Maximum Security (Alien Sex Fiend album)

Maximum Security
Studio album by Alien Sex Fiend
Released October 1985
Recorded 1985
Genre Gothic rock, deathrock
Length 42:42
Label Anagram
Producer Alien Sex Fiend
Alien Sex Fiend chronology
Acid Bath
(1984)		 Maximum Security
(1985)		 "It" the Album
(1986)

Maximum Security is the third studio album by English deathrock band Alien Sex Fiend, released in 1985 by record label Anagram.

Release

Maximum Security was released in October 1985 by record label Anagram. It record peaked at number 100 in the UK Albums Chart, to date their only charting album.[1]

The record was re-issued in 1986 in CD format under the name The First Alien Sex Fiend Compact Disc with four additional tracks including the single "E.S.T. (Trip to the Moon)". The entire album appears on the B-side of the 1986 cassette "It" the Cassette.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

Trouser Press described the album as "Bleak and predominantly slow" and that it "suffers from a somewhat monotonous sameness."[3]

Track listing

Side A
No. Title Length
1. "I'm Doing Time in a Maximum Security Twilight Home"   6:01
2. "Mine's Full of Maggots"   5:44
3. "Do You Sleep?"   4:03
4. "In and Out of My Mind"   4:45
Side B
No. Title Length
1. "Spies"   4:45
2. "Fly in the Ointment"   3:45
3. "Seconds to Nowhere"   2:34
4. "The Beaver Destroys Forests"   1:28
5. "Do You Sleep? (Version)"   3:58
6. "Depravity Lane (Think I'll Take a Trip...)"   5:39

References

  1. ↑ "Official Charts Company". Official Charts. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Maximum Security – Alien Sex Fiend | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  3. ↑ Fasolino, Greg; Robbins, Ira. "TrouserPress.com :: Alien Sex Fiend". Trouser Press. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
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