We the Fallen is the fourth studio album by American industrial metal

Industrial metal

Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and many different types of heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal acts include Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM.Industrial metal's...

 band Psyclon Nine

Psyclon Nine

Psyclon Nine is a musical group formed in 2000 in the San Francisco Bay Area. While their early efforts are generally categorized as aggrotech, their more recent material has incorporated a disparate set of musical and aesthetic influences, notably industrial metal. The group took a hiatus at the...

. The album was released on September 8, 2009 through Metropolis Records

Metropolis Records

Metropolis Records is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based record label, distributor, and mail-order store specializing in the post-industrial field such as electro-industrial, synthpop, futurepop, darkwave, and gothic musical genres....

. This is the first album released by Psyclon Nine with new members Vlixx and Jon Siren

Jon Siren

Jon Siren, co-founder and drummer of the band Mankind Is Obsolete, has been a drummer or keyboardist in many other industrial bands including Psyclon Nine, Dismantled, and System Syn.-Early musical projects:...

.

The concept behind We the Fallen created by frontman Nero Bellum was the idea of himself as a "heartworm

Heartworm

Heartworm is a parasitic roundworm that is spread from host to host through the bites of mosquitoes. The heartworm is a type of filaria, a small thread-like worm. The definitive host is the dog but it can also infect cats, wolves, coyotes, foxes and other animals, such as ferrets, sea lions and...

". Bellum had begun to "look at people like emotional parasites, worming their way into the hearts of their victims in order to have some sort of influence on their actions." The album takes a dark view on the concept of love

Love

Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is central to many religions, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" or Agape in the Canonical gospels...

 and relationships.

Track listing

1. "Soulless (The Makers Reflection)" [Featuring Johan Van Roy of Suicide Commando
   Suicide Commando
   Suicide Commando is a Belgian electro-industrial act created by Johan van Roy in 1986.- History :Johan van Roy, Suicide Commando's only member, began experimenting with electronic music in 1986. Three years later he released his first tape under the moniker Suicide Commando, and made an appearance...
   
   ] - 2:14
2. "We the Fallen" - 5:24
3. "Heartworm" - 5:12
4. "Thy Serpent Tongue" - 5:10
5. "Bloodwork" - 4:39
6. "The Derelict (God Forsaken)" - 2:21
7. "Widowmaker" - 4:41 (Featuring Brandan Schieppati
   Brandan Schieppati
   Brandan Schieppati is the singer of metalcore band Bleeding Through. He is Straight Edge and lives in Orange County with his wife Nicole. While best known through his musical career, he was also a late-round draft pick for Major League Baseball's Montreal Expos out of high school, around 1998...
   
    of Bleeding Through
   Bleeding Through
   Bleeding Through is an American metalcore band from Orange County, California. Formed in 1999, the band blends influences stemming from modern hardcore punk, symphonic black metal, and melodic death metal...
   
   )
8. "There But For the Grace of God" - 4:54
9. "Of Decay (An Exit)" - 1:09
10. "Suicide Note Lullaby" - 4:51
11. "As One With the Flies" - 3:43
12. "Under the Judas Tree" - 4:54

Personnel

Psyclon Nine

• Nero Bellum – vocals, Guitar
• Rotny Ford – lead guitar, synth, samples
• Abbey Nex – bass guitar
• Vlixx – synth, keys, percussion
• Jon Siren – drums, percussion, samples

Production

• Tracking and mixing by Jason Miller of Godhead
  Godhead (band)
  Godhead, occasionally typeset as gODHEAD, is an American alternative rock/metal band from Washington, D.C.. They are most often credited with being the only band signed to musician Marilyn Manson's short-lived vanity label, Posthuman Records.-History:...