Recipe for Hate
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| Studio album by Bad Religion | ||||
| Released | June 4, 1993 | |||
| Recorded | 1993 | |||
| Studio | Westbeach Recorders, Hollywood, California | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| Length | 37:33 | |||
| Label | Epitaph | |||
| Producer | Bad Religion | |||
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Recipe for Hate is Bad Religion's seventh studio album, released on June 4, 1993. This was their last album on Epitaph Records for nine years (until 2002's The Process of Belief) and the band had switched to Atlantic Records before its release.
While the album was reissued on a major label, Recipe for Hate initially received mixed reviews from music critics, who generally found it to be less impressive than Bad Religion's past releases. Recipe for Hate was also the first Bad Religion album to chart in the U.S., debuting at #14 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart, with "American Jesus" and "Struck a Nerve" in particular becoming major rock radio hits. The album also contains significant songs like, "Recipe For Hate" and "Skyscraper", which are both fan favorites and are staples of their live show today. "Recipe for Hate" is a song that Bad Religion often opens their set with.
The album cover features an image of two dog-faced humans. It is an original photo-collage - using the bodies of 1930's southern racists mocking the press after their acquittal by an all white male jury for murder, and 1944 Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp guard dog heads. This is a metaphor for how far hate can spread. Hate by simple conversation that escalates - soon becoming the norm in culture ( Artist ). The artwork was designed by Fred Hidalgo (known for drawing the cover for The Offspring's highly acclaimed 1994 album Smash, which was also released on Epitaph). Recipe for Hate was the first Bad Religion album since 1988's Suffer to display the Friz Quadrata font on the cover; the band would use this font again on their subsequent albums (except for The Process of Belief and The Empire Strikes First).
The album finds Bad Religion continuing the experimentation of its predecessor, Generator, introducing elements of country and folk on songs like "Man With a Mission", and "Struck a Nerve", the latter of which includes a guest vocal by Johnette Napolitano (of Concrete Blonde). "Man With a Mission" featured a slide guitar part over a standard punk guitar "gallop".
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