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Call to Arms | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | February 23, 1999 | |||
Recorded | Big House (New York City) | |||
Genre | Heavy hardcore[1] | |||
Length | 32:55 | |||
Label | Fat Wreck Chords[2] | |||
Producer | Sick of It All & John Seymour | |||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
Chronicles of Chaos | 9/10[4] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [5] |
Pitchfork | 9.0/10[6] |
Call to Arms is the fifth full-length studio album from American hardcore punk band Sick of It All.[7] It was the band's first full-length release on Fat Wreck Chords and follows the 1998 EP, Potential for a Fall.
The A.V. Club called the album "packed with all the sturm und drang of its previous releases, bearing the hallmarks of virtually all good hardcore: breakneck speed, heavy guitar riffs, and shouting that would be unintelligible were it not for the lyric sheet."[7] CMJ New Music Report wrote that the songs "come from the gut — anthems in the truest sense, flexing championship muscles that have been pumped up by working class bravado and street punk pride."[8]
All tracks written by Sick of It All.
*at the end of the album, there is a hidden track called "Greezy Wheezy". The band has also played it several times live and the video of it can be seen on the movie Sick of It All: The Story So Far.