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Released
  
March, 1999

Artist
  
Ensign

Producer
  
Steve Evetts

Genre
  
Hardcore punk

Length
  
27:53

Release date
  
March 1999

Label
  
Nitro Records

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Recorded
  
Trax East, S River, New Jersey, USA

Cast The First Stone (1999)
  
Three Years Two Months Eleven Days (2000)

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Cast the First Stone was the second full-length album by New Jersey, U.S. band Ensign. It was released by Nitro Records in March, 1999 and follows the band's debut, Direction of Things to Come which came out on Indecision Records in November, 1997.

Contents

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Overview

The combination of a move to a bigger record label and a different guitarist from their previous album did little to alter the band's sound. It was a short, frenetic-paced collection of songs again. The tracks in the early part of the album are straightforward Hardcore punk with less inclination to include slower refrain sections - referred to as breakdowns - than in previous recordings. This resulted in the tracks sounding faster. The latter part of the album showed signs that the band were including more metalcore elements into their sound. They would develop this tendency towards a more metalcore sound in their subsequent release, The Price of Progression.

Track listing

  • All songs written by Ensign
    1. "Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars" – 2:17
    2. "#22" – 1:32
    3. "15 Years" – 1:23
    4. "Wash Away" – 1:12
    5. "Fade Into Years" – 1:48
    6. "Waiting For The Breakdown" – 1:01
    7. "Absent" – 1:51
    8. "For The Record" – 1:55
    9. "Winner Takes All" – 0:57
    10. "Never Give In" – 2:19
    11. "Pale Horse" – 2:27
    12. "Unanswered" – 1:49
    13. "DBC" – 0:35
    14. "Cornered" – 1:40
    15. "The Road Less Travelled" – 2:15
    16. "Fallen" – 2:52
  • Track 5 is a reprise of a song which was originally recorded in 1997 and not released
  • Track 11 is a reprise of the song which appeared on the band's first, self-titled, 7" EP
  • Tracks 5 and 11 can be found in their original form on the retrospective Indecision Records release, Three Years Two Months Eleven Days

    • Credits

  • Tim Shaw – vocals
  • Ryan "Mackenzie" Donoghue – guitar
  • Nate "Edge" Gluck – bass
  • Ryan Murphy – drums
  • Sick Of It All's Lou Koller provided guest vocals on "15 Years"
  • Recorded at Trax East, South River, New Jersey, USA
  • Produced and engineered by Steve Evetts
  • Assistant Producers: Lou and Pete Koller of Sick Of It All
  • Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music

    • Songs

    1Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars2:17
    2#221:32
    315 Years1:23

    References

    Cast the First Stone Wikipedia
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