Inner Failures



 Inner Failures is the third album by the POM band Musical Degeneracy, released in April 2014, through x76 Records. This album marked a change in the band's sound, being way darker that their previous albums, and with more Alternative Rock influence.

Background and recording
The band took a little break from writing music after they finished their second album Part ¡Dos!. Some weeks later they made the song "Maximum Vacuum", but they were focused on a covers EP (that was finally cancelled). But in late 2013, they retook the making of the third album and started to record, until they finally finished it in March 2014.

Release
Due to the death of Metal Militia Records (the band's former label), the band had to change the label. They chose the emergent label x76 Records. The label released the album on April 9th, 2014. Between this album and the previously (Part ¡Dos!) it was a time span of 8 months, that is by now their longest time span between albums.

Commercial Performance
The album downloads were successful for the band, having around 10 downloads just in it's first week. By August 2014, the album had 16 downloads. The song "Miserable Statue" was a radio single, with moderate success. The song "Mental Vivisection" is by now their song with most rates (6 rates) in POM.net.

The band also played in X76 Bleach Festival to promote the album, playing "Endless Despair"

Critical Reception
The album met with very favorable reviews from Powerstars and Hazaman (from Monocle Reviews).

Powerstars gave the album a 90/100, qualifying the album as "another fine album from a very fine group", and naming "Miserable Statue", "Mental Vivisection" and "Don't Display" as highlights.

Hazaman gave the album 8.75/10 and said: "Musical Degeneracy have done a fantastic job on this release, and this is certainly an eight months paid off. Kudos to the band. I’d recommend some of the later songs of this album to those who are new to Musical Degeneracy, mainly due to how well they sum up the style of music. Superb work, with length of songs being the only issue I find; the most Punk non-Punk album I’ve checked out in my time."

Some songs entered on contests like "Reviewer's Worst Nightmare: The Nightmare Reloaded" and "The Monthly Song Contest", with satisfactory results.

Personnel
-Juan José González: Bass

-Mr. Greg: Guitar

-Billie Talent: Guitar

-Tre Angelripper: Drums