Sadness Will Prevail
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| Studio album by Today Is the Day | ||||
| Released | September 3, 2002 | |||
| Recorded | December 1, 1999–April 26, 2002 | |||
| Studio | Austin Enterprise, Nashville, TN Mastering, Clinton, MA |
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| Genre | Noise rock, avant-garde metal | |||
| Length | 144:46 | |||
| Label | Relapse | |||
| Producer | Steve Austin | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    |
| Apeshit | Very Positive |
| Blistering | Very Negative |
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| Chronicles of Chaos |  |
| Maelstrom Zine | Positive |
Sadness Will Prevail is the sixth album by Today Is the Day, released on September 3, 2002 through Relapse Records. Being a double album that clocks over two hours and nearly twenty-five minutes in length, it is currently the longest album of the band's career.
The album took three years to write and six months to record, mix, and master all at Steve Austin's self run studio Austin Enterprise. Reoccurring themes of the album include isolation, depression, death, suicide, and violence. The album, for the most part, was inspired by a period of time when Austin was stuck in his home due to a severe snow storm with his family. Another big inspiration for the album was the rise of technology and the internet, which according to Austin, influenced his decision to stop using his phone to instead use E-Mail to communicate with other people.
According to Austin, the biggest inspiration for him to do a two-hour double disc album was in attempt to progress from the "really fast and stripped down" In the Eyes of God. Each track on the album was intentionally mixed so that there was a continuous flow between one track to the next, this was done in attempt to give the album a tone similar to that of a movie soundtrack. The artwork for the album, a grainy black-and-white photograph of a drug addicted woman sitting in the corner of an empty room, was specifically chosen for the album's cover because it goes along with the album's themes of despair and impending doom.
The audio sample from "Christianized Magick" was taken from the 2000 film Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, a documentary about the West Memphis Three.
Upon its initial release in 2002, Sadness Will Prevail was received mixed critical reception. William York, of allmusic, gave the record two and a half stars out of five, questioning the album's low-end lacking mixing and critiquing what he refers to as "the abundance of filler on [the] two discs". Xander Hoose of Chronicles of Chaos gave the album six and a half stars out of a possible ten, stating that Austin's performance on the album is "far below his capabilities" and criticizing his vocals and production work on the album. R. Temin of Blistering.com gave the album a thumbs down for its vocals, long runtime, and packaging, referring to it as "pretentious crap".
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