''Mark of the Beast'' is an album released by American heavy metal band
Manilla Road
Manilla Road was an American heavy metal band from Wichita, Kansas, founded by Mark "The Shark" Shelton (vocals and guitar) and Scott "Scooter" Park (bass guitar). Beginning in 1977, the early years of Manilla Road were spent playing mostly pro ...
in 2002. Around half of the album was originally recorded in 1981, and was intended to be the band's second album. The results were judged unsatisfactory by the band and so was scrapped in favor of writing the album ''
Metal
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''. With half of the scrapped songs existing for 20 years as a bootleg called ''Dreams of Eschaton'' (which would also have been the original title in 1981), Monster Records cleaned up the master tapes and released the project under the name ''Mark of the Beast'' with additional unreleased early tracks.
The cover is taken from a drawing by
Jim Fitzpatrick.
Track listing
All songs written by Mark Shelton.
# "Mark of the Beast" – 9:35
# "Court of Avalon" – 7:29
# "Avatar" – 9:34
# "Dream Sequence" – 2:45
# "Time Trap" – 5:59
# "Black Lotus" – 5:03
# "Teacher" – 4:51
# "Aftershock" – 5:10
# "Venusian Sea" – 6:16
# "Triumvirate" – 8:22
Credits
* Mark Shelton – guitars, vocals
* Rick Fisher – drums, percussion
* Scott Park – bass
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Manilla Road albums
2002 albums