''Strait Up'' is the second studio album by the American
nu metal
Nu metal (sometimes stylized as nü-metal, with a metal umlaut) is a subgenre of that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop music, hip hop, funk, industrial music, industrial, and grunge. Nu ...
band
Snot, released on November 7, 2000. The album features appearances by various
alternative metal
Alternative metal (also known as alt-metal) is a genre of heavy metal music that combines heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal. Alternative metal bands are often characterized by ...
musicians.
The album was released as a tribute to Snot's lead singer
Lynn Strait
James Lynn Strait (August 7, 1968 – December 11, 1998) was an American singer. He was the lead vocalist and lyricist for the nu metal band Snot.
Biography
Strait was born on August 7, 1968, in Manhasset, New York. His father was in the US ...
, who was killed in a car accident on December 11, 1998.
Reception
The album peaked at No. 56 on the
''Billboard'' 200. ''
CMJ
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'' called the album "A vivid cross section of
nu-metal
Nu metal (sometimes stylized as nü-metal, with a metal umlaut) is a subgenre of that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, funk, industrial, and grunge. Nu metal rarely features guita ...
styles".
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Melody Maker
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'' gave the album 4 stars out of 5 and said that "The riffs are diamond hard and magnificently driven... the best of the band is found in their quieter moments." It won a 2000
Metal Edge
''Metal Edge'' was a magazine covering heavy metal music published by Zenbu Media. The magazine was founded in the summer of 1985, during the height of glam metal's success. While its sister publication, ''Metal Maniacs'' focused more on extreme ...
Readers' Choice Award for Hits/Compilation/Live Album of the Year.
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from album's
liner notes
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Origin
Liner notes are descended from the prog ...
.
Snot
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Lynn Strait
James Lynn Strait (August 7, 1968 – December 11, 1998) was an American singer. He was the lead vocalist and lyricist for the nu metal band Snot.
Biography
Strait was born on August 7, 1968, in Manhasset, New York. His father was in the US ...
– vocals ,
spoken word
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*Mike Doling – guitars , additional vocals
*
Sonny Mayo
Ronald D. Mayo (born July 16, 1971) is an American guitarist. He is best known for playing with Snot, Amen, and Sevendust, co-writing several albums. He co-founded Rock to Recovery, a music therapy non-profit, in 2014.
Career
Mayo began pla ...
– guitars ,
programming
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Business and management
* Program m ...
*John Fahnestock – bass , additional vocals
*Jamie Miller – drums
Guest musicians
*
Brandon Boyd
Brandon Charles Boyd (born February 15, 1976) is an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Incubus, with whom he has recorded eight studio albums.
In addition to his work with Incubus, Boyd has released two solo alb ...
– vocals
*
Max Cavalera
Massimiliano Antonio "Max" Cavalera (; born 4 August 1969) is a Brazilian musician. He co-founded the Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Sepultura in 1984 with his brother Igor Cavalera, and was the band's lead singer and rhythm guitarist unti ...
– vocals
*Mike "Mad Dog" Combs – additional guitars
*Nathan Cox – additional vocals
*
Whitfield Crane – additional vocals
*
Jonathan Davis
Jonathan Howsmon Davis (born January 18, 1971), also known as JD, is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He is the lead vocalist and frontman of nu metal band Korn, which is considered a pioneering act of the nu metal genre. Davis's ...
– vocals
*
Marcello Dias – additional bass
*
Fred Durst
William Frederick Durst (born Frederick Allen Mayne III; August 20, 1970) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and director. He is the frontman and lyricist of the nu metal band Limp Bizkit, formed in 1994, with whom he has release ...
– vocals
*
Aimee Echo
Aimee Echo ( né Rodrigues; born March 27, 1970) is an American singer. She rose to prominence as the singer of Human Waste Project, who she fronted between 1994 until the band's dissolution in 1998. Afterwards, she became the frontwoman of th ...
– additional vocals
*
Klaus Eichstad – additional guitars
*
Dez Fafara
Bradley James "Dez" Fafara is an American vocalist who performs in the metal bands DevilDriver and Coal Chamber.
