Description
In Your Face is the sophomore album by the American hard rock/metal band Shout, released on Frontline Records in 1989. Also licenced to Music For Nations. The album was recorded by Dave Jahnsen and Eric Kibbe at The Mixing Lab B in Garden Grove, California; with band member Ken Tamplin producing. Mixed by Dave Jahnsen at The Mixing Lab A.
Featuring Ken Tamplin on lead vocals and lead guitar, Chuck King on lead guitar and vocals, Mark Hugonberger on keyboards, and a rhythm section consisting of bassist Loren Robinson and drummer Joseph Galletta. The title track features guest apperances by guitarists Alex Masi, Joey Price, Lanny Cordola, Marty Friedman, Michael Angelo, and Randy Hansen.
SHOUT plays fast, loud, fast and loud, loud and fast, and ever louder and faster, while managing to express just about every nuance and shade of loudness and fastness in between. And, for a hard rock album bordering on speed metal, that’s the whole idea.
With ‘In Your Face’, Ken Tamplin and Chuck King deliver a pulverizing, virtuous display of amnic, atonal fret-chasing. They may occasionally lose track of the key, but never their sense of humor. Especially funny is the tape-breaking speedup at the end of «Getting Ready». Guys, that causes head wear! Tsk, tsk.
But it’s not all flash and thrash. The lyrics are positive and encouraging, charged with determination, like these from «Waiting For You»: “Now I see the changes, come all over me/ I pray for Your grace and Your mercy I never earned/ … Teach me how Lord and make Your presence known.” A strong follow up effort for SHOUT, ‘In Your Face’ fully lives up to its title. [Mark Eischer, CCM, March 1989]
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LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “Borderline” – 4:28
A2. “When The Love Is Gone” – 4:16
A3. “Give Me An Answer” – 3:51
A4. “Faith Hope And Love” – 3:38
A5. “Getting Ready” – 3:54
Side Two
B1. “In Your Face” – 5:10
B2. “Getting On With Life” – 3:59
B3. “Waiting On You” – 3:51
B4. “Moonlight Sonata” – 0:28
B5. “It’s All I Need” – 3:27
B6. “Ain’t Givin’ Up” – 3:48
Note: Simultaneously released on cassette, 12-inch vinyl LP and CD by Frontline Records. Both of Shout’s albums, It Won’t Be Long and In Your Face, were later re-issued on one CD as a part of KMG’s Classic Archives Music Value Pak series. Remastered by Rob Colwell of Bombworks Sound and re-issued by Girder Records in 2019, and comes with 8-page booklet featuring song lyrics, in depth band insights provided by band members Chuck King and Ken Tamplin, and photos.
“Give Me An Answer” (MUSIC VIDEO)
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