Doomsday for the Deceiver

Doomsday for the Deceiver is the debut album by Flotsam and Jetsam. It was released in 1986. It is a major thrash metal album. It is the only album by Flotsam and Jetsam which features Jason Newsted before his departure for Metallica. Most lyrics were written by Jason Newsted. The album was also re-released in th year 2006, including a re-mastered version, DVD, and original release.

[edit] Track listing

"Hammerhead" – 6:15
"Iron Tears" – 3:52
"Desecrator" – 3:49
"Fade to Black" – 2:05
"Doomsday for the Deceiver" – 9:12
"Metal Shock" – 8:17
"She Took an Axe" – 5:15
"U.L.S.W." – 4:22
"Der Führer" – 5:46
"Flotzilla" – 6:07

[edit] Credits

Kelly David-Smith : Drums, Vocals
Edward Carlson : Guitars, Vocals
Eric A.K. : Lead Vocals
Jason Newsted : Bass Guitar, Vocals
Michael Gilbert : Guitars, Vocals
Brian Slagel and Flotsam And Jetsam : Producing
Bill Metoyer : Engineering

[edit] Miscellanea

The album opens with a few chords reminiscent of the opening of the album Darkness Descends by the thrash metal band Dark Angel which was released a few months earlier.
Fade to Black is also the name of a song by Metallica on Ride the Lightning, and like Metallica's version, it stands at number four in the track listing of the album.
She Took An Axe relates the story of Lizzie Borden who had been suspected of murdering her parents in 1892. Actually, the song has a jump-rope rhyme written about her at the time as a refrain.
Der Führer refers to Adolf Hitler, as he was called in Germany during his reign as Reichskanzler of the Third Reich. The lyrics are more or less a story about Hitler, and there is no indication that Newsted was sympathising him or the Nazi Party.
The album appears in the movie Sleepaway Camp 2. In the cabin in the woods, in the sofa beetwheen the two corpses.