Fear No Evil

Fear No Evil is the third album, on which Slaughter kept its expansive vocals and catchy choruses while adding guitar weight and a darker cast to the songs. With the music scene shifting and Chrysalis reluctant to release it, the band moved to CMC International and put out this album, recorded at the Slaughter House in Las Vegas, in 1995. Called the band’s heaviest, it reached No. 182 in the US and sold around 500,000 copies, supported by a North American tour. Before the sessions, Mark Slaughter was recovering from vocal-cord nodule surgery, Tim Kelly from a drug-trafficking charge, and Dana Strum from a motorcycle accident that hurt his playing hand. The songs were written in 1992-93. From the opener “Live Like There's No Tomorrow” through the video track “Searchin'” to the closer “Unknown Destination,” the melodic-hard frame is clear but the expression is harder than before. Ballad lyricism and up-tempo drive alternate to give the album its rises and falls. The title was chosen by a fan vote. A record that met a harsh era head-on without losing its character.