Misfortunes (album)

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Misfortunes
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Studio album by
This Is Hell
ReleasedFebruary 19, 2008
Recorded2007 at Full Force Studio
Genre Hardcore punk
Length40:51
Label Trustkill Records
This Is Hell chronology
This Is Hell / Cancer Bats
(2007)		Misfortunes
(2008)		 This Is Hell / Nightmare of You
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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AbsolutePunk.net(84%) [1]
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Unglued Reviews(Positive) [5]

Misfortunes the second full-length album by hardcore punk band This Is Hell. It was released on February 19, 2008 through Trustkill Records. [6] After extensive worldwide touring in 2007, the band managed to find time to write and record an album. An earlier version of "Infected" can also be found on the bands prior release Cripplers (EP) . An additional track, "Cement Shoes", was found in the leak of the album and is also available on the UK version of the CD release.

Hardcore punk Subgenre of punk rock

Hardcore punk is a punk rock music genre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock. Its roots can be traced to earlier punk scenes in San Francisco and Southern California which arose as a reaction against the still predominant hippie cultural climate of the time. It was also inspired by New York punk rock and early proto-punk. New York punk had a harder-edged sound than its San Francisco counterpart, featuring anti-art expressions of masculine anger, energy, and subversive humor. Hardcore punk generally disavows commercialism, the established music industry and "anything similar to the characteristics of mainstream rock" and often addresses social and political topics with "confrontational, politically-charged lyrics."

This Is Hell (band) American hardcore punk band

This Is Hell are an American hardcore punk band from Long Island, New York. The band is known for extensive touring and high energy concerts. To date, the band has released five studio albums and five EPs.

Trustkill Records was an American independent record label that started as a hardcore punk fanzine in April 1993. It started releasing hardcore, metal and rock records and merchandise in 1994. In 2010, the president of Trustkill, Josh Grabelle, formed a new label called Bullet Tooth Records.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Reckless" - 1:59
  2. "Infected" - 2:31
  3. "Disciples" - 4:23
  4. "In Shambles" - 4:26
  5. "Realization: Remorse" - 1:46
  6. "Without Closure" - 1:48
  7. "Remnants" - 3:36
  8. "Resuscitate" - 3:25
  9. "Fearless Vampires" - 2:14
  10. "You Are the Antithesis" - 3:20
  11. "End of an Era" - 3:25
  12. "Memoirs" - 3:43
  13. "Last Days Campaign" - 4:15

Bonus tracks

  1. "Show No Mercy" (Cro-Mags cover) (Vinyl version)
  2. "Cement Shoes"

Personnel

Guitar Fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings or courses.

Drum kit collection of drums and other percussion instruments

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum. A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones – most significantly cymbals, but can also include the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some kits also include electronic instruments. Also, both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used.

Crew vocals

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References

  1. ↑ "This is Hell - Misfortunes - Album Review". AbsolutePunk.net. 2008-02-19. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  2. ↑ Eduardo Rivadavia (2008-02-18). "Misfortunes - This Is Hell | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  3. ↑ "Reviews - Alternative Press". Altpress.com. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  4. ↑ "New Releases News & Reviews". Rockmidgets.com. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved June 29, 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 28, 2007. Retrieved October 28, 2007.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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