The Somatic Defilement

Studio album by Whitechapel

Released

July 31, 2007
April 16, 2013 (reissue)

Recorded

2007 at The Sound Lair in Knoxville, Tennessee

Genre

Deathcore,^[1] death metal

Length

31:59

Label

Candlelight, Metal Blade (reissue)

Producer

Whitechapel, Miah Lajeunesse

Whitechapel chronology

Demo 2
(2006)

The Somatic Defilement
(2007)

This Is Exile
(2008)

Reissue cover

The cover for the 2013 re-release of The Somatic Defilement.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	^[2]
Allmusic	^[1]

The Somatic Defilement is the first album by the American deathcore band Whitechapel. The album was released on July 31, 2007, through Candlelight Records and is their only release through this label before their move to Metal Blade the following year. It is the only album to feature guitarist Brandon Cagle.

Overview

The Somatic Defilement is a concept album based on Jack the Ripper, in which all of the songs are first-person narratives of the slaughter and rape of prostitutes.

The album is the only one by Whitechapel to include Brandon Cagle as guitarist. He later left the band, because the injuries he received from a motorcycle accident left him unable to play his instrument. He was replaced by Zach Householder.^[3] The intro track, "Necrotizing" contains excerpts from a Stone Phillips interview with Jeffrey Dahmer.^[4]

Reissue

A remixed and remastered edition of the album was released on April 16, 2013 through Metal Blade Records.^[5] Re-mixing and re-mastering duties were given to Mark Lewis, whom the band worked with on their self-titled release and their fifth album, Our Endless War.^[6]

Track listing

Tracks
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Necrotizing"	0:35
2.	"The Somatic Defilement"	5:19
3.	"Devirgination Studies"	3:12
4.	"Prostatic Fluid Asphyxiation"	3:33
5.	"Fairy Fay"	3:33
6.	"Ear to Ear"	3:30
7.	"Alone in the Morgue"	2:53
8.	"Festering Fiesta"	2:29
9.	"Vicer Exciser"	2:52
10.	"Articulo Mortis"	4:03
Total length:		31:59

Personnel

Whitechapel

Gabe Crisp – bass guitar
Kevin Lane – drums
Phil Bozeman – vocals
Alex Wade – guitar
Ben Savage – guitar
Brandon Cagle – guitar

Production

Production by Miah Lajeunesse and Whitechapel
Mixing and engineering by Miah Lajeunesse
Mastering by Alan Douches
A&R by Jamie Graham

References

1 2 "Allmusic review". Allmusic. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
↑ "About.com review". About.com. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
↑ www.metalunderground.com Whitechapel part ways with guitarist Brandon Cagle
↑ Jeffrey Dahmer Interview - Extended Footage shown at YouTube.
↑ http://www.metalblade.com/us/news/whitechapel-the-somatic-defilement-re-issue/
↑ http://www.theprp.com/2012/11/13/news/more-details-revealed-for-whitechapels-reissue-of-the-somatic-defilement/

Whitechapel

Phil Bozeman Ben Harclerode Ben Savage Gabe Crisp Zach Householder Alex Wade Brandon Cagle Derek Martin Kevin Lane

Studio albums	The Somatic Defilement (2007) This Is Exile (2008) A New Era of Corruption (2010) Whitechapel (2012) Our Endless War (2014) Mark of the Blade (2016)

EPs	Recorrupted (2011)

Labels	Metal Blade Candlelight Siege of Amida

Related articles	List of tours Warped Tour 2010 The Summer Slaughter Tour 2011 Mayhem Festival 2012

Jack the Ripper in fiction

Seminal works

Letters

Film

Waxworks (1924)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926)
Pandora's Box (1929)
The Lodger (1932)
The Lodger (1944)
Man in the Attic (1953)
Jack the Ripper (1959)
Lulu (1962)
A Study in Terror (1965)
Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
The Ruling Class (1972)
What the Swedish Butler Saw (1975)
Jack the Ripper (1976)
Murder by Decree (1979)
Time After Time (1979)
Jack's Back (1988)
Edge of Sanity (1989)
Deadly Advice (1994)
Ripper (2001)
From Hell (2001)
Bad Karma (2002)
Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
The Lodger (2009)
Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)

Parody

Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

Music

Stage

Earth Spirit (1895 play)
Pandora's Box (1904 play)
Lulu (1937 opera)
The Lodger (1960 opera)
The Ruling Class (1968 play)

Comics

Literature

Sherlock Holmes	The Last Sherlock Holmes Story The Whitechapel Horrors Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography Dust and Shadow The Ripper Legacy

Short stories	"A Toy for Juliette" "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World"

Other	A Feast Unknown Anno Dracula Blood and Fog I, Ripper Matrix A Night in the Lonesome October Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed Time After Time Phantom Blood Night of the Ripper Darkside Lifeblood Lost The Witches of Chiswick Broken Dracula the Un-dead

Series	Jack the Ripper (1973) The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town (1976) Jack the Ripper (1988) Sanctuary (2007–2011) Whitechapel (2009–2013) Ripper Street (2012–present)

Episodes	"Wolf in the Fold" (1967) "Comes the Inquisitor" (1995) "Ripper" (1999) "Sanctuary for All" (2008)

Video games

Jack the Ripper (1987)
Ripper (1996)
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour (1999)
Shadow Man (1999)
MediEvil 2 (2000)
Jack the Ripper (2003)
Mystery in London: On the Trail of Jack the Ripper (2007)
Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper (2009)
The Ripper (canceled)
Jack the Ripper (2015)

Other

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