Willpower (Today Is the Day album)

Willpower
Studio album by Today Is the Day
Released September 1994 (1994-09)
Recorded 1994
Studio White Room Studios, Detroit, MI
Genre Noise rock, mathcore
Length 29:36
Label Amphetamine Reptile
Producer Steve Austin
Today Is the Day chronology
Supernova
(1993)		 Willpower
(1994)		 Today Is the Day
(1996)

Willpower is the second studio album by the American noise rock band Today Is the Day, released on September 1994 by Amphetamine Reptile Records.[1] The album was recorded just a few months after Steve Austin's father, whom he had not seen for months by this period of time, died in a violent car crash. A remastered edition of the album was issued in 2007 through the then-newly formed SuperNova Records, which included the track "Execution Style", a rare extra from the Willpower sessions that remained previously unreleased up to that point.

A live performance that was recorded during the tour to promote Willpower was released as a DVD via SuperNova, under the title of Willpower Live in 2007.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Punk News[3]
Last RitesPositive[4]

Patrick Kennedy of allmusic awarded the album 4 and a half out of 5 stars, saying, "Though its time signatures are still tricky in a mathematical way, Willpower's greatest strength is its appeal to the human heart through whatever means necessary."[2]

Track listing

All tracks written by Steve Austin. 

No. Title Length
1. "Willpower"   3:34
2. "My First Knife"   2:57
3. "Nothing To Lose"   3:41
4. "Golden Calf"   3:53
5. "Sidewinder"   5:33
6. "Many Happy Returns"   2:33
7. "Simple Touch"   3:30
8. "Promised Land"   3:52
9. "Amazing Grace" (Unlisted Track) 0:50

Personnel

Adapted from the Willpower liner notes.[5]

Today Is the Day
Production and additional personnel

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 1994 Amphetamine Reptile CD, LP AMREP 033
Germany ARR 57/354
United States 2007 SuperNova CD SNR 001
2010 Relapse LP RR 7087

References

  1. ↑ Sprague, David (2007). "Today Is the Day". Trouser Press. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Kennedy, Patrick. "Willpower". Allmusic. Retrieved July 6, 2015.
  3. ↑ Daley, Sloane. "Willpower Review". punknews.org. Punk News. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
  4. ↑ Moore, Doug. "Willpower Review". yourlastrites.com. Last Rites. Retrieved January 2008. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  5. ↑ Willpower (booklet). Today Is the Day. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Amphetamine Reptile Records. 1994.

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