Three Years Two Months Eleven Days was an album of early material, often referred to as a retrospective, by the American band Ensign. Recorded in various sessions between January 1996 and July 1998 – including a live recording – and with varying members, it was released by the band's first record label, Indecision Records, in April 2000.

Overview

Ensign had recorded two EPs – a self-titled 7-inch and the Fall from Grace 7-inch – and a full-length debut, Direction of Things to Come, for Orange County, California label Indecision Records before departing for the larger Nitro Records in 1998. Far from seeing this as a cashing-in exercise by Indecision on the band's new, wider audience, it was seen as filling the gaps in the essential history of a band who would go on to tour with metalcore band, Hatebreed in 2002. Most of the material was either unreleased, out-of-print or very rare. Style-wise, it was more akin to Direction of Things to Come than anything they did subsequently on either Nitro Records or Blackout Records. Straightforward, short blasts of hardcore punk in the New York hardcore mould that they had imported to the Californian shores in 1995.

Track listing

All songs written by Ensign, unless stated.

Credits

Tracks 1–7

Tracks 8–13

Tracks 14–15

Tracks 16–17

Tracks 18–23