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Game Over (Nuclear Assault album)

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Game Over
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 7, 1986 (1986-10-07)
RecordedMay 1986
StudioPyramid Sound, Ithaca, New York
Genre
Length36:01
LabelCombat
ProducerAlex Perialas, Nuclear Assault, Steve Sinclair
Nuclear Assault chronology
Brain Death (EP)
(1986)
Game Over
(1986)
The Plague (EP)
(1987)
Singles from Game Over
  1. "Brain Death"
    Released: 1986

Game Over is the debut album by thrash metal band Nuclear Assault, released in 1986.

The cassette version of Game Over featured a track entitled "Lesbians", which did not appear on the CD version. However, this track was later performed on their 1992 live album Live at the Hammersmith Odeon.

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal5/10[2]
Kerrang![3]

In 2005, Game Over was ranked number 287 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.[4]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Nuclear Assault

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Live, Suffer, Die" (instrumental)1:08
2."Sin"3:25
3."Cold Steel"2:41
4."Betrayal"3:01
5."Radiation Sickness"2:49
6."Hang the Pope"0:46
7."After the Holocaust"3:44
8."Mr. Softee Theme" (instrumental)0:25
Side two
No.TitleLength
9."Stranded in Hell"3:39
10."Nuclear War"3:47
11."My America"0:29
12."Vengeance"2:51
13."Brain Death"7:16

Personnel

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Nuclear Assault
Additional musicians
  • Chad McGloughlin – guest performance on "Brain Death"
Production
  • Alex Perialas – producer with Nuclear Assault, engineer
  • Tom Coyne – mastering at Frankford/Wayne, New York
  • Ed Repka – album design and cover art
  • Steve Sinclair - executive producer

References

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  1. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo; John Fran. "Nuclear Assault Game Over". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-09-13.
  2. ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Collector's Guide Publishing. pp. 246–247. ISBN 978-1894959315.
  3. ^ Miller, Paul (30 October 1986). "Nuclear Assault 'Game Over'". Kerrang!. No. 132. London, UK: United Magazines ltd. p. 18.
  4. ^ Best of Rock & Metal - Die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten (in German). Rock Hard. 2005. p. 98. ISBN 3-89880-517-4.
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