Metal Church | Blessing In Disguise (4K | 1989 | Full Album & Lyrics)

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Blessing In Disguise
Metal Church
February 7th, 1989
9 60817-1
Elektra Records

Mike Howe | Vocals
John Marshall | Guitars
Craig Wells | Guitars
Duke Erickson | Bass
Kirk Arrington | Drums

1. Fake Healer 0:00
2. Rest In Pieces (April 15, 1912) 5:53
3. Of Unsound Mind 12:29
4. Anthem Tto The Estranged 17:11
5. Badlands 26:40
6. The Spell Can't Be Broken 34:00
7. It's A Secret 40:45
8. Cannot Tell A Lie 44:32
9. The Powers That Be 48:49

Blessing in Disguise is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Metal Church, released on February 7, 1989.
Blessing in Disguise was Metal Church's final release on Elektra Records, and the first album not to feature the vocals of David Wayne, due to his departure to form the band Reverend. This album marked the band's debut with vocalist Mike Howe (formerly of Heretic) and guitarist John Marshall, replacing Wayne and Kurdt Vanderhoof respectively. Vanderhoof had produced Heretic's final album Breaking Point previously. It seems that this is how Howe came to the attention of Metal Church. Wayne's new project was made up of the remaining members of Heretic.
Blessing in Disguise also marked the second and last time Metal Church had worked with Terry Date, who also produced the band's 1984 self-titled debut album. Although Vanderhoof was technically no longer an official member of the band at this point, he composed the music and lyrics for seven of the album's nine songs and appears as a guest musician. Vanderhoof would continue to compose music and lyrics for Metal Church on their next two albums before he returned to the band as an official member in 1998.
Blessing in Disguise has been seen as one of Metal Church's most diverse works, minimizing most of the thrash and speed metal elements of their first two albums and developing an experimentation with a more progressive tone, similar to those of Metallica and Queensrÿche. The album's style has also been described as power metal or simply heavy metal, and it includes the band's 2nd longest track to date "Anthem to the Estranged".
Blessing in Disguise entered the Billboard 200 chart on April 8, 1989, two months after its release. The album itself peaked at number 75 (the band's second-highest chart position to date, a record broken only 27 years later by XI, which peaked at number 57), and remained on the chart for 15 weeks.
Metal Church spent most of 1989 and 1990 touring behind Blessing in Disguise. They embarked a U.S. tour in the spring of 1989 with Meliah Rage, and supported W.A.S.P. on their Headless Children tour. Metal Church played one show in Germany in October 1989 with Fates Warning and Toranaga, and opened for Saxon in Europe in April 1990. They were also a "surprise guest" for Metallica's May 11, 1990 show at The Marquee in London.
Trivia:
- The album peaked at #75 on the Billboard 200.
- According to former bassist Michael Spencer, Metal Church's former label mates Flotsam and Jetsam were going to use Blessing in Disguise as the title of their second album before settling with its current name "No Place for Disgrace". When Spencer left "Flotsam and Jetsam", Elektra Records A&R Michael Alago decided to let Metal Church use Blessing in Disguise as the name for this album even though the "Flotsam and Jetsam" album was released a year earlier. However, Flotsam and Jetsam drummer Kelly David-Smith stated in an April 2013 interview that those claims are not true, even though they had a song called "Blessing in Disguise", which was in fact recorded but left off for "No Place for Disgrace".
All songs arranged, performed and recorded by Metal Church.
Recorded at Kajem Victory Recording, Gladwyne, PA, August 29-October 4, 1988.
Mastered at Masterdisk.
Terry Date – producer, engineer, mixing
Joe Alexander – engineer, mixing
Brian Stover, Trish Finnegan – assistant engineers
Howie Weinberg – mastering at Masterdisk, New York
Darryl Estrine – photography
Walter O'Brienn, Bob Chiappardi, Diane Sherman – management

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