancer                                (Last Exit)                   1.56
  8/  Cut and Run                                (Last Exit)                   2.30
  9/  Eye For An Eye                             (Last Exit)                   4.54
  10/ Devil's Rain                               (Last Exit)                   4.12

          Recorded and mixed at B.C. Studio, Brooklyn, New York
          Engineered by Martin Bisi
          Produced by Last Exit/Bill Laswell
          Mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk
          Business : Roger Trilling
          Administration : Michael Knuth

Sonny Sharrock : guitar; Peter Brotzmann : bass saxophone; Bill Laswell : basses; Ronald Shannon Jackson : drums.

          1988  -  Virgin Records America, Inc. (USA), VE 38  (Vinyl)
          1988  -  Virgin Records America, Inc. (USA),  7  91015-2  (CD)

REVIEWS :

Their sole major-label release, their first studio recording, and a record that iconoclastic critic Chuck Eddy considers one of the 500 greatest heavy metal albums in the history of the universe. But that doesn't mean you should invite all your Deep Purple and Iron Maiden loving friends over for a listening party; they won't be amused. Using the studio to their advantage, Last Exit explores sonic texture on "Prayer" and "The Fire Drum," but never loses sight of the power and energy that makes their live recordings so memorable. If you were to have one Last Exit recording, this might well be the one. But any one of their live records would enhance your appreciation of this great record immeasurably.

ohn Dugan (courtesy of the All Music Guide via the Get Music website)