Elite (Within the Ruins album)
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| Studio album by Within the Ruins | ||||
| Released | February 26, 2013 | |||
| Genre | Deathcore, progressive metal | |||
| Length | 39:11 | |||
| Label | eOne Music | |||
| Producer | Josh Wickman, Joe Cocchi | |||
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| Exclaim! | 7/10 |
Elite is the third studio album by American deathcore band Within the Ruins. The album sold 3,750 copies in its first week (roughly double what Invade sold) and saw Within the Ruins' first appearance on the Billboard 200, peaking at the 133 spot. It is their first release for eOne Music following their departure from Victory Records in 2012. It is also their first release featuring only one guitarist, following the departure of Jay Van Schelt in 2012. The track list for the album was revealed on February 14, 2013.
To promote the album, the song "Feeding Frenzy" was released as a single on February 4, 2013 with an accompanying lyric video. The video was published to the band's YouTube channel on the same day.
On February 26, 2013, the same day the album was released, a music video directed by Kevin J Custer was released for "Feeding Frenzy". On July 22, 2013, a music video was released for the song "New Holy War" and published to the band's YouTube channel.
On March 20, 2012, Victory Records posted a pre-production update video to their YouTube featuring Cocchi and McGuill working on demos for their upcoming album, which would become Elite.
The band would begin to record the album during the Spring of 2012 at Dreadcore studios in White Lake, Michigan working again with Joshua Wickman, who produced their sophamore album Invade at Dreadcore in 2011.
They published a studio update video to their YouTube channel on May 8, 2012, chronicling their progress. The band would post a follow-up video on June 22, 2012.
In an interview with music news website MindEqualsBlown in 2013, Cocchi spoke about the benefits of returning to a familiar studio and working with a familiar producer:
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