''Hate Yourself with Style'' is the sixth studio album by Swedish
rap metal
Rap metal is a fusion genre that combines hip hop music, hip hop with heavy metal music, heavy metal. It usually consists of heavy metal guitar riffs, funk metal elements, Rapping, rapped vocals and sometimes turntablism, turntables.
History O ...
band
Clawfinger
Clawfinger is a Swedish rap metal band formed in Stockholm in 1989. Considered pioneers of the rap metal genre, the band had their international and commercial breakthrough in 1993 with the release of their debut album, '' Deaf Dumb Blind''. Th ...
, released on 18 November 2005 via
Nuclear Blast
Nuclear Blast Records is a German record label with subsidiary, subsidiaries located in Germany, the United States and Brazil. It was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Donzdorf. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on ...
.
It continues the path entered on ''
Zeros & Heroes'' and is characterized by speedy melodic hard rock guitar
riff
A riff is a short, repeated motif or figure in the melody or accompaniment of a musical composition. Riffs are most often found in rock music, punk, heavy metal music, Latin, funk, and jazz, although classical music is also sometimes based ...
s. The keyboards which particularly characterized ''
A Whole Lot of Nothing'' have completely disappeared.
The social commentary within the album (including rants against rapists and positing that homophobes are themselves secretly gay) received both positive
and negative reviews.
Unlike the previous albums, where the limited edition version had two or more bonus tracks, the limited edition of this album has a DVD with live footage from the
Greenfield Festival and video clips of all singles up to Clawfinger's third album.
Track listing
Limited edition bonus disc
''Live
Greenfield Festival''
# "Rosegrove"
# "Nigger"
# "Zeros & Heroes"
# "Warfair"
# "Don't Get Me Wrong"
# "Recipe For Hate"
# "Biggest & the Best"
# "The Truth"
# "Do What I Say"
''Video clips''
# "Nigger" (version 2)
# "The Truth"
# "Warfair"
# "Pin Me Down"
# "Do What I Say"
# "Tomorrow"
# "Biggest & The Best"
# "Two Sides"
Released singles
* "Dirty Lies"
* "Without a Case"
Released video clips
* "Dirty Lies"
* "Hate Yourself with Style"
* "Without a Case"
References
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Clawfinger albums
2005 albums