The Butterfly Collection

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The Butterfly Collection
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 24, 2001
Recorded2001
StudioArt Of Ears,
Hayward, California, U.S.
Genre Hardcore punk
Length38:34 total
29:35 music
Label Hellcat Records
Producer The Nerve Agents
Andy Ernst
The Nerve Agents chronology
Days Of The White Owl
(2000)
The Butterfly Collection
(2001)
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The Butterfly Collection is the second and final full-length album from Californian hardcore punk band The Nerve Agents.

Contents

It was released by Hellcat Records and distributed by Epitaph Records in July 2001.

Overview

After the straightforward hardcore punk of the debut EP and the quirky melodies of Days of the White Owl , this album has more angular riffs and off-the-wall melodies and has slowed down considerably on most tracks.

Songs are still sub-two minute affairs and Eric Ozenne's vocals are the same as they have ever been – manic yell/growls.

The album had its fans – they liked the musical progression and direction it was going – and it had its detractors – – mostly still citing lack of originality within the Californian hardcore scene.

Fans of the band in general, however, are quick to point out that Eric Ozenne has always been in bands that have played the same sort of music and, in fact, were at the forefront of the scene in the mid-1990s with his previous band, Redemption 87.

Track listing

  1. "The Poisoning" – 2:21
  2. "Crisis" – 1:18
  3. "War Against!" – 2:23
  4. "The Vice of Mrs. Grossly" – 1:55
  5. "Madam Butterfly" – 1:42
  6. "Princess Jasmine of Tinseltown" – 2:31
  7. "What Then?" – 1:53
  8. "The Legend of H. Gane Ciro" – 2:05
  9. "But I Might Die Tonight" (Yusuf Islam) – 1:45
  10. "Metal Pig" – 1:37
  11. "New Jersey" – 1:34
  12. "So, Very Avoidable" – 1:11
  13. "Oh, Ghost of Mine" – 1:42
  14. "Frost" – 2:27
  15. "The Cross" – 12:09

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