Refuge Denied is the debut album by the band Sanctuary, released in 1987. The album initially sold 7,000 copies on vinyl and it was not released on CD until February 22, 1988. By June 2011, the album had sold over 200,000 copies.
This was the only album to feature extremely high pitched, layered vocals from vocalist Warrel Dane. It has been speculated that Dane injured himself in the making of Refuge Denied, due to the change in vocal style in his subsequent work.
It was produced by Megadeth vocalist and guitarist Dave Mustaine, who also performed the guitar solo on "White Rabbit", which is a cover version of a Jefferson Airplane song.
The song "Battle Angels" was used in the 2009 video game Brutal Legend.
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Famous quotes containing the words refuge and/or denied:
“I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkable what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a groveling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry. Better go without your dinner, I thought, than be thus everlastingly fishing for it like a cormorant. Of course, viewed from the shore, our pursuits in the country appear not a whit less frivolous.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it is bound to be a rotten failure in any but a physical sense. Even through it is altruism, socialism means materialism. You can guarantee the things of the body to every one, but you cannot guarantee the things of the spirit to every one; you can guarantee only that the opportunity to seek them shall not be denied to any one who chooses to seek them.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)