End Time (album)
End Time is the sixth and final studio album by grindcore band Brutal Truth. It was released on September 27, 2011, by Relapse Records[1] on CD, LP, and as a deluxe CD box set, which includes "six bonus tracks, a 20-page booklet, six custom art flats, a marijuana-scented disc card, and more".[6]
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| Released | September 27, 2011 | |||
| Recorded | 2011 | |||
| Genre | Grindcore | |||
| Length | 54:21 | |||
| Label | Relapse | |||
| Producer | Brutal Truth | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Blabbermouth.net | 8.5/10[2] |
| Metal.de | 7/10[3] |
| Metal Storm | 9.0/10[4] |
| PopMatters | 5/10[5] |
Writing
Using the track "End Time" as title track of the album was vocalist Kevin Sharpe's idea. Bassist Dan Lilker wrote the lyrics for the song "Twenty Bag": "It's about when we ran out of weed while we were writing. Semi-humorous, but actually quite important. [...] I wrote lyrics about how we do what we do."[7] "Control Room" with "a whole bunch of loops and weird, noisy stuff"[8] is the work of drummer Richard Hoak; Lilker and guitarist Erik Burke didn't perform on this song. The track is too long to fit on the vinyl version of the album.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Malice" | 3:27 |
| 2. | "Simple Math" | 1:26 |
| 3. | "End Time" | 1:57 |
| 4. | "Fuck Cancer" | 0:58 |
| 5. | "Celebratory Gunfire" | 1:28 |
| 6. | "Small Talk" | 1:41 |
| 7. | ".58 Caliber" | 0:54 |
| 8. | "Swift and Violent (Swift version)" | 0:46 |
| 9. | "Crawling Man Blues" | 1:41 |
| 10. | "Lottery" | 1:10 |
| 11. | "Warm Embrace of Poverty" | 3:47 |
| 12. | "Old World Order" | 1:24 |
| 13. | "Butcher" | 2:54 |
| 14. | "Killing Planet Earth" | 1:28 |
| 15. | "Gut-Check" | 2:36 |
| 16. | "All Work and No Play" | 1:35 |
| 17. | "Addicted" | 2:03 |
| 18. | "Sweet Dreams" | 1:30 |
| 19. | "Echo Friendly Discharge" | 1:49 |
| 20. | "Twenty Bag" | 0:45 |
| 21. | "Trash" | 0:05 |
| 22. | "Drink Up" | 3:42 |
| 23. | "Control Room" | 15:21 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 24. | "Dead" (Napalm Death cover) | 0:04 |
| 25. | "Money Stinks" (D.R.I. cover) | 0:45 |
| 26. | "White Clam Sauce" (N.Y.C. Mayhem cover) | 0:08 |
| 27. | "Swift and Violent (Violent version)" | 0:50 |
| 28. | "S.O.B." (S.O.B. cover) | 0:08 |
| 29. | "The Nightmare Continues" (Discharge cover) | 1:18 |
Personnel
Brutal Truth
- Kevin Sharp – vocals, production
- Dan Lilker – bass guitar, backing vocals, broken china cymbal, production
- Erik Burke – guitar, production
- Rich Hoak – drums, electronics, production
Additional musicians
- Robert Piotrowicz – analogue modular synthesizer, electronics (11)
- Adam Jennings – electronics (15)
- Mike Golen – electronics (15)
- Jason Soliday – electronics (15)
- Omar Gonzalez – electronics (15)
References
- Prato, Greg. End Time at AllMusic. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
- Alisoglu, Scott. "CD Reviews - End Time Brutal Truth". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
- Christoph (September 13, 2011). "Brutal Truth - End Time". Metal.de (in German). Retrieved March 29, 2021.
- Mr. Doctor (February 19, 2012). "Brutal Truth - End Time review". Metal Storm. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
- Prokofiev, Dane (September 26, 2011). "Brutal Truth: End Time". PopMatters. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
- "Brutal Truth: streaming new album End Time online". September 20, 2011. Archived from the original on December 27, 2013. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
- Bennett, J. (November 2011). "Q&A with Dan Lilker". Decibel. No. 85. Philadelphia: Red Flag Media. p. 47. ISSN 1557-2137. OCLC 61197187.
- Bennett, J. (November 2011). "Q&A with Dan Lilker". Decibel. No. 85. Philadelphia: Red Flag Media. p. 48. ISSN 1557-2137. OCLC 61197187.