Superstarved
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| Studio album by Gravity Kills | ||||
| Released | United States March 19, 2002 England April 15, 2002 Japan April 10, 2002 |
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| Recorded | June 1999 - October 16, 2001 at The Mattress Factory and ASI Chicago, Mr. Blood, St Louis | |||
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Alternative Rock Industrial Rock |
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| Length | USA 46:20 UK 46:38 |
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| Label | USA Sanctuary Records UK Mayan / Sanctuary Records Japan Victor Entertainment |
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| Producer | Martin Atkins, Gravity Kills | |||
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| Singles from Perversion | ||||
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Superstarved (stylized as superstarved★ or superstarved*) is the third studio album by Gravity Kills, released March 19, 2002. The album is described as "more riff-oriented" and "grindier".
The band signed into a major record label Sanctuary Records at New York in March 2000 before the release. According to guitarist Matt Dudenhoeffer, approximately 30 songs were written for the album, which 12 were about likely make it to the finished album. Eclipse, Shake, Photograph, Monsters & Astronauts, Naked, and Hollow were going to be in the album, but weren't actually included. Jason Slater was going to be producing the album but later didn't, and the band originally recorded the cover version of Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus in 1999, then released it in 2002.
Love, Sex, and Money was the last song written for the album. Then everyone in the studio left for the weekend and when they came back.
The video for the song was shot Seattle, San Francisco and Chicago with live footages of band performing in the Superstarved Tour and was directed by Mikki & Malory.
Jeff Scheel says that the song was his first experiment from switching from Digital Performer to Logic Audio. It was described by a reviewer as "a angst ridden 'love song' in the loosest sense." .
This is the most emotional song on the album, Jeff Scheel describes it as lonely, emotional and desperate.
On August 18, 2011, Jeff uploaded his piano cover of the 'Beg and Borrow' on SoundCloud and it is a free download, this is the first time in nine years since he had created a studio song and a studio cover.
The star has a connection with the album's name 'superstarved' which designer Craig Wagner created for Gravity Kills's album. The word superstarved is the meaning of starvation which usually refers to the health condition of extreme malnutrition. They got the name 'Superstarved' from a comment on what the band went through changing record labels in between the 2nd and 3rd album.
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