Forbidden (3)Distortion

Label:

Bertelsmann Music Group – 74321 22628 2

Format:

CD , Album

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Released:

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Groove Metal

Tracklist

1 Distortion 5:57
2 Hypnotized By The Rhythm 4:55
3 Rape 5:21
4 No Reason 6:23
5 Feed The Hand 6:41
6 Wake Up 3:57
7 Minds "I" 4:30
8 All That Is 4:17
9 Undertaker 6:23
10 21st Century Schizoid Man 11:08

Companies, etc.

  • Phonographic Copyright ℗GUN Records (2)
  • Copyright ©GUN Records (2)
  • Marketed ByBMG Ariola München GmbH
  • Distributed ByBMG Ariola München GmbH
  • Glass Mastered AtSonopress – I-6521
  • Recorded AtThe Music Annex
  • Mixed AtThe Music Annex
  • Mastered AtFuture Disc
  • Published ByEdition Drakkar
  • Published ByE.G. Music Ltd.
  • Published ByFE Music

Credits

  • Artwork [Realisation]Peter Dell
  • Backing Vocals [Guest Musician]Steve Hayden (2)
  • BassMatt Camacho
  • CoverKent Mathieu
  • Crew [Guitars, Gossip]Takumi (7)
  • Crew [Bass, Picking Pockets]Rich "Gringo" Camacho*
  • Crew [Buzz Tech., Video]Andy "Witch Dr." Flores*
  • Crew [Drums]Paul "Hooked On Phonics" Monteiro*
  • Crew [Grey Monster Matters]Cole "Rasin Hell" Gill*
  • Crew [Guitars & Gilders]Duane "Volume Troll" Conley*
  • Design, ArtworkEric Philippe
  • DrumsSteve Jacobs
  • Engineer [Assistant]Tim Rupel
  • Engineer [Second]Carlos "Consuela" Donohue*
  • GraphicsMike Taylor (29)
  • GuitarTim Calvert
  • LayoutDaryl Foley
  • LegalElliot Cahn
  • Lyrics By [And Melodies]Anderson*
  • ManagementDrakkar Promotion
  • Management [Business]Taylor/Marcus Group
  • Management [Financial]Zeisler & Zeisler
  • Mastered ByEddie Shriver*
  • Music ByClavert*
  • Photography ByMichael Erdman
  • ProducerForbidden (3)
  • Producer, Engineer, Mixed ByPatrick Coughlin*
  • VocalsRuss Anderson

Notes

Comes with Forbidden merch insert (Drakkar Marchandising).
Track 10 is a King Crimson cover.

Recorded and mixed at Music Annex . Menlo Park, California
Mastered at Future Disc Systems

Drakkar Promotion logo on back cover.

Printed in [on back cover]
Manufactured in [on disc]

P&C 1994 GUN [on disc]
P&C 1994 GUN RECORDS [on back cover]

Dedicated to the memory of Scott L. Locicero

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode (Text): 7 43212 26282 7
  • Barcode (Scan): 743212262827
  • Label Code: LC 6029
  • Rights Society: GEMA/BIEM
  • SPARS Code: ADD
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 1): SONOPRESS I-6521/4321226282 A [DS3 mirrored]
  • Mastering SID Code (Variant 1): IFPI L023
  • Mould SID Code (Variant 1): IFPI 0737
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  • Mastering SID Code (Variant 5): IFPI L021
  • Mould SID Code (Variant 5): IFPI 0723
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  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 7): SONOPRESS I-6521/4321226282 A [DS3 mirrored]
  • Mastering SID Code (Variant 7): IFPI L023
  • Mould SID Code (Variant 7): IFPI 0775

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Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
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Distortion (CD, Album, Limited Edition, Digipak) BMG GUN 046, 74321 25004 2 1994
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Distortion (CD, Album) GUN BV 765, BV-765 Japan 1994
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Distortion (CD, Album, Promo) GUN BV-765 Japan 1994
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Distortion (Cassette, Album, Promo) GUN GUN046 1994
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Distortion (Cassette, Album, Unofficial Release) Not On Label (Forbidden (3)) none Bulgaria 1994

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Reviews

  • Wuchak's avatar
    Wuchak
    Edited 4 years ago
    Forbidden breaks free of thrash for something… stranger and with even less mass appeal

    Originally released in 1994, DISTORTION was the third of five full-length albums by Hayward, California’s Forbidden (which is just south of Oakland in the Bay area). The band plays technical thrash metal masterminded by guitarist Craig Locicero and have been on hold since 2012. My favorite album by them is easily their last one, 2010’s OMEGA WAVE. That disc took the late 80’s technical thrash of their first two albums — FORBIDDEN EVIL (1988) and TWISTED INTO FORM (1990) — and superbly mixed it with the peculiar arty approach of their two mid-90’s releases — DISTORTION (1994) and GREEN (1997).

    This brings us to DISTORTION. With the emergence of grunge in the early 90s after the success of Nirvana’s NEVERMIND, Craig & the boys felt freed-up to drop the thrash metal polka and really explore their craft. Don’t get me wrong, there’s still a thrash element, but it’s less obvious. The result is an album that is the furthest thing from one-dimensional.

    Everything about the band is technically improved, but something about the songwriting prevents the songs from grabbing the listener. As such, you can listen to the whole album and enjoy it, but walk away not ing any particular song, with the exception of maybe “Rape” due to its tribal-chanted (shouted) chorus, likewise with “Feed the Hand” and “Wake Up!”

    But this is resolved by repeat listens: The more you hear the more jumps out at you. The album was just too deep, too dense, in the early/mid 90s for the average rock-metal aficionado who apparently preferred “a mosquito, my libido.”

    There are nine proper songs with a cover of King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man,” followed by some psychedelic doodling for a couple minutes on an unlisted track.

    GRADE: B+/A-

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