Be My Slave

Be My Slave
Studio album by Bitch
Released 1 July 1983[1]
Recorded May-June 1983
Studio Track Record Studios, Los Angeles
Genre Heavy metal
Length 49:08
Label Metal Blade / Enigma
Producer Phil Pecora, Brian Slagel
Bitch chronology
Damnation Alley
(1982)
Be My Slave
(1983)
The Bitch Is Back
(1987)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Metal Forces(4/10)[3]
Martin Popoff[4]

Be My Slave is a 1983 album by the American heavy metal band Bitch, released on the Metal Blade Records label under the genre "dominatrix metal".[5] Be My Slave was cited by Tipper Gore, during the PMRC campaign against violent and sexually expilcit content in the music industry and was held as an example in the hearing before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on September 19, 1985.[6] The album was re-issued in 1989 on a single CD with the EP Damnation Alley.[7]

Track listing

Side one
No. TitleLyricsMusic Length
1. "Right from the Start"  BetsyDavid Carruth, Robby Settles 5:08
2. "Be My Slave"  Betsy, Mark WebbWebb, Carruth, Settles 4:40
3. "Leatherbound"  WebbWebb 4:19
4. "Riding in Thunder"  Betsy, CarruthCarruth 3:58
5. "Save You from the World"  Betsy, CarruthCarruth 5:41
Side two
No. TitleLyricsMusic Length
6. "Heavy Metal Breakdown"  BetsyCarruth, Settles 5:34
7. "Gimme a Kiss"  BetsySettles 3:54
8. "In Heat"  BetsySettles 6:47
9. "Make It Real (Make It Rock)"  BetsyCarruth, Settles 3:57
10. "World War III"  Betsy, CarruthCarruth 5:10

Personnel

Band members

Production

References

  1. "Gatefold of Best of Metal Blade, Vol. 1". Metal Blade Records. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
  2. Henderson, Alex. "Bitch Be My Slave review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
  3. Constable, Dave (August 1983). "Bitch - Be My Slave". Metal Forces (1): 21. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
  4. Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
  5. Be My Slave (LP Sleeve). Bitch. Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, CA, USA: Metal Blade Records. 1983.
  6. Gasten, David. "Bitch Discography". Betsy Bitch official website. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
  7. "Bitch - Be My Slave". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
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