Strapping Young Lad / City(Limited Special 2CD Edition) Жанр: Thrash, Industrial Страна-производитель диска: Europe Год издания диска: 31 Dec 2012 Дата выхода оригинального издания: 1997 Тип издания: CD , Album , Remastered Издатель (лейбл): Century Media Каталожный номер: 9982940 Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac) Тип рипа: tracks+.cue Продолжительность: 1:03:07+1:10:58 Источник (релизер): Собственный рип Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: Да Disc 1 Album Tracks (01:03:02) 1. Velvet Kevorkian (1:16) 2. All Hail The New Flesh (5:24) 3. Oh My Fucking God (3:35) 4. Detox (5:36) 5. Home Nucleonics (2:31) 6. AAA (5:21) 7. Underneath The Waves (3:40) 8. Room 429 (5:21) 9. Spirituality (6:35) 10. Centipede (Japanese Bonus Track) (7:51) 11. Home Nucleonics ('96 Demo) (3:02) 12. Headrhoid (Gunt Demo) (1:38) 13. Detox ('96 Demo) (5:48) 14. AAA ('96 Demo) (5:24) Video Detox (5:40) Disc 2 Live Tracks (01:10:51) 1. Dire (Intro) (1:34) 2. Consequence (3:57) 3. Relentless (3:10) 4. Rape Song (4:10) 5. Home Nucleonics (2:34) 6. S.Y.L. (4:38) 7. In The Rainy Season (4:02) 8. Devour (4:44) 9. Aftermath (7:02) 10. Oh My Fucking God (2:34) 11. Force Fed (7:55) 12. Detox (9:03) 13. All Hail The New Flesh (8:40) 14. Far Beyond Metal (6:48) Total length: 02:13:53 Notes: Limited Special 2CD Edition Part of the "Metal For The Masses 25 Alive!" Century Media series. More information:
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City is the second album by Canadian extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad. It was released on February 11, 1997. The album was re-released in 2007 with several bonus tracks and altered cover art. Frontman Devin Townsend assembled a permanent lineup of Strapping Young Lad to record City, including prolific drummer Gene Hoglan, and Townsend's former bandmates Jed Simon on guitar and Byron Stroud on bass. The album was critically acclaimed with Revolver naming it one of "the greatest metal albums of all time", and it is widely considered Strapping Young Lad's best work. After releasing the first Strapping Young Lad album, Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing, as a solo album, Townsend recruited a permanent line-up for the second album: Jed Simon on guitar, Byron Stroud on bass and Gene Hoglan on drums. City was remastered and re-released in 2007, and included several unreleased tracks, as well as a Japanese bonus track and the video for "Detox". The album was re-released in 2012, and includes a CD version of For Those Aboot to Rock: Live at the Commodore as a bonus disc. City received highly positive reviews. Kerrang! praised the album for its heaviness, claiming it sounded like "sticking your head into the jet nozzle of a Stealth Bomber", while Metal Hammer ranked it No. 13 on its "Top 20 Albums of 1997" list. The album gained a cult following and a loyal fan base for the band. City is considered to be the band's best effort by a large number of fans and critics alike. In 2002, the album was No. 45 on Revolver magazine's "69 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time" list, and was on their "Must Have Metal Albums" list in 2005. It also appeared on the "100 Most Important Albums of the Nineties" list conducted by Terrorizer. Townsend himself stated City "is the real Strapping record. That's the ultimate one out of all of them". City sold over 9,000 copies its first week. The song "Oh My Fucking God" was later covered by fellow Canadian extreme metal band Cryptopsy, for a compilation album by Century Media.
Strapping Young Lad was a Canadian extreme metal band formed by Devin Townsend in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1994. The band started as a one-man studio project; Townsend played most of the instruments on the 1995 debut album, Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing. By 1997, he had recruited permanent members; this line-up, which consisted of Townsend on vocals and guitar, Jed Simon on guitar, Byron Stroud on bass, and Gene Hoglan on drums, lasted until the band's dissolution. Containing elements of death metal, thrash metal, black metal, progressive metal and industrial metal, Strapping Young Lad's music was characterized by the use of complex time signatures, polyrhythmic guitar riffing and drumming, blast beats and Wall of Sound production. The band's musical direction was mainly determined by Townsend, whose battle with bipolar disorder and dark sense of humour were major influences on his songwriting. Townsend was also noted for his eccentric appearance and on-stage behaviour, which greatly contributed to the band's intense live performances. The band gained critical success and a growing underground fan base from their 1997 album City. After a hiatus between 1999 and 2002, the band released three more albums, reaching their commercial peak with the 2006 effort, The New Black. Townsend disbanded Strapping Young Lad in May 2007, announcing his decision to retreat from public view while continuing to record solo albums.
