Barbed Wire Soul

Infobox Album | Name = Barbed Wire Soul
Type = Album
Artist = Blackstar


Released = 1997
Genre = Heavy metal
Length = 43:33
Label = Prosthetic Records
Last album =
This album = "Barbed Wire Soul"
(1997)
Next album =

Barbed Wire Soul is the debut and, to date, only album released by Blackstar in 1997. (Also called "Blackstar Rising" in the USA). Album was recorded at Parr Street Studios, March 1997.

Track listing

# Game Over (4:04)
# Smile (3:39)
# Sound of Silence (3:46)
# Rock 'n' Roll Circus (4:14)
# New Song (3:55)
# Give up the Ghost (3:09)
# Revolution of the Heart (4:02)
# Waste of Space (3:52)
# Deep Wound (3:10)
# Better the Devil (4:42)
# Instrumental (5:00)

Japanese release contains 8 extra tracks: "Peacedog" (The Cult cover), "The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill" (Hüsker Dü cover), "Running Back" (Thin Lizzy cover), and demo versions of "Revolution of the Heart", "New Song" (under the name "Don't Want to Talk Anymore"), "Sound Of Silence", "Waste of Space" and "Instrumental".

Personnel

* Ken Owen – Drums, Vocals
* Jeffrey Walker – Vocals, Bass
* Carlo Regadas – Guitars
* Mark Griffiths – Guitars

* Jenny "Yeah" Lamb – Saxophone on tracks 4 & 8
* Martin Smith – Brass on track 8
* Dave Buchanan – Tambourine and Сowbell
* Colin Richardson – additional laughter on track 2

Produced by Colin Richardson.