{"id":11167,"date":"2021-09-23T13:08:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T11:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.steelgallery.com\/metal-store\/?post_type=product&p=11167"},"modified":"2021-09-24T11:08:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T09:08:05","slug":"mp-get-it-now-incl-sticker-cd","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/steelgallery.com\/metal-store\/product\/mp-get-it-now-incl-sticker-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"MP – Get It Now (Incl. Sticker) CD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally back! German Heavy Speed Metal from 1987.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Originally released in 1987 on the short-lived Steps Records, Get It Now, was the second recorded statement of Germany\u2019s 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 \u2013 still spanning the early hot-rockin\u2019 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 \u2013 MP here focused their songwriting into a more streamlined push \u2018n\u2019 pull that was 100% HEAVY METAL personified.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And yet, its year of release provides some (in-hindsight) context for Get It Now\u2019s unique and underdog nature, which has thankfully made it an enduring album. Not only in Germany but across the world, traditional metal was on the decline as \u201chair metal\u201d crept up the pop charts and thrash metal exploded all across the international underground \u2013 and lest we forget the first album-length rumblings of death metal. In this landscape, where subgenres started taking hold and \u201cheavy metal\u201d as both a term and especially a musical style & subculture became much more defined, MP doggedly defied the norms and stuck to their increasingly gleaming guns. As such, Get It Now retains a rich, metal-for-metal\u2019s-sake balance between slick \u2018n\u2019 speeding burners and grimy fist-shakers. And while the debut album conspicuously nodded toward metal culture with \u201cMP (Metal Priests),\u201d here do MP continue to acknowledge that culture through the wider world\u2019s acknowledgement of metal culture with \u201cRocktober Blood,\u201d about the cult horror film of the same name. Elsewhere, the production was taken up a couple notches without losing that raw verve that so endeared the band\u2019s debut album, arguably making Get It Now the fullest expression of MP\u2019s true metal might.<\/strong><\/p>\n

MP continued on for one more album before changing that moniker to Melting Point, the title of their 19<\/strong>92 album still under the MP handle. Like many overlooked albums within the metal pantheon, Get It Now never truly got its due \u201cback in the day,\u201d but thankfully, it sounds surprisingly fresh today, and RELICS FROM THE CRYPT hopes this dog will have its day with this long-overdue reissue!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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