The Way and Its Power is the debut album by the hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

/electronica

Electronica

Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...

 duo Anarchy Club

Anarchy Club

Anarchy Club is a hard rock/electronica duo from Boston, Massachusetts. The band consists of vocalist/guitarist Keith Smith, who is a former member of the band C60, and Adam von Buhler, who plays guitar , bass, drums, and other instruments, and is a former member of the band...

, released on August 12, 2005.

The album is heavily influenced by many different musical genres such as alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

, heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

, hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 and even Chinese classical beats

Chinese opera

Chinese opera is a popular form of drama and musical theatre in China with roots going back as far as the third century CE...

.

The album mixes grooving metal riffs, hip hop grooves and Chinese classical and waltz beats, all with a decidedly heavy rock flavor throughout, which makes the album very unusual.

Out of the 15 tracks on the album, 12 of them are notable as songs. The other three tracks are: "White Noise" which is an intro to the album and consists of the changing of radio stations until it finally stops at the start of "Enemy Ace." "A Day at the Office" which is basically the sound of a robbery and features guest vocals from Jessica Lee, and "Skillz" which is the sound of two people playing a video game.

The album gained much attention after the release of the video game Guitar Hero which features the song "Behind the Mask" which became very popular because of the game and raised the popularity of the band.

Track listing

All songs written by Keith Smith

Keith Smith (musician)

Keith Smith is the vocalist and guitarist for the band Anarchy Club. Before creating Anarchy Club, Smith was in several bands, including Cobalt 60, known as C60. Smith was also an employee of Harmonix QA, the company that developed Guitar Hero...

 and Adam von Buhler

Adam von Buhler

Adam von Buhler is a producer and musician, currently one half of the rock duo Anarchy Club, and a former member of the band Splashdown. He plays drums, bass, guitar and other instruments, and works the studio gear...

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1. "White Noise" - 0:21
2. "Enemy Ace" - 3:21
3. "Guilty (Come Drink with Me)" - 4:09
4. "King of Everything" - 3:35
5. "Bitter" - 2:33
6. "Hidden By Blue" - 2:57
7. "Behind the Mask" - 2:46
8. "A Day at the Office" - 0:47
9. "Kill for You" - 2:41
10. "Assassins" - 3:40
11. "Through Windows Clear" - 4:01
12. "Skillz" - 0:55
13. "Boss Fight" - 2:10
14. "Shaolin" - 3:02
15. "Wicked World" - 2:54

Personnel

• Keith Smith
  Keith Smith (musician)
  Keith Smith is the vocalist and guitarist for the band Anarchy Club. Before creating Anarchy Club, Smith was in several bands, including Cobalt 60, known as C60. Smith was also an employee of Harmonix QA, the company that developed Guitar Hero...
  
   - lead vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Adam von Buhler
  Adam von Buhler
  Adam von Buhler is a producer and musician, currently one half of the rock duo Anarchy Club, and a former member of the band Splashdown. He plays drums, bass, guitar and other instruments, and works the studio gear...
  
   - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , synthesizer
  Synthesizer
  A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
  
  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...