I-Empire
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Publication |
November 2, 2007 |
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2007 |
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| Label (s) | Geffen Records | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
12 |
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running time |
53:00 |
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Tom DeLonge |
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I-Empire is the second music album by the American alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves . It was released on November 2, 2007, about a year and a half after their debut album We Don't Need to Whisper . I-Empire is a concept album and continues the story of the first album.
production
Shortly after touring in April 2007, the band began studio recording for I-Empire . The bassist Ryan Sinn left the band before the tour due to certain discrepancies and was then represented by Matthew Wachter , the former bassist of 30 Seconds to Mars . After the tour Wachter became a member of the band and with him the recordings began.
sale
The album sold 66,000 copies in the first week of release and 20,000 copies in the second week after release in the US and Canada . According to a contribution by Billboard on January 25, 2010, the album was sold 268,000 times in the US, and more than 500,000 times worldwide. So I-Empire did not reach the sales figures of the previous album.
Intentions
In a band biography, Tom DeLonge said: “The empire that the album title indicates is the“ inner ”empire. It's a way of looking at the world as if it were yours. "
He also expressed the following in an MTV interview: “The first album was about the idea that if you look at yourself differently in the world, you could actually change the world around you, even if not the world itself The new album is about the fact that the idea becomes reality and that this philosophical thesis takes shape, that you can actually change the world by looking at it differently ”.
Track list
| title | Duration |
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| Call to Arms | 5:05 |
| Everything's Magic | 3:51 |
| Breathe | 5:34 |
| Love Like Rockets | 4:50 |
| Sirens | 4:19 |
| Secret crowds | 5:03 |
| Star of Bethlehem | 2:08 |
| True love | 6:08 |
| Lifeline | 4:16 |
| Jumping rooftops | 0:45 |
| Rite of Spring | 4:22 |
| Heaven | 6:39 |
Total duration 53:00
Trivia
In the intro of the last song Heaven , very short excerpts from the songs Valkyrie Missile , The Adventure , Start the Machine and in the outro Valkyrie Missile can be heard again. These are songs from the first, previous album by Angels & Airwaves. This expresses the thematic connection of the albums.