Occupational Hazard

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Occupational Hazard
Occupational Hazzard.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 27, 1998
StudioExcello, Brooklyn, NY
Genre
Length39:17
Label Relapse [1]
Producer Billy Anderson, Bruce Hathaway
Unsane chronology
Amrep Xmas
(1997)
Occupational Hazard
(1998)
Lambhouse: The Collection 1991–1998
(2003)
Singles from Occupational Hazard
  1. "Sick"
    Released: February 20, 1996 [2]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Chronicles of Chaos 7/10 [4]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 6/10 [5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Rock Hard 6.5/10 [6]

Occupational Hazard is Unsane's fourth studio album. [7] [8] It was released in 1998 through Relapse Records.

Contents

Critical reception

Bake Butler of AllMusic described the album as "getting hit by a semi, kicked in the teeth, and thrown down three flights of stairs all at once. [...] In a way unlike almost any other, they scream in your face fairly emotional, damaging lyrics, while breaking the musical boundaries, as well as your eardrums." [3] CMJ New Music Monthly called it "still all meat-grinder riffs slathered on top of a pummeling, breakneck-tempo rhythm section." [9]

Track listing

All lyrics written by Chris Spencer, except "Scam", written by Dave Curran. All songs written by Unsane.

No.TitleLength
1."Committed"2:42
2."This Plan"3:18
3."Over Me"2:56
4."Take in the Stray"3:07
5."Stop"3:36
6."Wait to Lose"3:03
7."Sick"2:35
8."Hazmat"3:08
9."Smells Like Rain"2:38
10."Lead"3:17
11."Humidifier"2:43
12."Scam"2:43
13."Understand"3:21

Credits

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 353.
  2. "The Frank Kozik Resource Center - Unsane - MR 024". mansruin.com. Archived from the original on 1998-06-14. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  3. 1 2 Butler, Blake. "AllMusic ((( Occupational Hazard > Review )))". AllMusic. Retrieved May 18, 2006.
  4. "CoC : Unsane - Occupational Hazard : Review". www.chroniclesofchaos.com.
  5. Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 470. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
  6. "UNSANE - Occupational Hazard". ROCK HARD Heavy-Metal-Magazin.
  7. "Unsane | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  8. Blush, Steven (October 4, 2016). New York Rock: From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB. Macmillan. ISBN   9781250083616 via Google Books.
  9. "Reviews". CMJ New Music Monthly. CMJ Network, Inc. May 12, 1998 via Google Books.



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