Rock You to Hell

Rock You to Hell is the third studio album by the British heavy metal band Grim Reaper, released in 1987 under the RCA label. This was the band's final album for 29 years (until the release of Walking in the Shadows in 2016, under the name Steve Grimmett's Grim Reaper), and their last one to feature guitarist Nick Bowcott, bassist Dave Wanklin and drummer Marc Simon. Grim Reaper gained brief mainstream critical and commercial success with this album, due to the regular airplay of "Rock You to Hell" on MTV's Headbangers Ball and album-oriented rock radio stations.[1][2]

Rock You to Hell
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1987
StudioLong View Farm, North Brookfield, Massachusetts
GenreHeavy metal
Length37:14
LabelRCA
ProducerMax Norman
Grim Reaper chronology
Fear No Evil
(1985)
Rock You to Hell
(1987)
Walking in the Shadows
(2016)

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal6/10[4]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Rock You to Hell"Nick Bowcott, Steve GrimmettBowcott4:01
2."Night of the Vampire"GrimmettBowcott3:45
3."Lust for Freedom"GrimmettBowcott4:26
4."When Heaven Comes Down"BowcottBowcott4:23
5."Suck It and See"GrimmettBowcott2:34
Side two
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
6."Rock Me 'till I Die"GrimmettBowcott4:43
7."You'll Wish That You Were Never Born"Bowcott, GrimmettBowcott4:06
8."Waysted Love"Paul DeMercadoBowcott, DeMercado4:18
9."I Want More"GrimmettBowcott4:52

Personnel

Grim Reaper

  • Steve Grimmett – vocals
  • Nick Bowcott – guitar, backing vocals, arrangements
  • Dave Wanklin – bass
  • Marc Simon – drums, backing vocals

Additional musicians

  • Nibby Gibson – backing vocals
  • Deke Kenderian – backing vocals

Technical personne;

  • Max Norman – producer, engineer, mixing at Atlantic Studios, New York City, arrangements, backing vocals
  • Kerry Roher, Jesse Anderson, Claude Achille, Ellen Fitton – assistant engineers
  • Garry Sharpe – cover artwork

References

  1. "Headbangers Ball- The Unofficial Tribute Site – Episode Database". headbangersballunofficialtributesite.com. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  2. "The Hard Report 1987-10-30" (PDF). American Radio History. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  3. Henderson, Alex. "Grim Reaper Rock You to Hell review". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
  4. Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 140. ISBN 978-1894959315.
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