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Armored Saint - Crisis of Life

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Armored Saint - Raising Fear (September 5, 1987)

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Monday, September 13: Armored Saint, “Raising Fear”

R.I.P. David Prichard (1963-1990)

Raising Fear’s title track epitomized the paradox that was Armored Saint in the late ‘80s: it was faster, heavier, more intense and more sharply written than most of the band’s previous material, but there also a strange sense of panic and hysteria matched with a bizarre high-strung self-consciousness. To be sure, their label had more or less given up on them by 1987, and their inability to gain traction had to have wore them down. But while “Raising Fear” was a fun headbanger with a shoutalong chorus and coda, and John Bush’s roar was never less than compelling, the band as a whole didn’t sound confident that all of this would actually amount to anything, and that feeling came through on the finished product. Armored Saint was always a bit too uptight for their own good, and that definitely contributed to their lack of commercial success, though in their better moments they were able to cut through that, and while “Raising Fear” didn’t fully break out of their self-imposed constraints, it came pretty close.