Get Damned is the third studio album from
metalcore
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band
The Agony Scene
The Agony Scene is an American heavy metal band from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Formed in 2000, the group currently consists of lead guitarist Chris Emmons, vocalist Mike Williams, and rhythm guitarist Brian Hodges.
The band has released four albums, o ...
, which was released under
Century Media Records
Century Media Records is a heavy metal record label with offices in the United States, Germany and London. In August 2015, Century Media was acquired by Sony Music for US$17 million.
Background
Century Media was founded by Robert Kampf and Oli ...
on October 23, 2007.
The original release contained only 11 tracks. The cover art that is most commonly displayed is not the true "cover", to say; it is merely a cardboard slip-cover. The small, inverted coffin (superimposed with a
↓/downward-facing arrow) is a cut-out window in the outer sleeve, which exposes a portion of the art beneath it. Once removed, the true cover is revealed: a skull (minus the jaw bone), which is impaled with skewers throughout. The coffin and arrow we see through the slip-cover window is etched into the middle of the skull's forehead. There is no text on this "skull" version of the cover. The inverted coffin/arrow seems to be a symbolic representation of the album, as it is re-printed in a multitude of places, including the front cover, back cover, liner notes, and on the CD pressing, itself.
In early 2008, a special edition of the album was released to a European-only audience containing two additional tracks
that are cover songs, and which are unavailable from the U.S. version of the
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.
The song "Barnburner" is featured in the 2008 video game
Saints Row 2.
Track listing
# "Barnburner" - 3:05
# "Predation" - 3:27
# "Dances with Devils" - 3:02
# "Adversary" - 3:28
# "White Nights" - 4:15
# "Rapture" - 3:21
# "Deliverance" - 2:46
# "Rattle Me Bones" - 2:29
# "The Opposition" - 3:03
# "Will to Bleed" - 3:08
# "Old Scratch" - 4:29
# * "Do What You Want" - 1:08 (Bad Religion cover, *''only available on Special Edition release''
)
# * "Kill the Poor" - 3:02 (Dead Kennedys cover, *''only available on Special Edition release''
)
Reception
''Get Damned'' was received with fairly weak reviews compared to previous efforts. In contrast to their self-titled ''
The Agony Scene
The Agony Scene is an American heavy metal band from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Formed in 2000, the