Music for the Recently Deceased is the second album by Australian metalcore

Metalcore

Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...

 band I Killed the Prom Queen

I Killed the Prom Queen

I Killed the Prom Queen is an Australian metalcore band which formed in 2000 with mainstays JJ Peters on drums and Jona Weinhofen on guitar. The band featured prominently on the Australian live music scene and toured the USA, Japan and parts of Europe several times...

. The album peaked at #27 on the Australian ARIA

Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...

 Charts. On 19 May 2008 a Tour Edition of the album was released with the additions of 2 live songs recorded at the Sydney Deadfest, 4 songs featuring Micheal Crafter on vocals and the music video for Say Goodbye. The tour edition was limited to 5,000 individually hand-numbered copies. Recently the limited edition was released additionally to the 5000 original copies.

On 20 May 2011 a 2-CD version of the album was released to coincide with the bands reformation and 2011 Australian tour. The first Disk contained the previously official release version with Ed Butchers vocals, and the Second disk featured the original version with Michael Crafter singing. The Crafter version was previously unreleased, with a few tracks leaking in the past. This version was release on a new label, We Are Unified, because the bands previous label, Stomp Entertainment, had gone bankrupt and stopped production and distribution on all its releases.

Track listing

1. "Sharks in Your Mouth" – 4:04 (lyrics: Butcher music: Weinhofen)
2. "Say Goodbye" – 4:14 (lyrics: Cameron/Butcher music: Weinhofen)
3. "€666" – 3:39 (lyrics: Cameron music: Cameron)
4. "Your Shirt Would Look Better with a Columbian Neck–tie" – 3:50 (lyrics Butcher/Cameron music: Weinhofen/Cameron)
5. "The Deepest Sleep" – 3:38 (lyrics: Butcher/Cameron music: Weinhofen)
6. "Bet It All on Black" – 4:15 (lyrics: Butcher/Cameron music: Cameron)
7. "Headfirst from a Hangman's Noose" – 4:05 (lyrics: Butcher music: Cameron)
8. "Sleepless Nights and City Lights" – 3:34 (lyrics: Butcher music: Cameron/Weinhofen)
9. "Slain Upon My Faithful Sword" – 4:08 (lyrics: Butcher music Weinhofen)
10. "Like Nails to a Casket" – 4:06 (lyrics: Cameron music: Cameron)
11. "There Will Be No Violins When You Die" – 2:27 [Instrumental] (music: Weinhofen)

Tour Edition bonus tracks

12. "Sharks in Your Mouth" – 4:46 (Live)
13. "Your Shirt Would Look Better With a Columbian Neck Tie" – 3:43 (Live)
14. "Sharks in Your Mouth" – 4:04 (Feat. Michael Crafter On Vocals)
15. "Say Goodbye" – 4:14 (Feat. Michael Crafter On Vocals)
16. "€666" – 3:39 (Feat. Michael Crafter On Vocals)
17. "Like Nails to a Casket" – 4:06 (Feat. Michael Crafter On Vocals)
18. "Say Goodbye" (Music video)

2011 Re-Release

Disk 1 (Feat Ed Butcher on Vocals)

1. "Sharks in Your Mouth" – 4:04
2. "Say Goodbye" – 4:14
3. "€666" – 3:39
4. "Your Shirt Would Look Better with a Columbian Neck–tie" – 3:50
5. "The Deepest Sleep" – 3:38
6. "Bet It All on Black" – 4:15
7. "Headfirst from a Hangman's Noose" – 4:05
8. "Sleepless Nights and City Lights" – 3:34
9. "Slain Upon My Faithful Sword" – 4:08
10. "Like Nails to a Casket" – 4:06
11. "There Will Be No Violins When You Die" – 2:27 [Instrumental]

Disk 2 (Feat Michael Crafter On Vocals)

1. "Sharks in Your Mouth" – 4:04
2. "Say Goodbye" – 4:14
3. "€666" – 3:39
4. "Your Shirt Would Look Better with a Columbian Neck–tie" – 3:50
5. "The Deepest Sleep" – 3:38
6. "Bet It All on Black" – 4:15
7. "Headfirst from a Hangman's Noose" – 4:05
8. "Sleepless Nights and City Lights" – 3:34
9. "Slain Upon My Faithful Sword" – 4:08
10. "Like Nails to a Casket" – 4:06
11. "There Will Be No Violins When You Die" – 2:27 [Instrumental]

Personnel

• Ed Butcher – vocals tracks
• Michael Crafter
  Michael Crafter
  Michael Crafter is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist of Confession, and is also a former vocalist for Bands - I Killed the Prom Queen, Carpathian and Bury Your Dead. He also played Bass for Shotpointblank.-Biography:Crafter is a member in the...
  
   – vocals tracks (Original Version)
• Jona Weinhofen
  Jona Weinhofen
  Jona Weinhofen is an Australian guitarist and musician from Adelaide, South Australia. He is currently the guitarist for the Australian based band I Killed the Prom Queen, Canine Tricycle Bereavement, and British band Bring Me The Horizon. Jona was guitarist for California based band Bleeding...
  
   – guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Kevin Cameron – guitar
• Sean Kennedy – bass
• J. J. Peters – drums
• Sons of Nero
  Sons of Nero
  Sons of Nero is a graphic design group that was formed in 2000 by Matthew "Portland" Hay of the metalcore group Nora. It consists of four artists who primarily design artwork and packaging for bands and musical ensembles, but also design t-shirts and websites...
  
   - artwork

Trivia

• The lyrics, "Every living thing on this earth dies alone", from the song "€666", is a reference to the film Donnie Darko
  Donnie Darko
  Donnie Darko is a 2001 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Noah Wyle, Jena Malone, and Mary McDonnell...
  
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• The album name is a reference to the movie Beetlejuice, in which there is a book titled 'Handbook For The Recently Deceased'.