Dead Planet is the third full length studio album from former Queens of the Stone Age

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens of the Stone Age is an American rock band from Palm Desert, California, United States, formed in 1997. The band's line-up has always included founding member Josh Homme , with the current line-up including longtime members Troy Van Leeuwen and Joey Castillo , alongside Michael Shuman and...

 and Kyuss

Kyuss

Kyuss is a rock band, originally from Palm Desert, California. After forming in the late 1980s and releasing an EP under the name Sons of Kyuss in 1990, the band shortened its name to Kyuss. Over the next five years the band released four full-length albums, and one last split EP in 1997 with...

 bassist/vocalist Nick Oliveri

Nick Oliveri

Nick Steven Oliveri is an American musician from Palm Desert, California. He plays bass guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and is a vocalist...

 and his band, Mondo Generator

Mondo Generator

Mondo Generator is an American metal/punk hybrid band founded in 1997 by Nick Oliveri. The name of the band originated when Brant Bjork spray-painted the words on the side of Oliveri's Sunn amplifier. Mondo means "world" in Italian...

. The album was recorded in late 2005 and early 2006 at Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl

David Eric "Dave" Grohl is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter for Foo Fighters; the former drummer for Nirvana and Scream; and the current drummer for Them Crooked Vultures...

's Studio 606 and at Donner & Blitzen studios. The album features Oliveri on bass, vocals, guitars and drums, Hoss Wright on drums, and Ben Perrier, Ben Thomas and Marc Diamond among others.

The album was originally released on the UK label Mother Tongue Records

Mother Tongue Records

Mother Tongue Records is an independent record label formed in the early 1990s that featured the 12 piece glam-orchestral Britpop band My Life Story, the label was resurrected in the early 2000s with The Barbs, Nick Oliveri and The Long Weekend amongst its acts...

 and Impedance Records of Australia in 2006, under the name Dead Planet: SonicSlowMotionTrails. Suburban Noize Records

Suburban Noize Records

Suburban Noize Records, also known as "Subnoize", is an independent record label based in Burbank, California that specializes in punk rock and underground hip hop...

 released the album on July 17, 2007 in the United States with a different title and track list order, plus the remaining tracks from III The EP

III the EP

III the EP is an EP released by Mondo Generator on the Tornado Records label in 2004.-Track listing:# "All the Way Down" - # "Bloody Hammer" - # "There She Goes Again" -...

 (against Oliveri's wishes), and a heavily compressed remastering.

Track listing

Dead Planet: SonicSlowMotionTrails

1. "Like a Bomb" – 4:13
2. "All the Way Down" – 2:56
3. "SonicSlowMotionTrails" – 3:19
4. "Basket Case" – 1:35
5. "Lie Detector" – 4:20
6. "So High" – 2:24
7. "Life of Sin" – 2:24
8. "Mental Hell" – 2:16
9. "She Only Owns You" – 2:35
10. "Take Me Away" – 4:48
11. "I Never Sleep" – 2:08
12. "All Systems Go!" – 1:26
13. "Paper Thin" – 10:24
14. "Sam Hall" – 2:27 (secret bonus track)

Dead Planet

1. "Basket Case"
2. "I Never Sleep"
3. "All The Way Down"
4. "She Only Owns You"
5. "Lie Detector"
6. "Mental Hell"
7. "All Systems Go"
8. "Like A Bomb"
9. "So High"
10. "SonicSlowMotionTrails"
11. "Take Me Away"
12. "Life Of Sin"
13. "Paper Thin"
14. "Sam Hall"
15. "There She Goes Again"
16. "Bloody Hammer"
17. "Sleep The Lie Away"

Personnel

Band members

• Nick Oliveri
  Nick Oliveri
  Nick Steven Oliveri is an American musician from Palm Desert, California. He plays bass guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and is a vocalist...
  
