Initiation

Course Of Empire | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 18, 1994)
• Label: Volcano
• ASIN: B000008EN2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #745,311 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars extra tracks, July 6, 2007

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Yann Kerevel - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Initiation (Audio CD)

I used to listen to this when I was high school back when it came out. It is a great album, but I just recently purchased it again because now I can finally here the extra track I was never able to listen to back in the 90s.
For those that don't know, there is a hidden track before track 1 called running man, you just hit rewind on your cd player. The second track is much more difficult to access. It is after the song Initiation. When the song ends, there is a long passage of feedback. If you have a stereo that can play mono, then just listen to this section in mono and there is a track called the gate/tomorrow, inbetween initiation and the chihuahuaphile. Otherwise (and this is what I did), download this free software called audacity, record the song from your stereo to your computer, or just import the track into Audacity, then split the stereo track, convert each channel to mono, and reexport the track as an mp3. There are some better guidelines if you do a google search for converting stereo to mono. Both of these extra tracks are much quieter and have an haunting feel to them compared to the rest of the album. Also, the version I recently purchased also contained the remixed swing version of Infested as yet another hidden track. I guess there are versions with and without this track, but all in all, this band was (and probably still is) the most creative with the CD format.

5.0 out of 5 stars CoE #1!!!!!!!!!, April 18, 2011

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versteckt - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Initiation (Audio CD)

Even though CoE music is all free now, I bought this out of love. What a great album from an amazing group of performers and musicians that should get more exposure than they do.

5.0 out of 5 stars CoE - this is their best album, August 13, 2008

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G. Bigler (So Cal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Initiation (Audio CD)

OK, well that's just my opinion. I somehow manage to enjoy every track. There are, of course a few that I enjoy more than others - try INFESTED or CHIUAUAPHILE for starters... This is great industrial rock with hard edge guitars, good lyrics and two drummers. Too bad they're gone now.