| Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Mushroomhead |
| Cover: | Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children (Mushroomhead album).jpg |
| Released: | September 28, 2010 |
| Recorded: | 2009–2010, Filthy Hands Studio |
| Genre: | Alternative metal, industrial metal, nu metal |
| Length: | 49:32 |
| Label: | Megaforce |
| Producer: | Steve Felton |
| Prev Title: | Savior Sorrow |
| Prev Year: | 2006 |
| Next Title: | The Righteous & the Butterfly |
| Next Year: | 2014 |
Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children[1] is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Mushroomhead. The album was released on September 28, 2010 by Megaforce Records. The first single from the album "Come On", was released on August 16, 2010.[2] It is the band's final album to feature Pig Benis on bass and Gravy on guitar, and it is the only album to feature Lil Dan on percussion.
On August 31, 2010, "Come On" was released uncensored on iTunes. The video of their first single "Come On" was premiered on Headbangers Ball on September 27, hosted by Mushroomhead themselves.[3] [4] "Come On" was also featured in the Criminal Minds episode "There's no Place like Home" from the show's 7th season. "Come On" was also featured on October 5, 2010 episode of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) on Spike TV as a promotion of the long storied rivalry between Wrestling Legend, Ric Flair and Hardcore Wrestling Legend, Mick Foley.
The album title is inspired by the Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children comic book series published by DC Comics through their Piranha Press imprint from June 1989 until September 1992. According to the band, they wanted the album title to reflect the nature of the songs themselves, and the title came once they incorporated the visual elements of the project. According to Jeffrey Nothing, the working title for the album was going to be Slaughterhouse Road, before it was changed to its current title, however, Slaughterhouse Road was still used as a song title.[5] [6]
After its first week of sales, the album debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard Indie chart, and No. 44 overall selling over 11,000 copies the first week.[7]