PETRA - ON FIRE! (*New-CD) w/ LTD Trading Card

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  • Remastered from Original Sources
  • High-Quality Expanded 8 Page Booklet, Jewel Case CD
  • Includes LTD Collectors Trading Card #69(Special Flame Card) 
  • 2021 Girder Records, GR1120
  • UPC: 763416070011
  • Originally Release in 1988
  • Legends of Rock™ Edition
  • Grammy Nomination for best Gospel Group (1987)
  • Release Date: Nov. 19 2021

On Fire!, originally released in 1988, is by far the heaviest of all Petra albums with the exception of Jekyll and Hyde.  A true hard rock masterpiece if there ever was one. On Fire! was nominated for a Grammy™ and won a Dove award for their music video. It was also the first album to include their new bassist, Ronnie Cates.  It was PETRA IN THEIR PRIME and deserving of all the awards bestowed on them by the critics and fans.  After This Means War dropped in 1987 with such success, no one would ever go on record saying that Petra would be able to top it. That thought would have been ludicrous.  But the band, engineers, and producers had other plans, forging an entirely new album that would go down as one of the band's all-time great albums, and for most, their absolute favorite.  As much as this album rocks, it also checks all the boxes for a spiritual warfare attack on the kingdom of darkness. Make no mistake about it, this is one album that is a threat to the enemy or anyone that thinks that Petra won't go down fighting. They were absolutely on fire (pun intended). It's a true representation of what a rock album should be. Just one listen and you'll quickly understand why Petra was everyone’s favorite Christian Rock band.   

Remastered from original sources with an 8-page booklet with lyrics in a jewel case. It also comes with a very special flaming LTD collector’s card inside.

Bob Hartman – Lead guitar, arrangements
John Lawry – Keyboards, arrangements, background vocals
Louie Weaver – Drums
John Schlitt – Lead and background vocals
Ronny Cates – Bass guitar

Additional musicians
John Andrew Schreiner – Keyboards, programming
Tim Heitz – Programming
John Lawry – Computer programming
John Elefante – Background vocals
Bob Carlisle – Background vocals
Rikki Michelle – Background vocals on "Homeless Few"

    TRACKS

    1. All Fired Up (4:30)
    2. Hit You Where You Live (4:20)
    3. Mine Field (4:28)
    4. First Love (4:10)
    5. Defector (4:30)
    6. Counsel Of The Holy (3:37)
    7. Somebody's Gonna Praise His Name (4:02)
    8. Open Book (4:28)
    9. Stand In The Gap (4:10)
    10. Homeless Few (4:33)

       

       

      Customer Reviews

      Based on 6 reviews
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      Darrell Ritchie
      Amazing

      This is my favorite Petra record and it has never looked or sounded better. Congrats to Girder Music for the proper curation and preservation of this classic album!

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      Michael
      Excellent with exceptions.

      I've been buying Girder reissues and love pretty must most of the work done. This issue of On Fire! is 5 stars in most regards. Packaging and artwork are off the charts for these reissues. Packaging is 5+ stars for sure. Amazing attention to details. But packaging is only one aspect. This particular issue suffers from two things. First is the dynamic compression. It's definitely louder than the original CD (which I have). So it sounds louder than the original, but also does have more dynamic compression. Depends on what you like for your music, but being more of an audiophile, I just wish is wasn't as compressed as it is. Regardless, I would still give this issue a 4.9 star for the remaster. The one thing that gets me is the indexing of the songs on the CD. Two songs are indexed too early from previous tracks. The second track contains some of the first track (by 1 second) and so does track 7 (by a little over a second). This can be fixed by ripping the tracks and a fixing a CUE file. This isn't noticeable if you listen to the CD straight through. If however you pick certain tracks to listen to, you will find the indexing of the songs are not aligned to the true beginning of the song. For a CD that is reissued and costing almost $20 I would hope that there wouldn't be any issues here and should have been caught before pressing. For that reason I'm bumping it down one star - otherwise it's great.

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      Russ
      Love these remasters!

      I ordered both On Fire & Back To the Street & love the sound of these remasters. I still have the originals & these sound so much more dynamic. Love throwing them in my car stereo & cranking them up! Thanks Greg & Girder for the great work!

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      Damon
      On Fire!

      This has always been my favorite Petra album but now it sounds even better than ever! The packaging is absolutely top notch. Great job Girder Music

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      Erik B
      Petra (and Girder Music) Truly On Fire

      Honestly, the last time I saw a re-packaging of a classic rock album done this well was...the last time I opened a Girder Music remaster earlier today. But this specific one even out-does Girder's high standard. Turning to the music for a moment, this album remaster is sonically the closest to the original. And that's probably because pre-Petra Praise era, this is (in my opinion) Petra's hardest rocking album. 6 of the 10 tracks are bona fide rock anthems. Throw in the radio hit First Love and the rest, and you have an album jam-packed with everything you want in 44 minutes. // Girder's treatment of the album upgraded everything. From the subtle tweaks to the booklet, to the enclosed collector's card, to the subliminated high-gloss Petra logo and "On Fire" flames, I've personally never seen an equal on a re-master. It blew my expectations away. // Even though I'm a lifelong Petra fan, I was happy to add this to my collection for multiple reasons: (1) Improved music quality/quantity, (2) Upgraded packaging, (3) Royalties going to support Petra's ministry. // I'm looking forward to supporting Girder in their future releases.

      I can't thank you enough. So humbling to read this.

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