Beat the Devil's Tattoo

Beat the Devil's Tattoo is the sixth studio album by American rock band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, released on March 8, 2010 in Europe and on March 9, 2010 in North America. It is the second full-length on the band's own Abstract Dragon label, in partnership with Vagrant Records and Cooperative Music Group.[13]

Beat the Devil's Tattoo
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 5, 2010 (2010-03-05)
RecordedMarch – November 2009
StudioThe Basement (Philadelphia, PA)
Genre
Length65:08
Label
Producer
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club chronology
The Effects of 333
(2008)
Beat the Devil's Tattoo
(2010)
Specter at the Feast
(2013)
Singles from Beat the Devil's Tattoo
  1. "Beat the Devil's Tattoo"
    Released: February 28, 2010[1]
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic63/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
Drowned in Sound(8/10)[4]
FILTER85/100[5]
NME(4.0/10)[6]
NOW[7]
Pitchfork(4.0/10)[8]
Rolling Stone[9]
Slant Magazine[10]
Spin[11]
The Times[12]

Track listing

All songs written by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

No.TitleLength
1."Beat the Devil's Tattoo"3:47
2."Conscience Killer"3:47
3."Bad Blood"5:11
4."War Machine"3:59
5."Sweet Feeling"3:27
6."Evol"5:53
7."Mama Taught Me Better"4:46
8."River Styx"3:55
9."The Toll"3:38
10."Aya"5:39
11."Shadow's Keeper"6:12
12."Long Way Down"4:34
13."Half-State"10:20

Personnel

[14]

Chart performance

Chart Peak Position
Billboard 200 58
US Alternative Albums 9
US Independent Albums 4
US Rock Albums 14
UK Chart 58

Conscience Killer appears in Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.

The title track was featured prominently in the fourth season episode Chuck Versus the Cubic Z of the TV show Chuck and in Need for Speed: The Run. Also in the TV show Human Target episode "A Problem Like Maria", and the 2018 video game Far Cry 5. The song was also featured in the original trailer for the TV show Longmire.

Mama Taught Me Better was used in the soundtrack for the video game NASCAR 2011: The Game and NHL 11.

The title track was used by writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait in his 2011 dark comedy film God Bless America. It has also been used in the 2012 film End of Watch and in Where the Trail Ends and "River Styx" was used in the UK TV Series Peaky Blinders (Series Two, Episode Six and Series Four, Episode Four).

"River Styx" was included on the 2014 basketball game, NBA 2K15.

The title track was also used in the "Pathfinders" trailer for the 2017 strategy video game Endless Space 2.

The title track was used in the fourth episode of the third season of the American TV Show Preacher which is aired on AMC.

The title track was used by director Neil Marshall in his 2019 Reboot (fiction) film Hellboy (2019 film).

The title track was used in the War in the Pacific Official Trailer for the video game Battlefield V.

References

  1. "Beat the Devil's Tattoo | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club". Qobuz. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
  2. "Reviews and Tracks for Beat The Devil's Tattoo by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club". Metacritic. 2010-03-09. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
  3. Collar, Matt. Beat The Devil's Tattoo at AllMusic. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
  4. Gourlay, Dom (March 1, 2010). "Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Beat The Devil's Tattoo". Drowned in Sound.
  5. "Reviews - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club". FILTER Magazine. 2010-03-05. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
  6. MacBain, Hamish (March 12, 2010). "Album Review: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - 'Beat The Devil's Tattoo'". NME.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-03-26. Retrieved 2014-12-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. Hogan, Marc (March 10, 2010). "Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Beat The Devil's Tattoo". Pitchfork Media.
  9. Rosen, Jody (March 8, 2010). "Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Beat The Devil's Tattoo". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2010-04-10.
  10. Liedel, Kevin (March 7, 2010). "Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Beat The Devil's Tattoo". Slant Magazine.
  11. Marchese, David. "Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: 'Beat The Devil's Tattoo'". Retrieved August 31, 2011.
  12. Burgess, Kaya (March 6, 2010). "Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Beat The Devil's Tattoo". The Times. London.
  13. Album Release and Tour Dates Announced Archived December 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  14. Beat The Devil's Tattoo at Discogs
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