One of the all-time greats.
Write a couple of songs based on Stephen King stories, throw in another one about a comic book 'hero', a couple of others about your love of metal music, and for good measure, some thought-provoking material to show you are not mindless idiots.
Throw it all together, and you have Among The Living, an album that is at the pinnacle of song writing. Not only that, it is fast, furious and heavy!
Each song flows into the other, driven along by Charlie's drumming and the chanting support vocals from Scott and Frankie. In fact, they seem to get the best lines in each song, the ones that the crowd would be singing if they were watching them live.
There simply isn't a weak song on the whole album, and it shows when so many of them have been used live over the years.
Memories : The first time I read The Stand (pretty much a 29 hour stretch when we owned the nursery in Kiama, with no sleep, and finishing it in one hit in 1992), and finally getting what Among The Living was going on about. Also, the 'waaaaaaaar daaaaaance' at the concert in Sydney in 1990 on the Persistence In Time tour. We were very raucous and enthusiastic!
Rating : Easy. 5/5.
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