A Calculated Use of Sound

Infobox Album |
Name = A Calculated Use of Sound
Type = EP
Artist = Protest the Hero


Released = First Release: May 1, 2003 Re-release: 2004
Recorded = 2003
Genre = Metalcore, Hardcore punk
Length = First Release: 20:47 Re-release: 24:22
Label = Underground Operations
Reviews =
Last album = "Search for the Truth" (2002)
This album = "A Calculated Use of Sound" (2003)
Next album = "Kezia" (2005)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternative cover
Type = EP


Lower caption = Re-release

"A Calculated Use of Sound" is an EP released by Protest the Hero in 2003. It was later re-released in 2004 with re-mastered tracks, a remade cover with a black color scheme, and an additional song titled "Soft Targets Make Softer Graves".

The re-release made its debut in America with the release of "Kezia"; the band gave free copies to the first one hundred people who pre-purchased the album.

Track listing

# "Red Stars over the Battle of the Cowshed" – 2:51
# "An Apathetic New World" – 3:07
# "These Colours Don't Run" – 3:13
# "Soft Targets Make Softer Graves" – 4:29 – "Only available on the re-release version."
# "Fear and Loathing in Leramie" – 3:28
# "Led Astray" – 4:33
# "I Am Dmitri Karamazov and the World is My Father" – 3:35

Trivia

*The song "I Am Dmitri Karamazov and the World is My Father" is a reference to the novel The Brothers Karamazov, the last novel written by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky before his death.
*The song "Red Stars over the Battle of Cowshed" is a reference to the novel Animal Farm written by George Orwell.
*The song "Fear and Loathing in Leramie" is about the murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man killed in the town of Laramie, Wyoming. His murder brought national as well as international attention to the issue of hate crime legislation at the state and federal levels