Cd, case and inserts are in mint / near mint condition, looks new. Original 1991 Atlantic Records pressing. Has a very tiny promo hole. There is no hole on the cd case.

1. Abandoned
2. You Only Live Twice
3. Savior From Anger
4. Children
5. Dust to Dust
6. Raise Your Hands
7. Strange Behavior
8. Six Stepsisters
9. Mastermind
10. When Love Comes Down
11. Ends of the Earth

Album Notes
Following the success of their 1990 eponymous major-label debut, Vicious Rumors embarked on a grueling tour supporting several other A-level pop-metal acts and then returned to the studio for their follow-up. The results were less than commercially successful, but that's more of a reflection on music and cultural mainstream shifts away from heavy metal and embracing the new-to-them music that was known as grunge. Welcome to the Ball pretty much treads the same water as their last album, but does it in a way that is tight and focused. "Abandoned" sounds a bit like Iron Maiden's epic anthem "Caught Somewhere in Time" and Carl Albert has never sounded more like Bruce Dickinson -- but that's a mere oversight when listening to the quality of this album as a whole. This was also the second in a series of releases reissued in 2005 on the Wounded Bird imprint, and would be worth seeking out for both die-hard fans and metal fanatics alike. ~ Rob Theakston

Guaranteed to play perfectly.

Fibits

Vicious Rumors CD, Welcome to the Ball, Original 1991 Pressing