| Built to Last | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Sick of It All |
| Cover: | soia_builttolast.jpg |
| Released: | February 11, 1997[1] |
| Recorded: | 1996 at Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, California, Entourage Studios, Los Angeles, California and Normandy Sound, Warren, Rhode Island |
| Length: | 39:15 |
| Label: | East West Records Equal Vision Records[2] |
| Producer: | GGGarth Sick of It All |
| Prev Title: | Live in a World Full of Hate |
| Prev Year: | 1995 |
| Next Title: | Call to Arms |
| Next Year: | 1999 |
Built to Last is the fourth studio album by American band Sick of It All, released in 1997.[3] [4] Equal Vision Records held the exclusive rights to release it on vinyl.
The album peaked at No. 32 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart.[5]
Built to Last was the result of a year's work for Sick of It All, with pre-production beginning in late 1995/early 1996. The recording took place at Normandy Sound, in Warren, Rhode Island (where their first three albums had been recorded), and in two studios in California.
The Washington Post wrote that "the music and attitude are entirely predictable, but the 'hey-hey-heys' are rather charming."[6] Entertainment Weekly wrote that the band manages "to overcome the genre’s bark-and-lunge cliches simply because they’re so archetypal; these guys can actually make you feel the fury behind a song called 'Us Vs. Them'."[7]
"Jungle" ends at 2:54, with silence from 2:55 to 5:53; at 5:54, a voice says "Oh c'mon, hurry up, ya old hag." There is silence again from 5:58 to 6:59. A hidden song, sung in English and Spanish, starts at 7:00 (unofficially titled "Culo Cagado").