Collateral Damage (album)

Collateral Damage
Studio album by
Spahn Ranch
ReleasedSeptember 20, 1993 (1993-09-20)[1][2][3]
RecordedApril – May 1993 (1993-05)
StudioJLab Studio
(Los Angeles, California)
GenreIndustrial rock
Length42:07
LabelCleopatra
Producer
Spahn Ranch chronology
Spahn Ranch
(1992) 		Collateral Damage
(1993) 		The Blackmail Starters Kit
(1994)
Alternative cover
Zoth Ommog cover
Zoth Ommog cover

Collateral Damage is the debut studio album of Spahn Ranch, released on September 20, 1993 by Cleopatra Records.[4][5][6] The album marked the debut of Athan Maroulis, who continued to serve as the band's main vocalist and lyricist for the remainder of their existence.[7] Maroulis began writing for the album three weeks after joining Spahn Ranch and has said that he was primarily listening to drum and bass producer Klute during its recording sessions. Spahn Ranch toured the United States for the first time in promotion of Collateral Damage[8][9]

Reception

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Jon Worley of Aiding & Abetting called Collateral Damage a "strident industrial soundtrack" and said "Spahn Ranch merely cuts through all pretense and serves up 10 tracks of pure vitriol"[10] Keyboard commended the band's resistance to being pigeonholed.[11] Critic Dave Thompson said "Ranch's industrial anguish and fury seethes with barely repressed emotion" and they "create a hard-hitting and provocative indictment of life's injustices, filled with anger, angst, and bleakness."[12]

Option criticized the music for being recorded poorly and for being derivative of Ministry and Skinny Puppy. The critic concluded by noting "this is a band that hasn't found its voice yet; everything is cliché from the music to the unappetizing cadaver shot on the cover, which was obviously purloined from a medical textbook — talk about cheesy."[13]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Wires"
5:24
2."Succumber"
4:34
3."Forceps"
  • Maroulis
  • Morton
4:28
4."Antibody"
  • Green
  • Maroulis
  • Morton
3:20
5."Cesium 137"
  • Maroulis
  • Morton
4:41
6."Breath and Taxes"
  • Maroulis
  • Morton
4:22
7."Stoma"
  • Maroulis
  • Morton
3:39
8."Peel"
  • Maroulis
  • Morton
1:42
9."Machine Politics"
  • Green
  • Morton
3:30
10."Quince"
  • Green
  • Maroulis
  • Morton
5:27
11."Chuck"Morton1:00

Personnel

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Adapted from the Collateral Damage liner notes.[14]

Spahn Ranch

Production and design

Release history

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Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 1993 Cleopatra CD, CS CLEO 7109
Germany 1994 Zoth Ommog CD ZOT 105
United States 1995 Cleopatra CLEO 90052

References

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  1. ^ Barnhart, Becky (1996). "Schwann Spectrum". Schwann Spectrum. Winter 1996–1997. Stereophile, Incorporated: 165. ISBN 9781575980386. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  2. ^ Barnhart, Becky (1999). "Schwann Spectrum". Schwann Spectrum. 9 (1). Stereophile, Incorporated: 244. ISBN 9781575980652. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  3. ^ Fletcher, Tony; Robbins, Ira (1997). Spahn Ranch. The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock. McFarland & Company. p. 764. ISBN 9780684814377. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  4. ^ "Spahn Ranch: Collateral Damage > Overview". AllMusic. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  5. ^ "Spahn Ranch: Collateral Damage". CD Review Digest. 7 (4). Peri Press: 7. 1994. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  6. ^ Noël, Sophie (August 13, 2009). Spahn Ranch. CHARLES MANSON: Le gourou du rock. Camion Blanc. ISBN 9782357795921. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  7. ^ Wilson, MacKenzie. "Spahn Ranch > Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  8. ^ Fechner, Krista (September 1995). "Interview with Spahn Ranch". Sonic Boom. 3 (7). Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  9. ^ gileZ (May 1996). "Down on the Ranch: An Interview with Athan Maroulis of Spahn Ranch". Cybase23. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  10. ^ Worley, Jon (June 15, 1994). "Spahn Ranch: Collateral Damage". Aiding & Abetting (56). Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  11. ^ "Spahn Ranch: Collateral Damage". Keyboard. 23 (7–12). GPI Publications: 13. 1997. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  12. ^ Thompson, David (November 1, 2000). Spahn Ranch: Collateral Damage. Alternative Rock: Third Ear – The Essential Listening Companion. Miller Freeman, Inc. pp. 648–649. ISBN 9780879306076. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
  13. ^ Baxter, John (1994). "Spahn Ranch: Collateral Damage". Option (54–58). Sonic Options Network.
  14. ^ Collateral Damage (booklet). Spahn Ranch. Marina del Rey, California: Cleopatra Records. 1993.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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