Slither (album)

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Slither
Earth Crisis Slither album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Earth Crisis
ReleasedJune 20, 2000
Genre Nu metal [1] [2] [3]
Length42:53
Label Victory
Producer Steve Evetts
Earth Crisis chronology
Breed the Killers
(1998)		Slither
(2000)		 Last of the Sane
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Chronicles of Chaos 8/10 [4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Punknews.orgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]

Slither is the fourth full-length album by the American metalcore band Earth Crisis, released in 2000. [7] It marked a return to Victory Records following the band's 1998 Roadrunner Records album Breed the Killers . [5] Slither marked a departure from the band's metalcore [8] sound and ventured into the nu metal sound popularized by '90s metal bands such as Korn and Deftones. [2] The album peaked at No. 50 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. [9]

Contents

Production

The album was produced by Steve Evetts. [10] The album cover was designed by the artist Dave McKean.

Reception

Chronicles of Chaos wrote: "Managing to stir up enough emotion and deafening cries of aggression, the band storms through a sonic assault of heavy vibes and mosh pit worthy material—and the music of Slither is also chock-full of strong harmonies to boot." [4] The Telegram & Gazette wrote that the songs "boast rich textures as the band combines its old hard-core raucousness with a freshly developed 'clean' heavy-rock sound." [11] The New Straits Times thought that "the lyrics are often contrived and meaningless, which diminishes the power of the music somewhat." [12]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Loss of Humanity"0:51
2."Slither"4:00
3."Provoke"3:17
4."Nemesis"5:00
5."Agress"3:38
6."Biomachines"3:34
7."Killing Brain Cells"3:15
8."Arc of Descent"2:57
9."Mechanism"3:15
10."Behind the Wire"2:34
11."Mass Arrest"3:31
12."Hairtrigger"3:57
13."Escape"2:59
Total length:42:53

Credits

References

  1. ↑ "6 Albums That Nearly Ruined Bands' Careers". Kerrang!. July 6, 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Matt Kantor. Slither – Earth Crisis. AllMusic. Retrieved May 19, 2012.
  3. ↑ "10 terrible metal albums with one classic song". June 30, 2023.
  4. 1 2 "CoC : Earth Crisis – Slither : Review". www.chroniclesofchaos.com.
  5. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 3. MUZE. p. 197.
  6. ↑ "Earth Crisis – Slither". www.punknews.org. February 26, 2001.
  7. ↑ "Earth Crisis | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  8. ↑ "EARTH CRISIS - Slither". ox-fanzine.de. Retrieved September 16, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Earth Crisis". Billboard.
  10. ↑ Makin, Robert (July 27, 2000). "Rave". Courier-News. p. D5.
  11. ↑ McLennan, Scott (August 31, 2000). "Crisis, what crisis? Well-aired vegan code keeps Earth Crisis going". Telegram & Gazette. p. C1.
  12. ↑ Murthi, R.S. (August 30, 2000). "EARTH CRISIS – Slither". New Straits Times. Music. p. 4.
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