| Centralia | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Car Bomb |
| Cover: | Car Bomb - Centralia.jpg |
| Recorded: | 2006 |
| Genre: | Mathcore |
| Length: | 31:54 |
| Label: | Relapse |
| Next Title: | w^w^^w^w |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
Centralia is the debut studio album by the American band Car Bomb. This was the band's first full-length release, following a 2004 demo. It is also the band's only release through Relapse Records, which dropped the band four years later in 2011.[1] The album's title was named after the doomed town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, which was abandoned during an underground mine fire.[2] The track's lyrical content and titles cover various topics - Cielo Drive (also known as 'Bloodbath Orgy') was named after the road on which one of the infamous Manson Family spree-killings were committed (10050 Cielo Drive), H5N1 is the medical abbreviation for the then-recent outbreak strain of Bird Flu, while 'M^6' covers neglect of a mother.
Critics praised the album's complex and ferocious rhythms. Keith Bergman, writing for Blabbermouth.net, argues in a highly positive 8/10 review that the album is "a lurching start-stop mélange of tempos that switch back and forth fast enough to give you whiplash, even more brutal for its lack of cohesion and unsettling, jittery rhythmic convulsions."[3]
Japanese release included the song 'Bra-c-ket'.