Giving Birth to a Stone is the debut album of UK

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 metal band Peach

Peach (band)

Peach was a band from England that originally recorded between 1991 and 1994. They played metal music of a progressive style. The original line-up consisted of Simon Oakes, Rob Havis, Ben Durling and Justin Chancellor...

, released in 1994. It was re-released in 2000, with different artwork, designed by Adam Jones

Adam Jones (musician)

Adam Thomas Jones is a three time Grammy Award-winning Welsh-American musician and visual artist, best known for his position as the guitarist for Grammy-Award winning band Tool. Jones has been rated the 75th Greatest Guitarist of all time by the Rolling Stone and placed 9th in Guitar World's Top...

 of Tool

Tool (band)

Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1990, the group's line-up has included drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Since 1995, Justin Chancellor has been the band's bassist, replacing their original bassist Paul D'Amour...

. It was re-released again globally on April 2, 2007 through Sony BMG - and is also being made available in downloadable formats.

Track listing

1. "Spasm
   Spasm (album)
   Spasm is the title of English metal band Peach's fifth release, released in 1993. It was originally released as a 2-track 7" Vinyl and is now extremely rare. This song has been covered in concert by the band Tool, who Peach's former bass player Justin Chancellor is now a part of.-Credits:* Simon...
   
   " – 4:30
2. "Naked" – 4:15
3. "Catfood" (King Crimson
   King Crimson
   King Crimson are a rock band founded in London, England in 1969. Often categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, the band have incorporated diverse influences and instrumentation during their history...
   
   ) – 3:47
4. "Velvet" – 4:12
5. "Dougal" – 4:42
6. "Burn
   Burn (Peach album)
   Burn is the title of English metal band Peach's fourth release, released in 1993. It is now extremely rare.-Credits:* Simon Oakes – Vocals* Rob Havis – Drums* Ben Durling – Guitar* Justin Chancellor – Bass...
   
   " – 3:11
7. "Signposts in the Sea" – 4:55
8. "You Lied
   You Lied
   "You Lied" is a track originally performed by British progressive rock band Peach. It was notably covered live by Tool and released on their Salival live DVD/CD box set...
   
   " – 6:57
9. "Don't Make Me Your God
   Don't Make Me Your God
   Don't Make Me Your God is the title of English metal band Peach's second release, released in 1992. It was originally released as 3-track 12" Vinyl. It is now extremely rare.-Credits:*Simon Oakes – Vocalist*Rob Havis – Drums*Ben Durling – Guitar...
   
   " – 3:22
10. "Peach" – 4:35

All songs written by Peach, except "Catfood", written by Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...

, Peter Sinfield

Peter Sinfield

Peter John Sinfield is an English poet, lyricist and artist, most famously known as the lyricist and co-founding member of early incarnations of King Crimson, whose debut album In the Court of the Crimson King has been regarded as one of the most influential progressive rock albums ever...

 & Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald (musician)

Ian McDonald is an English multi-instrumental musician, best known as a founding member of progressive rock group King Crimson, formed in 1969, and of the hard rock band Foreigner in 1976. He is well-known as a rock session musician, predominantly as a saxophonist...

.
Songs 2, 6 & 8 produced by Jessica Corcoran at Green House Studios. Songs 1 & 3 produced by Ian Shaw at Shaw Sound. Songs 4, 7, 9 & 10 engineered by Andy Levine at RMS

RMS

-Science and technology:* Root mean square, a concept encapsulating the "average", in some sense, of a quantity. Frequently encountered in statistics, the physical sciences and electronics...

, licensed from Rockford Management for and on behalf of Mad Minute. Song 5 recorded at The Palace of Light and Sound by Peach. All songs published by Rhythm King Music / Mad Minute, except "Catfood".

Credits

• Simon Oakes – Vocals
• Rob Havis – Drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Ben Durling – Guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  
• Justin Chancellor
  Justin Chancellor
  Justin Gunnar Walter Chancellor is an English musician formerly in the band Peach but best known as the bass player for Grammy Award-winning rock band Tool. Chancellor is of Norwegian and English descent...
  
   – Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Stewart Lee
  Stewart Lee
  Stewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera...
  
   - inaudibly mixed spoken word section on the track 'You Lied'
• Jessica Corcoran – Producer
• Ian Shaw – Producer
• Andy Levine – Engineer
• Adam Jones
  Adam Jones (musician)
  Adam Thomas Jones is a three time Grammy Award-winning Welsh-American musician and visual artist, best known for his position as the guitarist for Grammy-Award winning band Tool. Jones has been rated the 75th Greatest Guitarist of all time by the Rolling Stone and placed 9th in Guitar World's Top...
  
  – Artwork
• Brian Rose – Mastering