The Height of Callousness is the second album by the American

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 industrial metal

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 band Spineshank

Spineshank

Spineshank is an American Grammy-nominated alternative metal band. The band has sold over 540,000 records, and has released 3 studio albums.-Formation, Roadrunner Records years :...

. It was released on October 10, 2000 by Roadrunner Records

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. The title is taken from a phrase in A Clockwork Orange

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Reception

• CMJ (9/11/00, p.34) - "Machine-charged cybercore with computerized samples aligning the band with the likes of Fear Factory
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   and Rammstein
  Rammstein
  Rammstein is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band from Berlin, formed in 1994. The band consists of members Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul H. Landers , Oliver "Ollie" Riedel , Christoph "Doom" Schneider and Christian "Flake" Lorenz...
  
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Track listing

1. "Asthmatic" (Tommy Decker, Mike Sarkisyan) – 3:30
2. "The Height of Callousness" (Decker, Sarkisyan) – 3:02
3. "Synthetic
   Synthetic (song)
   Synthetic was the first single taken from Spineshank's album The Height of Callousness.The music video shows the band performing in a room with bright lighting whilst a woman walks in and starts using a computer to create a synthesizing sequence whilst Johnny Santos is plugged into a computer. Then...
   
   " (Decker, Sarkisyan) – 3:09
4. "New Disease
   New Disease
   "New Disease" is a single and music video by the nu metal band Spineshank.The video includes the band in the room singing and playing the song, a man fixing a CCTV camera which the band are looking at whilst playing, the lead singer talking to a girl who is sitting down alone...
   
   " (Decker, Sarkisyan) – 3:14
5. "(Can't Be) Fixed" (Decker, Sarkisyan) – 3:12
6. "Cyanide 2600" (Jonny Santos, Robert Garcia, Decker, Sarkisyan)– 3:10
7. "Play God" (Garcia, Santos, Sarkisyan) – 4:02
8. "Malnutrition" (Decker, Sarkisyan) – 3:30
9. "Seamless" (Santos) – 3:44
10. "Negative Space" (Santos, Sarkisyan) – 2:39
11. "Transparent" (Santos, Sarkisyan) – 3:53

Digipak bonus tracks

1. "Perfect Ending" – 3:48
2. "Full Circle" – 3:26
3. "The Height of Callousness" (Force Fed Integrity mix) – 3:20
4. "Asthmatic" (Punctured Lung mix) – 4:29

Note: On the American version of the digipak release, track 15 was changed from "The Height of Callousness" (Fist Fuck Integrity mix) to "Asthmatic" (Punctured Lung mix).

Musicians

• Jonny Santos – vocals
• Mike Sarkisyan – guitar, co-producer
• Robert Garcia – bass, backing vocals
• Tommy Decker – drums, co-producer

Credits

• GGGarth
  Garth Richardson
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   – Producer
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• Ted Jensen – Mastering
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• Andre "The German" Wahl – Engineering
• Scott Ternan – Assistant engineer
• Frank Gryner – Mixing, Additional recording, Additional programming
• Scott Humphrey – Mixing, Additional recording, Additional programming
• Dan Burns – Assistant mixer
• Ben "Hairy Toes" Kaplan – Digital editing
• Alex "The Condor" Aligizakis – Assistant digital editor

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2000	Heatseekers Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...	13
	Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	183
	Top Independent Albums	23
2001	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...	104

Single(s)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2001	"New Disease"	Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	33
		UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	84