House of Secrets (album)

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Length 44:21 Release date 27 July 2004 Label Capitol Records		Artist Otep Producer Greg Wells

Released July 27, 2004 (2004-07-27) House of Secrets(2004) Wurd Becomes Flesh(2005) Genres Heavy metal, Nu metal, Alternative metal Similar Otep albums, Heavy metal albums

House of Secrets is the second album by the American heavy metal band Otep, produced by Greg Wells (Deftones, Rufus Wainwright, Mika), and released in 2004. The album entered the Billboard 200 at number 93. The video for the song "Warhead" made the top ten videos of 2004 on MTV's Headbanger's Ball. This album has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions.

Otep house of secrets

Music and lyrics

The album features elements of several musical genres including nu metal, death metal, groove metal, alternative rock, alternative metal, extreme metal, funk metal, hip-hop, ambient and spoken word. The album is noted for having lyrical topics about insecurity and self-loathing. However, the song "Warhead" has extremely political lyrics.

Personnel

Otep Shamaya - vocals, bass drum, didgeridoo, cymbal scrapes (11)

Rob Patterson - guitar (2, 3, 10)

Greg Wells - metal strips (1), steel drums (1), guitar (4-6, 8-12), celeste (5), drums (5, 8, 9), percussion (10), piano (12)

Jason "eViL J" McGuire - bass guitar, back up vocals (3), guitar (4, 5)

Joey Jordison (Slipknot) - drums (2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 11)

Production

Producer: Greg Wells

Executive producer: Otep Shamaya

Engineers: Brian Scheuble, Greg Wells

Assistant engineers: Dan Beeston, Monique Mizrahi

Mixing: Greg Wells

Mastering: Roger Lian, Howie Weinberg

A&R: Ron Laffitte

Art direction: P.R. Brown

Design: P.R. Brown

Photography: P.R. Brown

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Songs

1Requiem2:41
2Warhead3:29
3Buried Alive3:43

References

House of Secrets (album) Wikipedia

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