Grave Digger "Heavy Metal Breakdown (1994 Reissue, Japan, Victor Entertainment, VICP-8129)"

Heavy Metal Breakdown is the debut studio album by the German heavy metal band Grave Digger, released on 20 October 1984 by Noise Records. The music in this album is strongly influenced by German heavy metal band Accept and its then-vocalist Udo Dirkschneider.

Although singer Chris Boltendahl was credited for all the music and lyrics, it was only a technical issue. "At the time we didn't have the money to enroll all four members to GEMA. So we only enrolled Chris", said Gerd Hanke then-manager of Grave Digger in book The Story of Noise Records. "Lyrics had always been a problem for Chris" - added guitarist Peter Masson. "His school English was quite bad. During my time with Grave Digger, Gerd wrote most of the lyrics."

Track listing

1. Grave Digger - Headbanging Man 03:37   
2. Grave Digger - Heavy Metal Breakdown 03:42   
3. Grave Digger - Back from the War 05:35  
4. Grave Digger - Yesterday 05:06   
5. Grave Digger - We Wanna Rock You 04:17  
6. Grave Digger - Legion of the Lost 04:54
7. Grave Digger - Tyrant 03:17   
8. Grave Digger - 2000 Light Years from Home (The Rolling Stones cover) 02:54
9. Grave Digger - Heart Attack 03:16
10. Grave Digger - Violence 04:43   
11. Grave Digger - Shoot Her Down! 03:39  
12. Grave Digger - We Wanna Rock You (single version) 03:36   
13. Grave Digger - Storming the Brain 05:05
14. Grave Digger - Shine On 05:14   
15. Grave Digger - Tears of Blood 02:37  
16. Grave Digger - Don't Kill the Children 03:16  
17. Grave Digger - Girls of Rock 'n' Roll 03:41  
18. Digger - Stronger than Ever 04:31   
19. Digger - I Don't Need Your Love 04:21  

Total length: 1:17:21

The 1994 bonus tracks are from the following:

• "Violence" is taken from the 1983 split album Rock from Hell - German Metal Attack
• "Shoot Her Down", "We Wanna Rock You" and "Storming the Brain" are taken from the 1984 EP Shoot Her Down
• "Shine On" and "Tears of Blood" are taken from the 1985 split album Metal Attack Vol. 1
• "Don't Kill the Children" and "Girls of Rock 'n' Roll" are taken from the 1994 compilation album The Best of the Eighties
• "Stronger Than Ever" and "I Don't Need Your Love" are taken from the 1986 album Stronger Than Ever, in which case they were called Digger at the time

Recording information:

Recorded at Music Lab Studio in Berlin, Germany.

Karl-Ulrich Walterbach - producer

Harris Johns - engineer, mixing