''Gravity Kills'' is the debut studio album by

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band

Gravity Kills Gravity Kills was an American industrial rock band from St. Louis, Missouri. Their music was described by one critic as "a blending of eerie industrial rock with a pop-infused melodic chorus and a bit of hard-core head banging."Jacquie Kubin, ...

. It was released in 1996 on

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. The album sold roughly 500,000 copies. The first song was titled "Take" on the promo version of the album. It was renamed "Forward" just before the album was released. The song "Blame" uses a sample from the song "Illusion", composed by the Japanese group

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for the highly influential 1988 anime movie Akira.

Album cover

The picture in the centre on the front cover is called "Picturing The Bomb". The image is owned by Rachel Fermi and Esther Samra.

Track listing

All the track titles on the album are each only one word in length.

Games appearances

Videos

* "Guilty" * "Enough" (Two versions) * "Down" (w/ live footages) (Unreleased video) * Blame (L.A. Remix version)

In other media

*"Guilty" was featured in '' Seven'' (stylized as ''Se7en''), a 1995 thriller film by David Fincher. * "Last" was featured in a

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's 1998 romantic comedy film, ''

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''. * A remix version of "Blame" was featured in the '' Escape from L.A.'' soundtrack. * A demo version of "Goodbye" was featured in the 1995 action and adventure film, '' Mortal Kombat''.

Personnel

;Gravity Kills * Jeff Scheel - Lead vocals * Matt Dudenhoeffer - Guitars * Doug Firley - Keyboards * Kurt Kerns - Drums and Bass ;Production * Produced by John Fryer and Gravity Kills * Engineered by Tim Donovan * Mixed by John Fryer * Photography (Inner tray) by

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* Mastering by

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* Written by Gravity Kills * Design by Robin Glowski and Greg Knoll * Artwork by Greg Knoll and Kurt Kerns

Charts

Album

Singles

References

External links

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