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| Released | June 30, 2015 | |||
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| Length | 53:23 | |||
| Label | Housecore | |||
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Melk en Honing ( Dutch for 'Milk and Honey') is the fifth studio album by one-man industrial metal band Author & Punisher. Produced by Phil Anselmo, Author & Punisher's Tristan Shone and Michael Thompson, it was released on June 30, 2015, by Anselmo's Housecore Records. [1]
Tristan Shone considered the record to be "the most 'live' version of Author & Punisher." [2] He has collaborated with Anselmo on Melk en Honing after he pitched to different record labels and got a positive response from Housecore Records. [3] According to him, he and Anselmo had a "very similar idea of what 'heavy' was" and made the vocals more prominent in the mix. [3] [4]
Shone has described the title of the album as "really more of a sort of tip of the hat to the Dutch for reaching out and accepting of something new." He has further stated that "a bit of a medicinal or chemical component to the title, Melk en Honing, because it relates to the sense of hard work and bodily chemicals that are involved." [5]
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 81/100 [6] |
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| Consequence | B− [7] |
| Revolver | 4/5 [8] |
Melk en Honing has received generally positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 81 based on 4 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [6] J. Bennett of Revolver praised the album, describing the album's tracks as "dizzying, pulsating and pounding expositions of man's ultimate sonic collusion with machine." [8] Consequence critic Sean Barry was more mixed in his response, writing: "It's truly an opportunity missed, though, to simply listen to this record. Genuine appreciation comes only with a good deal of research into the equipment Shone has invented and employed to produce these sounds." [7]
Album personnel as adapted from Bandcamp: [9]
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