Originally released in 1987 on the short-lived Steps Records, Get It Now, was the second recorded statement of Germany’s MP. Their debut album from the year before, Bursting Out (The Beast Became Human), retained all the electricity and urgency of youth, and subsequently become a cult record for its raw verve.
A year older and presumably wiser, the power-trio unleashed a more finessed follow-up in Get It Now. While the band hardly wavered in their approach between the two albums – still spanning the early hot-rockin’ throes of post-NWOBHM to the nascent rumblings of speed metal and its subsequent thrash offshoot, and of course the more mainstream stylings which lingered across all those idioms – MP here focused their songwriting into a more streamlined push ‘n’ pull that was 100% HEAVY METAL personified.
1 Not for the Innocent
2 Claws from the Night
3 Rocktober Blood
4 Don't Ask About His Name (Lohengrin)
5 Lion in a Cage
6 Get It Now
7 Cruel to the Heart
8 Hawk of May
9 Newer Trust A (Wo)Man
10 Slow Down
MP – Get It Now 2021
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