''Centralia'' is the debut studio album by the American band

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. This was the band's first full-length release, following a 2004 demo. It is also the band's only release through Relapse Records, which dropped the band four years later in 2011. The album's title was named after the doomed town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, which was abandoned during an underground mine fire. The track's lyrical content and titles cover various topics - Cielo Drive (also known as 'Bloodbath Orgy') was named after the road on which one of the infamous Manson Family spree-killings were committed ( 10050 Cielo Drive),

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Reception

Critics praised the album's complex and ferocious rhythms. Keith Bergman, writing for Blabbermouth.net, argues in a highly positive 8/10 review that the album is "a lurching start-stop mélange of tempos that switch back and forth fast enough to give you whiplash, even more brutal for its lack of cohesion and unsettling, jittery rhythmic convulsions."

Track listing

Japanese release included the song 'Bra-c-ket'.

Personnel

*Michael Dafferner –

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*Elliot Hoffman –

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*Greg Kubacki –

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*Jon Modell –

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References

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