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The Mourning After by 40 Below Summer
The Mourning After is an album by 40 Below Summer, released in 2003. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Breathless”, on 1 list with a best position of #99.
The Mourning After, the third album from New Jersey nu metallers 40 Below Summer, dropped on October 28, 2003 through Razor & Tie, with David Bendeth behind the board. It's the sound of a band that knows exactly which buttons to push: detuned riffs that chug like idling trucks, vocals lurching from murmur to bellow, and choruses built big enough to fill a mid-size club and then some.
"Self Medicate" did the heavy lifting. Its video, with the band tearing through the song in a city park while the locals sneak off to feed their private vices, got real airplay and ranked 18th when MTV2 ran a fan vote on the year's best metal clips; the song also made the soundtrack of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and the band turned up on Headbangers Ball to push the record. "Taxi Cab Confession" followed as the second single. One oddity: the disc shipped with MediaMax copy protection baked in.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Mourning After on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Breathless | 1 | #99 | – | 2004 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.