State Of The World Address

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State of the World Address is the third studio album by American band Biohazard, released on May 24, 1994, by Warner Bro. Record. Sen Dog has a guest performance on the song "How It I." Until 2012's Reborn in Defiance, this would be the final album to feature guitarist Bobby Hambel, who would leave the band after touring due to musical difference. The album was sold in over one million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums in their career. "Lack There Of" contains audio samples taken from the Quentin Tarantino film Reservoir Dog. Marketing: Billboard magazine detailed a long-term marketing strategy developed and executed by Warner Bro. for Biohazard's breakout from the underground into mainstream culture, as marked by the highly anticipated State of the World Addre. The magazine quoted the great exuberance expressed by several retail outlet representatives and by the Warner Bro. label about the band as a new "legitimate commercial force." The label included its alternative marketing department in deploying many "low-key" tactics of marketing directly to retail stores without the "perception of hype" to raise the industry's general awareness of the band's existence and message. The label created a censored version of the album for radio station, and an electronic press kit detailing the music's social issues was distributed to retailer. A 1980 Chevy Malibu emblazoned with the Biohazard logo was driven around Southern California, with label representatives passing out materials to cross-market the band with various social justice organization. The band appeared on Beavis and Butt-Head, and the album's development was detailed for three weeks on MTV's Headbangers Ball. There were two contests to discover fans who bore the best Biohazard tattoo. The album was marketed to alternative radio stations in addition to metal station. Critical reception: Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B+, saying that with this album, the band is "redefining metal not only by writing what amounts to modern-day protest songs but also by creating thrash that grooves rather than lumbers" and concluding that "metal rarely gets as fierce or as forward-thinking as it does here." In 2016, Metal Hammer placed the album on its list of the top 10 rap metal album. The review says the album "brought tough street-metal grit to bear upon flagrant boom-bap groove," summarizing with this: "Rap-metal by default rather than design, it was a natural and neat fit for a band that deserves more credit for their pioneering nou." Sales: .

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