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We Rule the Night is the fourth album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Sonic Syndicate.[1] The album was released on August 27, 2010 through Nuclear Blast and was produced by Toby Wright.[2] We Rule the Night is the first full-length release by the band to feature the vocals of Nathan James Biggs (former Hollow Earth Theory singer) who replaced former singer Roland Johansson who left the band in 2009, but it is also the last album to feature founding singer/lyricist Richard Sjunnesson who left the band due to the bands musical direction in October of 2010. [3] The band will be touring Europe to support the album with the "We Rule the World Tour", starting on September 15, 2010.[4][5]

Writing and recording

Sonic Syndicate started working on the pre-production of the new album as of January and soon after announced that the producer for the album would be legendary US producer Toby Wright. The main recording of the album took place at Bohus Sound Studios in Kungälv, Sweden. February 23, 2010 annonced that they were finished with the recording the album. As of March 2010, although the album was being mixed and mastered in Sweden, Toby Wright returned to USA to begin the final mixing and mastering on the album at the Paramount Studios in North Hollywood, California. As of March 7, 2010 the album was complete, although after much delay it wouldn't be released until 6 months later.[6][7][8]

Release and promotion

On November 6, 2009 the band released the EP "Burn This City" featuring the single and radio version of the title track "Burn This City" and a non-album track called "Rebellion in Nightmareland".[9] Burn This City" went under a different mix for the album version to make it fit the style and sound of We Rule the Night. On May 4, 2010 Nuclear Blast offered a free download of the album version.[10]

On March 5, 2010 the band revealed the title and artwork for We Rule the Night. The artwork was created by Gustavo Savez of Abstrata Art, the same artist who made the artwork for "Burn This City" in 2009.[8] On March 19, 2010 the band revealed the full track listing of the standard CD version of the album and that there would be a limited digipack edition with a bonus DVD and two bonus tracks.[11]

The lead single "Revolution, Baby" had its world premiere on the Swedish radio station Bandit Rock on May 5, 2010. On May 7, 2010 the single was made available for purchase and download on iTunes.[12] The music video directed by Patric Ullaeus premiered on the band's official MySpace page on May 17, 2010.[13] It was only intended to be released as a digital single but unexpectedly a signed promotional CD-single was released for free for a limited time in a package with the official t-shirt merchandise for the single.[14] On July 15, 2010 Nuclear Blast offered a free download of the single [15]

The second single "My Own Life" had its world premiere on Bandit Rock on July 6, 2010. The music video directed by Patric Ullaeus premiered on the band's official MySpace page on July 7, 2010.[16] On August 6, 2010 the single was made available for purshase and download on iTunes.[17]

The third single "Turn It Up" is scheduled to be released on August 22, 2010.[18] The music video will not be released until the end of September because of an accident while shooting the video causing Karin Axelsson a laceration as well as a brain concussion. At that moment, it wasn't certain if Karin woull be able to perform at the band's next concerts, but she made a brilliant recovery and continiued touring.[19][20][21] on Sunday, August 7, 2010 [19]

On August 20, the whole album was released on the band's MySpace page.[22] On September 13 the band offered for free for those who gough the 74th issue of the Sweden Rock Magazine an exclusive maxi single including the unreleased track "Heart of Eve" and the previous singles "Burn This City" and "Revolution, Baby". "Heart of Eve" was originally planned to be released as the second bonus track for digipack on the album.[6][23]

On October 1, Nuclear Blast released the official video for the single "Turn It Up" on Vimeo.[24]

Style and composition

We Rule the Night is a very diverse album compared to all their prior releases as it includes both metalcore and melodic death metal their trademark sound, but also incorporates new ones to their style such as pop metal, nu metal, industrial metal, hard rock and alternative metal. There is also a fairly use of acoustic guitars as well as mainstream influenced synthesizers. Clean vocals are also featured as the lead vocals compared to their previous albums were both harsh and clean vocals were leading together, on We Rule the Night however the harsh vocals have been mixed behind layers of distorted guitars, acoustic guitars and mainstream synthesizers and the clean vocals left untouched. [25] [26] [27]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Metal Hammer link
Sputnikmusic link
Metal Storm link
The New Review link
Lords of Metal link
Metal Obsession link

Upon its release, We Rule the Night, received mixed reviews from critics. Some said that the album was the best by the band so far, others said it was good but not their best and others even took it far enough to say that it is their worst. The band members themselves thought the album was radically different from anything they had done in the past, which most reviewers agreed to, with the reactions being mostly positive from major magazines like Metal Hammer and Scream Magazine, but mostly negative by online reviewers, like "Sputnikmusic", "TheNewReview", "Lords of Metal" etc.

