Our Endless War

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Our Endless War
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 29, 2014 (2014-04-29)
Genre Deathcore
Length38:51
Label Metal Blade
Producer Whitechapel, Mark Lewis
Whitechapel chronology
Whitechapel
(2012)
Our Endless War
(2014)
Mark of the Blade
(2016)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 67/100 [1]
Review scores
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AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Alternative Press Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Exclaim! 8/10 [5]
Metal Hammer positive [6]

Our Endless War is the fifth studio album by the American deathcore band Whitechapel. The album was released on April 29, 2014, via Metal Blade.

Contents

The song "The Saw Is the Law" was released on February 26, 2014, as the first single off the album. On April 15, 2014, a lyric video for the song "Our Endless War" was released. [7]

Reception

The album debuted on Billboard 200 at No. 10, [8] No. 2 on Top Rock Albums, [9] and No. 1 on the Hard Rock Albums chart, [10] selling 16,270 copies in its first week. [11] The album has sold 45,000 copies in the United States as of June 2016. [12] It remains the band's highest-charting album.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Rise" (instrumental)1:20
2."Our Endless War"3:56
3."The Saw Is the Law"4:27
4."Mono"3:39
5."Let Me Burn"4:23
6."Worship the Digital Age"4:12
7."How Times Have Changed"3:32
8."Psychopathy"3:51
9."Blacked Out"3:32
10."Diggs Road"5:59
Total length:38:51

Deluxe Edition

No.TitleLength
11."A Process So Familiar"2:52
12."Fall of the Hypocrites"3:00
Total length:44:43

Credits

Production and performance credits are adapted from the album liner notes.

Personnel

Whitechapel
Additional musicians
Production
Artwork and design

Studios

Charts

Chart (2014)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [13] 72
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [14] 23
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [15] 50
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [16] 31
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [17] 9
US Billboard 200 [18] 10
US Digital Albums (Billboard) [19] 21
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [20] 2
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard) [21] 1
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [22] 2
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [23] 14

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