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The album was available to stream for free via Pitchfork Advance until 27th February 2013.==Release==''[[An Omen EPRob Sheridan]]'', released November 2012, served as a precursor to describes the album, with four of its six tracks featuring on ''Welcome Oblivion'', three s concept as "anxiety of which had information overload as humanity and technology converge and presenting technological singularity and post-humanism as both a music videoterrifying and transformative moment for mankind and nature."
On February 19thTracks 2, HTDA made "5, 6 and 12 previously appeared on ''[[And The Sky Began To ScreamAn Omen EP]]" available for free via text service Maebe, the first song to be released on the service''.
[[wikiThere are two unique tracks on the vinyl format:Kevin Martin (British musician)|"The Bug]] was originally to appear on the album, providing Province Of Fear" and "Unintended Consequences". The vinyl release also includes a musical hook for one of CD within the tracks (which one is unknown). However, as [[Mariqueen Maandig]] "couldn't get happy with her voice on it"[sic]sleeve, containing the hook was ultimately scrapped. The Bug has stated he'll use it in his own music in vinyl sequencing of the future.[https://twitteralbum.com/thebugzoo/status/303918496440537088]
Like ===Digital===Whilst the digital version of the album is officially listed as the same as the CD version, some download sites have listed it with the band's [[How To Destroy Angels (album)|first EP, the CD and vinyl versions of the album will have different artwork]] included as "bonus tracks".
CD/Digital:#"[[The Wake-Up]]"#"[[Keep It Together]]"#On February 19th, HTDA made "[[And The Sky Began To Scream]]"#"[[Welcome Oblivion (available for free via text service Maebe, the first song)|Welcome Oblivion]]"#"[[Ice Age]]"#"[[On to be released on the service. The Wing]]"#"[[Too Latefull CD/Digital version of the album was made available to stream in its entirety for free via Pitchfork on February 20th, and on the same day the band released pre-orders through their own website, All Gone]]"#"[[How Long?]]"#"[[Strings And Attractors]]"#"[[We Fade Away]]"#"[[Recursive Selfand some new t-Improvement]]"#"[[The Loop Closes]]"#"[[Hallowed Ground]]"shirt designs linked to the album's artwork.
Vinyl[[wiki:#"Kevin Martin (British musician)|The Wake-Up"#"Keep It Together"#"And The Sky Began To Scream"#"Ice Age"#"Welcome Oblivion" #"On The Wing"#"Too LateBug]] was originally to appear on the album, providing a musical hook for one of the tracks (which one is unknown). However, All Gone"#"as [[The Province Of FearMariqueen Maandig]]"#"How Long?"#"Strings And Attractors"#"Recursive Self-Improvement" #couldn't get happy with her voice on it"[sic], the hook was ultimately scrapped. The Bug has stated he'll use it in his own music in the future.[Unintended Consequenceshttps://twitter.com/thebugzoo/status/303918496440537088]]"#"We Fade Away"#"The Loop Closes"#"Hallowed Ground"
===Digital===Whilst Like the digital version band's first EP, the CD and vinyl versions of the album is officially listed as have different artwork. Due to a printing issue, the same as vinyl edition of the CD version, some download sites have listed it with album was delayed until the band's eponymous EP included as "bonus tracks"19th of March.
[[Mariqueen Maandig]]<br>[[Trent Reznor]]<br>[[Atticus Ross]]<br>[[Rob Sheridan]]
==External Links==*[http[Category:How To Destroy Angels]][[Category://store.destroyangels.com/ The band's store, with album packagesRelated to NIN]]
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[[Image:Welcomeoblivioncd.jpg|thumb|CD album art''Welcome Oblivion''<br>[http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb%5Fsb%5Fnoss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dhow%2520to%2520destroy%2520angels%2520welcome%2520oblivion%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&tag=thniinnawi-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 Find on Amazon] - [http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=9&pub=5574848848&toolid=10001&campid=5336384580&customid=&icep_uq=how+to+destroy+angels+welcome+oblivion&icep_sellerId=&icep_ex_kw=&icep_sortBy=12&icep_catId=&icep_minPrice=&icep_maxPrice=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg Find on eBay]]][[Image:welcomeoblivion.jpg|thumb|Vinyl album artartwork]]'''''Welcome Oblivion''''' is an upcoming album release by [[How To Destroy Angels]]. It will be is the band's first full-length release and their third release in all. It is to be was released by [[Columbia Records ]] on March 5th, 2013. It is labeled as [[Sigil numbers|Sigil 4]]. The vinyl release of the album comes with two bonus tracks. When downloaded from HTDA's official store, the tracks each come with their own artwork, a variation of the head from the album's art.
