Centralia (album)

Centralia is the debut studio album by the American band Car Bomb. This was the band's first full-length release, following a 2004 demo. It is also the band's only release through Relapse Records, which dropped the band four years later in 2011.[1] The album's titles was named after the doomed town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, which was abandoned during an underground mine fire.[2] The track's lyrical content and titles cover various topics - Cielo Drive (also known as 'Bloodbath Orgy') was named after the road on which one of the infamous Manson Family spree-killings were committed (10050 Cielo Drive), H5N1 is the medical abbreviation for the then-recent outbreak strain of Bird Flu, while 'M^6' covers neglect of a mother.

Centralia
Studio album by Car Bomb
Released	February 6, 2007
Recorded	2006
Genre	Mathcore
Length	31:54
Label	Relapse
Car Bomb chronology
Centralia (2007) w^w^^w^w (2012)

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Critics praise the album's complex and ferocious rhythms. Keith Bergman, writing for Blabbermouth.net, argues in a highly positive 8/10 review that the album is "a lurching start-stop mélange of tempos that switch back and forth fast enough to give you whiplash, even more brutal for its lack of cohesion and unsettling, jittery rhythmic convulsions."[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Pieces of You"	2:58
2.	"Gum Under the Table"	3:27
3.	"Rid"	0:27
4.	"Cellophane Stiletto"	2:53
5.	"Best Intentions"	4:26
6.	"M^6"	2:15
7.	"His Eyes"	4:18
8.	"Hypnotic Worm"	3:19
9.	"Cielo Drive"	2:27
10.	"Solid Grey"	2:12
11.	"H5N1"	3:14

Japanese release included the song 'Bra-c-ket'.

Personnel

• Michael Dafferner – lead vocals
• Elliot Hoffman – drums
• Greg Kubacki – guitar
• Jon Modell – bass

References

1. Moore, Doug. "Review: Car Bomb – w^w^^w^w". Invisible Oranges. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
2. Website covering the history of Centralia, PA.
3. Bergman, Keith. "CD Reviews – Centralia Car Bomb". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved 8 December 2016.

• Car Bomb at Allmusic