Beneath... Between... Beyond...
Compilation album by Static-X
Released	July 20, 2004 (2004-07-20)
Recorded	1996–2002
Genre	Industrial metal nu metal alternative metal
Length	61:18
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Josh Abraham Ulrich Wild Wayne Static Koichi Fukuda Mephisto Odyssey Tom Whalley(exec.)
Static-X chronology
Shadow Zone (2003) Beneath... Between... Beyond... (2004) Start a War (2005)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Hit Parader	B+[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

Beneath... Between... Beyond... is thecompilation album by Americanindustrial metal bandStatic-X, released on July 20, 2004, throughWarner Bros. Records. It is a compilation of previously unreleased tracks,remixes,cover versions, and the band's originaldemo tracks. The band did some touring in support of the album.^[4]

In a 2004Metal Edge feature on the compilation, frontmanWayne Static explained that the idea forBeneath... Between... Beyond... came about due to fan enquiries about songs "that appeared on some soundtrack for some old movie", and questions about where these songs were.^[5] As most of the CDs the rare songs were featured on had gone out of print, Static-X decided to release a compilation album to make them more accessible to fans.^[5] To make the release more special for hardcore fans, the band decided to include never-heard-before demo tracks that were recorded at the band's rehearsal space inLos Angeles, in order to "give all of you an idea of how a song evolves from its demo form, to the finished recording you hear on one of our albums".^[5]

Beneath... Between... Beyond... is composed of previously unreleased tracks,cover versions, and original Static-Xdemo tracks, dating back as far as 1996. Although the song "Crash" (featured onMephisto Odyssey'sThe Deep Red Connection in 2000) is "not completely a Static-X song", Static opted to include it onBeneath... Between... Beyond... due to his and (then-former) guitaristKoichi Fukuda's involvement with its production.^[6]

"S.O.M.", "Down", "Head" and "So Real" were part of the 16 songs that Static-X recorded in 1998 for the band's debut albumWisconsin Death Trip (1999), and out of 25 that were written for the album.^[6] After selecting the album's twelve songs, the band decided to keep the unused tracks "for future use".^[6] "S.O.M." ("Symptoms of Mercy"), which Static and bassistTony Campos both considered to be one of their favourite songs from theWisconsin Death Trip sessions, features heavy guitar riffing inspired byCrowbar.^[6] Static described "Down" as "a killer mixture ofdrum-and-bass style with pure metal shredding", and stated that it was inspired by theSlayer/Atari Teenage Riot collaboration "No Remorse (I Wanna Die)", fromSpawn: The Album (1997).^[6] "So Real" was primarily composed by Static and Fukuda, with Campos contributing something at the end of the song at the band's request.^[6] "S.O.M." was featured on anMTV compilation,Return of the Rock, whilst "So Real" was included inthe soundtrack forScream 3 (2000).^[6]

"Anything But This" was written and recorded during the recording sessions for Static-X's second albumMachine (2001) in December 2000. The song features lots of screaming anddouble-kick drums as well as an unexpected transition to clean guitars on the chorus, which (in a rare instance) features Campos singing the entire chorus.^[7] Static considered the song to be "the heaviest, most brutal thing [Static-X] ever put down on tape", noting that helost his voice tracking vocals for it.^[7] "Breathe" was also written during theMachine sessions by Static, who left it off of the album as he felt it did not fit in with the rest of the material. It resurfaced during recording sessions for the band's third album,Shadow Zone (2003), and the band "threw ideas into [the song] the make the finished version", according to Eisen.^[8] Considering it reminiscient ofProng, Campos attempted to convince the band to get Prong frontmanTommy Victor to do vocals for the song, but "no one took [him] seriously".^[8] "Deliver Me" originated from a demo that guitaristTripp Eisen was working on that Static liked. It was one of Campos' favourite songs from theShadow Zone sessions and he wanted to include the song on the album, whilst Eisen felt it was better suited to a soundtrack album.^[8] The song ultimately ended up on the soundtrack of the2003 remake ofThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre.^[8]

