Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children (album)
Encyclopedia
Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children is the seventh studio album by industrial metal
band Mushroomhead
. The album was released on September 28, 2010 by Megaforce Records
. The first single from the album is the song, "Come On" which was released on August 16, 2010.
On August 31, 2010, "Come On" was released uncensored on iTunes. The video of their first single "Come On" was premiered on Headbangers Ball
on September 27, hosted by Mushroomhead themselves. Come On was also featured in the Criminal Minds
episode "There's no Place like Home" from the show's 7th season.
. According to the band, they wanted the album title to reflect the nature of the songs themselves, and the title came once they incorporated the visual elements of the project.
Indie chart, and No. 44 overall selling over 11,000 copies the first week.
Industrial metal
Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and many different types of heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal acts include Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM.Industrial metal's...
band Mushroomhead
Mushroomhead
Mushroomhead is an American industrial metal band from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in 1993 in Cleveland Warehouse District, the band's music can be described as a synthesis of alternative music, heavy metal, and electro-industrial...
. The album was released on September 28, 2010 by Megaforce Records
Megaforce Records
Megaforce Records is an American independent record label which was founded in 1982 by Jon and Marsha Zazula to publish the first works of Metallica. It has offices in New York and Philadelphia. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony Music Entertainment/RED Distribution...
. The first single from the album is the song, "Come On" which was released on August 16, 2010.
On August 31, 2010, "Come On" was released uncensored on iTunes. The video of their first single "Come On" was premiered on Headbangers Ball
Headbangers Ball
Headbangers Ball is a music television program consisting of heavy metal music videos airing on MTV2, MTV Australia, MTV Two , MTV Adria , MTV Brand New, MTV Portugal, MTV Finland, MTV Arabia, MTV Norway, MTV Sweden, MTV Denmark, MTV Greece, MTV Türkiye, MTV...
on September 27, hosted by Mushroomhead themselves. Come On was also featured in the Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds is an American police procedural drama that premiered September 22, 2005, on CBS. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit based in Quantico, Virginia. The BAU is part of the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime...
episode "There's no Place like Home" from the show's 7th season.
Album title
As stated by the band members themselves, in an interview with MTV, the album title is inspired by the late 80's comic book of the same nameBeautiful Stories for Ugly Children
Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children is a comic book series written by Dave Louapre and illustrated by Dan Sweetman, published by DC Comics under the Piranha Press imprint from June 1989 until September 1992, a total of 30 issues in the run .In late 2006, Dave Louapre announced there would be a...
. According to the band, they wanted the album title to reflect the nature of the songs themselves, and the title came once they incorporated the visual elements of the project.
Reception
After its first week of sales, the album debuted at No. 9 on the BillboardBillboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Indie chart, and No. 44 overall selling over 11,000 copies the first week.
Track listing
Personnel
- Jeffrey NothingJeffrey HatrixJeffrey Nothing, also known as Jeff Hatrix is the vocalist for American alternative metal and industrial metal band Mushroomhead. His nickname comes from a scene in Blue Velvet. With a wide variety of face paint designs, Jeff's most recent look is that of a butcher...
- vocals, lyrics - WaylonWaylon ReavisWaylon Reavis is the vocalist for American alternative metal and industrial metal band Mushroomhead as well as the Cleveland based band Tenafly Viper and former singer of 3 Quarters Dead.-Biography:...
- vocals, lyrics - Gravy - leadLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
and rhythmRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
guitar - Pig BenisJack KilcoynePig Benis is the bass guitarist for Cleveland, Ohio alternative metal band Mushroomhead. He joined the band in 1995, replacing his brother Joe Kilcoyne aka Mr. Murdernickel.-Biography:...
- bass - ShmotzTom SchmitzTom Schmitz is the keyboardist for alternative metal band Mushroomhead.-Biography:Like current and former members of Mushroomhead, Schmitz was a part of local Cleveland band Trelleborg, in which he played bass....
- keyboards - SkinnySteve FeltonSteve "Skinny" Felton is the American drummer for Mushroomhead, Tenafly Viper and . He is one of the founding members of Mushroomhead. He can be identified as the dark skull-like face with dreadlocks...
- drums, percussion, producer - ST1TCHRick ThomasST1TCH is American sampler for Mushroomhead and Ventana. It has been stated that Thomas was originally called "Stick", due to his slim build, but someone mistakenly called him Stitch and the name stuck. ST1TCH can be identified by his pair of wire "headphones" and stitched forehead...
- turntables, samples, electronics - Lil' Dan - percussion
- Joe Altier - guest vocals ("Holes In The Void")
- Sarah Sloan - harmony, guest vocals ("Holes In The Void")