''meat.your.maker'' is the debut studio album by Hate Dept., released in October 1994 by

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Reception

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'' praised ''meat.your.maker'' for being "raw and accessible" and the band for experimenting with their arrangements. ''Aiding & Abetting'' gave it a mixed review, saying "there is much more texture underlying everything than the current trend-setters have" but "as aggressive industrial goes, this is pretty wimpy musically' and that "the beats often sound like they came off a Casio sampler, and the guitars are never allowed to really dominate." ''

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'' said "although Hate Dept. uses some rather trite subject matter for industrial songs (e.g. child pornography, sex aversion, samples from ''

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''), they do their thing so well that I just don't care."

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from the ''meat.your.maker'' liner notes. Hate Dept. * Coby Bassett – guitar, vocals * Dean Love – keyboards, vocals * Steven Ortiz – drums, vocals * Steven Seibold – lead vocals, programming, keyboards, guitar, production Additional performers * James Agnew – keyboards, guitar, vocals * Charles Hunt – drums, vocals * Rob Robinson – keyboards, guitar * Robert Tomchak – keyboards, vocals * Timothy Wiles (as Q) – keyboards, vocals Production and design * Curium Design – design

Release history

References

External links

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