The band became notorious for their lurid album covers. Once again, they kept with the tradition, and Fear No Evil, similarly, showed a woman being "intimate with a snake". "Rock and roll is supposed to be lived on the edge," Mark Slaughter said in an interview, adding, "So what we figure is let's see how far we can push it with record covers before stores start threatening not to stock them". In mid-April, in early support of the album, the band embarked on a long, 18-month American tour that showcased their old hits and new music that "certainly expanded Slaughter's boundaries". "We're touring harder now than we used to," Mark Slaughter claimed. They were performing in clubs and theaters across the country six or seven nights a week. "The personable thing is good," Slaughter added, "I think the band has grown immensely from having to do that." A Slaughter show in 1995 was described by critics as "the intense loud party atmosphere event" it had been in 1990. "We've never run on our fans. We're not a band that's going to shave our heads just because it's popular," reaffirmed Strum. "We want to re-establish old memories and tell new fans to come out and hear who we are. That's our attitude." Around this time, Slaughter also released "Rain On", a five-song import EP featuring Elton John's "Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting", the band's first cover song. During the tour across America, Slaughter took a month in the late summer of 1995 to embark on their first tour of Japan. According to the band, the tour was a long overdue overwhelming success. In Japan, due to Kelly's ongoing legal problems, Slaughter had to perform with Vince Neil's guitarist Dave Marshall, Tim Kelly's long-time friend. Meanwhile, to beat Fear No Evil's release date, EMI/Chrysalis released Mass Slaughter, a greatest hits package that wasn't sanctioned by the band. Blas Elias shared in an interview: "In order for us to leave Chrysalis, we had to work out a deal… we are trying to let fans know that Mass Slaughter definitely isn't the project that we are enthused about." Despite a rough ride through the mid-'90s, Slaughter made it through a turbulent time, coming up with music that was still in the vein of what they wrote in 1990. They hadn't disbanded and had made no personnel changes. Dana Strum asserted: "We were one of