Blackout (Hed PE album)

Blackout
Studio album by (hed) Planet Earth
Released March 18, 2003
Recorded 2002 – 2003, @ The Machine Shop, Hoboken, New Jersey / Studio West, San Diego, California / Cello Studios, Hollywood, California / Chunky Style Music, Los Angeles, California / NRG Recording Services, North Hollywood, California
Genre
Length 49:46
Label Jive
Music for Nations
Volcano
Producer Machine, Steve Thompson, Mike Bradford
Hed PE chronology
Broke
(2000)		 Blackout
(2003)		 Only in Amerika
(2004)
Singles from Blackout
  1. "Blackout"
    Released: 2003
  2. "Other Side"
    Released: 2003

Blackout is the third studio album by American punk rock band Hed PE. Released on March 18, 2003, Blackout peaked at #33 on the Billboard 200, selling 28,000 copies in its first week,[4] while its title track peaked at #21 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and at #32 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart.[5] A second single, "Other Side", peaked at #40 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.[6] The album also peaked at #102 in the United Kingdom,[7]

Production

Jared Gomes later reflected unfavorably on the album's production, claiming that the label was trying to make the band more commercial and radio friendly, shifting the band away from its punk rock roots.[8]

Gomes stated, " all my decisions were being overlooked by the record company I was under when producing it… causing me to hold back on things, change song structures and all other kinds of shit in order to try and get into the radio friendly scene to fit in with the nu-metal movement… and as I complied I drew to dislike what I was becoming."[8]

Eventually, Gomes says, he would try to make the band's next album, Only in Amerika as uncommercial as possible and tried to provoke people lyrically as a backlash against the more commercial sound of Blackout.[8]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Melodic.net[3]

Allmusic's Johnny Loftus wrote that "While it expands on melodic elements that had previously played a supporting role in the band's sound, Blackout also delivers truckloads of crushing guitar and pounding rhythm. And whether or not it is the presence of a top-line producer, (hed) pe have figured out a way to imbue their aggressive mix of heavy rock and hip-hop with some serious hooks."[1]

In contrast, Rolling Stone negatively reviewed the album, writing, "Even within the intentionally brainless world of rap metal, (hed)pe are dumb, dumb, dumb. And by that, we mean dumb-bad."[2]

Legacy

Beatdust described the band as "becoming another Limp Bizkit clone" with Blackout and the previous album Broke, which were recorded to pay back the losses owed to the label to recoup the commercial failure of the band's 1997 self-titled debut album.[9] Jared Gomes has dismissed the album as "corporate junk".[10]

Track listing

Blackout
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Suck It Up"Jahred; Mawk3:56
2."Bury Me"Jahred; Mawk3:05
3."Dangerous"Chad; Jahred; Wes3:26
4."Blackout"Jahred3:53
5."Get Away"Jahred; Mawk3:18
6."Crazy Life"B.C.; Chad; Dj Product; Jahred; Mawk; Wes3:43
7."Half the Man"Chad; Jahred; Wes4:42
8."The Only One"B.C.; Chad; DJ Product; Jahred; Mawk; Wes3:33
9."Other Side"Jahred; Mawk3:36
10."Flesh and Bone"B.C.; DJ Product; Jahred; Mawk; Wes3:48
11."Octopussy"Wes0:44
12."Carnivale"Jahred; Wes3:59
13."Fallen"Jahred; Wes4:01
14."Revelations"Jahred; Wes4:10
Total length:49:46
UK & Japanese Bonus Track
No.TitleLength
15."Dracula"4:13

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 3 Allmusic review
  2. 1 2 https://web.archive.org/web/20081211122617/http://media.www.arbiteronline.com/media/storage/paper890/news/2003/04/14/Ae/hed-Planet.Earth-2215223.shtml
  3. 1 2 Melodic.net review Archived May 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ "Charts and awards for Blackout". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
  6. ↑ American singles chart
  7. ↑ Zobbel.de - Search within 'H' section
  8. 1 2 3 Dillinger, Moses (January 24, 2011). "(HED) P.e". Beat Magazine. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
  9. ↑ http://www.beatdust.com/mixed-media-slang/mixed-media-slang-hed-pe-self-titled-1997/
  10. ↑ http://www.times-standard.com/20121002/hed-pe-heads-to-nocturnum-frontman-jahred-talks-history-labels-and-2013-lp
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