Alice hones the sound of Constrictor on Raise Your Fist and Yell, and blends it with typical Alice Cooper lyrics. The result is one of Cooper's best solo albums ever. Lock Me Up is a great metal song, and should remain in Cooper's live set list. The drumming is insane on Lock Me Up, a real headbanger. Not That Kind of Love is funny, and another straight ahead metal tune. Give the Radio Back and Raise Your Fist and Yell is Cooper's response to the 80's, Tipper Gore led PMRC attack on heavy metal. Kane Roberts gets to flex his metal muscle with Prince of Darkness, and unlike Constrictor, Kip Winger's bass work is in the forefront of most songs. The reason to buy Raise Your Fist though is for the trilogy of songs: Chop-Chop-Chop, Gail and Roses on White Lace. These three songs tell the story of a murderer and his crimes against a would-be bride. The story is fascinating and Cooper once again creates an audial horror movie. Gail may be Cooper's creepiest song next to Former Lee Warmer. This is one Alice Cooper CD you won't be able to put away for long, perfect for the Halloween season.

Excellent over the top late '80's release from the Coop.This is what I would consider his best work since the 'From The Inside' album.Heard in a interview he did once this lp was to be more of a metal lp,that 'Constrictor' was supposed to be a hard rock lp and 'Trash' was to be more of a classic rock effort.Interesting to know that.'Raise Your Fist...' has everything a good old fashioned Alice Cooper release has...blood,gore and clever story lines behind many of the tunes here.Recently saw the video for the CD's opener "Freedom" is what inspired me to check out this disc again.Other killer tracks include "Step On You",the evil "Prince Of Darkness" and what appears to be in sequence sort of like a horror movie "Time To Kill","Chop,Chop,Chop","Gail" and "Roses On White Lace".Whew!Be sure to look at the lyric sheet for this disc.Awesome material here,I tell you.Line-up:Alice-vocals,Kane Roberts(remember? that Rambo-like dude?)-guitar,Kip Winger-bass,Ken Mary-drums and Paul Horowitz-keyboard.Highly recommended.

This album is perfect for any Headbanger who misses the late 1980's, a decade when heavy metal ruled MTV and horror splatter movies were popular both in the theatre AND on video. 1987's "Raise Yer Fist" marks Alice's peak in the decade's metal scene, and in my opinion, it doesn't sound cheesy or out-dated (unlike Constrictor and Trash). I can listen to this record over and over again, as well as 1991's "Hey Stoopid." "Raise Yer Fist" celebrates Freddy Kreugar, Jason Voorhees, and all of the gory, bloody, campy slasher flicks that fanatic young adults can't get enough of; such a genre fits perfectly with Cooper's pioneering showmanship. Where else can you hear a trilogy about a beautiful bride named Gail being stabbed in the chest with a butcher knife, then buried in the ground and having insects crawl throughout her bones? No matter how hard other bands have tried, no artist can creatively write grisly lyrics like Cooper can. And of course, the title track of the album is a middle finger to none other than Tipper Gore and the PMRC, whose failed attempt at putting a warning system on blatantly offensive music forced rock & roll to go to court and fight censorship. "Lock Me Up" and "Give the Radio Back" are underrated metal anthems; they to me are equilvalent in punctuality as Twisted Sister's "You Can't Stop Rock & Roll" and "We're Not Gonna Take It!" And today, with so much pop garbage being shoved down our throats by MTV (which plays the same boring videos to death) such rock anthems are outcrys made against society's horridly shallow commercialism. Sure, "Raise Yer Fist And Yell" isn't exactly "Welcome to My Nightmare," but so what?!! Both Alice AND horror movie fans need to possess this nostalgic time capsule. Also, I recommend Wendy O. Williams' "Maggots LP," which was released the exact same year.

This is one of Alice Coopers most highly underated albums, and thats a shame really because it has amazing hits all through the cd. It has the opening song Freedom which is amazing, Lock me Up which is another good song equal to freedom, Give the Radio back, an interesting track, Step on you a track about just being mad, Not that kind of Love, a rather humorous with Alice's bad boy touch added to it, the Religious song Prince of Darkness with an amazing guitar solo, Time to Kill, and a 3 story song about Alice being Jack the Ripper.

The inside of the album has good album art, and lyrics. This album has amazing guitar solos all the way through it.... But don't buy this one on your own buy Constrictor with it, it has the same style songs, and costs just as much, and all together it's not even 20 bucks, so you get 2 rare cd's with amazing songs, for a price equal to 1 regular cd.

I can't stop listening to this amazing album. Total horror, total splatter-fest, total energy, total guitars, total driving rhythms, total fun, totally hilarious, totally timeless, totally one of the best and completely overlooked hard rock/metal classics of all time. Alice goes nuts with the lyrics on this one and every tune is a total hit. Check it out especially if you like slasher films and head pounding metal with great guitar work.