Beneath... Between... Beyond... includes two remixes of the band's singles "Push It" and "I'm With Stupid", by then-Fear Factory touring keyboardistJohn Bechdel andMinistry bassistPaul Barker, respectively. After meeting him in New York, Wayne Static asked Barker to do a remix of "I'm With Stupid", which came out "sounding like a cool mix of Static-X and Ministry", according to Static.^[6] The "Push It (JB's Death Trace Mix)" appeared on thePush It EP (which also includes "Down"), whilst the "I'm With Stupid (Paul Barker Mix)" was included in a Warner Bros.sampler release.^[6]

The compilation features three cover songs: "Burning Inside" (by Ministry), "Behind the Wall of Sleep" (byBlack Sabbath) and "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" (by theRamones). "Burning Inside" was recorded as a duet with then-Fear Factory frontmanBurton C. Bell during a break in the 1999Ozzfest Tour, and the song itself was a fixture of Static-X's live setlists during theMachine tour.^[6] According to Bell, Static was unsure of the song's lyrics and had to look them up online, but felt that he got "fairly close" to them.^[6] The track was first released on the soundtrack toThe Crow: Salvation. The band contributed "Behind the Wall of Sleep" to the Black Sabbath tribute albumNativity in Black 2 (2000). The band recorded the song's guitar and bass tracks using a "little cigarette box amplifier"; as the band did not have awah-wah pedal at the time, they got their sound engineer, Bruce Reiter, to "hold the little amp up to his mouth while he opened and closed it!", according to Static.^[9] "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" was recorded in 2002 forWe're a Happy Family: A Tribute to Ramones, but was omitted from the album "because they had too many songs", according to Static.^[9] The song was later added as a bonus track to the Japanese release ofShadow Zone.^[9] It was the band's first song recorded with Tripp Eisen, and the last song that original Static-X drummerKen Jay performed on before his departure from the band later that year (although he would later rejoin in 2018).^[9][10]

"I Am" and "Love Dump" (which would later appear onWisconsin Death Trip) were recorded for Static-X's first six-song demo in 1996 by Static, Campos and Jay, which was later used to get the band signed to Warner Bros.^[9] Although he was not a member of Static-X when the demos were recorded, Koichi Fukuda was listed in the demo's liner notes as he was a member of Static-X by the time the band started distributing them.^[9] The "Get to the Gone" demo (fromMachine) was recorded by Static, Campos and Jay as part of arehearsal tape for producerUlrich Wild in late 2000, following Fukuda's departure from the band.^[9] The demos for "New Pain" and "Otsegolectric" (fromShadow Zone) were demoed with aAkai MPC 2000 drum machine, and Static noted the "rigidity" of the demos compared to their album version counterparts.^[9] "Otsegolectric" features an extended intro with a sample, whilst Eisen stated that "New Pain" was "a real work in progress" at the time of its recording, and that it would "[morph] a lot from [its] original concept".^[9] These demos were among those that were played forJosh Freese, who would become thesession drummer forShadow Zone.^[9]

• Wayne Static –lead vocals,rhythm guitar,keyboards,programming
• Tripp Eisen –lead guitar
• Tony Campos –bass,backing vocals
• Nick Oshiro –drums

• Koichi Fukuda – lead guitar, keyboards, programming
• Ken Jay – drums
• Josh Freese – drums

Citations

Sources

• Anon. (November 2004)."Hit or Miss".Hit Parader. Vol. 51, no. 481. Magma Publishing Group. p. 86.ISSN 0162-0266 – viaInternet Archive.
• Harris, Keith (2004). "Static-X". In Brackett, Nathan (ed.).The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. p. 776–777.ISBN 9780743201698.
• Static, Wayne;Eisen, Tripp;Campos, Tony (October 2004)."Static-X: Inside Beneath Between Beyond".Metal Edge. Vol. 50, no. 6. Dorchester Media, LLC. pp. 38–41.ISSN 1068-2872 – viaInternet Archive.

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