| Gravity Kills | ||||
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| Studio album by Gravity Kills | ||||
| Released | US March 5, 1996[1] Europe March 12 1996[1] |
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| Recorded | 1995 - 1996 at Mr. Blood, St. Louis, MO and at Battery Studios, NYC | |||
| Genre | Industrial rock | |||
| Length | 39:13 | |||
| Label | TVT | |||
| Producer | John Fryer, Gravity Kills | |||
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Gravity Kills is the debut album by Gravity Kills, released on March 5, 1996 by TVT Records (see 1996 in music), the album sold just under 500,000 copies.
Promo versions of this album have the first song titled as "Take" it was renamed "Forward" just before the album was released.
All the track titles on the album are each only one word in length.
Contents |
The picture in the centre on the front cover is called "Picturing The Bomb" the image is owned by Rachel Fermi and Esther Samra.
All songs written and composed by Gravity Kills.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Forward" | 1:31 |
| 2. | "Guilty" | 4:02 |
| 3. | "Blame" | 4:35 |
| 4. | "Down" | 4:10 |
| 5. | "Here" | 4:21 |
| 6. | "Enough" | 4:17 |
| 7. | "Inside" | 2:53 |
| 8. | "Goodbye" | 3:12 |
| 9. | "Never" | 3:10 |
| 10. | "Last" | 3:14 |
| 11. | "Hold" | 3:53 |
This is first ever successful, written and produced single in Gravity Kills's History. In 1994, St. Louis's radio station KPNT had a compilation CD of local artists, keyboardist/programmer Doug Firley, guitarist Matt Dudenhoeffer and drummer/bassist Kurt Kerns brought in vocalist Jeff Scheel to record and mix a track in one week during the summer. "Guilty" was given heavy airplay and quickly became the number one-requested song at the station. It's song meaning is the end of a relationship and who's to blame for their secrets, but they're both to blame equally which lyrics are saying 'You're killing me, I'm killing you. And I'm guilty, too.' The music video for "Guilty" was shot at the Alexandria Hotel in Los Angeles over two days, directed by Rocky Morton and produced by Nicole Beare. Guilty was ranked as high as #17 on MTV's active rotation, however it's still on MTV's website for America, UK and other countries too. The video was aired on MTV's 120 minutes with Matt Pinfield, MTV UK didn't show it on TV in UK due to what they called disturbing images. The Girl who is seen licking the floor in the video is someone called Jane. The scene with maggots were flown in to LA for the video making from a company out of New Jersey. The song was used in a 1996 thriller film Seven (stylized as Se7en), by David Fincher based on the 1995 novel
The music video for "Blame" was shot at a water park in Los Angeles and a set that was built in an airport hangar in Burbank. Another video for "Blame" was a remix version from the film Escape from L.A. was set in a underground tunnel sewage where the band are performing and unclean people moving about and features some scenes of the film.
The song means about someone who lies and steals, and the man knows all the stuff they did. The person is so messed up on drugs and a load of stuff in his life. Interestingly, there was a unfinished music video for the song, it shows the band playing in their live concerts in 1996, showing random colour flashing lights, video effects and is showing a video timer for the tape. The music video was a unfinished video project, it was shown once in 1997 and it was never repeated on TV afterwards or on any other TV channels, Kurt Kerns recovered the video by capturing it on a videotape when it was aired and then he passed the videotape footage to Jeff Scheel. On January 14 2011, Jeff Scheel uploaded and revealed the unreleased music video on Youtube and told some people on Facebook it was a "previously unreleased Gravity Kills video".
When they were in New York City finishing the first album. With only 3 days left in the studio, their record label told them that they wanted one more song. Kurt Kerns had an idea of music. At this point Jeff had a melody in his head and broke off to another room in the studio and started writing the song's lyrics. Here was the last track to be written for the album, the track was produced and mixed in 2 days before finishing the album. 'Here' has two song meanings, first meaning is about a personal separation vocalist Jeff Scheel felt from his family in friends while going through the process of writing and recording a record. The second meaning is about the anxiety the band was feeling in finishing the record and putting it out in the world "for all to see".
The song was actually written to submit for the Showgirls soundtrack. It didn't make it into the soundtrack. The music video for the song was shot in Burbank, CA and directed by Rocky Morton same director for the 'Guilty' video.
Inside was written about the perspectives of a homeless man and a person in his house looking at each other through a window. The song is some times describes as a 'some serious mischief song'.
On the song, the band wrote the Lyrics about an ex-girlfriend of keyboardist Doug Firley. The demo for the was used in the 1995 action and adventure film by Paul Anderson based on the videos games, Mortal Kombat.
'Last' was featured in a Doug Ellin's 1998 romantic comedy film, Kissing A Fool only heard in film, but not the released soundtrack.
| Year | Song | Games |
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| 1996 | Blame | Test Drive Off-Road |
| Guilty | ||
| Enough | ||
| 2000 | Guilty | Vampire: Redemption |
"Down" music video
"Guilty" music video
"Enough" music video