Metal Priestess
EP by
Plasmatics
ReleasedOctober 21, 1981 (1981-10-21)
Recorded1981
StudioThe Schoolhouse
(Westport, Connecticut)
Genre
Length25:33
Label
Producer
Plasmatics chronology
Beyond the Valley of 1984
(1981)		 Metal Priestess
(1981)		 Coup d'Etat
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Metal Priestess is the second extended play by American punk rock band Plasmatics. It was released on October 21, 1981[2] by Stiff Records and reissued the same year by PVC Records with an alternative cover.

Dan Hartman, who produced acts such as 38 Special and James Brown, among others, had been working on a session in LA when he picked up a copy of Beyond the Valley of 1984 and couldn't stop playing it. It was "ground breaking," he said. "I knew I wanted to meet these people and do something with them." Dan came down to the Tribeca loft where he met Wendy O. Williams and Rod Swenson and a month later he and Rod Swenson were working on the production of the Metal Priestess EP.

The creation of the EP is a result of the need to release something due to their increasing popularity, with an album being premature, partly because Capitol Records was now making overtures for the next one. Metal Priestess was recorded at Dan's private studio off his schoolhouse turned home and studio in Connecticut and released early in the fall of 1981.

In 2002, the EP was re-released through Plasmatics Media, LTD on the New Hope for the Wretched re-release.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Lunacy"
5:04
2."Doom Song"
5:23
3."Sex Junkie" (Live)
  • Stotts
  • Beech
  • Swenson
3:08
4."Black Leather Monster"
  • Beech
  • Swenson
3:39
5."12 Noon"
  • Stotts
  • Swenson
3:31
6."Masterplan" (Live)
  • Stotts
  • Swenson
4:48
Total length:25:33

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Deming, Mark. "New Hope for the Wretched/Metal Priestess - Plasmatics". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Plasmatics for Midline". Billboard. October 17, 1981. p. 86. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ Metal Priestess (Liner notes). Plasmatics. Stiff Records. 1981. WOW 666.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)


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