Petra - Beat The System (Purple Vinyl, Poster) Lies (Metallic Silver scribed 'Richard James - November

scribed 'Richard James - November 1968' as a sleeve image

meant to sound as if the listener's speakers are incorrectly set up

while harpies circle above Loch Ness

2 We Stand Alone

Produced by Lester Koenig and engineered by Roy DuNann

Petra - Beat The System (Purple Vinyl, Poster) Lies (Metallic Silver scribed 'Richard James - NovemberPetra's Grammy nominated 1985 album, Beat The System, is one of Petra's most transitional works. It is also one that manages to sound surprisingly relevant today. Due to the departure of keyboardist John Slick, the preponderance of the album's mountain of synthesizer tracks were actually performed by studio musician Carl Marsh or Rhett Lawrence, a young producer and musician who, in future years, would produce albums and write songs for artists like