Deliver Us from Evil (Budgie album)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Deliver Us from Evil

| type = Album

| artist = Budgie

| cover = BudgieDeliverUsFromEvil.JPG

| alt =

| released = 23 October 1982

| recorded = 1982

| venue =

| studio = Ridge Farm Studio, West Sussex, England
Eden Studio, London, England

| genre = Hard rock, heavy metal

| length = 39:08

| label = RCA

| producer = Don Smith

| prev_title = Nightflight

| prev_year = 1981

| next_title = Life In San Antonio

| next_year = 2002

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r31829|label="Budgie: Deliver Us from Evil" |first=Eduardo |last=Rivadavia |accessdate=20 December 2011}}

}}

Deliver Us from Evil is the tenth album by the Welsh heavy metal band Budgie, released in October 1982 on RCA Records, and according to Burke Shelley its theme "attacks the power structures of East and West and the balance of terror"; it also "refers to all kinds of evil, not just The Bomb and war, but the main theme calls for world peace".{{cite news | last=Welch | first=Chris | title=Eggcited! You bet were are says Budgie's Burke Shelley | work=Kerrang! | issue=23 | date=26 August – 8 September 1982 | page=18}} One reviewer suggested that the album's lyrics were influenced by Shelley becoming a born-again Christian.

According to Steve Williams, "the concept of the album came about as an accident. We didn't write 'Bored With Russia'. Don (Smith) brought that over from America and that started the ball rolling. We played it a few times and it started the whole concept". The song was written by producer Beau Hill, erroneously credited as Bo Hill, and demoed up with his late-1970s outfit Airborne. It was finally issued on the band's 2003 archives release The Dig.

Reception of the album was mixed, due to a more commercially oriented sound than previous releases. It has been described as either "a complete musical shipwreck" or "a collection which not only sounds fantastic but bristles with great songs and exquisite often Who-like arrangements".{{cite news | last=De Whalley | first=Chas | title=BUDGIE 'Deliver Us From Evil' (RCA LP6054) | work=Kerrang! | issue=26 | date=7–20 October 1982 | page=15}} Their commercial appeal has been justified as a "conscious effort to broaden their horizons" in order to attend "a market more attuned to melody than mere muscle". The album release was followed with a UK tour from late October to December 1982.Tour Dates. Kerrang!, n.26, 7-20 Oct 1982, p.11