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''Mind Control'' is the fourth album by American post-grunge band Tantric and was released on August 4, 2009. It is the band's second album under Silent Majority Group and was produced by Brett Hestla, marking Tantric's departure from mainstay producer Toby Wright. ''Mind Control'' retains the band's 2008 lineup with the exception of drummer Kevin Miller who was replaced by Richie Monica.〔Ryan. ("Tantric Release New Album ''Mind Control''" ). ''Alternative Addiction''. August 4, 2009.〕 == Background and recording == On March 9, 2009 via MySpace, Tantric announced that they were recording a new album entitled ''Mind Control''. The band's fourth album would be produced by Brett Hestla, former touring bassist for Creed, and initially given a July 21 release date. Singer Hugo Ferreira noted that ''Mind Control'' was more collaborative than previous releases and called it "really, really heavy for Tantric, twice as heavy as the last record at least."〔Kerr, Lori (Tantric: Interview with Hugo Ferreira ) UnratedMagazine.com (May 5, 2009). Retrieved on 8-24-2009.〕 However, as all Tantric band members live in different cities across the United States, ''Mind Control'' was written piecemeal. The band would send each other compositions via email for others to build on. In an interview with ''The Flint Journal'', Hugo Ferreira discussed the album's production: :"It was all like via e-mail. Basically Joe would send me a guitar riff on the e-mail and I would dump it into my home studio and kind of slice it up and put it together, and maybe add a chorus. It was put together like a puzzle. But with the instrumentation, I think that the guys, in my mind, really stepped up to the plate and gave me a lot of great stuff to work with. I never really wrote a record like this. But, to me, I think it's the best one we've ever done. It was crazy because it was really effortless. It's great." Ferreira also elaborated on performing for the US military in Korea and the meaning behind ''Mind Control'' and its title track: :"This record is a lot darker than anything we have ever done. Basically, I wrote the song about the media kind of controlling people's opinions and thoughts and stuff like that. Just from being on the side of the viewer of me watching television and seeing the news and flying out to Korea and talking with troops out there and getting their take on it and being completely different. That's what the song was about. The song, even musically, and with the video we already shot, it sets up the whole tone of the record. I thought it would be a cool name."〔Fuoco-Karasinski, Christina (Tantric delivers 'Mind Control' at Machine Shop show ) mlive.com (August 13, 2009). Retrieved on 8-24-09.〕 Within a few months of sharing and developing songs separately, the bandmates had written nearly thirty songs. They finally reconvened for one week in a secluded studio in Poconos to perform the songs together and refine them. Bassist Erik Leonhardt explained how the album developed further with the band together: :"We had written the whole record over the computer, so a lot of it changed once we got into the studio. When you have everyone in the same room the ideas start changing. ‘What if we do this? What if we do that?’ We definitely went heavier on this record, too. I think it has a lot to do with having all new members. This is the new band, full on and writing together. We never said ‘let’s write a heavier record,’ this is just what happened."〔(TANTRIC MOVES RELEASE DATE FOR ‘MIND CONTROL’ ALBUM TO AUGUST 4 ) HardRockHideout.com (July 14, 2009). Retrieved on 10-05-09.〕 With ''Mind Control'' having been released merely a year after Tantric's prior album, Ferreira justified the hastiness by explaining "We had the material written. We didn't want to be off the radar. We were off the radar from 2004-2008 and we didn't want people to have to wait for us. It's already not a very loyal business, so if you're not constantly at it you can be easily forgotten."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mind Control (Tantric album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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