Doom is the first EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 by Job for a Cowboy

Job for a Cowboy

Job for a Cowboy is a American death metal band from Glendale, Arizona. Formed in 2003, the band's debut album Genesis was released in 2007, peaking at #54 on the US Billboard 200 and selling 13,000 copies in its first week of release. The second album, 2009's Ruination, sold 10,600 copies in...

, released on November 11, 2005 through the King of the Monsters label. It archived most attention after being re-released on major record label, 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...

 in 2006.

A music video

Music video

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 was created for the song "Entombment of a Machine" in which an elderly man is shown burying machines into the ground along with clips in between of the band performing in a desert-like atmosphere.

Critical reception

Allmusic reviewer Cosmo Lee stated: "Doom is competent, but trades in sounds, not songs." in which Lee was referring to the fact, that Job for a Cowboy has changed their musical style with their follow-up release Genesis

Genesis (Job for a Cowboy album)

Genesis is the debut full-length album by American death metal band Job for a Cowboy. Released on May 15, 2007 through Metal Blade Records, it is their first concept album and is based on possible consequences of the VeriChip, along with the Book of Revelation and apocalyptic theories...

, which is a purist death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

-sound oriented album, Lee then ended the review stating: "Almost overnight, hordes of MySpace

MySpace

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 copycats sprang up, even lifting the band's logo font. This is where it all started - or ended, depending on your perspective."

The track "Knee Deep" was central to a popular YouTube

YouTube

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 video in which the track was synchronized to a clip of the SpongeBob SquarePants

SpongeBob SquarePants

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 episode "Band Geeks". The clip features various members of the SpongeBob SquarePants cast playing instruments along with "Knee Deep" overlayed to it (originally in the episode appearing as performing the song "Sweet Victory" by David Glen Eisley

David Glen Eisley

David Glen Eisley is an American actor and musician.Eisley was born in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of Anthony Eisley. While in high school, he played drums for the band Mammoth, an Iron Butterfly cover band. He has been in the AOR bands Giuffria and Dirty White Boy...

).

Track listing

Personnel

Job for a Cowboy

• Jonny Davy – vocals
  Singing
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• Ravi Bhadriraju – guitar
  Guitar
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• Brent Riggs – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Andrew Arcurio – guitar
• Elliott Sellers – drums
  Drum kit
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Production

• Cory Spotts
  Cory Spotts
  Cory Spotts is a record producer from Phoenix, Arizona. Spotts runs BLUElight Audio|Media, a recording studio in Phoenix. In 2005 it was said that he was one of the most sought after producers in Arizona...
  
   and Alec Nichols – recording engineers
  Audio engineering
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  , producers
• Joel Lauver – mastering
  Audio mastering
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• Jonny Davy – artwork