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| Studio album by Strapping Young Lad | |||||
| Released | March 22, 2005 | ||||
| Recorded | 2004 The Armoury, Vancouver |
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| Genre | Extreme metal Progressive metal |
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| Length | 57:12 | ||||
| Label | Hevy Devy Records Century Media |
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| Producer | Devin Townsend | ||||
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| Strapping Young Lad chronology | |||||
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Alien is the fourth album by Canadian extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad. It was released on March 22, 2005. The album was written by Devin Townsend and Gene Hoglan over a 6 month time period.
Alien was originally intended to be released as an EP, with 4 cover songs and 4 new songs.1 The band also recorded a cover of Tom Jones' "What's New Pussycat?" that was scheduled to appear on Alien, but it was not recorded entirely because "it did not fit the flow" of the album. The song is not expected to be released anytime, even though blabbermouth.net has reported so.2 The album reached number 32 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and number 35 on the Top Independent Albums chart. "Love?" became the album's single and had a music video which aired on Headbanger's Ball. The video (a tribute to the movie Evil Dead) depicts the band performing in a haunting cabin in the woods.
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Track listing
All songs written by Devin Townsend and Gene Hoglan.
- "Imperial" – 2:17
- "Skeksis" – 6:42
- "Shitstorm" – 4:22 [1]
- "Love?" – 4:53
- "Shine" – 5:13
- "We Ride" – 2:37
- "Possessions" – 4:12
- "Two Weeks" – 3:28
- "Thalamus" – 3:58
- "Zen" – 5:02
- "Info Dump" – 11:56
- The Japanese edition of Alien includes "Zodiac" (The Melvins cover), "Love? (Extended Version)", and "In the Rainy Season (Live)"
- The Australian edition of the album includes "Aftermath (Live)"
- The Korean edition of the album includes "Force Fed (Live)"
- All live bonus tracks are taken from the For Those Aboot to Rock DVD
Personnel
Band:
- Devin Townsend - keyboards, producer, guitar, vocals, sampling, engineer
- Gene Hoglan - drums
- Byron Stroud - bass guitar, associate producer
- Jed Simon - guitar
Alternative personel:
- Dave Young - keyboards, vocal recordings
- Will Campagna - live Keyboards
- Shaun Thingvold - engineer, mixing
- Kristina Ardron - 2nd engineer, editing
- Rob Stefanson - assistant
- Bryan Seely - editing, assistant
- Alan Wong Moon - assistant
- Alex Aligizakis - editing
- Scott Cooke - editing
- Byron Stroud - associate producer
- Greg Reely - mastering at Green Jacket Studios
- Travis Smith - art consultant
- Per Johansson - artwork, layout design
- Omer "Impson" R. Cordell - photography
Male vocal choir
Chris "The Heathen" Valagao, Rossy Living, Cam Krotche, Will Campagna,Shane Clark, Ross Gale, Christ Stanley, Will Cochrane, Ash Manning*, Ross Empson*, Mike Quigley*, Billy Marquardt and Jeff Cook
Female vocal choir
Laurielynn Bridger, Marnie Mains, Ani Kyd, Tammy "Tamz" Theis, Magdalena Bulak, Shay Ward, Steph Reid, Deborah Rodrigo-Tyzio, Michelle Madden*, Joanna Ussner
Children vocals
Dorian Glaude-Living, Damian Moore, Ethan Belcourt-Lowe and Jayden Gignac
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