''As the Palaces Burn'' is the third studio album by American heavy metal band

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, released under

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on May 6, 2003. The album was produced by

Devin Townsend Devin Garrett Townsend (born May 5, 1972) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He founded extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad and was its primary songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist from 1994 to 2007. He has also ...

and the band itself, and received considerably more airplay than their previous effort, with three singles. As of 2013, ''As The Palaces Burn'' has sold 270,000 copies since its original release, according to

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. The band released a 10th anniversary edition of the album on November 11, 2013, with all songs in the album being remixed and remastered, alongside three bonus demo tracks. The 10th-anniversary edition of the album sold around 6,400 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 64 on ''Billboard'' 200 chart.

Accolades

In 2017,

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put ''As the Palaces Burn'' at #86 on their Top 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time list with Dan Epstein praising

's production which helped sharpen the guitar

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s on songs like "Vigil", "Ruin" and "11th Hour".

Track listing

Personnel

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– vocals * Mark Morton – lead guitar *Willie Adler – rhythm guitar *John Campbell – bass *

Chris Adler Christopher James Adler (born November 23, 1972) is an American musician, best known as the founder and longtime drummer of heavy metal band Lamb of God from 1994 to 2019, and of Megadeth from 2015 to 2016. Adler played drums on Megadeth's f ...

– drums, percussion Additional musicians *

Chris Poland Chris Poland (born December 1, 1957) is an American guitarist, best known as the former guitarist of the thrash metal band Megadeth. Since 2002, Poland has been the guitarist of the instrumental rock/jazz fusion bands OHM (band), OHM and OHMphre ...

– guitar on "Purified" *

– backing vocals and guitar on "A Devil in God's Country" *

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– backing vocals on "11th Hour" Additional personnel *

– production, engineering *Shaun Thingvold – mixing *Josh Wilbur - mixing (10th Anniversary Edition) *Louie Teran – mastering *

Brad Blackwood Brad Blackwood is an American audio mastering audio engineer, engineer. He has mastered albums for artists such as Maroon 5, Against Me, Lamb of God (band), Lamb of God, Black Eyed Peas, Sara Bareilles, and is a 17 time Grammy nominee and 3-time win ...

- mastering (10th Anniversary Edition) *Carla Lewis, Dan Kearley, Dennis Solomon, Grant Rutledge, Scott Cooke – assistant engineers *Petar Sardelich – engineer for Chris Poland * – artwork *Adam Wentworth – picture disc artwork redesign

Release history

Charts

References

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