Bottomless Pit (album)

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Bottomless Pit
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 6, 2016
Recorded2015–2016
Studio Sunset Sound Recorders [1]
Genre
Length39:20
Label
Producer Death Grips
Death Grips chronology
Interview 2016
(2016)
Bottomless Pit
(2016)
Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix)
(2017)
Death Grips studio album chronology
The Powers That B
(2015)
Bottomless Pit
(2016)
Year of the Snitch
(2018)
No.TitleLength
1."Giving Bad People Good Ideas"3:07
2."Hot Head"4:18
3."Spikes"3:05
4."Warping"2:54
5."Eh"2:52
6."Bubbles Buried in This Jungle"2:40
7."Trash"2:52
8."Houdini"2:44
9."BB Poison"3:06
10."Three Bedrooms in a Good Neighborhood"3:03
11."Ring a Bell"2:26
12."80808"3:16
13."Bottomless Pit"2:55
Total length:39:20

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Bottomless Pit. [28]

Death Grips

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (2016)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [29] 193

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