Blackened Sky is the debut studio album by Scottish alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Biffy Clyro

Biffy Clyro

Biffy Clyro are a Scottish rock band from Kilmarnock, comprising Simon Neil , James Johnston and Ben Johnston...

, released on 10 March 2002, on Beggars Banquet Records

Beggars Banquet Records

Beggars Banquet is an English independent record label that began as a chain of record shops owned by Martin Mills and Nick Austin, and is part of the Beggars Group of labels...

. The album yielded four singles: "27", "Justboy", "57", and "Joy.Discovery.Invention", and reached #78 in the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...

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As with each of the band's three first albums, it has only been played in full once, on 13 December 2005 at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut

King Tut's Wah Wah Hut

King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, also known as King Tut's, is a live music venue and bar in on St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland. It is owned and managed by Glasgow-based gig promoters DF Concerts...

 in Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

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Track listing

• "Joy.Discovery.Invention
  Joy.Discovery.Invention
  "Joy.Discovery.Invention" is a song by Biffy Clyro which opens their 2002 debut album, Blackened Sky. It was their fourth single, appearing as a double A-side with "Toys, Toys, Toys, Choke, Toys, Toys, Toys", a track from their second album, The Vertigo of Bliss...
  
  ", "27
  27 (song)
  "27" is a song by Scottish band Biffy Clyro from their 2002 debut album, Blackened Sky. It was the band's first single on Beggar's Banquet, released on 9 April 2001 in the UK.-Overview:...
  
  ", "Justboy
  Justboy
  "Justboy" is a song by Biffy Clyro from their 2002 debut album, Blackened Sky, and was the band's second single.-Overview:"Justboy" is a fan-favourite among Biffy Clyro fans; it is widely agreed that no gig is complete without it. Simon Neil has commented on the song, saying:-Track listings:Songs...
  
  " and "57
  57 (song)
  "57" is a song by Biffy Clyro from their 2002 debut album, Blackened Sky, and was the band's third single.-Track listings:Songs and lyrics by Simon Neil...
  
  " were released as singles.

Charts

Charts (2002)	Peak position
UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	78

B-Sides

• "Instructio4" – 5:53
• "Breatheher" – 3:54
• "Being Gabriel" – 6:20
• "Unsubtle" – 2:27
• "Hope for an Angel" – 4:06
• "Time as an Imploding Unit/Waiting For Green" – 9:24
• "The Houses of Roofs" – 5:12
• "All The Way Down (Chapter 2)" 2002 Version - 3:16
• "Kill the Old, Torture Their Young (Evening Session Version)"

Personnel

• Simon Neil
  Simon Neil
  Simon Alexander Neil is a Scottish vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter, known for his work in the bands Biffy Clyro and Marmaduke Duke.-Biffy Clyro:...
  
   - vocals, guitar, producer
• James Johnston
  James Johnston
  James Johnston may refer to:*James Johnston , Scottish Secretary of State*James William Johnston , Canadian politician and judge*James Finlay Weir Johnston , chemist...
  
   - bass, vocals, producer
• Ben Johnston
  Ben Johnston
  Benjamin Burwell Johnston, Jr. is a composer of contemporary music in the just intonation system.-Johnston's music:...
  
   - drums, vocals, producer
• Chris Sheldon
  Chris Sheldon
  Chris Sheldon is a record producer, particularly of rock music, based in London, UK. He has produced or mixed records for the Foo Fighters, Garbage, Feeder, Biffy Clyro, Oceansize and Pixies amongst others...
  
   - producer, recording, engineer, mixing
• Paul Corkett - produced, recorded and engineered "The Go-Slow", "Convex, Concave" "57"
• DP Johnson - produced, recorded and engineered "27"
• Graham Dominy - assistant engineer
• Dan Austin - assistant engineer
• Kevin Gallagher - assistant engineer
• Sam Miller - assistant engineer
• Chris Blair - mastering
• Tom Collier - cover photography
• Paul McCallum - band photography
• Phil Lee - design

Release history

Blackened Sky was released in the UK in 2002.

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue number
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	11 March 2002	Beggars Banquet Beggars Banquet - Personnel :The Rolling Stones* Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, harmonica on "Parachute Woman"* Keith Richards – acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar on "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man", backing vocals, lead vocals on opening of "Salt of the Earth"* Brian...	CD	BBQCD226
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	11 March 2002	Beggars Banquet Beggars Banquet - Personnel :The Rolling Stones* Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, harmonica on "Parachute Woman"* Keith Richards – acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar on "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man", backing vocals, lead vocals on opening of "Salt of the Earth"* Brian...	Vinyl Gramophone record A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...	BBQ226
Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...	1 April 2004	Sum Records	CD	B00029CO2Q
Korea Korea Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...	2002	Rock Records	CD	RBQD-002