SEALED USA ORIGINAL 1981 IRON MAIDEN KILLERS TRUE 1ST HARVEST VINYL -NOT CAPITOL

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IRON MAIDEN 1981 KILLERS USA HARVEST VINYL PROMO

SEALED PROMO TRUE USA 1ST PRESSING WITH HARVEST LOGO ON THE 

BACK OF THE SLEEVE, SECOND PRESSINGS AND ON HAVE THE CAPITOL 

LOGO ON THE BACK. (CHECK THE PICTURES)

DURING THE 70'S AND EARLY 80'S, WHEN THE INDUSTRY STILL HAD NOT YET ADOPTED THE GOLD STAMP, CAPITOL PROMO COPIES HAD A BIG CLEAN  HOLE PUNCHED ON THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER. THESE WERE THE COPIES GIVEN TO THE RADIO AND OTHER INDUSTRY PERSONNEL AT THE TIME. 

THIS PRESSING CONTAINS AN EXTRA TRACK CALLED TWILIGHT ZONE THAT DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE UK PRESSING.

GENRE    METAL                  

RECORD SIZE  12"              

DURATION     LP                 

RECORD GRADING MINT (M) Sealed                  

SLEEVE GRADING VG+ Promo punch hole, rest Mint.        

COUNTRY UNITED STATES  1ST EDITION              

RECORD LABEL HARVEST RECORDS                     

RELEASE YEAR      1981                    

ARTIST   IRON MAIDEN                    

LABEL: HARVEST RECORDS

PRODUCT CODE: ST 12141

FORMAT: VIRGIN VINYL LP - ORIGINAL FACTORY SEALED

ABOUT THE RECORD:

Iron Maiden were always ambitious. By the time they got together to record the follow-up to their game-changing debut album, guitarist Dennis Stratton had been sacked for "musical differences".

By Stratton's own account, it was because he was listening to the "wrong music", ending in an argument over Deep Purple's Soldier of Fortune:  "I used to listen to things like George Benson, Average White band, Eagles. Loads of Eagles, just relaxing. Little River Band, you know all interesting melodic stuff. And it got to the point we were in one hotel and [manager] Rod [Smallwood] came up and started shouting at me, saying I am not supposed to be listening to this type of music." Later, at the end of a tour with Kiss, said Stratton, "I had Soldier of Fortune on stun volume because I was in the shower. And [Rod] had heard it. And he was saying 'If you are going to keep listening to all this slow soft stuff..." and it just got a bit silly."

So melodic rock lover Stratton was out and Adrian Smith, a childhood friend of Dave Murray who had been fronting his own band, Urchin, was in. The changes didn't stop there either: after Killers, the band traded Di’Anno for Bruce Dickinson, while drummer Clive Burr was shown the door after The Number of the Beast. So where does Killers fit in this ruthless rise to world domination?

Bruce Dickinson has said it's his favourite out of the first two albums ("Killers, in particular, is a favourite of mine. The sound on that album really was the sound that should have been on the first Iron Maiden album") but in some quarters the new slicker sound, courtesy of producer Martin Birch, detracted from the impact of the debut. In fact, Birch had been the band's choice for their debut album - produced by Wil Malone, a mysterious figure who's worked with everyone from Black Sabbath to The Verve, Massive Attack and the Spice Girls - but they had assumed Birch was out of their league. With him on board, and the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal firmly on the rise, there was everything to play for.

Killers was an explosive confirmation of the immense potential the band had shown on their debut, with an even greater sense of momentum and conviction thrown in. Few albums begin with as much haughty braggadocio as this one, as heroic intro The Ides Of March and the pummelling Wrathchild give way to the ridiculously exciting and joyfully metallic Murders In The Rue Morgue. Paul Di’Anno's voice is a thing of raucous wonder throughout his Maiden swan song - they got bigger, and maybe even better, but there's no denying the contribution to the early Maiden sound.

TRACKS:

THE IDES OF MARCH     1:48

WRATHCHILD         2:54

MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE       4:14

ANOTHER LIFE      3:22

GENGHIS KHAN  3:02

INNOCENT EXILE   3:50

KILLERS        4:58

TWILIGHT ZONE      2:33

PRODIGAL SON     6:05

PURGATORY 3:18

DRIFTER        4:47

• Barcode (Printed): 0 7777-12141-1
• Barcode (Scanned): 077771214110
• Matrix / Runout (Side 1, Hand Etched): ST-1-12141 F3 B-15786 #69
• Matrix / Runout (Side 2, Hand Etched): ST-2-12141 F9 B-15787 #67
• Matrix / Runout (Sides 1 & 2, Stamped): MASTERED BY CAPITOL ?

RECORD CONDITION:

THE VIRGIN VINYL ALBUM IS STILL ORIGINAL FACTORY SEALED.

COVER CONDITION: COVER IS STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAP W/ SOME CORNER WEAR AND MINIMAL SIGNS OF MANIPULATION. PROMO PUNCH HOLE UPPER RIGHT CORNER. NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

SEALED ITEMS: Please understand that sealed records are assumed mint as it cannot be checked for flaws. Sealed records are sold AS IS. A sealed records is not returnable unless returned sealed in the exact same condition it was sold.