River Runs Red
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| Life of Agony studio album | ||||
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| Label (s) | Roadrunner Records | |||
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CD |
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13 |
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50 min 32 s |
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Josh Silver |
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Studio (s) |
System Two Studios, Brooklyn |
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River Runs Red is the debut album by the American alternative metal band Life of Agony . It was released on October 1, 1993 via Roadrunner Records .
Emergence
Between the formation of the band in 1989 and the release of the debut album, the band played several demos that already contained several songs used on River Runs Red . The album was in the System Two studios in the New York district of Brooklyn added. Was produced River Runs Red from Type-O-Negative - keyboardist Josh Silver. All lyrics and music were written by bassist Alan Robert.
River Runs Red is considered a concept album about the last week of life of a young man overwhelmed by his problems at the end of the album Suicide commits. The concept was an idea by Alan Robert and Josh Silver. As on the Pink Floyd album The Wall, both wanted to tell a story that holds the whole album together in terms of content.
The story is told in the titles "Monday", "Thursday" and "Friday". The protagonist comes home in all three titles and is yelled at by his mother. The mother is played by the drummer Sal Abruscato. His voice was alienated with a harmonizer in the basement of the studio . The young man now goes to his room and listens to the answering machine . On “Monday” the man learns from his girlfriend that she is ending the relationship. On “Thursday”, the young man's employer first calls and informs him of his dismissal . Afterward, his teacher called to tell him that his transfer was in danger. The teacher was voiced by Alan Robert's mother. The album ends with "Friday". The protagonist takes a shower and cuts his wrists .
Music videos were shot for the songs "Through and Through" and "This Time" . “Through and Through” was the first video that was broadcast on the German music broadcaster VIVA's Metalla program .
Track list
- This Time - 5:41
- Underground - 4:40
- Monday - 1:31
- River Runs Red - 1:55
- Through and Through - 3:06
- Words and Music - 5:13
- Thursday - 2:10
- Bad Seed - 5:40
- My Eyes - 2:47
- Respect - 4:16
- Method of Groove - 5:17
- The Stain Remains - 4:31
- Friday - 3:37 am
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Peter Kubaschk from the online magazine Powermetal.de described River Runs Red as "a carefree exclamation mark" which " prepared the ground for today's emocore ". Kubaschk described Keith Caputo's emotional singing as the reason that makes this album “something special”. Allmusic's Jason Anderson described River Runs Red as "one of the metal's better debut albums of the early 1990s". The only chart placement was achieved by River Runs Red in Germany , where the album reached number 71 in the album charts .
In the book Best of Rock & Metal by the German rock-hard magazine, which lists the 500 strongest metal and hard-rock albums of all time according to the rock-hard editors, River Runs Red was ranked 225. According to Frank It was Albrecht "above all the great vocal melodies and guitar harmonies that sent the listener icy chills".
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Conny Schiffbauer: "Classic Albums - The Story Behind the Milestone: Life of Agony - River Runs Red (1993)". In: Rock Hard, April 2004, p. 80
- ↑ musicline.de: Chart tracking Life of Agony longplay ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Powermetal.de: Life of Agony / River Runs Red
- ↑ allmusic.com: River Runs Red - Life of Agony
- ↑ Rock Hard (Ed.): Best of Rock & Metal - The 500 strongest discs of all time . Heel Verlag , Königswinter 2005, ISBN 3-89880-517-4 , p. 125 .
