Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest

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Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 21, 2005
Recorded2004–2005
StudioGlow in the Dark, Atlanta, Georgia
Genre Post-hardcore, screamo [1]
Length36:03
Label Solid State
Producer Matt Goldman, Josh Scogin, As Cities Burn
As Cities Burn chronology
As Cities Burn EP
(2003)
Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest
(2005)
Come Now Sleep
(2007)
Professional ratings
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Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest is the first full-length studio album released in June 2005 by As Cities Burn.

Contents

Allusions

The album includes numerous allusions. "Thus from My Lips, by Yours, My Sin Is Purged" is a line from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet . Another example includes lyrics such as, "let the dead bury their own dead", from the song "Wake Dead Man, Wake". This is a line originally spoken by Jesus in The Gospel of Luke.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Thus from My Lips, by Yours, My Sin Is Purged"3:04
2."Love Jealous One, Love"3:04
3."Incomplete Is a Leech"2:54
4."Bloodsucker Pt. II"3:23
5."Terrible! How Terrible for the Great City!"3:00
6."The Widow"3:51
7."Wake Dead Man, Wake"3:10
8."Admission: Regret"3:05
9."One: Twentyseven"3:51
10."Of Want and Misery: The Nothing That Kills"6:41

Personnel

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