Recruited To Do Good Deeds For The Devil
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Recruited to do Good Deeds for the Devil is the fifth album released by Kalamazoo
-based progressive metal
band Thought Industry
. It is a compilation album
featuring previously unreleased songs and live tracks.
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 is a compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
featuring previously unreleased songs and live tracks.
Track listing
- "Hello, Lovey Dovey..." (Bryant) 0:38
- Love is America Spelled Backwards (Jim Grace Version) (Oberlin) 3:39
- Metal (Gary NumanGary NumanGary Numan is an English singer, composer, and musician, most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars". His signature sound consisted of heavy synthesizer hooks fed through guitar effects pedals.Numan is considered a pioneer of commercial electronic music...
) 3:43 - Get Up and Slumber (Oberlin) 5:30
- Famous Mistake (Live) (Oberlin, Enzio, Bryant, Ledbetter) 2:45
- Atomic Stroller Helps None (Lee, Oberlin) (Remix) 1:25
- Louisiana (Lee, Oberlin) 5:16
- Republicans in Love (Oberlin, Lee, Enzio, Donaldson) (Live) 4:34
- Cornerstone (Oberlin, Lee, Enzio, Donaldson) (Live) 3:30
- Encounter with a Hick (Oberlin, Lee, Enzio, Donaldson) 4:28
- The Squid (Oberlin) (Live) 4:00
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(Oberlin, Enzio, Bryant, Ledbetter) ("Say Amen" Remix) 5:14 - Whine (Oberlin, Enzio, Bryant, Ledbetter) 2:57
- Watercolour Grey (Oberlin) (Gordon Lightfoot Version) 5:58
- Geletin (Oberlin, Enzio, Lee, Donaldson) (Live) 4:55
- Final Ballet (Oberlin, Lee, Donaldson, Spaeth) 1:01
- December 10th (Oberlin, Enzio, Bryant, Ledbetter) (Remix) 3:16
- Blue (Oberlin, Enzio, Bryant, Ledbetter) (Live) 3:17
- Love is America Spelled Backwards (Oberlin) (Live) 2:58
- nnnon (Oberlin, Enzio, Lee, Donaldson) 1:45
Personnel
- 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...
, 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...
, bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
on 3, 10 & 16 - Paul Enzio - guitar
- Herb Ledbetter - bassBass (instrument)Bass describes musical instruments that produce tones in the low-pitched range. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles...
- Jared Bryant - 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 ....
- Christopher Lee - guitar on 3, 4, 6, 7, 10 & 16
- Dustin Donaldson - drums on 3, 10, & 16
- Produced by Thought Industry