War of Words (Fight album)

War of Words is the debut album by the American heavy metal band Fight, released on September 14, 1993 by Epic Records. This is the first release Rob Halford recorded after his departure from Judas Priest in 1992. He brought with him drummer Scott Travis from the band and recruited three new members. The music is a mixture between the heavy metal sound created by Judas Priest and a groove/thrash metal sound similar to that of Pantera. Halford is also credited with playing guitar but only recorded vocals for the album. Music videos were made for "Nailed to the Gun", "Immortal Sin" and "Little Crazy".

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	6/10^[2]
Rock Hard	9/10^[3]

In 2005, War of Words was ranked number 386 in Rock Hard magazine's book The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.^[4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Rob Halford

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Into the Pit"	4:13
2.	"Nailed to the Gun"	3:38
3.	"Life in Black"	4:34
4.	"Immortal Sin"	4:39
5.	"War of Words"	4:29
6.	"Laid to Rest"	4:40
7.	"For All Eternity"	4:42
8.	"Little Crazy"	3:49
9.	"Contortion"	4:35
10.	"Kill It"	3:30
11.	"Vicious"	3:11
12.	"Reality, a New Beginning I. "(no audio)" – 5:00 II. "Jesus Saves" (Hidden Track) – 3:38"	13:18

Japanese edition bonus track
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Kill It (Dutch Death Mix)"	3:36

Note

"Reality, a New Beginning" is a 4:40 song. A 5-minute silence occurs before a hidden track titled "Jesus Saves" is played. The remixed and remastered edition includes the song as a bonus track

Personnel

Fight

Rob Halford – vocals, guitar
Brian Tilse – guitars, keyboards, backing vocals
Russ Parrish – guitars, keyboards, backing vocals
Jay Jay – bass, backing vocals
Scott Travis – drums, percussion, backing vocals

Production

Produced by Attie Bauw and Rob Halford
Executive producer – John Baxter
Recorded by Attie Bauw

2008 Remixed and Remastered Edition

Remixed by Roy Z
Remastered by Andy Horn
Art design – Marc Sasso

Charts

Album
Year	Chart	Position
1993	Billboard 200	83^[5]

Singles
Year	Single	Chart	Position
1993	"Little Crazy"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	21

References

^ Hill, Gary. War of Words at AllMusic
^ Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
^ Kühnemund, Götz. "Rock Hard review". issue 77. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
^ Best of Rock & Metal - Die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten (in German). Rock Hard. 2005. p. 54. ISBN 3-89880-517-4.
^ "Fight". Billboard. Retrieved 6 October 2016.

v t e Fight
Rob Halford Mark Chaussee Brian Tilse Jack "Jay Jay" Brown Scott Travis Russ Parrish Robby Lochner Tim Radziwill Don Tinsley
Studio albums	War of Words (1993) A Small Deadly Space (1995)
Compilations	Mutations (1994) K5 – The War of Words Demos (2007)
Box sets	Into the Pit (2008)

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