''Recipe for Disaster'' is the second full-length
album by the
American
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hard rock
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band
Brand New Sin
Brand New Sin was a hard rock/Southern rock band from Syracuse, New York.
History
Brand New Sin's first radio hit was the song "My World". They had been recording and touring the USA and UK since 2002 alongside many big national bands such as M ...
. It was released in 2005 via
Century Media Records
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Background
Century Media was founded by Robert Kampf and Oli ...
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Singles included "Black and Blue," for which a music video was made, and "Days Are Numbered."
Critical reception
AllMusic called the album "a fine one, with more than enough high-water marks to counter the lows, and more than enough sheer 'rawk' gumption to stand out from the cookie-cutter radio rockers out there."
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PopMatters'' called the album "a confident step forward," writing that it is "the perfect music for a summer afternoon with a tubful of beer on ice." ''
Exclaim!
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'' derided the "vocals that sound like a furious and bowel-obstructed Scott Stapp, tired mid-tempo Southern rock blues-riffing punctuated by occasional hints of thrash, and enough debased artificial harmonic guitar solo wankery to make Dimebag Darrell roll over in his grave."
Track listing
#"Arrived" – 3:10
#"The Loner" – 2:33
#"Brown Street Betty" – 3:20
#"Black and Blue" – 3:16
#"Running Alone" – 4:04
#"Freight Train" – 3:33
#"Vicious Cycles" – 3:45
#"Another Reason" – 5:19
#"Days Are Numbered" – 3:19
#"Once in a Lifetime" – 4:23
#"Dead Man Walking" – 3:38
#"Gulch" – 0:39
#"Wyoming" – 6:09
Personnel
* Joe Altier –
vocals
* Kris Wiechmann –
guitar
* Kenny Dunham – guitar
* Chuck Kahl –
bass
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*
Kevin Dean –
drums
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* Engineered and mixed by Pete Walker
* Mastered by Alan Douches at West Side Music
References
External links
www.brandnewsin.org
Brand New Sin albums
2006 albums
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