Agents of Oblivion (album)
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Track listing

  1. "Endsmouth" – 4:24
  2. "Slave Riot" – 3:21
  3. "A Song That Crawls" – 4:10
  4. "Dead Girl" – 6:25
  5. "Phantom Green" – 5:06
  6. "The Hangman's Daughter" – 4:34
  7. "Ladybug" – 4:33
  8. "Ash of the Mind" – 3:52
  9. "Wither" – 4:18
  10. "Paroled in '54" – 5:04
  11. "Anthem (for this Haunted City)" – 3:40
  12. "Cosmic Dancer" – 5:34
  13. "Big Black Backwards" – 6:42

Personnel

  • Dax Riggs
    Dax Riggs
    Dax David Riggs , is an American musician from Houma, Louisiana, most well known for formerly fronting the sludge band Acid Bath in the 1990s. Dax has been a part of many projects since then, including Agents of Oblivion and Deadboy & the Elephantmen. In 2007 he began releasing material under his...

     – vocals, 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...

  • Mike Sanchez – guitar
  • Alex Bergeron – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Chuck Pitre – keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A 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...

  • Jeff McCarty – 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 ....


Trivia

  • "Endsmouth" is a tribute to the Oni Press comic entitled Neil Gaiman's Only the End of the World Again which references the Cthulhu Mythos
    Cthulhu Mythos
    The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu - a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus...

  • The ending from "Phantom Green" is from Tim Burton's film Ed Wood
    Ed Wood (film)
    Ed Wood is a 1994 American comedy-drama biopic directed and produced by Tim Burton, and starring Johnny Depp as cult filmmaker Edward D. Wood, Jr. The film concerns the period in Wood's life when he made his best-known films as well as his relationship with actor Bela Lugosi, played by Martin Landau...

     (1994). It is not the actual clip from "Bride of the Monster
    Bride of the Monster
    Bride of the Monster is a 1955 sci-fi horror film starring Bela Lugosi, along with Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy and Loretta King Hadler. It was produced, directed and co-written by Edward D. Wood, Jr....

    ".
  • The track "Dead Girl" is a re-recording of a track from Acid Bath's Paegan Terrorism Tactics
    Paegan Terrorism Tactics
    Track 1 is listed in the liner notes as "Pagan Love Song".Track 12 is sometimes mislabeled as "Ode of the Paegan".The length of Track 11 including the hidden track is 24:08.-Acid Bath:*Dax Riggs - Vocals*Mike Sanchez - Guitar...

    .
  • "Cosmic Dancer" is a T.Rex cover
  • An "uncut version" of the album also exists, featuring a cover of The Misfits' "Skulls"
  • "Big Black Backwards" and "Slave Riot" feature clips from the movie Gummo.
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