Hot Damn!
Encyclopedia
Hot Damn! is the second full length release from metalcore
band Every Time I Die
released in July 2003 on Ferret Records. It is considered the band's breakout album, leading to spots on tours such as Ozzfest
and Sounds of the Underground
.
Tracks 11-13 are Japanese bonus tracks
(North America)
, Shakespeare, Donne, and Chaucer. According to frontman Keith Buckley
:
Metalcore
Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...
band Every Time I Die
Every Time I Die
Every Time I Die is a metalcore band from Buffalo, New York, formed in 1998. Their musical style is rooted in technical hardcore with strong southern metal and mathcore elements, and is also characterised by their cryptic, bitingly sarcastic lyrics. The band announced on July 14, 2008 that they had...
released in July 2003 on Ferret Records. It is considered the band's breakout album, leading to spots on tours such as Ozzfest
Ozzfest
Ozzfest is an annual festival tour of the United States featuring performances by many heavy metal and hard rock musical groups. It was founded by Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon Osbourne, both of whom also organize each yearly tour with their son Jack Osbourne...
and Sounds of the Underground
Sounds of the Underground
The Sounds of the Underground tour was a festival-like tour that rivaled Ozzfest in its first year of existence .The tour features extreme metal and metalcore, and hardcore bands. The existence of this tour, which was held in national arenas, was to attract the rising interest of metal, hardcore,...
.
Track listing
- "Romeo a Go-Go" – 2:40
- "Off Broadway" – 2:28
- "I Been Gone a Long Time" – 3:02
- "Godspeed Us to Sea" – 2:32
- "She's My Rushmore" – 1:48
- "Floater" – 2:55
- "In the Event That Everything Should Go Terribly Wrong" – 2:38
- "Ebolarama" – 2:58
- "Hit of the Search Party" – 3:11
- "Pornogratherapy" – 2:50
- "Emergency Broadcast Syndrome" (live) – 2:00
- "Floater" (live) – 3:14
- "I Used to Love Her" – 3:17
Tracks 11-13 are Japanese bonus tracks
Personnel
- Keith Buckley – vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
- Jordan Buckley – guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
- Andrew Williams – guitar
- Michael "Ratboy" Novak Jr. – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
- Stephen Micciche – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
Chart positions
Album - BillboardBillboard (magazine)
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(North America)
Year | Chart | Position |
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2003 | Top Independent Albums | 49 |
Romeo a Go-Go
"Romeo a Go-Go" is the lead track of this album. It mentions literary figures such as MiltonJohn Milton
John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...
, Shakespeare, Donne, and Chaucer. According to frontman Keith Buckley
Keith Buckley
Keith Buckley is the lyricist and vocalist for the metalcore band Every Time I Die and the heavy metal supergroup The Damned Things.-Family:...
:
"At the time that we wrote the record, I was like finishing up at U.B., and I had to take like, a ton, a ton of literary courses because I was an English major and I had to take a ton of literary courses to get my degree in the amount of time I had. So, I was taking like, six literature courses. So I was taking like Milton and Shakespeare, and John Donne and Chaucer, like all at the same time. So that was pretty much pervasive in my life. Like, all that old literature. So, I mean, if there is somebody out there that would actually put the time into reading hardcore lyrics, which I doubt there is, then, you know, there is a lot of Shakespeare images in there, just because that was what I was reading at the time."