Back in Black | ||||
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Released | March 18, 2022 | |||
Length | 32:29 | |||
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Producer | Black Milk | |||
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Singles from Back in Black | ||||
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Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 75/100 [1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
The A.V. Club | B [2] |
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Clash | 7/10 [4] |
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Kerrang! | 4/5 [6] |
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Back in Black is the tenth studio album by American hip hop group Cypress Hill. It was released on March 18, 2022.
The album includes 10 tracks. Unlike Elephants on Acid (2018), the group's previous album, which was produced by DJ Muggs, this album was solely produced by Black Milk. [8]
Back in Black was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 75 based on nine reviews. [1] The aggregator Album of the Year has the critical consensus of the album at a 73 out of 100, based on twelve reviews.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Takeover" | 3:15 | |
2. | "Open Ya Mind" |
| 3:44 |
3. | "Certified" (featuring Demrick) |
| 3:09 |
4. | "Bye Bye" (featuring Dizzy Wright) |
| 3:48 |
5. | "Come with Me" |
| 3:15 |
6. | "The Original" |
| 2:54 |
7. | "Hit Em'" |
| 2:19 |
8. | "Break of Dawn" |
| 2:54 |
9. | "Champion Sound" |
| 3:03 |
10. | "The Ride" |
| 4:04 |
Cypress Hill
Additional personnel
Chart (2022) | Peak position |
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Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [9] | 56 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [10] | 195 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [11] | 128 |
French Albums (SNEP) [12] | 123 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [13] | 17 |
Scottish Albums (OCC) [14] | 53 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [15] | 12 |
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