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The Somatic Defilement

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Length
  
31:59

Artist
  
Whitechapel

Label
  
Candlelight Records USA

The Somatic Defilement (2007)
  
This Is Exile (2008)

Release date
  
31 July 2007

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Released
  
July 31, 2007 April 16, 2013 (reissue)

Recorded
  
2007 at The Sound Lair in Knoxville, Tennessee

Producer
  
Whitechapel, Miah Lajeunesse

Demo 2 (2006)
  
The Somatic Defilement (2007)

Genres
  
Deathcore, Death metal, Brutal death metal

Similar
  
Whitechapel albums, Deathcore albums, Other albums

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The Somatic Defilement is the first album by the American deathcore band Whitechapel. The album was released on July 31, 2007, through Candlelight Records and is their only release through this label before their move to Metal Blade the following year. It is the only album to feature guitarist Brandon Cagle.

Contents

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Overview

The Somatic Defilement is a concept album based on Jack the Ripper, in which all of the songs are first-person narratives of the slaughter and rape of prostitutes.

The album is the only one by Whitechapel to include Brandon Cagle as guitarist. He later left the band, because the injuries he received from a motorcycle accident left him unable to play his instrument. He was replaced by Zach Householder. The intro track, "Necrotizing" contains excerpts from a Stone Phillips interview with Jeffrey Dahmer.

Reissue

A remixed and remastered edition of the album was released on April 16, 2013 through Metal Blade Records. Re-mixing and re-mastering duties were given to Mark Lewis, whom the band worked with on their self-titled release and their fifth album, Our Endless War.

Personnel

Whitechapel
  • Gabe Crisp – bass guitar
  • Kevin Lane – drums
  • Phil Bozeman – vocals
  • Alex Wade – guitar
  • Ben Savage – guitar
  • Brandon Cagle – guitar
  • Production
  • Production by Miah Lajeunesse and Whitechapel
  • Mixing and engineering by Miah Lajeunesse
  • Mastering by Alan Douches
  • A&R by Jamie Graham
  • Songs

    1Necrotizing0:35
    2The Somatic Defilement5:19
    3Devirgination Studies3:12

    References

    The Somatic Defilement Wikipedia