Speak and Destroy (My Ruin album)

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Speak and Destroy
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Studio album by
Released23 August 1999
Genre Nu metal
Length60:00
Label Snapper
Spitfire
Producer Paul Naylor, Tairrie B
My Ruin chronology
Speak and Destroy
(1999)
A Prayer Under Pressure of Violent Anguish
(2000)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 3/10 [2]
NME 7/10 [3]

Speak and Destroy is the first full-length album released by the metal band My Ruin. [4] [5] It contains a cover of Soft Cell's "Tainted Love". It also contains the singles "Blasphemous Girl" and "Terror". It was the first album lead singer Tairrie B made since her metal band Tura Satana .

Contents

Track listing

UK release

  1. "Prologue" - 0:06
  2. "Terror" - 5:25
  3. "Preacher" - 3:33
  4. "Tainted Love" - 3:45
  5. "Blasphemous Girl" - 3:43
  6. "Close Your Eyes" - 5:30
  7. "Absolution" - 3:27
  8. "Horrible Pain (Within My Heart)" - 4:07
  9. "Monster" - 3:41
  10. "Sick With It" - 3:41
  11. "My Beautiful Flower" - 4:17
  12. "Diavolina" - 4:45
  13. "June 10" - 4:38
  14. "Bright Red Scream" - 4:01
  15. "Cosmetic" - 4:05
  16. "Sycophant" - 3:59
  17. "Epilogue" - 0:43
  18. "Beware Of God" - 0:28

US release

  1. "Prologue"
  2. "Terror"
  3. "Preacher" (Live)
  4. "Tainted Love" (Remix)
  5. "Blasphemous Girl"
  6. "Close Your Eyes"
  7. "Absolution"
  8. "Horrible Pain (Within My Heart)"
  9. "Fever"
  10. "Sick With It"
  11. "My Beautiful Flower"
  12. "Diavolina"
  13. "June 10"
  14. "Masochrist"
  15. "Cosmetic"
  16. "Sycophant"
  17. "Epilogue"
  18. "Beware Of God"

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References

  1. Gary Hill. "Speak and Destroy Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  2. Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 303. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
  3. "Speak & Destroy Review". NME. 12 September 2005. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  4. Hendry, Steve (2 September 1999). "She'll Be the Ruin of You". Edinburgh Evening News. p. 1.
  5. Mathur, Paul (4 September 1999). "Speak and Destroy". Melody Maker. Vol. 76, no. 35. p. 44.