Our Endless War

Our Endless War
Cover art by Aaron Marsh
Studio album by Whitechapel
Released April 29, 2014
Studio (see Studios)
Genre Deathcore, groove metal
Length 38:51
Label Metal Blade
Producer Whitechapel, Mark Lewis
Whitechapel chronology

Whitechapel
(2012)		 Our Endless War
(2014)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 67/100[1]
Review scores
Source Rating
About.com [2]
AllMusic [3]
Alternative Press [4]
Exclaim! 8/10[5]
Metal Hammer positive[6]

Our Endless War is the fifth studio album by the American deathcore band Whitechapel. The album was released on April 29, 2014 via Metal Blade. It sold 16,270 copies in its first week.[7]

The song "The Saw Is the Law" was released on February 26, 2014 as the first single off the album. On April 15, 2014, a lyric video for the song "Our Endless War" was released. Axl Rosenberg of MetalSucks described the latter as "barely a deathcore song ... it's basically a straight-up hardcore [punk] song".[8]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Rise" (instrumental) 1:20
2. "Our Endless War"   3:56
3. "The Saw Is the Law"   4:27
4. "Mono"   3:39
5. "Let Me Burn"   4:23
6. "Worship the Digital Age"   4:12
7. "How Times Have Changed"   3:32
8. "Psychopathy"   3:51
9. "Blacked Out"   3:32
10. "Diggs Road"   5:59
Total length:
 38:51
Bonus tracks
No. Title Length
11. "A Process So Familiar"   2:52
12. "Fall of the Hypocrites"   3:00
Total length:
 44:43

Credits

Production and performance credits are adapted from the album liner notes.

Personnel

Whitechapel
Additional musicians
Production
Artwork and design

Studios

Charts

Chart (2014) Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[9] 72
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[10] 23
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[11] 50
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[12] 31
US Billboard 200[13] 10
US Digital Albums (Billboard)[14] 21
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[15] 2
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard)[16] 1
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[17] 2
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[18] 14

References

  1. ↑ Our Endless War at Metacritic
  2. ↑ Banchs, Edward. "Whitechapel - Our Endless War Review". heavymetal.about.com. About.com. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
  3. ↑ Heaney, Gregory. Our Endless War at AllMusic
  4. ↑ Pratt, Greg (April 24, 2014). "Whitechapel - Our Endless War - Alternative Press". www.altpress.com. Alternative Press. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
  5. ↑ Zorgdrager, Bradley (April 25, 2014). "Whitechapel Our Endless War". Retrieved January 27, 2015.
  6. ↑ Hill, Stephen (April 29, 2014). "Whitechapel: Our Endless War - Metal Hammer". metalhammer.teamrock.com. Team Rock Limited. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Whitechapel "Our Endless War" - Metal Blade Records". metalblade.com. 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  8. ↑ Rosenberg, Axl. "Whitechapel Put the “Core” in Deathcore with “Our Endless War”". MetalSucks. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Whitechapel – Our Endless War" (in German). Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien.
  10. ↑ "Sun Album & Song Chart History" Billboard Canadian Albums Chart for Sun.
  11. ↑ "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH.
  12. ↑ "2014-05-10 Top 40 Independent Albums Archive | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart
  13. ↑ "Sun Album & Song Chart History" Billboard 200 for Sun.
  14. ↑ "Album & Song Chart History" Billboard Digital Albums for Sun.
  15. ↑ "Sun Album & Song Chart History" Billboard Independent Albums for Sun.
  16. ↑ "Sun Album & Song Chart History" Billboard Top Hard Rock Albums for Sun.
  17. ↑ "Sun Album & Song Chart History" Billboard Top Rock Albums for Sun.
  18. ↑ "Sun Album & Song Chart History" Billboard Top Tastemaker Albums for Sun.

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