Hammerhead (The Offspring song)
"Hammerhead" is a song by American punk rock band the Offspring. The song is featured as the fourth track on the band's eighth studio album, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008), and was released as its first single. The song was first played at the Summer Sonic Festival in 2007. It peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart.
| "Hammerhead" | ||||
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| Single by the Offspring | ||||
| from the album Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace | ||||
| Released | May 6, 2008 | |||
| Studio | Maui, Hawaii and Orange County, California | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| Length | 4:38 (album version) 4:13 (radio edit) | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Dexter Holland | |||
| Producer(s) | Bob Rock | |||
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The song was originally set to go to radio on May 6. However, the world premiere of the song took place on May 2 at 6 PM PST on KROQ Los Angeles (their hometown station). On May 5, 2008, the Offspring's official website released a free download of the song MP3 format, in much the same style as "Original Prankster" (from 2000's Conspiracy of One). To download it, users were required to provide an email address to receive a link to a high-quality MP3 of the track, which came free of digital rights management.