Black Umbrella
Encyclopedia
Black Umbrella is the fourth album from Kalamazoo
-based progressive metal
band Thought Industry
. Features a more streamlined sound than their previous albums. Released in 1997 on Metal Blade Records
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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...
. Features a more streamlined sound than their previous albums. Released in 1997 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...
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Track listing
- All words by Brent
- My Famous Mistake (Oberlin) 2:50
- Blue (Oberlin) 2:30
- Tragic Juliet (Oberlin) 3:33
- World (Enzio) 3:53
- Bitter (Oberlin) 3:19
- Consistently Yours, Pluto (Oberlin) 3:16
- December 10th (Ledbetter, Oberlin) 3:52
- Edward Smith (Oberlin) 4:34
- Her Rusty Nail (Oberlin) 4:26
- Pink Dumbo (Oberlin) 3:10
- Swank (Oberlin) 3:14
- Earwig (Oberlin) 4:41
- 24 Hours Ago I Could Breathe/Dec. 11 (Enzio, Bryant) 9:20
Credits
- Paul Enzio - 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 - 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 ....
- Herb Ledbetter - bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Brent Oberlin - 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...
- Produced by Mike Roche and Thought Industry