''Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children'' is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band

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. The album was released on September 28, 2010 by

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. The first single from the album "Come On", was released on August 16, 2010. It is the band's final album to feature

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on bass and

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on guitar, and it is the only album to feature Lil Dan on percussion.

Album information

On August 31, 2010, "Come On" was released uncensored on

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. The video of their first single "Come On" was premiered on

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on September 27, hosted by Mushroomhead themselves. "Come On" was also featured in the

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episode "There's no Place like Home" from the show's 7th season. "Come On" was also featured on October 5, 2010 episode of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) on Spike TV as a promotion of the long storied rivalry between Wrestling Legend, Ric Flair and Hardcore Wrestling Legend, Mick Foley. The album title is inspired by the Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children'' comic book series published by

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through their

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imprint from June 1989 until September 1992. According to the band, they wanted the album title to reflect the nature of the songs themselves, and the title came once they incorporated the visual elements of the project. According to Jeffrey Nothing, the working title for the album was going to be Slaughterhouse Road, before it was changed to its current title, however, Slaughterhouse Road was still used as a song title.

Reception

After its first week of sales, the album debuted at No. 9 on the ''

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'' Indie chart, and No. 44 overall selling over 11,000 copies the first week.

Track listing

Personnel

Jeffrey Hatrix Jeff Hatrix, also known as Jeffrey Nothing (born Jeffrey Lewis Hetrick), is an American musician, best known as the former clean vocalist for the heavy metal band Mushroomhead. His nickname comes from a scene in '' Blue Velvet''. With a wide va ...

- vocals, lyrics *

Waylon Reavis Waylon Reavis (born September 19, 1978) is an American musician best known for being a former vocalist for American heavy metal band Mushroomhead. He was in Mushroomhead from 2004-2015 and with them released three albums: Savior Sorrow (2006) ...

- vocals, lyrics *

Dave Felton David Felton (born 1967), known professionally as Gravy, is an American guitarist who is best known as a member of the Cleveland, Ohio-based heavy metal band Mushroomhead. He currently plays in another Cleveland-based heavy metal band KRIADIA ...

- all guitars *

Jack Kilcoyne Mushroomhead is an American heavy metal band from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in 1993 in the Cleveland Warehouse District, the band is known for their avant-garde sound and horror film-inspired imagery which features masks and costumes as well a ...

- bass guitar * Tom Schmitz - keyboards, samples *

Steve Felton Steve "Skinny" Felton is an American musician, most notable for being the co-founder, leader, and drummer of metal band Mushroomhead. He was also the drummer of the bands Hatrix, (216), Tenafly Viper and Scelestus. His other projects includ ...

- drums, percussion, producer * Rick Thomas - samples, electronics, turntables * Daniel Fox - drums, additional percussion ;Session musicians * Joe Altier - guest vocals ("Holes in the Void") * Sarah Sloan - harmony, guest vocals ("Holes in the Void") * John Sustar - additional percussion ("Harvest the Garden") * James Felton - kid voice * Steven Felton (jr.) - kid voice * Waylon Reavis (jr.) - kid voice * Pandora Reavis - kid voice * Mea Hatrix - kid voice

References

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