Thrashcast Episode 2: Sacred Reich's 1990 album "The American Way"
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Episode Two: Sacred Reich's The American Way (1990). The second studio album released May 15th, 1990 on Metal Blade Records is a part of the second wave of American thrash. Hailing from Phoenix, Arizona. Sacred Reich, were successful and alongside bands like Flotsam & Jetsam and Atrophy; as the trio propelled the State of Arizona into the thrash metal scene.
The glowing sales and popularity of their early albums, as well as the video for "The American Way" being briefly played in the 1992 movie Encino Man helped to significantly raise the band's profile. The band broke up briefly at the end of the 90's, but returned to touring in 2006 and finally released a new studio album entitled "Awakening" in 2019.
Fun fact: A cartoon sketch of a creature's face with what appears to be a gas mask, known as OD ('Our Dude') was created by Paul Stottler in 1987, first used as a t-shirt design. Other versions of OD, which the band describe as a "post-apocalyptic mutant warrior", appear on the cover art of the 1997 live CD, "Still Ignorant", and the 2007 "Ignorance & Surf Nicaragua EP" compilation CD/DVD.
The American Way debuted at No. 153 on the Billboard 200 charts lasting for nine weeks. The album was enhanced and remastered in 2009.
Kenneth Gallant, HMS
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