''The Cleansing'' is the debut studio album by American

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band

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. The album was released on September 18, 2007 through

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. Upon its release it debuted at #94 on the ''Billboard Top'' 200, selling 7,250 copies within the first week, and became one of the best-selling debut albums in Century Media's history. The album is noted for its unique engineered style, as it was tracked live in-studio as opposed to being recorded track-by-track. ''The Cleansing'' was recorded at King Size Soundlabs in

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with engineer John Travis and was produced and mixed by Danish producer

Tue Madsen Tue Madsen (born 1969) is a Danish music producer and sound engineer, who is well known in metal genre for his work with bands like Meshuggah, Dark Tranquillity, Suicide Silence, Hatesphere, The Haunted, Mnemic, Ektomorf, Cataract, Exmortem ...

Background

Suicide Silence began recording ''The Cleansing'' during the first half of 2007 with engineer John Travis. On June 22, 2007 the complete track listing was confirmed online and the songs "Bludgeoned to Death" and "Unanswered" were released by the band via

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for promotion prior to the album's release. The entire album was recorded live. ''The Cleansing'' was released on September 18, 2007 and debuted at #94 on the ''Billboard Top'' 200, selling 7,250 copies in the first week, and became one of the best-selling debut albums in

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history. The record was also released on vinyl format, with a limited pressing of 2,000 copies.

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s have been released for the songs "Unanswered", "The Price of Beauty" and "Bludgeoned to Death". The music video for "The Price of Beauty" was banned from the

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playlist for being deemed too "visually and lyrically explicit", as the theme of the video depicted graphic

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imagery revolving around a woman undergoing a

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surgery, but having her face instead horribly dismembered and mutilated in the process. The album cover artwork was designed by graphic artist

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. The opening track, "Revelations (Intro)" includes a sound sample from the film ''

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''. The

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, "Destruction of a Statue" features guest vocals by Nate Johnson, former vocalist of the bands

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, Deadwater Drowning and

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Music videos

The videos were released for the songs "Unanswered", "The Price of Beauty", and "Bludgeoned to Death".

Track listing

* Note: Except for "Swarm" and "The Fallen", all live tracks were later released in 2009 on the Hot Topic Exclusive Edition of ''

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''.

Personnel

;Suicide Silence *

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* Mark Heylmun –

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* Chris Garza –

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* Mike Bodkins – bass * Alex Lopez –

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;Additional personnel * Nate Johnson - vocals during the climax on "Destruction of a Statue" ;Production and other stuff * Recorded and engineered by John Travis at King Size Soundlabs, Los Angeles, CA * Sub-engineering by Richard Robinson * Produced, mixed and mastered by

at Antfarm Studio,

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* Art illustration and design by

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cleansing, The 2007 debut albums Suicide Silence albums Century Media Records albums Albums produced by Tue Madsen Albums with cover art by Dave McKean