A War Against You
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January 8, 2016 |
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45 min 1 s |
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Cameron Webb |
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Maple Sound Studios, Santa Ana |
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A War Against You is the fifth studio album of American Melodic hardcore - band Ignite . It was released on January 8, 2016 via Century Media and brought the band the first chart position of their career.
Emergence
The album was released almost ten years after the previous album Our Darkest Days . According to bassist Brett Rasmussen, Ignite toured around three and a half years after it was released. In addition, singer Zoltán Téglás replaced Jim Lindberg as singer in the band Pennywise between 2009 and 2012 . In October 2012 Téglás got out of Pennywise again because he had to cancel several concerts due to back problems. It wasn't until 2013 that Ignite started working on a new studio album. According to Zoltán Téglás, the making of the album was a difficult birth, as Téglá's ideas about the new songs differed from those of his fellow musicians. There would have been numerous arguments in the rehearsal room.
Produced A War Against You by Cameron Webb, who among other things already for Motörhead , Megadeth and Zebrahead worked. Webb had already produced the two previous albums A Place Called Home and Our Darkest Days . The recordings for the album took place at Maple Sound Studios in Santa Ana , California . According to his own statement, Téglás had to pay $ 5,000 out of pocket so that the album could even be recorded and released. The album contains a hidden track . This is the song Where I'm From , but it contains lyrics in Hungarian .
The album was released as a regular CD and in a limited digipak with a bonus track. In addition, a box set limited to 3,000 copies worldwide was released, which contains the album as a digipak, a key ring , several pins and a poster . On December 4th, 2015 the band released the limited 7 ″ single Nothing Can Stop Me . The B-side of the single includes the songs Bleeding and U2 - cover Sunday Blood Sunday . Both songs are from the DVD Our Darkest Days Live .
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According to Brett Rasmussen, the album title is an allusion to various campaigns by the federal government of the United States . As examples, Rasmussen named the War on Drugs ("War on Drugs ") or the War on Terror ("War on Terrorism "). In addition, the album title would deal with the mass media , which has changed with the advent of social media like Facebook , Twitter and Instagram and has a great impact on people. In Nothing Can Stop Me is about a friend of the band, which against a cancer fights. Oh No Not Again is an anti-war song.
“Why didn't anyone learn from the first two world wars ? War doesn't solve problems that couldn't be more obvious. Still, the world is on fire again and people don't know where to go. The solution cannot be to uproot all these people, tear up families and shift the problem to other countries that do not know what to do with them. "
The song Alive deals with the life story of his paternal grandfather. In World War II, he fled with his family in a horse-drawn cart in front of the Red Army of the Soviet Union . They were persecuted and heard people being shot behind them. The family managed to escape to Los Angeles via Bremerhaven . Other topics on the album are bullying , environmental protection , politics and racism .
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The German magazine Visions named A War Against You album of the month. According to Frederik Tebbe, despite the long break since the last album, the band has “forgotten nothing” and “has once again shown who invented punk rock suitable for the stadium”. For Matthias Weckmann from the German magazine Metal Hammer , A War Against You is “a highly entertaining, full listening experience at the intersection of punk and rock”. The album is "a real bang with everything you love from Ignite", for which Weckmann awarded six out of seven points. Peter Kubaschk from the online magazine Powermetal.de wrote that A War Against You "cemented Ignite's exceptional position in melodic hardcore". The two guitarists showed that “you can also shine in hardcore with fine riffs and solos” and awarded nine out of ten points.
A War Against You entered the German album charts at number twelve . The album was ranked 26th in Austria and 55th in Switzerland. Other chart positions were number 75 in the Netherlands and number 36 in the Flemish part of Belgium.
The editors of the German online magazine Powermetal.de voted A War Against You the ninth best album of the year. Begin Again was voted the tenth best song of the year.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Uwe "Buffo" Schnädelbach: Much friend ', much honor' . In: Rock Hard , January 2016, page 68
- ↑ a b c d Britta Helm: Family honor . In: Visions No. 274, page 22ff.
- ↑ a b Alexandra Michels: Ignite: "A War Against You" album will be released in January. Rock Hard, accessed December 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Bryan Kremrau: Ignite releasing long-awaited new album “A War Against You” on January 9th. Read Junk, accessed December 27, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Peter Kubaschk: IGNITE - A War Against You. Powermetal.de , accessed on January 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Ignite in the German charts. Official German charts, accessed on January 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Ignite. Hung Medien, accessed January 23, 2016 .
- ^ Discography Ignite. Hung Medien, accessed January 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Frederik Tebbe: Ignite - A War Against You. Visions, accessed January 4, 2016 .
- ^ Matthias Weckmann: Ignite - A War Against You. Metal Hammer , accessed December 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Peter Kubaschk: Redaktionspoll 2016 - the evaluation. Powermetal.de, accessed on January 22, 2017 .
Web links
- A War Against You at Allmusic (English)