The Complicated Futility of Ignorance
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| The Complicated Futility of Ignorance | ||||
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| Released | September 1994 | |||
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| Length | 52:01 | |||
| Label | Earache | |||
| Producer | Alex Newport | |||
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The Complicated Futility of Ignorance is the third and final studio album by English rock band Fudge Tunnel, released in September 1994 by Earache Records.[1] The album is notable for being the band's heaviest.[2]
The Complicated Futility of Ignorance is noted for being the heaviest and most extreme album of the band. While being a mostly sludge album, it is also leaning towards groove metal and in particular, the song "Six Eight" is played in a doom metal style.[2]
Reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 7/10[3] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
| The Great Metal Discography | 7/10[5] |
| Kerrang! | [6] |
| Rock Hard | 7.5/10[7] |
| Select | [8] |
AllMusic's Vincent Jeffries gave the album four stars out of five, and noted the release as being "the best of this group's many fine offerings".[2] Trouser Press wrote that "as a refined dose of pure musical aggression that grabs, holds and savages ... it’s the band’s most effective".[9]
The album won a 1995 NAIRD Indie Award, in the Hard Music category.[10]
