Deliverance (Deliverance album)

Deliverance
Studio album by Deliverance
Released	1989
Genre	Christian metal, speed metal, thrash metal
Length	41:21
Label	Intense Records (1989)
Producer	Caesar Kalinowski Bill Metoyer
Deliverance chronology
Deliverance (1989) Weapons of Our Warfare (1990)

See Deliverance (disambiguation) for other uses of this title.

Deliverance is the 1989 self-titled debut album by the Christian speed/thrash metal band Deliverance. The original Intense Records pressing is now considered a valuable collectable. It was reissued, minus 2 songs in 1998 on KMG Records as a 2 disc set along with the 1990 album Weapons of Our Warfare. It was officially re-released late 2008 with 2 bonus tracks on Retroactive Records. The album was ranked at number 44 on Metal Hammer magazine's top 50 thrash metal albums of all time list.^[1] In 2010, HM Magazine listed Deliverance #31 on its Top 100 Christian Rock Albums of All Time list stating that "'If You Will' into 'The Call' is almost as good as metal gets (-Doug Van Pelt)” and that "this record would forever change and impact me and the Christian metal music scene as we knew it!"(-Bill Balford).^[2] Heaven's Metal fanzine ranked it #3 on its Top 100 Christian metal albums of all time list.^[3]

Track listing

1. "Victory" 3:44
2. "No Time" 4:28
3. "Deliverance" 3:03
4. "If You Will" 4:23
5. "The Call" 4:10
6. "No Love" 3:30
7. "Blood of the Covenant" 4:50
8. "Jehovah Jireh" 3:35
9. "Temporary Insanity" 5:25 (missing on KMG Classic Archives Value Pak)
10. "Awake" 6:03 (missing on KMG Classic Archives Value Pak)
11. "A Space Called You" 3:51 (2008 Bonus Track)
12. "Attack" 3:44 (2008 Bonus Track)

Note: Both bonus tracks originally appeared on the California Metal compilation.

Personnel

• Jimmy P. Brown II - vocals, guitars
• Glenn Rogers - guitars
• Brian Khairullah - bass guitar
• Chris Hyde - drums

References