Early life
Fafara is of Portuguese and Italian descent. His father, Tiger Fafara, and his late uncle, Stanley Fafara, were child ...
– vocals
*
Stan Frasier – additional vocals
*
Jared "M.C.U.D." Gomes – vocals
*
Shannon Larkin
James Shannon Larkin (born April 24, 1967) is an American musician, best known as the former drummer of the rock band Godsmack. He replaced the band's previous drummer Tommy Stewart in June 2002, and played on six of their studio albums: '' Fac ...
– drums
*
Clint Lowery
Clint Edward Lowery (born December 15, 1971) is an American musician, songwriter and producer, best known as a guitarist and backing vocalist in the rock band Sevendust. He has also played in Dark New Day and Still Rain, and served as the tourin ...
– guitar and vocals
*
Mark McGrath
Mark Sayers McGrath (born March 15, 1968) is an American singer who is the lead vocalist of the rock band Sugar Ray. McGrath is also known for his work as a co-host of ''Extra'', and he was the host of ''Don't Forget the Lyrics!'' in 2010. McG ...
– vocals
*
Shavo Odadjian
Shavarsh "Shavo" Odadjian (; born April 22, 1974) is an Armenian-American musician, best known as the bassist of nu metal band System of a Down. He also plays bass in a Trap music, trap group called North Kingsley and in the metal band Seven Hou ...
– additional bass
*
Ozzy Osbourne
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, and media personality. He rose to prominence during the 1970s as the lead singer of the heavy metal music, heavy metal band Black Sabbath, during which per ...
– spoken word
*
DJ Product – turntables
*
Morgan Rose
Morgan Jay Rose (born December 13, 1968) is an American musician, best known for being a founding member of Atlanta-based alternative metal band Sevendust. In addition to being the band's drummer, he contributes a mix of backing and unclean voca ...
– drums
*
Jason Sears
Jason Kemper Sears (23 January 1968 – 31 January 2006) was an American punk rock vocalist from Santa Barbara, California, best known for his work with Rich Kids on LSD (RKL), from 1982 to their first breakup in 1990 and again from 1993 to 2006. ...
– vocals
*
Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian ( , ; born August 21, 1967) is an Armenian-American musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the alternative metal band System of a Down, which was formed in 1994.
Tankian has released five albums with System of a Down ...
– vocals
*
Corey Taylor
Corey Todd Taylor (born December 8, 1973) is an American musician, songwriter, author and actor. He is the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Slipknot (band), Slipknot, in which he is designated #8, as well as the lead vocalist, guitarist, ly ...
– vocals
*Jim Wirt –
strings ,
Hammond organ
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, piano
*
Lajon Witherspoon
Lajon Jermaine Witherspoon (born October 3, 1972) is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of Atlanta-based rock band Sevendust.
Members from bands such as Staind, Seether, Alter Bridge, and Diecast have listed Witherspoon and Seve ...
– vocals
Production
*Nic Adler – executive producer
*Andrew Alekel – additional engineering
*Stefan Broadley –
Pro Tools
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, programming
*
Terry Date
Terry Date (born January 31, 1956) is an American record producer and audio engineer specializing in rock genres, especially heavy metal. He is well known for his work with Metal Church, Dream Theater, Soundgarden, Overkill, Pantera, Dark Ang ...
– vocal engineer
*Mike Doling – producer
*John Fahnestock – producer , art concept
*Diane Gallemore – front cover photo
*Sean Henning – executive producer
*Dave Holdridge – Pro Tools
*Donat Kazarinoff – engineer , pro-tools, programming
*Marek – assistant mix engineer
*Steve Piper – Pro Tools
*Justin Risley – Pro Tools
*
Ross Robinson
Ross Robinson (born February 13, 1967) is an American record producer who discovered acts such as Korn, Glassjaw, The Blood Brothers, Slipknot, and Limp Bizkit. Robinson has also worked with Tech N9ne, The Cure, Sepultura, and many others.
...
– producer
*Wendy Sherman – art direction and design
*Happy Walters – co-executive producer
*Rick Will – mixing
*Jim Wirt – producer and engineer
References
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2000 albums
Snot (band) albums
2000s tribute albums
Immortal Records albums