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July 11, 2014 |
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15th |
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48 min 16 s |
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Clint Murphy |
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We Rise is the first studio album by the New Zealand alternative metal band Devilskin . It was released on July 11, 2014 on its own and reached number one on the New Zealand album charts . We Rise was awarded a platinum record in New Zealand .
Emergence
The songs featured on the album were written by the band over a period of several years, so no major pre-production was necessary. Before the recordings, the musicians sat down with producer Clint Murphy for a short period of time . The album contains a total of twelve songs and three acoustic interludes . The actual recordings took place within three weeks at York St Studios in Auckland , New Zealand . Other recordings took place in the Rockfield Studios in Wales Monmouth , where among other Queen in 1975 their album A Night at the Opera recordings. For the songs start a revolution , Never See the Light , Little Pills and fade were music videos rotated.
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Jennie Skulander processes her own experiences in Little Pills . After the end of a love relationship, she also lost her job. She moved to New Zealand and was taking antidepressants . After she started taking these "little pills" she suddenly felt overjoyed. Their failed relationship is also the subject of the song.
Jennie Skulander dedicated the song Never See the Light to her friend Shoki Kamishima, who passed away in 2010. Kamishima was able to imitate the sounds of dolphins during his lifetime and liked to scare people in pubs with this art. A recording of this can be heard at the beginning of the song.
In the song Violation , Jennie Skulander processes a break- in into her apartment. Although the perpetrators were arrested, they were not convicted. At the same time as the break-in, her grandmother and the father of her boyfriend at the time died. In the song, Skulander also criticizes the New Zealand judiciary , which, in their opinion, imposes too low sentences.
Burning Tree and Dirt were each written by Paul Martin. In Burning Tree , the dark side of reality are described as Dirt is that all people after their death to dirt are.
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Marcel Rudoletzky from the German magazine Metal Hammer described Devilskin's music as a “powerful, modern rock and metal mixture” that “doesn't need to hide behind other greats”. He highlighted the band's “strong and varied songwriting ” and described We Rise as a “damn good first work”.
The album We Rise debuted at number one on the New Zealand album charts and stayed in the charts for 37 weeks. Two weeks after its release, the album already received a gold record . We Rise finally went platinum in spring 2015 for more than 15,000 units of the album sold in New Zealand . The single Start a Revolution reached number 28 in the single charts.
Republication
On February 26, 2016, the album was released worldwide on the Rodeostar label.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview: Devilskin. Eventfinda, accessed April 8, 2015 .
- ^ Tania McCauley: Fans flock to catch Devilskin band's tour. The New Zealand Herald , accessed April 8, 2015 .
- ^ A b c Robin Stryker: Devilskin Interview. (No longer available online.) Sonic Cathedral, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on April 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Marty Duda: Devilskin: The 13th Floor Interview. (No longer available online.) The 13th Floor, archived from the original on April 7, 2015 ; accessed on April 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Devilskin in the New Zealand charts. Hung Medien, accessed April 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Marcel Rudoletzky: Devilskin - We Rise . In: Metal Hammer , April 2015, page 98
- ^ Devilskin having a platinum year. Voxy, accessed April 3, 2015 .