Eat Lightning, Shit Thunder is the debut album by post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

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 band An Albatross

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. It was released in 2001 on Enhanced CD

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 (Bloodlink Records) and 12-inch vinyl (When Humans Attack). The album's sound is an odd mix of death metal

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, grindcore

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, circus music

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, jazz

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, 8-bit

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, Dance music

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, hardcore punk

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, and countless others into its extremely chaotic sound. It is considerably more heavy metal music

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influenced than the band's later work, and is arguably the band's most chaotic.

Track listing

1. "Birds" – 0:19
2. "Pennsylvania Inferno" – 0:24
3. "Mother's Day Came a Little Early This Year" – 0:47
4. "You Can't Take That Hot Rod With You When You Go" – 0:59
5. "Channel 96" – 0:44
6. "Uncle Funky Pants" – 0:49
7. "Electric Suits and Cowboy Boots" – 1:07
8. "I Live the Good Life" – 1:03
9. "Voices, the Man Eating Pig of Madidi" – 2:07
10. "The Great Sarcophagus" – 1:43
11. "Kulver, Bucy Nocturne in BB" – 0:56