The new black

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The New Black is the fifth and most current album by Canadian heavy metal band Strapping Young Lad. It was released on July 11, 2006. Promo copies of the album began surfacing since June, 2006, and were subsequently leaked onto the Internet.

Guitarist Jed Simon said the following about the album on the band's MySpace page:

We have moved over to Profile Studios here in Vancouver [for the recording of the new album], and Byron [Stroud, bass] and Jed are both busy tracking their bass and guitar parts. It's going great. Wait 'till you hear how crushing it sounds, whoa! Dev [Devin Townsend, guitar/vocals] and Will [Campagna, keyboards] should be getting busy in the next week, Dev is running the board for Byron while Shaun (Thingvold...longtime SYL engineer) is running Jed's world. The drums are just insane...but what else would you expect from THE MAN!!!!??? Everything is on track, and on schedule...the guys are focused...all is well.[link]

The first single from the album is "Wrong Side," and a music video of the song was shot on May 28, 2006. The video was officially released on the band's MySpace around the same time as the album.

"C:enter:###", which was originally intended to be a bonus track but was not released, means "see colon, enter colon, pound pound pound" according to drummer Gene Hoglan.

The album comes packaged with a second CD featuring a sampling of various other Century Media artists. The European version contains two bonus tracks: "The Long Pig" and a cover of The Melvins' "Zodiac".

Contents

1 Track listing

1.1 Disc 1
1.2 Disc 2
1.3 Bonus tracks

2 Personnel

Track listing

Disc 1

"Decimator" (2:53)
"You Suck" (2:40) [link]
"Anti Product" (3:56)
"Monument" (4:11)
"Wrong Side" (3:35)
"Hope" (5:02)
"Far Beyond Metal" (4:36)
"Fucker" (3:53)
"Almost Again" (3:43)
"Polyphony" (1:54)
"The New Black" (6:15)

Disc 2

"In Effigy" (Shadows Fall)
"My Apocalypse" (Arch Enemy)
"Chains of Humanity" (God Forbid)
"Slaves Shall Serve" (Behemoth)
"99" (The Haunted)
"Our Truth" (Lacuna Coil)

Bonus tracks

"The Long Pig"
"Zodiac" (The Melvins cover)

-On international versions only.

Personnel

Devin Townsend - Vocals, Guitar, Production
Jed Simon - Guitar
Gene Hoglan - Drums and Percussion
Byron Stroud - Bass guitar
Will Campagna - Keyboards
Oderus Urungus - Guest Vocals on "Far Beyond Metal"
Bif Naked - Guest Vocals on "Fucker"
Cam Kroetsch - Guest Vocals on "You Suck"
Shaun Thingvold - Engineer
Mike Fraser - Mixing
Ryan van Poederooyen - Drum Technician
Travis Smith - Artwork

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