''Prophet'' is the debut album by the hard-rock band

Prophet In religion, a prophet or prophetess is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the s ...

, released on 14 August 1985 through

Total Experience Records Total Experience Records was a record label founded by Lonnie Simmons. Its two major acts were The Gap Band and Yarbrough & Peoples. It originally began in 1977 as a production company whose albums were released by Mercury Records before becoming ...

. On 21 September album was released in Japan.

Production

"Prophet" is the only album to feature lead vocalist

Dean Fasano Dean Fasano (January 16, 1955 – December 8, 2009) was the lead singer of the bands Message and Prophet. Early years Fasano grew up in New Jersey, United States, and in his youth he got interested in music and singing. His special and emo ...

and drummer

Ted Poley Ted Poley (born January 5, 1964) is an American singer who is best known as the lead vocalist of the hard rock band Danger Danger. Biography Poley joined New Jersey progressive rock band Prophet (band), Prophet as a drummer. They released th ...

. The latter joined

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as a lead vocalist two years later. The album was recorded within six months: from January to June 1985. The musicians recorded for a month in each studio. "Prophet" sold well in Europe, and after that the band released the single "Everything You Are (to Me)", for which a music video was soon shot. However, despite the fact that Fasano sang in the video, he actually performed only half of the songs: the tracks "Heart of the Night", "It's Real" and "Listen to Ya'" were performed by Poley, and "Slow Down" — by bassist Scott Metaxas.

Track listing

All credits adapted from the original LP.

Personnel

All credits adapted from the original LP. *

– lead and background vocals * Ken Dubman – guitar, acoustic guitar on "Slow Down" * Joe Zujkowski – keyboards, Taurus pedals on "Slow Down" * Scott Metaxas – bass guitar (except "Slow Down"), lead and background vocals *

– drums, lead and background vocals

References

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