Description
The self-titled debut album by the American metal band Whitecross was released on Pure Metal in 1987, a division of Refuge Music Group. The album was recorded by Perry Miller at Opus Recording Studio in Gurnee, Illinois; with Caesar Kalinowski and band member Rex Carroll producing.
The album was re-recorded by the band in 2005 and released on a CD entitled Nineteen Eighty Seven.
Month after month we’ve been waiting for an album that had enough of an edge for the metal heads but also enough melody and pop sensibility for everyone else. The waiting is over, ‘White Cross’ is it.
‘White Cross’, the self-titled debut from this exciting pop/metal band, is the kind of release that straddles traditional categories like “heavy metal”, “hard rock”, and “pop”. Instead, they concentrate on making sizzling, hook-laden music that jumps into your face and pleasingly stays there. Fronted by vocalist Scott Wenzel and guitarist Rex Carroll (undisputedly the hottest, punchiest new axe man we’ve heard this year), this quartet makes unapologetically straightforward rock in the Ratt/Bon Jovi mold.
And White Cross lyrics are upfront without being terribly cliched or boring. From the opening hard-rocking cut «Who Will You Follow» (“Who will you follow/ Satan or the author of life/ Jesus paid the price/ God made the sacrifice for you”), through the anthemic «He Is the Rock» (“There is a way that seems right to a man/ That many have traveled before/ You must choose between the jaws of hell/ Or find life through the narrow door”), these songs provide solid biblical meat with plenty of musical spice.
It’s been a long year full of interesting but flawed Christian metal releases. Thankfully, White Cross has taken blod and exciting steps toward filling the void. [Devlin Donaldson and Steve Rabey, CCM, October 1987]
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LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “Who Will You Follow” – 4:02
A2. “Enough Is Enough” – 4:03
A3. “He Is The Rock” – 4:33
A4. “Lookin’ For A Reason” – 3:31
A5. “You’re Mine” – 4:00
Side Two
B1. “No Way I’m Goin’ Down” – 4:07
B2. “Seein’ Is Believin'” – 4:32
B3. “All I Need” – 4:07
B4. “Nagasake” – 1:50
B5. “Signs Of The End” – 4:06
Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and 12-inch vinyl LP by Pure Metal Records.
“Enough is Enough,” Live in Indianapolis 10/29/2016
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