Weapons (album)

For the Skinny Puppy album, see Weapon (album).

Weapons
Studio album by
Lostprophets
Released2 April 2012 (2012-04-02)[1]
RecordedMay–November 2011
NRG Recording Studios, Hollywood[2][3]
Genre
Length51:07
Label
ProducerKen Andrews[3][4]
(List of additional production)
Lostprophets chronology
The Betrayed
(2010) 		Weapons
(2012)
Singles from Weapons
  1. "Bring 'Em Down"
    Released: 23 March 2012[5]
  2. "We Bring an Arsenal"
    Released: 4 June 2012[6]
  3. "Jesus Walks"
    Released: 10 September 2012[7]
  4. "Somedays"
    Released: Cancelled

Weapons is the fifth and final studio album by the Welsh rock band Lostprophets. It was released through Epic Records on 2 April 2012.[1] It was the first and only record featuring Luke Johnson on drums, after being with two other drummers previously,[8] Mike Chiplin and Ilan Rubin (the latter of whom features in archive recordings included on the "deluxe edition"[9] of Weapons, as well as the hidden track "Weapon" on all versions of the album). This was the last album to ever be released by the band before lead vocalist Ian Watkins was convicted of numerous sex offences, which led to their disbandment.

Like the earlier Liberation Transmission, it features Latin on the front, which reads deus velox nex. When translated it reads God is swift death.[10]

  1. ^ a b Winwood, Ian (2012). "Lostprophets Weapons Review". BBC Music. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
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  8. ^ "Lostprophets Family Tree". BBC. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  9. ^ "Lostprophets Weapons (Deluxe Edition)". HMV.
  10. ^ "Mike Lewis talks about Weapons". Dead Press.