Felony (album)

Felony is the third studio album by American metalcore group Emmure under the Victory Records label. It was released on August 18, 2009. The album debuted at #60 on the Billboard Top 200 selling roughly 8,000 copies in its first week. Felony is also the first album to feature new members Mike Mulholland on guitar and Mike Kaabe on drums, replacing founding members Ben and Joe Lionetti, respectively.

Felony
Studio album by Emmure
Released	August 18, 2009 (2009-08-18)
Genre	Nu metal, metalcore[1]
Length	31:37
Label	Victory
Producer	Antoine Lussier, Bryan Goldsman
Emmure chronology
The Respect Issue (2008) Felony (2009) Speaker of the Dead (2011)
Singles from Felony
"I Thought You Met Telly and Turned Me into Casper" Released: 2009

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
AbsolutePunk	19%[3]
Way Too Loud!	[4]

Inspiration and musical style

Inspiration

The album is allegedly inspired by a real event in which vocalist Frankie Palmeri assaulted his best friend by "[hitting] him in the head with a bottle", which resulted in Palmeri being arrested.[5] The lyrics for the album's title track also references this anecdote.

Style

Felony is the first album by Emmure to draw on more of a nu metal influence than their previous albums, evident of more frequent rapped vocals. The band, however, returned to more of their previous sound with the release of Speaker of the Dead, while still keeping elements of nu metal. AllMusic stated "...their streamlined brand of East Coast hardcore, death metal, and punk is as reliable as it is predictable."[2]

Several songs on the album also reference several other popular culture media. Examples include the song title "I <3 EC2" (which is a reference to the film Planet Terror). The song "The Philosophy of Time Travel" is the title to a fictional book from the film, Donnie Darko. The guitar riffs also sound similar to the melody of the song of the same title on the Donnie Darko score and the lyrics of the song also reference the movie heavily.

The song "R2deepthroat" contains a verse of lyrics found in the 1995 hip hop song "Shook Ones (Part II)" by Mobb Deep, which was done as an homage to New York hip hop.

The title of the second track, "I Thought You Met Telly and Turned Me Into Casper," is a reference to two characters from the 1995 film Kids (film); Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) and his friend Casper (Justin Pierce).

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Sunday Bacon"	2:37
2.	"I Thought You Met Telly and Turned Me into Casper"	2:53
3.	"I <3 EC2"	2:45
4.	"Felony"	2:47
5.	"You Sunk My Battleship"	3:09
6.	"The Philosophy of Time Travel"	2:36
7.	"First Impressions"	2:18
8.	"R2deepthroat"	2:17
9.	"Bars in Astoria"	3:28
10.	"A Lesson from Nichole"	2:26
11.	"Don't Be One"	2:55
12.	"Immaculate Misconception"	1:26
Total length:		31:37

Personnel

Emmure

• Frankie Palmeri - vocals
• Jesse Ketive - lead guitar
• Mike Mulholland - lead guitar
• Mark Davis - bass guitar
• Michael Kaabe - drums

Production

• Produced by Bryan Goldsman and Antoine Lussier
• Engineered by Yanick Desgroseilliers and Antoine Lussier
• Mixed by Antoine Lussier
• Mastered by Pierre Rémillard
• Photography by Jeremy Saffer

References

1. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2017/02/16/stepping-stone-emmure-felony/
2. "Felony Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
3. "Felony Review". AbsolutePunk. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
4. "Felony Review". Way Too Loud!. Archived from the original on 2013-02-05.
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-04-27. Retrieved 2018-04-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)