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Released
  
January 12, 2015

Artist
  
Wednesday 13

Label
  
DevCo Entertainment

Length
  
57:43

Release date
  
12 January 2015

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Genres
  
Heavy metal, Horror punk, Groove metal

Similar
  
Wednesday 13 albums, Horror punk albums

Monsters of the Universe: Come Out and Plague is the sixth studio album by Horror punk musician Wednesday 13. The album was released on January 12, 2015 in the UK and January 13, 2015 in the US and is Wednesday's first concept album. It will be released on CD and limited edition Double Vinyl. The album features 5 tracks co-written by Wednesday 13 and Roman Surman along with 1 track written entirely by Surman which is a first for a Wednesday 13 album that another band member has written an entire track without a co-credit from Wednesday.

Contents

Background

Wednesday posted a vlog on the official DevCo Entertainment, LLC. Vimeo channel detailing the album's release. He stated that he wanted to do something different and more challenging and spent 8 months with his guitar and wrote songs that all ended up piecing together into a story which will be the basis of the album. For details on the concept Wednesday stated “Take the movies, They Live and Night Of The Living Dead, and the series V, and mix that together. It’s a sci-fi, horror story that will be the most unique Wednesday 13 album to date. I wouldn’t even compare it to anything I’ve done in the past.” He also stated the CD and Double Vinyl releases will have completely different artworks to each other. Wednesday 13 has featured several album covers on his Facebook page and allows fans to customize their album cover by naming their monster and other details.

On October 31, 2014 Wednesday uploaded the first single for the new album to his official Soundcloud account entitled "Come Out And Plague".

The Monsters of the Universe

Like with previous Wednesday 13 albums where he offered fans their names in the booklet on gravestones and royal ghouls appearing in artwork he has offered 13 fans the opportunity to name the 13 monsters, planets and lifeforms that would be appearing in the CD booklet on his MorgueThanMerch store. Also included in the deal was a signed 8x10 print of the artwork from artist David Frizell & Wednesday 13 + a signed copy of the Monsters of the Universe CD. It is unknown at this time whether these "Monsters of the Universe" will be mentioned in the songs under the names given by the fans. All monsters were drawn and completed on September 25, 2014.

Limited Edition Preorder Releases

On Wednesday's official "Morgue Than Merch" store he offered several limited editions of the album only available through the official store. These included:

  • The CD and Double VINYL along with the buyer's name appearing in the CD booklet. - Limited to 100
  • Limited edition VINYL record. - Limited to 900
  • The CD and Double VINYL along with a hand-written lyric book for the album with ideas, notes drawings made during recording sessions all written by Wednesday himself.
  • The CD and Double VINYL along with the buyer's name in the CD booklet, custom painted paper mache masks painted by Wednesday himself, a "toxic plague handprint" with lyrics of the buyer's choice and autographed. - Limited to 13
  • Monsters of the Universe: Name Your Monster - Limited to 13.

    • Track listing

    All lyrics written by Wednesday 13, except "Planet Eater: Interstellar 187" lyrics by Roman Surman..

    Personnel

  • Wednesday 13 - lead vocals, guitar
  • Roman Surman - guitar, backing vocals
  • Jack Tankersley - guitar, backing vocals
  • Troy Doebbler - bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Kyle Castronovo - drums

    • Songs

    1The Fall of All2:40
    2Keep Watching the Skies4:16
    3Astro Psycho - Galactic Blood-Drive3:02

    References

    Monsters of the Universe: Come Out and Plague Wikipedia
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