Collateral Damage (album)

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Collateral Damage
Spahn Ranch - Collateral Damage.jpg
Studio album by
Spahn Ranch
ReleasedSeptember 20, 1993 (1993-09-20) [1] [2] [3]
RecordedApril – May 1993 (1993-05)
StudioJLab Studio
(Los Angeles, California)
Genre Industrial rock
Length42:07
Label Cleopatra
Producer
Spahn Ranch chronology
Spahn Ranch
(1992)		Collateral Damage
(1993)		 The Blackmail Starters Kit
(1994)
Alternative cover
Spahn Ranch - Collateral Damage (Alternate).jpg
Zoth Ommog cover

Collateral Damage is the debut studio album of Spahn Ranch, released on September 20, 1993 by Cleopatra Records. [4] [5] [6] The album marked the debut of Athan Maroulis, who continued to serve as the band's main vocalist and lyricist for the remainder of their existence. [7] Maroulis began writing for the album three weeks after joining Spahn Ranch and has said that he was primarily listening to drum and bass producer Klute during its recording sessions. Spahn Ranch toured the United States for the first time in promotion of Collateral Damage [8] [9]

Contents

Reception

Jon Worley of Aiding & Abetting called Collateral Damage a "strident industrial soundtrack" and said "Spahn Ranch merely cuts through all pretense and serves up 10 tracks of pure vitriol" [10] Keyboard commended the band's resistance to being pigeonholed. [11] Critic Dave Thompson said "Ranch's industrial anguish and fury seethes with barely repressed emotion" and they "create a hard-hitting and provocative indictment of life's injustices, filled with anger, angst, and bleakness." [12]

Option criticized the music for being recorded poorly and for being derivative of Ministry and Skinny Puppy. The critic concluded by noting "this is a band that hasn't found its voice yet; everything is cliché from the music to the unappetizing cadaver shot on the cover, which was obviously purloined from a medical textbook — talk about cheesy." [13]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Wires"
5:24
2."Succumber"
4:34
3."Forceps"
  • Maroulis
  • Morton
4:28
4."Antibody"
  • Green
  • Maroulis
  • Morton
3:20
5."Cesium 137"
  • Maroulis
  • Morton
4:41
6."Breath and Taxes"
  • Maroulis
  • Morton
4:22
7."Stoma"
  • Maroulis
  • Morton
3:39
8."Peel"
  • Maroulis
  • Morton
1:42
9."Machine Politics"
  • Green
  • Morton
3:30
10."Quince"
  • Green
  • Maroulis
  • Morton
5:27
11."Chuck"Morton1:00

Personnel

Adapted from the Collateral Damage liner notes. [14]

Spahn Ranch

Production and design

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States1993 Cleopatra CD, CS CLEO 7109
Germany1994 Zoth Ommog CDZOT 105
United States1995CleopatraCLEO 90052

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  14. ↑ Collateral Damage (booklet). Spahn Ranch. Marina del Rey, California: Cleopatra Records. 1993.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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