Countrified is the first full length album of the German heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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 band Farmer Boys

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. All of the album's songs make reference to farm life or farm animals. It also has a cover track of Depeche Mode

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's "Never Let Me Down Again

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". The album is the band's heaviest album ever recorded and it strongly features elements from thrash metal

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 and goth metal. Music videos for "Farm Sweet Farm" and "Never Let Me Down Again" were directed by Nick Lyon.

Tracks

1. Farm Sweet Farm - 5:23
2. Chew The Cud - 3:56
3. Relieve The Tension 4:26
4. When A Chicken Cries For Love - 3:31
5. In A Distance To God - 5:18
6. Two, Three, Farm - 4:55
7. From Pig To Men - 4:50
8. Call Me A Hog - 5:29
9. Never Let Me Down Again (Depeche Mode Cover) - 3:46, with Anneke van Giersbergen
   Anneke van Giersbergen
   Anneke van Giersbergen is the former lead singer of the Dutch progressive/alternative rock band The Gathering which she departed in August 2007. Since then, she has been involved in a solo project called Agua de Annique which also included her husband & drummer of the band, Rob Snijders...
   
   
10. Countrified - 5:45