A Step from Nowhere

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A Step from Nowhere
A Step from Nowhere cover
Studio album by Shovel
Released March 23, 1999
Recorded September - October 1999
Genre Alternative metal
Industrial metal
Length 58:20
Label Universal
Producer Chris Vrenna
Shovel chronology
Terrestrials
(1997)		 A Step from Nowhere
(1999)		 Death Culture
(2001)

A Step from Nowhere is the second album from alternative metal and industrial band Shovel. The album was released March 23, 1999 on Universal Records. The album was the band's most successful, yielding 3 singles and music videos and charting in the US. To date, the album has sold over 275,000 copies. This was the band's final album with original bassist Davis Connelley.

The album's original title was 13 Steps to Nowhere, taking its title from a Pantera song. The video for "Ruin by Numbers" was banned from MTV for featuring graphic depictions of violence.

[edit] Track listing

All lyrics by Nate Sidek, all music by Shovel

  1. "Constant" – 3:41
  2. "Never Walk Alone" – 4:30
  3. "Idle Hands" – 4:04
  4. "Bind Me" – 4:09
  5. "A Step from Nowhere" – 4:39
  6. "Tics" – 3:19
  7. "Prone" – 3:55
  8. "Ruin by Numbers" – 4:25
  9. "Drop" – 5:13
  10. "This Decrepit Society" – 5:57
  11. "Pointless" – 3:13
  12. "Blood Runs" – 5:43
  13. "Not a Sound" – 5:32

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Chart positions

Album

Year Chart Position
1999 Billboard Top Heatseekers #3
1999 Billboard Top 200 #138

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1999 "Idle Hands" Mainstream Rock Tracks #9
1999 "Idle Hands" Modern Rock Tracks #15
1999 "Constant" Mainstream Rock Tracks #17
1999 "Constant" Modern Rock Tracks #33
2000 "Ruin by Numbers" Mainstream Rock Tracks #35