Weapons of Our Warfare is an album released by the Christian

Christian metal

Christian metal, also known as white metal, is a form of heavy metal music usually defined by its message in a song's lyrics as well as the band's dedication to Christianity...

 speed

Speed metal

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/thrash metal

Thrash metal

Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...

 band Deliverance and is considered by many to be the band's magnum opus

Masterpiece

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. The album was originally released in 1990 on Intense Records

Intense Records

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 and printings from that release are very rare and considered collector's items. The album was re-issued in 1998 as a two-disc set along with Deliverance

Deliverance (Deliverance album)

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...

on KMG Records

KMG Records

KMG Records was a Christian record label. The label was established in 1997 by Buddy Killen as a subunit of the Killen Music Group / Buddy Killen Enterprises and sold in late 1998 to Cal Turner III, who is related to the Cal Turner of Dollar General stores...

. In 2008 Retroactive Records released a remastered version of the album with the bonus track "Rescue", originally released on the Decade of Deliverance compilation.

Recording History

Weapons of Our Warfare was released a year after the band's self-titled debut. Guitarist Glenn Rogers (Hirax) had left the band and former Recon guitarist George Ochoa joined in his place. James P. Brown II's highly technical rhythm guitar style drives most of the album. The band plays with controlled fury at fast tempos. The album marked musical growth with several extended, multi-sectioned compositions foreshadowing the band's later progressive epics.

A video version of the title track placed among the top three on MTV's Headbanger's Ball countdown for twelve weeks in a row. In 1999, Lars Ulrich of Metallica hosted a show in which he named Deliverance Weapons... as one of his top ten favorite metal videos of all time.

Track listing

1. "Supplication" - 1:48
2. "This Present Darkness" - 2:47
3. "Weapons of Our Warfare" - 4:25
4. "Solitude" - 6:03
5. "Flesh and Blood" - 7:27
6. "Bought by Blood" - 3:17
7. "23" - 5:49
8. "Slay the Wicked" - 4:03
9. "Greetings of Death" - 2:49
10. "If We Faint Not" - 4:25
11. "Rescue" - 4:43 (2008 Bonus Track)

Credits

• Jimmy P. Brown II - All Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar
• George Ochoa - Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
• Brian Khairullah - Bass Guitar
• Chris Hyde - Drums

External links

• [ Weapons of Our Warfare] at Allmusic