Hanging in the Balance

In an interview in 2016 with NYS Music, Mike Howe said the following about the album cover, and the situation back then: "So, I dropped off the radar because the record business really disappointed me, things were changing, grunge was coming up and we were getting ignored. We were not businessmen, we were musicians and like a lot of [other] bands we just wanted to write songs and play metal. You really have to be business minded or you’ll just get tramped on and left behind, I think that was our major problem. One small example, the cover of “Hanging In The Balance” was just a huge embarrassment to me and I hated it, it was forced on [us] and that was kind of the last straw. So I took a clean break and stepped away in 1994, with a proud feeling of what we had done so far, something I could keep in my back pocket for the rest of my life, and I wanted to step away before it got ugly."

Recording information:

Additional recordings at Music Storage Studios, Aberdeen, WA; Studio 900, New York and at Studio Works II, Island Park, NY.
Mixed at The Hit Factory, New York.
Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York.

Identifiers:

Barcode: 4 001617 621721
Matrix / Runout: SONOPRESS H-7998 / 084-62172 A 2
Rights Society: GEMA
Label Code: LC 6784