Plague (The Watchmen album)

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Plague
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Studio album by
Released1992 (1992)
RecordedAugust 1991 (1991-08) – February 1992 (1992-02)
StudioPrescient Thought
(Los Alamos, New Mexico)
Genre Electro-industrial
Length55:06
Label Prescient Thought
The Watchmen chronology
Is God in Showbusiness Too?
(1991)
Plague
(1992)
Entropy.Lingua
(1996)

Plague is the second studio album by The Watchmen, released in 1992 by Prescient Thought. [1] [2]

Contents

Reception

Westword called the music of Plague "slick and well mastered" and said "keyboards, samples, distorted vocals and titles such as "Fear" prepare you for Skinny Puppy-style aggression; instead, much of the material is caught in the netherworld between modern dance music and accessible industrial beats." [3]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."...End"  Mansfield 1:21
2."Less Than Zero (Gift)"Mansfield Fernandez, Mansfield, Secore 3:48
3."Fear"FernandezFernandez4:31
4."Free Man"MansfieldMansfield3:46
5."Merciful Release" (Dying Breath Mix)MansfieldMansfield, Secore4:48
6."Rot"Fernandez, MansfieldFernandez, Mansfield3:28
7."In Sickness & In Health" Fernandez0:51
8."Plague I"Fernandez, MansfieldFernandez, Mansfield4:05
Side two
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Neurotransit" Fernandez3:11
2."Vision (Signal Ac42)"MansfieldFernandez3:39
3."Cyber – Generation" Fernandez, Mansfield2:48
4."Internal Bleeding (Shame)"MansfieldFernandez, Mansfield5:30
5."Party Girl"MansfieldMansfield3:45
6."To Have & To Hold" Mansfield2:56
7."Plague II (Drowning Man)"MansfieldFernandez, Mansfield6:49

Personnel

Adapted from the Plague liner notes. [4]

The Watchmen

Additional performers

Production and design

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States1992 Prescient Thought CS PRTH003
DL

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References

  1. Mayo, James (November 13, 1997). "Burn, Baby, Burn". Westword . Scott Tobias. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  2. "Society Burning". Option . Sonic Options Network (66–71): 118. 1996. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  3. "The Watchmen: Plague". Westword . Scott Tobias. October 23, 1992. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  4. Plague (booklet). The Watchmen. Los Alamos, New Mexico: Prescient Thought. 1992.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)