Temple of the Morning Star

by Today Is the Day

Temple of the Morning Star cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 23 September 1997
  • Label: Relapse
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 57:17
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Mike Hyde, Christopher Reeser

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Temple of the Morning Star' is an incredibly harrowing, emotionally devastating masterpiece of avant-garde noise rock and sludge metal. Steve Austin unleashes a misanthropic, heavily dissonant barrage of complex aggression that deeply explores themes of suicide and dark despair.

Genres

Descriptors: dissonant, suicide, noisy, uncommon-time-signatures, brutal

Tracklist

  1. Temple of the Morning Star - Acoustic (2:51)
  2. The Man Who Loves to Hurt Himself (4:05)
  3. Blindspot (1:49)
  4. High as the Sky (2:13)
  5. Miracle (2:32)
  6. Kill Yourself (3:15)
  7. Mankind (2:41)
  8. Pinnacle (1:37)
  9. Crutch (1:16)
  10. Root of All Evil (3:48)
  11. Satan is Alive (2:59)
  12. Rabid Lassie (2:53)
  13. Friend for Life (0:24)
  14. My Life with You (2:33)
  15. I See You (2:59)
  16. Hermaphrodite (8:19)
  17. Temple of the Morning Star (10:55)

Credits

  • Today Is the Day - primary artist
  • Christopher Reeser - bass, electronics
  • Joe Kimball - cover [front and back cover art]
  • Mike Hyde - drums, percussion
  • Bill Yurkiewicz - executive-producer
  • Matthew F. Jacobson - executive-producer
  • Steve Austin - guitar, vocals, samples, producer
  • Greg Vaughn - lacquer cut by
  • Howie Hartman - layout [layout and production]
  • Dave Shirk - mastered by
  • Alex Short - photography by
  • Angie Newman - photography by

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