Metropol (album)

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Metropol
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Studio album by
Released1997
Genre Big beat, electronica
Length61:44
Label Universal
Lunatic Calm chronology
Metropol
(1997)
Breaking Point
(2002)
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Metropol is the debut album by the English big beat group Lunatic Calm.

The song "Leave You Far Behind" is used in The Matrix , Mortal Kombat Annihilation , Test Drive 6 , MotorStorm , Drive , and an early teaser trailer for Spider-Man . "Fuze", "Leave You Far Behind" and "The Sound" were added in the hoax Prodigy album "The Castbreeder" in 1998 under the names "The Castbreeder" (at the very beginning), "Castl Road" and "Abnormal Bunx" respectively. [2]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Fuze"0:30
2."Leave You Far Behind"3:11
3."The Sound"6:56
4."Neon Ray"8:36
5."It Evolves on Its Own"5:54
6."Choke"4:58
7."Long Shadows"6:32
8."Roll the Dice"3:20
9."Meltdown"10:27
10."Metropol"4:04
11."Punkywhitenoisething"4:28
12."Neon Reprise"2:39
Total length:61:43

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References

  1. "Metropol - Lunatic Calm". Allmusic.
  2. http://theprodigy.info/discography/fakes/Castbreeder/