The Betrayed (Lostprophets album)
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| Studio album by Lostprophets | ||||
| Released | 13 January 2010 | |||
| Recorded | November 2008–May 2009 at Sunset Sound, Kingsize Soundlabs, The Cockpit and Stuart Richardson's home, Los Angeles | |||
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| Length | 47:01 | |||
| Label | Visible Noise | |||
| Producer | Stuart Richardson, Justin Hopfer | |||
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The Betrayed is the fourth studio album by Lostprophets, released through Visible Noise and Sony Music on 13 January 2010. Although the band initially wished to record a quick follow-up to 2006's Liberation Transmission, problems with labels and producers led to numerous delays. Consequently, tracks from the album were performed live as early as 2007, but recording was not completed until July 2009, following an entire album's worth of material being scrapped by the band.
The singles include: "It's Not the End of the World, But I Can See It from Here", "Where We Belong" and "For He's a Jolly Good Felon". "A Better Nothing" was set to be the fourth single, but it was cancelled due to the poor charting of "For He's a Jolly Good Felon". Although drummer Ilan Rubin left the band before the album's release, his drum tracks were still kept on the finalized product.
Having started writing new tracks between tour dates in 2006 and 2007, Lostprophets debuted several new songs live in 2007, including "Next Stop Atro City", "The Dead", "Weapon" and "For He's a Jolly Good Felon". The band recorded demo tracks in then-drummer Ilan Rubin's garage in San Diego, and album sessions with producer John Feldmann in Foxy Studios, Bel Air in July. A demo of "Weapon" was played on BBC Radio 1's Rock Show in August 2007, and subsequently revealed by the band to have been rejected from the album. However, a different version of this track was later released as a hidden track on the band's fifth studio album, Weapons. In January 2008, Kerrang! magazine revealed six new song titles, including one ("Save Yourself"), which later appeared as a bonus track on Weapons, and four ("Credible vs Incredible", "The Mourning Reign", "What Seems to Be the Problem Officer?" and "She's with the Banned") that have not been mentioned since.
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