Snakes & Arrows is the nineteenth
studio album, and the eighteenth of all-original material, by the
Canadian rock band
Rush. Released on May 1, 2007, it was their first studio outing since 2004's
Feedback, and their last studio album officially with
Atlantic Records (at least in the US, where they changed distributors to
Roadrunner Records as of August 31, 2011). The album was recorded in five weeks between November and December 2006 at Allaire Studios in New York’s Catskill Mountains and mixed and mastered at
Ocean Way Studios in
Los Angeles,
California.
Snakes & Arrows was released on
CD on May 1, 2007, as a double
LP album on June 19 (limited to 5,000 copies), as well as the new
MVI (Music Video Interactive) format (limited to 25,000 copies) on June 26.
Snakes & Arrows debuted at #3 on the The
Billboard 200 chart where it remained for 14 weeks. It was certified
gold in Canada in September 2007. The track "Malignant Narcissism" was nominated for a
Grammy Award under the category
Best Rock Instrumental Performance. The album was named as one of
Classic Rock‘s 10 essential
progressive rock albums of the decade. It was reissued and remastered in 2013 as a part of the box set
The Studio Albums 1989-2007.