| Blackout | ||||
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| Released | March 18, 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 2002 | |||
| Studio | The Machine Shop,Hoboken, New Jersey / Studio West,San Diego, California / Cello Studios,Hollywood, California / Chunky Style Music,Los Angeles, California / NRG Recording Services,North Hollywood, California | |||
| Genre | Nu metal,[1]rap metal[2] | |||
| Length | 49:46 | |||
| Label | Jive Music for Nations Volcano | |||
| Producer | Machine, Steve Thompson,Mike Bradford | |||
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Blackout is the thirdstudio album by Americanrock bandHed PE. Released on March 18, 2003,Blackout peaked at number 33 on theBillboard 200, selling 28,000 copies in its first week,[3] while its title track peaked at number 21 on theHot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and at number 32 on theHot Modern Rock Tracks chart.[4] A second single, "Other Side", peaked at number 40 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.[5] The album also peaked at number 102 in theUnited Kingdom.[6] The song "Get Away" is featured inNASCAR Thunder 2003 produced byEA Sports.Sonny Mayo is credited playing guitar, but didn't play according to an interview with Good Company.This is the last release by the band to have two Guitarists, after Chizad quit in 2002.
Jared Gomes later reflected unfavorably on the album's production, claiming that the label was trying to achieve commercial success by forcing anu metal sound.[7] Gomes stated in 2011, "all my decisions were being overlooked by the record company I was under when producing it… causing me to hold back on things, change song structures and all other kinds of shit in order to try and get into the radio friendly scene to fit in with the nu-metal movement… and as I complied I grew to dislike what I was becoming."[7] Eventually, Gomes said, he would try to make the band's next album,Only in Amerika as uncommercial as possible, to provoke people lyrically as a backlash against the more commercial sound ofBlackout.[7]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [8] |
| Melodic.net |  [2] |
Allmusic's Johnny Loftus wrote that "While it expands on melodic elements that had previously played a supporting role in the band's sound,Blackout also delivers truckloads of crushing guitar and pounding rhythm. And whether or not it is the presence of a top-line producer, (hed) pe have figured out a way to imbue their aggressive mix of heavy rock and hip-hop with some serious hooks."[8]
Beatdust described the band as "becoming anotherLimp Bizkit clone" withBlackout and the previous albumBroke, which were recorded to pay back the losses owed to the label to recoup the commercial failure of the band's1997 self-titled debut album.[9]Jared Gomes has dismissed the album as "corporate junk".[10]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Suck it Up" (used in theEA Sports video gameMadden NFL 2003) | Jahred; Mawk | 3:56 |
| 2. | "Bury Me" | Jahred; Mawk | 3:05 |
| 3. | "Dangerous" | Chad; Jahred; Wes | 3:26 |
| 4. | "Blackout" (used in theEA Sports video gameMVP Baseball 2003) | Jahred | 3:53 |
| 5. | "Get Away" (used in theEA Sports video gameNASCAR Thunder 2003) | Jahred; Mawk | 3:18 |
| 6. | "Crazy Life" | B.C.; Chad; Dj Product; Jahred; Mawk; Wes | 3:43 |
| 7. | "Half the Man" | Chad; Jahred; Wes | 4:42 |
| 8. | "The Only One" | B.C.; Chad; DJ Product; Jahred; Mawk; Wes | 3:33 |
| 9. | "Other Side" | Jahred; Mawk | 3:36 |
| 10. | "Flesh and Bone" | B.C.; DJ Product; Jahred; Mawk; Wes | 3:48 |
| 11. | "Octopussy" | Wes | 0:44 |
| 12. | "Carnivale" | Jahred; Wes | 3:59 |
| 13. | "Fallen" | Jahred; Wes | 4:01 |
| 14. | "Revelations" | Jahred; Wes | 4:10 |
| Total length: | 49:46 | ||
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 15. | "Dracula" | 4:13 |
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