Tormented

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Tormented is Staind's debut studio album, released on November 29th, 1996. Tormented was the band's first studio record and was rarely sold in stores. Originally, there were only 4,000 CD copies and 400 cassette tapes, making it hard to find. The album contains the original version of the song "Mudshovel", which at the time, it was called "Mudshuvel", later propelling Staind into mainstream rock success in the year 1999. All of the songs on the album deal with pain, sorrow, animosity, hate, anger, and depression, with a gun being loaded and cocked at the beginning and fired at the end along with the hidden track "The Funeral", making revolve around a depressed, hateful and tortured individual who later commits suicide. The album is well-known for it's uncanny and grotesque art, depicting a bloody crucifix, a buried person with a rosary protruding through their nose, a knife impelling a bible with.357 bullets surrounding it, and a note that says tormented written in blood. However, this album art almost prevented Staind from getting a record label with Flip Records, as Limp Bizkit's frontman, Fred Durst was initially appalled by the artwork. Although once Durst heard Staind play, he changed his mind.

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