Are We Innocent?

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Are We Innocent?
Studio album by Chiba-Ken

Publication
(s)

October 3, 2006

admission

Summer 2006 - October 2006

Label (s) Gotham Records

Format (s)

CD, TUE

Genre (s)

Post-grunge , hard rock , metal , screamo

Title (number)

11

running time

40 min 58 s

occupation
  • Joshua Brain Jaffe ( bass )

production

Patrick Arn

Studio (s)

Jupiter 4 Studios / Purple Light Studios

chronology
Faces of the Moment
(2005) 		Are We Innocent? Hard to Be Human
(2009)

Are We Innocent? (dt .: Are we innocent ) is the debut album by American post-hardcore - band Chiba-Ken . It is the band's first and only album to be produced on Gotham Records . The producer of the album is the label founder Patrick Arn. The album consists of 11 songs and has a total playing time of 40:58 minutes. It was published on October 3, 2006 and is available worldwide.

production

After the band signed the deal with Gotham Records, work began on their debut album. The band got the contract thanks to their demo winter sessions . The label had previously become aware of the band through their EP Faces of the Moment . The album was produced at Purple Light Studios and Jupiter 4 Studios in Santa Monica . The songs were all written by the band themselves and are under license from Tony Poppa Music, Go Gotham Publishing and ASCAP . The album was recorded by Kenneth Schalk (also active on Faces of the Moment ) and by his brother Steve Schalk. As with Faces of the Moment, the layout comes from bassist Joshua Jaffe.

sale

The album is sold worldwide. These include online retailers such as Amazon and CD Baby , who sell the album on CD. Rhapsody , iTunes , eMusic and Amazon also offer the album as a download. At 7digital , Are We Innocent is the only album by the band that is available for purchase there. In addition to the legal download portals, there are also illegal share sites that offer the album (mostly "free downloads") for prices below 19 cents.

Track list

  1. Born Guilty (Intro)
  2. Army Invincible
  3. Faster Tonight
  4. The Killing Fields
  5. Letters Home
  6. The Butterfly
  7. Drunk For Days
  8. Existence
  9. legion
  10. Tyson
  11. Prisoner 105

Content (examples)

In terms of content, the songs are mainly about the war and its meaning, as well as social grievances in American society, but also about social isolation and inner loneliness . In the song Prisoner 105 , the singer tells the story of a prisoner who was abandoned in the desert and his way into "life". He describes the man as a believer, but also as a drug addict , so that he does not know whether God has helped him. The content of the song Legion is about the crucifixion of Jesus . In this song, Jesus is portrayed as a liar who is believed to have died because of the sins of his Father (God). The Butterfly is a love song. Later it turns out that the protagonist describes his beloved as a butterfly that soars into the sky. In Letters Home , the sixth song on the album, it's about a man who after a broken relationship with a killer mutated and wants to kill everyone. He says that he will do anything to be able to come back to her.

Music genre

The band uses classic elements of metal and hard rock in their music style . The singer changes from clear vocals to guttural vocals in every song . Often these are screamings , so that the style can also be classified as screamo . From the content of the lyrics one can also conclude that the band works with elements of emo .

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