| Scratch the Surface | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Sick of It All |
| Cover: | Scratch the Surface (Sick of It All album - cover art).jpg |
| Released: | October 18, 1994 |
| Recorded: | 1994 at Normandy Sound, Warren, Rhode Island |
| Genre: | Hardcore punk, Beatdown hardcore |
| Length: | 35:20 |
| Label: | East West |
| Producer: | Sick of It All, Billy Anderson |
| Prev Title: | Just Look Around |
| Prev Year: | 1992 |
| Next Title: | Live in a World Full of Hate |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
Scratch the Surface is the third studio album by American hardcore band Sick of It All, released in 1994.[1] It was the band's first major label recording on East West Records, their first venture away from an indie label.
Scratch the Surface became Sick of It All's most successful release and produced two singles: "Scratch the Surface" and "Step Down".
The album peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Heatseekers – Middle Atlantic chart[2] and 121 on the UK Albums Chart.[3]
Decibel called the album a "hardcore magnum opus" and a "slab of extraordinarily lithe, stylized aggression".[4] Trouser Press wrote: "As a blast of unreconstructed hardcore in a time and a place where such a thing was once impossible to imagine, Scratch the Surface makes Sick of It All's principled point loud if not clear."[5]
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