''Black Ocean'' is the second studio album by

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, the first since the band signed with

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. The album was produced, recorded and mixed by frontman Carson Slovak at his own studio and mastered by Kim Rosen of West Westside Studios. Black Ocean features a cipher code within its artwork to unlock hidden content on the interactive album websit
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A video for the track "Black Ocean" was made and debuted on ''

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'' in April 2008. ''

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'' selected ''Black Ocean'' as its #18 album in its Top 20 Albums for 2008 in the February 2009 issue.

Track listing

All songs were written by

, except where noted. #"Pantheon" – 3:06 #"Black Ocean" – 3:37 #"Erasure" – 3:57 #"Drug Mule" – 3:15 #"Equus" – 3:42 #"Rising Sun" – 3:17 #"Monolith" (Century, Mike Guilliano) – 4:00 #"Daylight Algorithm" – 4:51 #"Dysgenics" – 0:43 #"Terror Starts at Home" – 2:44

Personnel

*Carson Slovak – guitar,

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*Mike Giuliano –

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*Joshua Groah –

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*Matthew Smith –

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*Jason Baker –

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*Ricky Armellino – backing vocals

References

External links

*http://www.blackoceanalbum.com/
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