| Perversion | ||||
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| Studio album by Gravity Kills | ||||
| Released | June 9, 1998 September 6, 1998 |
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| Recorded | Mr. Blood, Upper Room Studios, St. Louis | |||
| Genre | Industrial rock Industrial metal Synth rock Alternative rock |
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| Length | 40:45 (U.S.) 40:50 (UK) |
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| Label | TVT (U.S.) Dragnet Records (Germany) |
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| Producer | Roli Mosimann, Gravity Kills | |||
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| Singles from Perversion | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [1] |
| eMusic | [2] |
"Perversion" is a 1998 album by Industrial Rock act Gravity Kills. On the 17 April 2000 Online chat session, one of the band members disclosed that the title of the album was going to be named "Whore", but their record label TVT Records threw a fit and thought it was not a good idea to use the title, so 2 days before they would go to manufacturing the CD's, the band came up with name 'Perversion', so it was tiled Perversion.
On the front cover of the album, there is writing that says "Safe Handling Instructions" and information, protection and instructions on how to keep clean and alive written underneath. Possibly the songs and graphic designs references the signs of meat or poultry, viruses or bacteria and illness or diseases. Inside the case (Where's there two pictures split up in half), on the left side the two pictures, there is picture of Jeff Scheel tired to a chair and rapidly moving his head back and forth. On the right side of the two pictures, there is the band members Doug Firley, Matt Dudenhoeffer and Kurt Kerns near the right corner listen to something with headphones on and there are pigs in the pictures. Lyrics are also feature in the flip-folder inside.
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TVT Records wanted "Drown" to be one of the singles off of Perversion but was rejected and refused by band and the band told them we would never play it live, but went top 10 in one of Germany's charts in 1998.
"Disintegrate" was going to be a single, but the band refused to play the song live so the label changed singles on the album. And the lyrics "I'm still making love to it" sometimes get confused with the words "I'm still making love too wet".
"If" was actually supposed to be the first single off of Perversion as picked by the band but the record label forced a different song. The song was actually written in response to a local St. Louis music journalist that hated the band.
In Kurt Kerns's opinion, He thought that Crashing had the best bass line ever.
Before Perversion was released, a promotional CD was released under the name 'Perversion' in 1998, which contained all of the album's songs and had "Drown" titled as "Drowned" (or sometimes as "Drowning"), this song was renamed before official album release. It was once said on a website that Perversion was originally going to be released on June 6, 1998, but at one point it was shifted back a couple of days to June 9, due to some unknown reason. Perversion has been met with mixed reviews and ratings. Allmusic gave the album 2.5/5, eMusic gave it a 4/5 and MOG gave it a 3/5. On June 27, 1998, Gravity Kills's Perversion album reach #107 on the Billboard 200 and one of the reviewers describe the album's music as "A Bullet bouncing in a can" or "More golden angst-driven hits" or "Very similar to NIN". A critic of Spin named, Joshua Westlund commented that he felt like the band was recreating NIN's song "Head Like a Hole" and said "Gravity Kills songs have no subjects because pronouns don't matter to singer Jeff Scheel; the charges against "you" in the first verse always come back as revelations about "me" in the second. Lust disgust, and ennui sound like the same numb sensation in GK's music. Which might explain why "darkness" has seldom sounded so gray."[3]
In an online chat session on April 17, 2000, the band disclosed that the actual title of Track 10 is "Belief" and claimed that there was a misprint during the cover production process in 1998.
Some copies of the Alive CD singles only contain one track. As the Record label has the listing for both tracks, it is possibley assumed that this was a production error.
| Country | Chart (1998) | Peak position |
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| U.S. | Billboard 200 | 107 |
| Country | Chart (1998) | Title | Peak position |
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| U.S. | Mainstream Rock | Falling | 35 |
| Country | Chart (1998) | Title | Peak position |
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| Germany | - | Drown | 3 |
Some of the songs appeared in some complication volumes and promos:
| Year | Song | Complications/promos |
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| 1999 | Drown | Crossing All Over, Vol. 9 |
| Alive (Hurricane Mix) | Offroad Tracks Vol.16 | |
| If (Compound Remix) | TVT Warped '99 | |
| Alive | Creed on (CD Sampler) | |
| - | Falling | Virtually Alternative 92 |
Both "Drown" and "Alive" were featured in Test Drive: Off Road 2. "Falling" was featured in Test Drive 5.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Falling" | 4:02 |
| 2. | "If" | 4:06 |
| 3. | "Crashing" | 3:40 |
| 4. | "Drown" | 3:40 |
| 5. | "Alive" | 3:52 |
| 6. | "Wanted" | 4:04 |
| 7. | "Always" | 4:44 |
| 8. | "One" | 3:46 |
| 9. | "Disintegrate" | 4:40 |
| 10. | "Belief (To Rust)" | 4:16 |
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| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 11. | "Poetry and Power (from the Gary Numan tribute CD)" | 3:19 | |||||||
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| 12. | "Alive (Hurricane Mix)" | 3:36 | |||||||
| Various – industrial bonus track | |||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 12. | "Enough [Mix]" | ||||||||