Name: The Taking
Brand: Universal Music Distribution
SKU: 18118985
Price: 2.13 USD
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The Taking

Rating

Album: The Taking
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Lords of Abbadon
2)	Executioner's Song
3)	Dead Skin
4)	We Win
5)	Easier Lying
6)	She's an Anchor
7)	Indian Summer
8)	Wrecking Ball
9)	King of the World
10)	Cocaine
11)	Your Name
12)	Follow Me to Hell

Album: The Taking
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Lords of Abbadon
2)	Executioner's Song
3)	Dead Skin
4)	We Win
5)	Easier Lying
6)	She's an Anchor
7)	Indian Summer
8)	Wrecking Ball
9)	King of the World
10)	Cocaine
11)	Your Name
12)	Follow Me to Hell

Performer Notes

Personnel: Duff McKagan (vocals, guitar); Mike Squires (guitar); Isaac Carpenter (drums).
Audio Mixer: Terry Date.
Recording information: Studio X, Seattle, WA.
Photographer: Lance Mercer.
As if to preemptively counteract the argument that his Playboy financial advice column has made him soft, Duff McKagan turns in his hardest record in recent memory with The Taking. Taking full advantage of Pantera/Slipknot producer Terry Date, The Taking rumbles with a bone-rattling low end, its guitars and bass hitting with an underhanded force. It's visceral enough to excuse the under-formed songs and the vague feeling that this is the work of dyed-in-the-wool rockers railing against the dying of the light. Despite this lingering scent of stale nicotine, alcohol, and leather, The Taking does make a brute impression, McKagan's Loaded playing with a vitality that almost compensates for how they fetishize the past. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Professional Reviews

Kerrang (Magazine) (p.51) - "Duff's music sounds more settled on this third album, the songs leaping out of the speakers and the band sounding more like a unit with a cohesive game plan."