Welcome Home (Hellyeah album)

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Welcome Home
Hellyeah - Welcome Home.png
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 27, 2019
RecordedMay–June 2018
StudioTouchwood Studios, Regina, Canada
Genre
Length36:26
Label Eleven Seven
Producer Kevin Churko
Hellyeah chronology
Unden!able
(2016)
Welcome Home
(2019)
Singles from Welcome Home
  1. "Welcome Home"
    Released: May 17, 2019

Welcome Home is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Hellyeah. [3] It was released on September 27, 2019, and is the last album to feature drummer and founding member Vinnie Paul following his death on June 22, 2018. Welcome Home was also the last album Hellyeah released before going on hiatus in 2021.

Contents

History

On March 14, 2019, the band announced a new album would be released on June 28, and the song "333" was also released. [4]

On May 13, the band announced Stone Sour drummer Roy Mayorga as the new tour drummer for Hellyeah, [5] while also announcing "Welcome Home" as the title of their next album, with a new release date of September 27, 2019. [3]

On May 17, a music video for the single and title track "Welcome Home" was released. [6]

On June 28, the music video for "Oh My God" was released. [7]

On August 8, E7 Music made the song "Perfect" available on YouTube.

On September 13, the song, "Black Flag Army" was released with a music video.

Critical reception

Wall of Sound scored the album 7/10 and stated: "With such a solid offering like Welcome Home, the next chapter of the band will be interesting to watch, and I'm sure Vinnie Paul's spirit will be behind them". [8] Kerrang! scored the album 4/5, calling it "a wonderful time, and a fitting farewell to an irreplaceable metal hero". [9] Loudwire named it one of the 50 best rock albums of 2019. [10]

Track listing

All songs written by Chad Gray, Christian Brady, Tom Maxwell, Kyle Sanders, Vinnie Paul and Kevin Churko.

Welcome Home track listing
No.TitleLength
1."333"3:16
2."Oh My God"4:12
3."Welcome Home"4:32
4."I'm the One"3:12
5."Black Flag Army"3:11
6."At Wick's End"3:58
7."Perfect"3:21
8."Bury You"3:17
9."Boy"3:09
10."Skyy and Water"3:26
11."Irreplaceable" (audio recording of Vinnie Paul)0:52
Total length:36:26

Personnel

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Welcome Home
Chart (2019)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [11] 25
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [12] 83
US Billboard 200 [13] 57

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