Mods Carve The Pig: Assassins, Toads and God's Flesh
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Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins, Toads and God's Flesh was the second album from Kalamazoo
-based progressive metal
band Thought Industry
. It was released in 1993 on Metal Blade Records
, and again features cover art by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali
. 'Mods' is the final Thought Industry
release featuring TI co-founder Dustin Donaldson.
Kalamazoo, Michigan
The area on which the modern city stands was once home to Native Americans of the Hopewell culture, who migrated into the area sometime before the first millennium. Evidence of their early residency remains in the form of a small mound in downtown's Bronson Park. The Hopewell civilization began to...
-based progressive metal
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...
band Thought Industry
Thought Industry
American progressive metal band Thought Industry in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1989 by vocalist/bassist Brent Oberlin, drummer Dustin Donaldson , guitarist Christopher Lee Simmonds , and guitarist Steve Spaeth who replaced original Desecrater guitarist, Dan Roe...
. It was released in 1993 on Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records
Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...
, and again features cover art by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....
. 'Mods' is the final Thought Industry
Thought Industry
American progressive metal band Thought Industry in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1989 by vocalist/bassist Brent Oberlin, drummer Dustin Donaldson , guitarist Christopher Lee Simmonds , and guitarist Steve Spaeth who replaced original Desecrater guitarist, Dan Roe...
release featuring TI co-founder Dustin Donaldson.
Track listing
- All songs written by Dustin Donaldson/Brent Oberlin/Christopher Lee/Paul Enzio. Song words by Brent Oberlin
- Horsepowered - 3:06
- Daterape Cookbook - 4:34
- Gelatin - 4:36
- Jane Whitfield is Dead - 4:40
- Boil - 5:47
- Michigan Jesus - 1:46
- Smirk the Godblender - 5:57
- Republicans in Love - 6:14
- Worms Listen - 5:18
- Patiently Waiting for Summer - 6:29
- To Build a Better Bulldozer - 6:43
All sounds organized by Thought Industry
- Dustin Donaldson: acoustic and electronicElectronicsElectronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...
drumsDrum kitA 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 ....
, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
, metals, objects - Brent Oberlin: vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, fretted and fretless bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, harmonicaHarmonicaThe harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes... - Christopher Lee: left side fretless and standard guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s - Paul Enzio: right side 6, 7 and 12 string guitars
- Produced by Ken Marshall and Thought Industry