| Inside the Electric Circus | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | W.A.S.P. |
| Cover: | electriccircus.jpg |
| Recorded: | July 1986 |
| Studio: | Pasha Music House, North Hollywood, Los Angeles |
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| Label: | Capitol |
| Producer: | Blackie Lawless |
| Prev Title: | The Last Command |
| Prev Year: | 1985 |
| Next Title: | Live... in the Raw |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
Inside the Electric Circus is the third studio album by American heavy metal band W.A.S.P., released in October 1986[2] through Capitol Records; a remastered edition featuring two bonus tracks was reissued in 1997 through Snapper Music.[3] The album is the band's first to feature singer and bandleader Blackie Lawless playing guitar, having switched from bass to rhythm guitar.[3] It reached No. 60 on the US Billboard 200 chart,[4] where it remained for 19 weeks.[5]
Greg Prato at AllMusic gave Inside The Electric Circus three stars out of five, calling it "[an attempt] to grow musically with each successive release". Canadian journalist Martin Popoff considered the album "slightly more simplified and hard rock-based" than previous works and reminded in his review how Lawless "in retrospect considered this record a failure."
Lawless himself has been critical of Inside The Electric Circus, going as far as to name it his least favorite W.A.S.P. album, calling it a "tired record done by a tired band".
| Chart (1986) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[6] | 94 |
| Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)[7] | 16 |
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | "9.5.-N.A.S.T.Y." | Finnish Singles Chart[8] | 18 |
| UK Singles Chart[9] | 70 | ||
| 1987 | "I Don't Need No Doctor" | UK Singles Chart | 31 |