Slave To The Grind  by Skid Row

The second recording effort by the group from New Jersey is called Slave To The Grind and made its market debut in June 1991. It is an album that hides within it from extreme heavy metal to glam metal, but ultimately the average of its musical style balances somewhere in hard rock.

Skid Row recorded Slave To The Grind during the years 1990 and 1991, at a time when heavy metal had completed its cycle in mainstream music and something else was about to emerge, something that Skid Row had perceived to a large extent. For example, the song The Threat is not your typical heavy metal song, but it hides many grunge elements within it. A closer listening to the record might lead to the conclusion that Slave To The Grind is a transitional album towards the new sound that is coming.

Slave To The Grind managed to sell 2,000,000 copies in the United States and 100,000 in Japan and Canada. The album reached No.1 on the Billboard and No.5 on the UK charts.