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Day of Mourning (album)

Day of Mourning
Artwork by Felix Rancourt
Studio album by Despised Icon
Released September 22, 2009 (2009-09-22)
Studio (see Studios)
Genre Deathcore
Length 35:12
Language English, French
Label Century Media
Producer Yannick St-Amand
Despised Icon chronology
The Ills of Modern Man
(2007)
Day of Mourning
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
About.com 3.5/5 stars
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars
Blabbermouth 7/10

Day of Mourning is the fourth studio album by Canadian deathcore band Despised Icon. It was released September 22 through Century Media Records. The album is featured in four different editions, including; the standard, the United States exclusive Hot Topic edition, the Europe Exclusive LTD digipak edition, the iTunes edition and the Japanese edition.

Day of Mourning was recorded during early 2009 at Projecson Recording Studio and was produced by their former guitarist, Yannick, St-Amand and was mixed by Andreas Magnusson and mastered by Alan Douches. The album marks the first Despised Icon release to feature guitarist Ben Landreville and bassist Max Lavelle in the band.

The song "MVP" was released as the album's first single on July 17, 2009. The title track was released as the album's second single and had a music video produced for it which was directed by Montreal hip hop video production company, Kartel Films. The song "Day of Mourning" is also featured as downloadable content for the Rock Band video games via the Rock Band Network.

The album reached #162 on the Billboard 200 and #6 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers, selling 3,000 copies its first week of release.

Writing, performance and production credits are adapted from the album liner notes.


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