   - vocals, bass
• Ian Taylor - guitar, backing vocals
• Spud - guitar
• Ernie Longoria - drums

Additional musicians

• Ben Perrier
  Winnebago Deal
  Winnebago Deal are a rock music band from Oxford, United Kingdom. They started life in the late 1990s at Bartholomew School in Eynsham, with Ben Perrier and Ben Thomas writing songs then recruiting a drummer and bass player through an ad...
  
  
• Ben Thomas
  Winnebago Deal
  Winnebago Deal are a rock music band from Oxford, United Kingdom. They started life in the late 1990s at Bartholomew School in Eynsham, with Ben Perrier and Ben Thomas writing songs then recruiting a drummer and bass player through an ad...
  
  
• Marc Diamond
• Blag Dahlia
  Blag Dahlia
  Paul Cafaro , better known as Blag Dahlia, is an American musician, producer, and author.-Music career:Cafaro is a native of Highland Park, Illinois, and is most well known as the front-man of Dwarves, a punk rock band. With the Dwarves he has written and produced 10 full length records over a span...
  
  
• Mathias Schneeberger
• Harley Spider
• Dave Catching
• Molly Mcguire
  Molly McGuire
  Molly McGuire is a singer-songwriter currently based in Los Angeles, California. She is a multi-instrumentalist, but primarily sings and plays bass when performing live.Originally from Canada, McGuire was a visual artist before becoming a musician....
  
  
• Hoss Wright
• Alfredo Hernandez
  Alfredo Hernandez
  Alfredo Hernández is an American drummer best known as a member of desert rock bands Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Brant Bjork and the Bros and Yawning Man. He is jazz trained.- Career :...
  
  

Production

• Nick Raskulinecz
  Nick Raskulinecz
  Nick Raskulinecz is a Grammy-winning American record producer. He resides in Nashville, Tennessee.-Production career:Raskulinecz is from the Bearden area of Knoxville, Tennessee. He first produced and recorded bands in Knoxville on a 8-track recorder that his grandfather bought for him...
  
   - production

Trivia

• Tracks 3, 15, 16, and 17 are from Mondo Generator's previous EP III the EP
  III the EP
  III the EP is an EP released by Mondo Generator on the Tornado Records label in 2004.-Track listing:# "All the Way Down" - # "Bloody Hammer" - # "There She Goes Again" -...
  
  .
• Track 9 is a new recording of "So High, So Low" from Mondo Generator's previous album A Drug Problem That Never Existed
  A Drug Problem That Never Existed
  A Drug Problem That Never Existed is an album released by Mondo Generator on the Rekords Rekords label in 2003. It takes its name from a line in The Frogs' "I've Got Drugs ", from their album It's Only Right and Natural...
  
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• Track 6 is a cover of a Ramones
  Ramones
  The Ramones were an American rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first punk rock group...
  
   song from their album Animal Boy
  Animal Boy
  Animal Boy is the ninth studio album by the American punk band the Ramones. It featured the songs "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down ", written as a protest of President Ronald Reagan's visit to the Bitburg cemetery in West Germany; "Somebody Put Something in My Drink", written by Richie Ramone, the...
  
  .
• Track 2 was originally recorded by one of Oliveri's old bands, River City Rapists.
• Track 13 is a new recording of "Paper Thin" from Nick Oliveri's solo acoustic album Demolition Day
  Demolition Day
  Demolition Day is former Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss bassist/vocalist Nick Oliveri's first solo acoustic album. The album was recorded in 2003 and 2004 at Dave Grohl's Studio 606. The album features Oliveri on bass, vocals, guitars and percussion, as well as horns and guitars from other...
  
  .
• Track 16 is a Roky Erickson
  Roky Erickson
  Roky Erickson is an American singer, songwriter, harmonica player and guitarist from Texas. He was a founding member of the 13th Floor Elevators and a pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre.-Biography:...
  
  cover.

External links

• Official Site
• Official Myspace
• Suburban Noize Records