Gallows (album)

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Gallows
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Studio album by
Released10 September 2012
RecordedAprilMay 2012 at Broadfields Studio, Watford, England, UK
Genre Hardcore punk
Length32:15
Label Venn, Bridge Nine, Halfcut/Shock
Producer Steve Sears, Thomas Mitchener
Gallows chronology
Death Is Birth
(2011)
Gallows
(2012)
Desolation Sounds
(2015)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 77/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
BBC Music favourable [3]
Consequence of Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Drowned in Sound 9/10 [5]
New Zealand Herald Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
SputnikmusicStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Under The Gun Review 8/10 [8]

Gallows is the third album by English hardcore punk band Gallows and the first full-length to feature new lead vocalist Wade Macneil, who replaced original frontman Frank Carter in August 2011, when Carter left to form new band Pure Love. [9] It is also the last album to feature guitarist Steph Carter.

Contents

The album was produced, mixed and mastered by Spycatcher members Thomas Mitchener and Steve Sears at Watford's Broadfields Studio and was released on 10 September 2012 via the band's new label Venn Records in partnership with PIAS Recordings. The album will also be released and distributed in the United States through Bridge Nine Records and in Australia and New Zealand through Halfcut Records/Shock Records.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Victim Culture"2:55
2."Everybody Loves You (When You're Dead)"2:22
3."Last June"2:46
4."Outsider Art"3:22
5."Vapid Adolescent Blues"3:04
6."Austere"2:31
7."Depravers"2:51
8."Odessa"2.32
9."Nations" / "Never Enough"3:34
10."Cult of Mary"3:03
11."Cross of Lorraine"3:12
iTunes edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
12."We Bite" (originally performed by the Misfits)1:19
13."Borstal Breakout" (originally performed by Sham 69)2:16

Personnel

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