Superjudge is the second full-length album by American rock band Monster Magnet, released on April 6, 1993. It is the first Monster Magnet album to feature lead guitarist Ed Mundell, who replaced founding member John McBain in 1992. The tracks "Twin Earth" and "Face Down" were released as singles with accompanying music videos.
Superjudge was Monster Magnet's second full-length album, after Spine of God (in addition to the mini-albumMonster Magnet and the EPTab). Notably, Superjudge was the band's debut on a major label via A&M Records. It was recorded and mixed by Steve Rosenthal at New York's "The Magic Shop" studio in October, 1992, with all original material composed by the band's lead vocalist Dave Wyndorf.
The album fared poorly commercially, largely due to its release coinciding with the advent of the grunge era, which ultimately resulted in a dramatic decline in the popularity of heavy metal in general. Though a commercial disappointment after its release, Superjudge has since become an influential album in the stoner rock genre.[7]
According to Wyndorf, Superjudge began as something of a concept album, but the only surviving part is the band's cover of Willie Dixon's "Evil (Is Going On)". Also according to Wyndorf, "For a while, we were thinking of doing a total blues record, old Ten Years After stuff and old Howlin' Wolf stuff," Wyndorf says. "But we couldn't pull it off. It didn't sit right with us, so we kept 'Evil' and a couple others, but only 'Evil' made it to the tape."[8]
The album's lyrics make references to various sci-fi topics, with Wyndorf saying he writes "ambiguous and coded" lyrics because if he didn't, "I'd get bored singing them after three gigs." "The songs I like aren't explained," he says. "You can try to figure them out. I write stream-of-consciousness and I don't rewrite much. A lot of times, I'll have one foot in reality-something going on in Belgium or whatever-and the other in what I wish could happen-planets, spaceships-and try to fit them together and make sense out of it."[8]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Dave Wyndorf, except where noted.
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