"9.5.-N.A.S.T.Y." / "Easy Living" Released: September 1986[2]
Inside the Electric Circus is the third studio album by American
heavy metal band
W.A.S.P., released in October 1986[3] through
Capitol Records; a
remastered edition featuring two bonus tracks was reissued in 1997 through
Snapper Music.[4] The album is the band's first to feature singer and bandleader
Blackie Lawless playing guitar, having switched from
bass to
rhythm guitar.[4] It reached No. 60 on the US
Billboard 200 chart,[5] where it remained for 19 weeks.[6]
Greg Prato at
AllMusic gave Inside The Electric Circus three stars out of five, calling it "[an attempt] to grow musically with each successive release".[7] Canadian journalist
Martin Popoff considered the album "slightly more simplified and hard rock-based" than previous works and reminded in his review how Lawless "in retrospect considered this record a failure."[8]
Lawless himself has been critical of Inside The Electric Circus, going as far as to name it his least favorite W.A.S.P. album, calling it a "tired record done by a tired band".[9]
^Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 166.
ISBN978-951-1-21053-5.
"9.5.-N.A.S.T.Y." / "Easy Living" Released: September 1986[2]
Inside the Electric Circus is the third studio album by American
heavy metal band
W.A.S.P., released in October 1986[3] through
Capitol Records; a
remastered edition featuring two bonus tracks was reissued in 1997 through
Snapper Music.[4] The album is the band's first to feature singer and bandleader
Blackie Lawless playing guitar, having switched from
bass to
rhythm guitar.[4] It reached No. 60 on the US
Billboard 200 chart,[5] where it remained for 19 weeks.[6]
Greg Prato at
AllMusic gave Inside The Electric Circus three stars out of five, calling it "[an attempt] to grow musically with each successive release".[7] Canadian journalist
Martin Popoff considered the album "slightly more simplified and hard rock-based" than previous works and reminded in his review how Lawless "in retrospect considered this record a failure."[8]
Lawless himself has been critical of Inside The Electric Circus, going as far as to name it his least favorite W.A.S.P. album, calling it a "tired record done by a tired band".[9]
^Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 166.
ISBN978-951-1-21053-5.