Touring and promotion
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| In support of ''Weight'', Rollins Band went on a 24-date American tour with [[Helmet (band)|Helmet]] and the [[Les Claypool]] project [[Sausage (band)|Sausage]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Kirkwood |first=Hector |date=2013 |title=Metallipromo: Helmet |url=http://metallipromo.com/helmet.html |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=metallipromo.com}}</ref> The tour with Helmet and Sausage lasted between July and August 1994, with all of the shows being recorded.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/page-hamilton-revs-back-up-with-gandhi-73040/ | title=Page Hamilton Revs Back up with Gandhi | magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] }}</ref> | In support of ''Weight'', Rollins Band went on a 24-date American tour with [[Helmet (band)|Helmet]] and the [[Les Claypool]] project [[Sausage (band)|Sausage]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Kirkwood |first=Hector |date=2013 |title=Metallipromo: Helmet |url=http://metallipromo.com/helmet.html |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=metallipromo.com}}</ref> The tour with Helmet and Sausage lasted between July and August 1994, with all of the shows being recorded.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/page-hamilton-revs-back-up-with-gandhi-73040/ | title=Page Hamilton Revs Back up with Gandhi | magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] }}</ref> |
| The video for the single "Liar" was directed by [[Anton Corbijn]] and was heavily featured on [[alternative rock|alternative]] program ''[[120 Minutes]]'' and metal program ''[[Headbangers Ball]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/1994.05.15-mtv-120-minutes-guest-host-henry-rollins|title=1994.05.15 MTV 120 Minutes (guest Host Henry Rollins)|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> It gained further popularity after appearing on a 1994 ''[[Beavis and Butt-Head]]'' episode titled "Liar! Liar!".<ref>{{Citation |title=Beavis & Butthead - Liar by Rollins Band |url= |language=en |access-date=2022-09-18}} - on YouTube</ref> Another video from the album, "Disconnect", appeared twice on the series, first in the 1995 episode "Top o' the Mountain", then as part of the episode "Shortcuts" in March 1997 (coincidentally the same month the band's follow-up ''[[Come In and Burn]]'' was released). The song "Civilized" was also used as the closing theme for ''[[Dennis Miller Live]]'' from 1994–2002 on [[HBO]]. | The video for the single "Liar" was directed by [[Anton Corbijn]] and was heavily featured on [[alternative rock|alternative]] program ''[[120 Minutes]]'' and metal program ''[[Headbangers Ball]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/1994.05.15-mtv-120-minutes-guest-host-henry-rollins|title=1994.05.15 MTV 120 Minutes (guest Host Henry Rollins)|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> It gained further popularity after appearing on a 1994 ''[[Beavis and Butt-Head]]'' episode titled "Liar! Liar!".<ref>{{Citation |title=Beavis & Butthead - Liar by Rollins Band |url= |language=en |access-date=2022-09-18}} - on YouTube</ref> Another video from the album, "Disconnect", appeared twice on the series, first in the 1995 episode "Top o' the Mountain", then as part of the episode "Shortcuts" in March 1997 (the same month the band's follow-up ''[[Come In and Burn]]'' was released). The song "Civilized" was also used as the closing theme for ''[[Dennis Miller Live]]'' from 1994–2002 on [[HBO]]. |
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| ==Reception== | ==Reception== |
| The album received positive reviews from critics, and had sold 423,000 units in the United States as of 1996, making it their most commercially successful release.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qQkEAAAAMBAJ&q=rollins&pg=PA4|title=Billboard|first=Nielsen Business Media|last=Inc|date=June 22, 1996|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|via=Google Books}}</ref> In 1995, "Liar" was nominated for the [[Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?i...nepage&q=metal+rollins+band&f=false|title=The Tuscaloosa News|publisher=The Tuscaloosa News|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?i...rd+rock"+"rollins+band"&f=false|title=Daytona Beach Sunday News-Journal|publisher=Daytona Beach Sunday News-Journal|via=Google Books}}</ref> [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] of [[AllMusic]] gave it a four out of five star rating, saying "on ''Weight'', the Rollins Band is able to mix the musicians' love for jazz with a blindingly direct hard rock assault, making a twisted form of metal-jazz."<ref name="allmusic"/> Richard Cromelin ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'' awarded it a three out of four rating in April 1994, saying "[Rollins] is like a martial-arts hero of the psychic terrain, and his war with hypocrisy and repression is played out on a scale that’s both intimate and larger than life — his feelings are too intense and colossal to be conveyed in conventional terms, so his bellow is super human, and his band plays its deliberate [[sludge metal|sludge-metal]] riffs with crushing power."<ref name="los"/> Deborah Frost of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' gave it an A− rating, saying "the guitarist’s heavy-metal cliches never quite rise to frontman Rollins’ or new bassist [[Melvin Gibbs]]’ Richter-scale rumbling. Still, [it's] a near masterpiece."<ref name="ew"/> Orla Swift of the ''[[Record Journal]]'' observed in December 1994 that "the addition of new bassist Melvin Gibbs gives the band a more fluid sound and allows guitarist Chris Haskett's divebombing guitar to be heard."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?i...d-Journal|publisher=Record-Journal|via=Google Books}}</ref> | The album received positive reviews from critics, and had sold 423,000 units in the United States as of 1996, making it their most commercially successful release.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qQkEAAAAMBAJ&q=rollins&pg=PA4|title=Billboard|first=Nielsen Business Media|last=Inc|date=June 22, 1996|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|via=Google Books}}</ref> In 1995, "Liar" was nominated for the [[Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?i...nepage&q=metal+rollins+band&f=false|title=The Tuscaloosa News|publisher=The Tuscaloosa News|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?i...rd+rock"+"rollins+band"&f=false|title=Daytona Beach Sunday News-Journal|publisher=Daytona Beach Sunday News-Journal|via=Google Books}}</ref> [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] of [[AllMusic]] gave it a four out of five star rating, saying "on ''Weight'', the Rollins Band is able to mix the musicians' love for jazz with a blindingly direct hard rock assault, making a twisted form of metal-jazz."<ref name="allmusic"/> Richard Cromelin ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]'' awarded it a three out of four rating in April 1994, saying "[Rollins] is like a martial-arts hero of the psychic terrain, and his war with hypocrisy and repression is played out on a scale that’s both intimate and larger than life — his feelings are too intense and colossal to be conveyed in conventional terms, so his bellow is super human, and his band plays its deliberate [[sludge metal|sludge-metal]] riffs with crushing power."<ref name="los"/> Deborah Frost of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' gave it an A− rating, saying "the guitarist’s heavy-metal cliches never quite rise to frontman Rollins’ or new bassist [[Melvin Gibbs]]’ Richter-scale rumbling. Still, [it's] a near masterpiece."<ref name="ew"/> Orla Swift of the ''[[Record Journal]]'' observed in December 1994 that "the addition of new bassist Melvin Gibbs gives the band a more fluid sound and allows guitarist Chris Haskett's divebombing guitar to be heard."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?i...d-Journal|publisher=Record-Journal|via=Google Books}}</ref> |
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