==Tracklisting=====CD===#"[[The album was announced alongside the video release for Wake-Up]]" - 1:44#"[[Keep It Together]]" - 4:26#"[[And The Loop ClosesSky Began To Scream]]," one of four tracks to be featured on both this album and ''An Omen EP''. The first single to be released from the album - 3:57#"[[Welcome Oblivion (that was not already on ''An Omen''song) was |Welcome Oblivion]]" - 3:47#"[[Ice Age]]" - 6:52#"[[On The Wing]]" - 4:52 #"[[Too Late, All Gone]]" - 6:14#"[[How Long?]]" on January 31st, accompanied by its music video and an announcement of the tracklisting and the vinyl's album art.- 3:53#"[[Strings And Attractors]]" - 4:28#"[[We Fade Away]]" - 6:41#"[[Recursive Self-Improvement]]" - 6:27#"[[The Loop Closes]]" - 4:50#"[[Hallowed Ground]]" - 7:19
===Vinyl===A1 "The full CD/Digital version of the album was made available to stream in its entirety for free via Pitchfork on February 20thWake-Up" - 1:43<br>A2 "Keep It Together" - 4:27<br>A3 "And The Sky Began To Scream" - 3:57<br>A4 "Ice Age" - 6:52<br>B1 "Welcome Oblivion" - 3:47<br>B2 "On The Wing" - 4:52<br>B3 "Too Late, and on the same day the band released preAll Gone" - 6:15<br>B4 "[[The Province Of Fear]]" - 4:13<br>C1 "How Long?" - 3:54<br>C2 "Strings And Attractors" - 4:28<br>C3 "Recursive Self-Improvement" - 6:28<br>C4 "[[Unintended Consequences]]" -orders through their own website, and some new t5:18<br>D1 "We Fade Away" - 6:41<br>D2 "The Loop Closes" - 4:50<br>D3 "Hallowed Ground" -shirt designs linked to the album's artwork.7:17
==TracklistingRelease==The vinyl release of ''An Omen EP'', released November 2012, served as a precursor to the album comes , with two bonus four of its six tracksfeaturing on ''Welcome Oblivion'', three of which had a music video. The album was announced alongside the video release for "The Province Of FearLoop Closes," one of four tracks to be featured on both this album and ''An Omen EP''. The first single to be released from the album (that was not already on ''An Omen EP'') was "Unintended ConsequencesHow Long?"on January 31st, plus accompanied by its music video and an announcement of the CD of tracklisting and the vinyl version 's album within the sleeveart.
==Credits==
Written, arranged, programmed, performed, <br>produced and packaged by How to destroy angels_
Mixed by [[Alan Moulder]]<br>Mastered by Tom Baker at precision mastering, Hollywood, CA<br>Recorded by Blumpy with additional engineering by Dustin Mosley and Jun Murakawa
Thank you:<br>Mark Williams, Scott Greer, Erika Alfredson, Rob Stringer, Ashley Newton, Bryan younce and the rest of the Columbia team, Christina Lum, Selene Yen, Irina Volodarsky, Karen Ciccone, Ross Rosen, Claudia Sarne, Tamar Levine, Tara Dowburd-Luftman, Iowa Wong, David A. Sitek, Factory Floor, The Soft Moon, Deadmau5, Claudia Lagan, Angela Sidlow, John Hillcoat, Jonathan Pavesi, everyone at Skunk, Elise Velasco, Johnny Stuntz, Andreas and everyone at NI, Olaf and everyone at Ableton, Mitch and everyone at Soundtoys, everyone at Shynola, Matt Mahurin, Elena Dickstein and preferred travel, Rockit Cargo, Nicki Goldstein and Midway
==Tour datesArt direction==The art of the album was conceived by the entire HTDA's group, and was primarily executed by Rob Sheridan. He used a technique of creating art, placing the image onto VHS tapes and then photographing distortion through a CRT monitor as shown [http://robsheridan.tumblr.com/post/44483580368/making-some-htda-visuals here]. In a Reddit AMA, Sheridan gave the following explanation of the ideas that went into the artwork:<blockquote>"The visual direction of this album came about first live shows are from the concept of the record. Trying to be played at Coachella 2013express the anxiety of information overload, the end of mankind as both terrifying and transformative, apocalypse and evolution, etc. I was inspired by the way Trent and Atticus set up rules for themselves around the way they record music for each project, and the analog methods they will were experimenting with for this record that tied into its themes. So I started looking for a visual analogy for that, and also have a visual analogy for information overloading the pipeline it's being sent through - of signals unable to display coherently. It led me down the road of experimenting with analog cables and old CRT monitors and VHS decks. The result was a set of rules I came up with for creating the visuals. As much of a pain in the ass the process is sometimes, it's strangely freeing to work within constraints. Not only does it force a rigid visual consistency, it takes Photoshop out of the equation entirely (the CRT texture makes the images largely uneditable in post, besides color corrections). Sometimes there's something extremely daunting about a blank document in Photoshop, because you can go absolutely ANYWHERE with it. Setting up some limitations has proved really useful."[http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/19q0r9/we_are_how_to_destroy_angels_mariqueen_maandig/]</blockquote> ==Touring==''For more information, see [[How To Destroy Angels Live 2013| 2013]]'' HTDA's first live shows were played in the spring of 2013 as a short North American tourto promote ''Welcome Oblivion''. The shows featured innovative production using light curtains made of LED-filled tubing, with dazzling visuals controlled from the stage by Rob Sheridan. ==External Links==*[http://howtodestroyangels.com/home.html How To Destroy Angels homepage]*[http://howtodestroyangels.com/store/ How To Destroy Angels store] *[http://nincatalog.com/how-to promote -destroy-angels/ How To Destroy Angels category at nincatalog.com]*[http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb%5Fsb%5Fnoss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dhow%2520to%2520destroy%2520angels%2520welcome%2520oblivion%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&tag=thniinnawi-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 ''Welcome Oblivion'' afterwardsat Amazon] *[http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=9&pub=5574848848&toolid=10001&campid=5336384580&customid=&icep_uq=how+to+destroy+angels+welcome+oblivion&icep_sellerId=&icep_ex_kw=&icep_sortBy=12&icep_catId=&icep_minPrice=&icep_maxPrice=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg ''Welcome Oblivion'' at eBay]
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