Felony (album)

Felony
Studio album by Emmure
Released August 11, 2009 (2009-08-11)
Genre Deathcore, nu metal[1]
Length 31:37
Label Victory
Producer Antoine Lussier, Bryan Goldsman
Emmure chronology
The Respect Issue
(2008)		 Felony
(2009)		 Speaker of the Dead
(2011)
Singles from Felony
  1. "I Thought You Met Telly and Turned Me into Casper"
    Released: 2009
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
AbsolutePunk19%[3]
Way Too Loud![4]

Felony is the third full-length album by American deathcore band Emmure under the Victory Records label. It was released on August 18, 2009. The album debuted at #60 on the Billboard Top 200 selling roughly 8,000 copies in its first week. Felony is also the first album to feature new members Mike Mulholland on guitar and Mike Kaabe on drums, replacing founding members Ben and Joe Lionetti, respectively.

Inspiration and musical style

Inspiration

The album is allegedly inspired by a real event in which vocalist Frankie Palmeri assaulted his best friend by "[hitting] him in the head with a bottle", which resulted in Palmeri being arrested.[5] The lyrics for the album's title track also references this anecdote.

Style

Felony is the first album by Emmure to draw on more of a nu metal influence than their previous albums, evident of more frequent rapped vocals. The band, however, returned to more of their previous sound with the release of Speaker of the Dead, while still keeping elements of nu metal.

Several songs on the album also reference several other popular culture media. Examples include the song title "I <3 EC2" (which is a reference to the film Planet Terror). The song "The Philosophy of Time Travel" is the title to a fictional book from the film, Donnie Darko. The guitar riffs also sound similar to the melody of the song of the same title on the Donnie Darko score and the lyrics of the song also reference the movie heavily.

The song "R2deepthroat" contains a verse of lyrics found in the 1995 hip hop song "Shook Ones (Part II)" by Mobb Deep, which was done as an homage to New York hip hop.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Sunday Bacon"2:37
2."I Thought You Met Telly and Turned Me into Casper"2:53
3."I <3 EC2"2:45
4."Felony"2:47
5."You Sunk My Battleship"3:09
6."The Philosophy of Time Travel"2:36
7."First Impressions"2:18
8."R2deepthroat"2:17
9."Bars in Astoria"3:28
10."A Lesson from Nichole"2:26
11."Don't Be One"2:55
12."Immaculate Misconception"1:26
Total length:31:37


Personnel

Emmure
  • Frankie Palmeri - vocals
  • Jesse Ketive - lead guitar
  • Mike Mulholland - lead guitar
  • Mark Davis - bass guitar
  • Michael Kaabe - drums
Production
  • Produced by Bryan Goldsman and Antoine Lussier
  • Engineered by Yanick Desgroseilliers and Antoine Lussier
  • Mixed by Antoine Lussier
  • Mastered by Pierre Rémillard
  • Photography by Jeremy Saffer

References

  1. ↑ Wenger, Tim (9 February 2013). "Fans Rage at Emmure Show 1/27". Colorado Music Buzz. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Felony Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  3. ↑ "Felony Review". AbsolutePunk. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  4. ↑ "Felony Review". Way Too Loud!. Archived from the original on 2013-02-05.
  5. ↑
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