Hard Cold Fire

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Hard Cold Fire
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Studio album by
Therapy?
Released5 May 2023 (2023-05-05)
StudioMarshall (London, England)
Genre
Length31:14
Label Marshall
Producer Chris Sheldon
Therapy? chronology
Greatest Hits (The Abbey Road Session)
(2020)		Hard Cold Fire
(2023)
Singles from Hard Cold Fire
  1. "Joy"
    Released: 10 March 2023 [4]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Kerrang! 3/5 [5]
Louder Than War 4/5 [6]

Hard Cold Fire is the sixteenth studio album by Northern Irish rock band Therapy?, released on 5 May 2023 through Marshall Records. [7] This is the band's first record since 2018's CLEAVE. The album was originally recorded in 2021, but was postponed to 2023 because of the long overdue "Love Your Early Stuff" tour in 2022. Only ten cuts were kept for the record despite there being somewhere around 20 tracks recorded/for demos. Through interviews, vocalist/guitarist Andy Cairns stated that the band wanted to come back from the COVID-19 lock-down with force and catharsis, and the outtakes were deemed too "depressing" to be a worthy comeback.

Contents

Background

Produced by Chris Sheldon, who produced the band's previous studio album Cleave , Hard Cold Fire was released on 5 May 2023. [4] The album was recorded in November 2021 at Marshall Studios in London.

Pre-orders of the album became available on 10 March 2023 and included six different coloured LPs, a white label test pressing LP (limited to 16), a CD and a cassette. A promo video for "Joy" was also released digitally the same day. [8]

Track listing

Hard Cold Fire track listing
No.TitleLength
1."They Shoot the Terrible Master"2:47
2."Woe"2:57
3."Joy"2:55
4."Bewildered Herd"3:21
5."Two Wounded Animals"3:28
6."To Disappear"3:10
7."Mongrel"3:37
8."Poundland of Hope and Glory"2:25
9."Ugly"3:02
10."Days Kollaps"3:32
Total length:31:14

Personnel

Therapy?

Technical

Charts

Chart performance for Hard Cold Fire
Chart (2023)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [9] 14
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [10] 198
Irish Albums (OCC) [11] 48
Scottish Albums (OCC) [12] 4
UK Albums (OCC) [13] 29
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [14] 3
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [15] 1

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