Along all We Rule the Night tracks, one of the most recognized songs by the critics were "Beauty and the Freak" and "Break of Day", standing of as one of the albums stronger songs, while songs like "My Own Life" and "Turn It Up" were criticized for having too much pop influence.[28] [29] [30]

Track listing

  • All lyrics written by Nathan J. Biggs & Richard Sjunnesson, except "Leave Me Alone" written by Peter Tägtgren
  • All music written by Sonic Syndicate, except "Leave Me Alone" written by Jonas Kjellgren.
  • All music arranged by Sonic Syndicate and Toby Wright.
No.TitleLength
1."Beauty and the Freak"3:32
2."Revolution, Baby!"3:24
3."Turn It Up!"3:38
4."My Own Life"3:46
5."Burn This City"3:29
6."Black and Blue"3:29
7."Miles Apart"3:39
8."Plans Are for People"4:11
9."Leave Me Alone"3:56
10."Break of Day"3:20
11."We Rule the Night"4:00
Total length:40:24
Digipack bonus track
No.TitleLength
12."Dead and Gone"3:36
Total length:44:00
Japan bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
12."Dead and Gone"3:46
13."Perfect Alibi"3:41
Total length:47:41

The track "Heart of Eve" was originally intended to be released as the Japanese exclusive bonus track, but was not included because Nuclear Blast didn't think it fitted the new sound they envisioned for the band. It was instead released as a single for Sweden Rock Magazine #74.

The track "Burn This City" was previously included on the Rebellion Pack and produced, engineered and originally mixed by Jonas Kjellgren. To match the sound with the other songs, the same recording was remixed during the recording sessions by Toby Wright (it is not a re-recording).

Bonus DVD

  • "Studio Report" (Making of "We Rule the Night")
  • "My Own Life" (Official video)
  • "Revolution, Baby" (Official video)
  • "Burn This City" (Official video)
  • "Photo Gallery"

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Release history

Region Date Label
Europe August 27, 2010 (2010-08-27) Nuclear Blast
Sweden September 1, 2010 (2010-09-01) Nuclear Blast

Personnel

Sonic Syndicate
  • Nathan James Biggs – lead vocals
  • Richard Sjunnesson – harsh vocals
  • Roger Sjunnesson – guitars/keys
  • Robin Sjunnesson – guitars
  • Karin Axelsson – bass
  • John Bengtsson – drums
Production
  • Recorded at Bohus Sound studios in Kungälv, Sweden except "Burn This City", Recorded at Black Lounge Studios in Avesta, Sweden
  • Additional vocals recorded at Studio Mega, Varberg, Sweden
  • Mixed at IF Studios, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Produced and Engineered by Toby Wright except "Burn This City", Produced and Engineered by Jonas Kjellgren and re-mixed by Toby Wright
  • Mixed by Roberto Laghi
  • Mastered by Dragan Tanaskovic
  • Engineered by Tobias Lindelll and Freddie Norén
  • Additional keyboard/guitar engineering by Jonas Kjellgren
  • Additional mixing by Toby Wright
  • Addition mastering by Toby Wright
  • All songs published by Prophecies Publishing
  • All songs aranged by Sonic Syndicate and Toby Wright
  • Artwork by Gustavo Sazes
  • Photography by Limda Åkerberg
  • Music videos for "Revolution, Baby" and "My Own Life" directed by Patric Ullaeus [13][16]
  • Music video for "Turn It Up" directed by Anders Rune

Chart positions

Country Position
Sweden 13[34]
Germany 22[35]
Switzerland 42[36]
Austria 44[37]
Finland 29[38]

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