Discoing the Dead is the third album by Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 grindcore

Grindcore

Grindcore is an extreme genre of music that started in the early- to mid-1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres – including death metal, industrial music, noise and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk....

 band Fuck the Facts

Fuck the Facts

Fuck the Facts is a Canadian grindcore band from Ottawa, Ontario, formed in 1998. They began in the late nineties as a solo recording project constructed by musician Topon Das. After many early recordings, including split tapes with groups from around the world, Fuck the Facts began developing a...

. It was created and recorded between November 2000 and February 2001 at Total Bastard Studio (Topon's home studio). This is the first Fuck the Facts release on CD. The previous two full lengths, and the various splits had all been on cassette.

The CDs are numbered supposedly out of 666, though Topon has stated that he remembers losing count and eventually labelled many of them as 666.

Track listing

All songs written by Fuck the Facts unless indicated otherwise.

1. "Ninja Sweater" – 3:34
2. "Proud to Be a Canadian" (written by Dayglo Abortions
   Dayglo Abortions
   The Dayglo Abortions are a Canadian punk band from Victoria, British Columbia. Their lyrics are informed by a complete disregard for societal norms. They formed in 1979 and released their first album in 1981...
   
   ) – 1:42
3. "Disco Rage" – 3:44
4. "Wake Up Call" – 0:46
5. "Whisper Dependancy" – 2:08
6. "Rattlesnake" – 0:28
7. "The Burning Side" – 3:57
8. "123-223" – 3:23
9. "Appliance Jam Session" – 5:02
10. "Perpetrator" – 2:34

Personnel

This version contains many fake credits, but Topon Das performs everything. This is how the credits appear:

• Topon Das – vocals
  Singing
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  , answering machine
  Answering machine
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  , midi, guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Sedric K. Downy – guitar, kettle
  Kettle
  A kettle, sometimes called a tea kettle or teakettle, is a small kitchen appliance used for boiling water. Kettles can be heated either by placing on a stove, or by their own electric heating element.- Stovetop kettles :...
  
   sampling
  Sampler (musical instrument)
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  , vocals
• Robin Lowman – guitar, samba albums
  Samba
  Samba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia and with its roots in Brazil and Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions. It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil and the Brazilian Carnival...
  
  , un-Christian
  Christian
  A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
  
   noise attacks
• Alphie Makay – drums
  Drum kit
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  , drum machine
  Drum machine
  A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums or other percussion instruments. They are used in a variety of musical genres, not just purely electronic music...
  
  , toilet flushes
  Toilet
  A toilet is a sanitation fixture used primarily for the disposal of human excrement, often found in a small room referred to as a toilet/bathroom/lavatory...
  
  , vocals
• Max Vo – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , Chapman Stick
  Chapman Stick
  The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and has been used on music recordings to play bass lines, melody lines, chords or textures...
  
  , vacuum noise
  Vacuum
  In everyday usage, vacuum is a volume of space that is essentially empty of matter, such that its gaseous pressure is much less than atmospheric pressure. The word comes from the Latin term for "empty". A perfect vacuum would be one with no particles in it at all, which is impossible to achieve in...
  
  
• Fuck The Facts – composer, performer, recording, mixing

Reissue

In 2003, Discoing the Dead was remastered and reissued with new artwork and one bonus track on Brazilian label Black Hole Productions. 1000 copies were pressed.

Reissue Personnel

• Topon Das – all instruments
• Matt Connell – remastering