The L.A. Guns – American Hardcore [Japan Reissue+1] 1996

With respect to L.A. Guns‘ albums in the late ’90s that featured different singers, namely American Hardcore (1996) with Chris Van Dahl on lead vocals, Wasted EP (1998) with Ralph Saenz (who later became Steel Panther frontman Michael Starr) and Shrinking Violet (1999), with Jizzy Pearl, Riley indicated (with slight edits):

“I liked American Hardcore, it was a fun record to make. It was the first record that Tracii and I made after the ‘classic’ line-up had broken up. It was smack in the middle of the grunge era, we opted to do something heavier, I remember Tracii was a fan of Pantera. I was too, I was friends with Vinnie [Paul] and Dimebag and the rest of the guys in the band. He was dead set on doing a Pantera sounding record. We had already established our sound Ruben, L.A. Guns has a sound and that album was too much of a left hand turn. I like a lot of the stuff on that album, it was fun to play and I got a chance to do a lot of double kick stuff. we mixed in a lot of jazz, hard rock, metal and black metal. It was a hard left turn and it confused and alienated some of the fans. I like it, but I think we could have made a record that wasn’t that far left.

1 F.N.A.
2 What I’ve Become
3 Unnatural Act
4 Give
5 Don’t Pray
6 Pissed
7 Mine
8 Kevorkian
9 Hey World
10 Next Generation
11 Hugs And Needles
12 I Am Alive
13 Skit
13 Black Sabbath (JapanVersion Only)

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