"From the Ashes" is also the title of the finale of Mike Oldfield

Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...

's Guitars

Guitars (Mike Oldfield album)

Guitars is a record album written and performed by Mike Oldfield, released in 1999 . The concept of the album was to only perform it using guitar-like instruments.- Background :...

 album.

From the Ashes is the seventh studio album

Studio album

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 by the punk rock

Punk rock

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 band Pennywise

Pennywise (band)

Pennywise is a Californian punk rock band from Hermosa Beach, California, formed in 1988. The name is derived from the monster, It, from the Stephen King novel of the same title....

, released on September 9, 2003. Most copies include a DVD

DVD

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 on the making of the album.

Although the album did not maintain the same popularity of the last two albums, Straight Ahead

Straight Ahead (Pennywise album)

- Trivia :The bonus track "Down Under" from the album´s Australian release is a cover of Men at Work´s same titled song and a tribute to the many Australian Pennywise fans.- Personnel :* Jim Lindberg - Vocals* Fletcher Dragge - Guitar* Randy Bradbury - Bass...

and Land of the Free?

Land of the Free?

Land of the Free? is the sixth album by Pennywise. Produced by Joe Barresi, the album was released on June 19, 2001. After the commercial success of their previous album, Straight Ahead, Pennywise entered the studio in early 2001 to record a follow-up...

, From the Ashes reached number 54 on the Billboard 200

Billboard 200

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 and number 4 on the Top Independent Albums chart, marking the highest initial charting album in Pennywise's career.

"Yesterdays" saw regular radio play on popular stations such as Southern California's KROQ-FM

KROQ-FM

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The song "Rise Up" is included in the video game Burnout 3: Takedown

Burnout 3: Takedown

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Track listing

Personnel

• Randy Bradbury
  Randy Bradbury
  Randy Bradbury is the current bass guitar player for the Californian punk band Pennywise.He joined in October 1995 when founding bass player Jason Thirsk left the band. Randy was supposed to switch to rhythm guitar when Thirsk returned, but it never happened due to Thirsk's suicide in 1996...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Fletcher Dragge
  Fletcher Dragge
  Fletcher Dragge is the lead guitar player of the punk rock band Pennywise, which was formed in 1988.Before he joined Pennywise, he was also in the local punk rock band CON/800...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Jim Lindberg
  Jim Lindberg
  James William Lindberg is an American singer and guitarist. Active since the 1980s, when he played in local bands in his early career, Lindberg is best known for being the frontman and songwriter of the influential punk rock band Pennywise, where he had remained as a member for 21 years...
  
   – vocals
• Byron McMackin – drums
  Drum kit
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• Pennywise
  Pennywise (band)
  Pennywise is a Californian punk rock band from Hermosa Beach, California, formed in 1988. The name is derived from the monster, It, from the Stephen King novel of the same title....
  
   – producer
  Record producer
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• Darian Rundall – producer, engineer
  Audio engineering
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Charts

Album - Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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(North America) and the ARIA Charts

ARIA Charts

The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...

(Australia).

Year	Chart	Position
2003	The Billboard 200	54
2003	Top Independent Albums	4
2003	Australian Albums Chart	13