Teknowhore

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TeknoWhore
Bile teknowhore.jpeg
Studio album by
Released18 June 1996
RecordedSummer–fall 1995
StudioMusic Palace, Long Island, New York
Genre Industrial metal
Length66:55
Label Energy Records [1]
Producer Slave and Krztoff
Bile chronology
SuckPump
(1994)
TeknoWhore
(1996)
The Darkbeat EP
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Chronicles of Chaos 2/10 [3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

TeknoWhore is a studio album by the American industrial metal band Bile, released in 1996. [5] The album was released on the now defunct Energy Records and had not been reproduced since the company's fold in 2000. After being out of print for three years, Bile decided to re-release the album alongside their out-of-print first release, Suckpump , as a digipak titled Frankenhole in 2003. TeknoWhore was written and recorded by Krztoff, produced by Krztoff and Slave, mixed by Slave, and engineered by Steve Spaperri and Patrick Gordon.

Contents

Critical reception

The Washington Post wrote that "the band's world view is as contrived and perverse as its style, which alternates slamming synthbeats with aimless interludes of burbling music and ironic samples from old movies and documentaries." [5]

Track listing

  1. "Intro" - 2:09
  2. "Teknowhore" - 2:08
  3. "Weather Control" - 4:38
  4. "No One I Call Friend" - 6:28
  5. "Habitual Sphere" - 4:38
  6. "Compound Pressure" - 5:14
  7. "Interstate Hate Song" - 3:35
  8. "Green Day" - 1:12
  9. "No I Don't Know" - 2:31
  10. "Suckers" - 2:18
  11. "Lowest Form" - 4:54
  12. "You Can't Love This (Pt. 1)" - 1:00
  13. "You Can't Love This (Pt. 2)" - 6:08
  14. "You Can't Love This (Pt. 3)" - 3:21
  15. "You Can't Love This (Pt. 4)" - 6:26
  16. "Solitude Is Bliss" - 10:15

Credits

Bile in the studio
Bile on the road
No Live freakshow

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