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Superstition is the sixth studio album by Canadian electronic rock band The Birthday Massacre, released on November 11, 2014 through Metropolis Records. The album was funded through PledgeMusic. To promote the album, a subsequent North America tour and music video for "Beyond" followed the album's release. Background In 2015, Chibi admitted that the band had initially been hesitant to produce an album through crowd funding, but were glad they made the choice. In Fireworks Magazine Online, she said: "We really wanted it to be worthwhile for the fans... It was incredible to reach our goal so quickly; the campaign definitely brought to us an awareness of how supportive our fans can be. We’re so grateful for everything they’ve done for us." Regarding the album's themes and lyrics, Chibi has said "I was in a darker place and sort of looking for spiritual comfort, which naturally just brings up confusion and even more questions, so there are more of those lyrical themes on this record. I suffered a few losses in the last year which sent me looking for comfort; a sort of “what is beyond all of this” kind of thing. We started looking at legends, religions, ideas, what other cultures look to, what images and ideas from those explorations appealed to us and working those themes in. Ultimately, spiritual and religious beliefs are basically just “superstitions”, and thus, that became the theme of the album." During interviews, the band stated that the themes of the album came from their recurring element of water, mythology and world cultures' different views on religion, mortality, loss, and the unknown nature of the afterlife.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.”
— William R. Alger, in James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 544:20.
“To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions they demand, is to fall into superstition.”
— Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992), § 2111.
“May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.”
— Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Roger C. Weightman, on the decision for Independence made in 1776, often quoted as if in reference solely to the document the Declaration of Independence (24 June 1826)
“τοὺς δὲ βεβήλους καὶ γραώδεις μύθους παραιτοῦ. γύμναζε δὲ σεαυτὸν πρὸς εὐσέβειαν.”
— Reject irreverent and silly myths. Instead, train yourself for godliness.
“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.”
— Voltaire, "A Treatise in Toleration". In Voltaire, Tobias George Smollett (ed.) and William F. Fleming (trans.), The Works of Voltaire (1904), Vol. 4, 265.
“Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.”
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël; reported in Abel Stevens' Life of Madame de Staël, Chapter XXXIV.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Superstition is the sixth studio album by Canadian electronic rock band The Birthday Massacre, released on November 11, 2014 through Metropolis Records. The album was funded through PledgeMusic. To promote the album, a subsequent North America tour and music video for "Beyond" followed the album's release. Background In 2015, Chibi admitted that the band had initially been hesitant to produce an album through crowd funding, but were glad they made the choice. In Fireworks Magazine Online, she said: "We really wanted it to be worthwhile for the fans... It was incredible to reach our goal so quickly; the campaign definitely brought to us an awareness of how supportive our fans can be. We’re so grateful for everything they’ve done for us." Regarding the album's themes and lyrics, Chibi has said "I was in a darker place and sort of looking for spiritual comfort, which naturally just brings up confusion and even more questions, so there are more of those lyrical themes on this record. I suffered a few losses in the last year which sent me looking for comfort; a sort of “what is beyond all of this” kind of thing. We started looking at legends, religions, ideas, what other cultures look to, what images and ideas from those explorations appealed to us and working those themes in. Ultimately, spiritual and religious beliefs are basically just “superstitions”, and thus, that became the theme of the album." During interviews, the band stated that the themes of the album came from their recurring element of water, mythology and world cultures' different views on religion, mortality, loss, and the unknown nature of the afterlife.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Superstition is the sixth studio album by Canadian electronic rock band The Birthday Massacre, released on November 11, 2014 through Metropolis Records. The album was funded through PledgeMusic. To promote the album, a subsequent North America tour and music video for "Beyond" followed the album's release.

Notable quotes

“When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.”
— William R. Alger, in James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 544:20.
“To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions they demand, is to fall into superstition.”
— Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992), § 2111.
“May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.”
— Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Roger C. Weightman, on the decision for Independence made in 1776, often quoted as if in reference solely to the document the Declaration of Independence (24 June 1826)
“τοὺς δὲ βεβήλους καὶ γραώδεις μύθους παραιτοῦ. γύμναζε δὲ σεαυτὸν πρὸς εὐσέβειαν.”
— Reject irreverent and silly myths. Instead, train yourself for godliness.
“Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.”
— Voltaire, "A Treatise in Toleration". In Voltaire, Tobias George Smollett (ed.) and William F. Fleming (trans.), The Works of Voltaire (1904), Vol. 4, 265.
“Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.”
— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël; reported in Abel Stevens' Life of Madame de Staël, Chapter XXXIV.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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