Heavy Metal Soul by the Pound is the fifth full length album from metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

/funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

/soul

Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

 pioneers 24-7 Spyz

24-7 Spyz

24-7 Spyz are a band from the South Bronx, New York, formed in 1986, originally consisting of Jimi Hazel , Rick Skatore , Kindu Phibes , and P. Fluid . The band is best known for mixing soul, funk, reggae, and R&B with heavy metal and hardcore punk...

. Released through the "What Are Records?" label, it is the first album to feature the band as a trio. Former drummer Joel Maitoza returns to replace Anthony Johnson, but the band decided not to replace departed vocalist P. Fluid. Instead, guitarist Jimi Hazel would also become the lead singer (bassist Rick Skatore would also share lead vocal duties in concert).

The album, clocking in at nearly 70 minutes, begins with five heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 tunes before entering a funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

, soul, R&B, and pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 section for over 20 minutes.

In March 1996, six months before the release of Heavy Metal Soul by the Pound, the Enemy label released an alternate European version of the album entitled 6. This version of the album does not include the songs "Earth And Sky" and "Save The World." Instead, the album contains covers of The Association

The Association

The Association is a pop music band from California in the folk rock or soft rock genre. During the 1960s, they had numerous hits at or near the top of the Billboard charts and were the lead-off band at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival...

's "Along Comes Mary" and Love

Love (band)

Love was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were led by singer/songwriter Arthur Lee and lead guitarist Johnny Echols...

's "7 and 7 Is." The album is titled 6 due to it being the sixth release by the band, if including the This is...24-7 Spyz!

This is...24-7 Spyz!

This is...24-7 Spyz! is a five-song EP released in 1991 by a brand new lineup of 24-7 Spyz, featuring newcomers Jeff Brodnax and Joel Maitoza . The EP was released by the Spyz's new label - EastWest Records to test the marketability of the new lineup...

EP.

Together, both versions of the album helped reignite the band's popularity in Europe

Europe

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 and the United States

United States

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, but personal tensions and disagreements between Hazel and Skatore would lead to the official breakup of 24-7 Spyz

24-7 Spyz

24-7 Spyz are a band from the South Bronx, New York, formed in 1986, originally consisting of Jimi Hazel , Rick Skatore , Kindu Phibes , and P. Fluid . The band is best known for mixing soul, funk, reggae, and R&B with heavy metal and hardcore punk...

 the following year.

Heavy Metal Soul by the Pound

1. "Spyz In Da House"
2. "Love And Peace"
3. "Yeah x 3"
4. "If I Could"
5. "Burned"
6. "Simple Minded Simon"
7. "Eyes Don't Lie"
8. "Interlude"
9. "El Lame"
10. "Earth And Sky"
11. "Free To Be"
12. "Let Your Fancy Flow"
13. "Crushonya"
14. "No Hope For Niggaz"
15. "Love For Sale"
16. "Clique"
17. "Save The World"

6 (European version)

1. "Spyz In Da House"
2. "Love And Peace"
3. "Yeah x 3"
4. "If I Could"
5. "Burned"
6. "Simple Minded Simon"
7. "Eyes Don't Lie"
8. "Interlude"
9. "El Lame"
10. "Free To Be"
11. "Let Your Fancy Flow"
12. "Crushonya"
13. "No Hope For Niggaz"
14. "Love For Sale"
15. "Clique"
16. "7 and 7 Is"
17. "Along Comes Mary"

Credits

• Jimi Hazel: guitar, vocals
• Rick Skatore: bass
• Joel Maitoza: drums

• Doug Pinnick
  Doug Pinnick
  Doug Pinnick sometimes stylised as dUg Pinnick or simply dUg is an American musician best known as the bass guitarist, songwriter, and co-lead vocalist for the hard rock/progressive metal band King's X. He has fourteen albums with King's X, four solo albums, and numerous side projects and guest...
  
  : vocals on "Love And Peace" and "Yeah x 3"