Black Ocean

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Black Ocean
Century - Black Ocean.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 29, 2008 (2008-04-29)
RecordedCentury Studio and MoonTree Studio
Genre Metalcore
Length33:00
Label Prosthetic
Producer Carson Slovak, Chad Taylor
Century chronology
Faith and Failure
(2006)
Black Ocean
(2008)
Professional ratings
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Black Ocean is the second studio album by metalcore band Century, the first since the band signed with Prosthetic Records. The album was produced, recorded and mixed by frontman Carson Slovak at his own studio and mastered by Kim Rosen of West Westside Studios. Black Ocean features a cipher code within its artwork to unlock hidden content on the interactive album website blackoceanalbum.com. A video for the track "Black Ocean" was made and debuted on Headbangers Ball in April 2008. [1] Revolver Magazine selected Black Ocean as its #18 album in its Top 20 Albums for 2008 in the February 2009 issue.

Contents

Track listing

All songs were written by Century, except where noted.

  1. "Pantheon" – 3:06
  2. "Black Ocean" – 3:37
  3. "Erasure" – 3:57
  4. "Drug Mule" – 3:15
  5. "Equus" – 3:42
  6. "Rising Sun" – 3:17
  7. "Monolith" (Century, Mike Guilliano) – 4:00
  8. "Daylight Algorithm" – 4:51
  9. "Dysgenics" – 0:43
  10. "Terror Starts at Home" – 2:44

Personnel

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References

  1. "CENTURY's 'Black Ocean' Video Available - Apr. 17, 2008". Blabbermouth.net. Archived from the original on 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2008-05-17.