Dogman

Occupation

• Doug Pinnick - guitar, lead vocals
• Ty Tabor - guitar, vocals
• Jerry Gaskill - drums, vocals

Dogman is the fifth studio album by the metal and hard rock band King's X. It is the second with Atlantic Records and the first, which was produced by Brendan O'Brien. It was released in January 1994.

Style of music and texts

Dogman had a punchier sound than previous King's X albums, although the self-titled predecessor was already the focus of much metal -like than the early works. A characteristic feature of the album is the production of O ' Brien, who also worked for many grunge bands, on the other, often melodic, with one exception ( Go to Hell ) midtempo - oriented songwriting. Nevertheless, situated next to the catchy title track and opener some blues -influenced ( Shoes ) and quieter ( Flies and Blue Skies ) pieces on the album. Other songs have also radio ( rock ) bonds (Black the Sky ), the Beatles and progressive rock elements such as tempo changes or unusual time signatures flowed with a. Doug Pinnick said in 1999 on the album: " For me personally, the Dogman record is what King's X really sounds like. The self-titled record was a step and an eye - opener and after did We Could just make our music.

The lyrics were partly Christian- spiritual in nature, but the approach was clearly disillusioned than on previous albums. 2006 said Doug Pinnick: ". . . all of the records are always me questioning ' Is this really it? ' Because I grew up in a religious family all my life and I have always been going: something Is not right here. So I have always sung about what I thought was not right - my confusion and my disillusion with it. And then finally came out Dogman When I just spewed it all out. I was pissed at point did. Everybody was like, ' he's not Christian anymore. ' Everybody got freaked out. "

Formation

Dogman was recorded with Nick Didia in Atlanta. Brendan O ' Brien, who also contributed keyboards and percussion, produced the album and mixed it from. Only the Hendrix Cover Manic Depression was mixed by Nick Didia.

The album was released with a stylized dog on the cover, it appeared in red, blue, yellow and green, with the musical content was the same for.

Reception

The album reached # 88 on the Billboard 200 Holger Stratmann wrote in the magazine Rock Hard, Dogman was " produced mercilessly heavy. When Doug Pinnick strikes his bass and Jerry Gaskill kicks in the bass drum, get the neighbors ' ne heart attack. " The harder pieces he compared with Helmet, Go to Hell with the Ramones. Nevertheless, it was the " classic hard rock ", the band reviving the album. He forgave nine out of ten

Title list

All tracks written by Pinnick, Tabor, Gaskill, except where noted.