Length 39:11 Artist Within the Ruins Producer Joe Cocchi Genre Progressive metal | Elite
(2013) Phenomena
(2014) Release date 26 February 2013 Label Entertainment One Music | |
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Released February 26, 2013 (2013-02-26) People also search for Invade, Halfway Human, Phenomena, Creature | ||
Within the ruins elite full album
Elite is the third studio album by American deathcore band Within the Ruins. The album saw Within the Ruins' first appearance on the Billboard 200, peaking at the 133 spot. It is their first release for E1 Music following their departure from Victory Records in 2012. It is also their first release featuring only one guitarist, following the departure of Jay Van Schelt in 2012. The track list for the album was revealed on February 14, 2013.
Contents
- Within the ruins elite full album
- Within the ruins solace
- Background
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
To promote the album, the song "Feeding Frenzy" was released as a single on February 4, 2013 with an accompanying lyric video. The video was published to the band's YouTube channel on the same day.
On February 26, 2013, the same day the album was released, a music video directed by Kevin J Custer was released for "Feeding Frenzy". On July 22, 2013, a music video was released for the song "New Holy War" and published to the band's YouTube channel.
Within the ruins solace
Background
On March 20, 2012, Victory Records posted a pre-production update video to their YouTube featuring Cocchi and McGuill working on demos for their upcoming album, which would become Elite.
The band would begin to record the album during the Spring of 2012 at Dreadcore studios in White Lake, Michigan working with Joshua Wickman. They published a studio update video to their YouTube channel on May 8, 2012, chronicling their progress. The band would post a follow-up video on June 22, 2012.
Within the Ruins signed for E1 Music in November of 2012. Speaking on their departure from Victory Records, and progress towards Elite, guitarist Joe Cocchi stated:
“This is extremely exciting for us. We’re proud to be a part of this new family. We look forward to growing as a band with eOne / Goodfight now behind us, and we’re thankful to be working with people who care.The new album is complete! It’s also completely different so we’re very excited for our fans to hear it.”
Track listing
The instrumental "Dreamland" features audio clips of Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous inauguration speech during his First inauguration.
Personnel
Within the Ruins
Production
Songs
1Terminal1:09
2Solace2:59
3Feeding Frenzy3:41