Fear Before (album)
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Fear Before is the self-titled fourth full length album from experimental rock
band, Fear Before. The album was released on October 28, 2008 through Equal Vision Records
and was produced by Casey Bates and recorded at Johnny Cab Studios and London Bridge studio in Seattle, WA. This is the first album on which they do not use their former name "Fear Before the March of Flames".
On September 22, 2008, the band released the song "Fear Before Doesn't Listen To People Who Don't Like Them" in mp3 format to those exclusively on their mailing list. The song is now listenable on their MySpace
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From October 20, 2008 to October 21, 2008, the full album was up for streaming on the band's last.fm page
Guest vocals
Production
is named after the nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll
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This is the first album where former drummer Brandon Proff does not provide artwork and also the first album not to feature some form of skyscrapers on the cover. Instead, David Bell who directed the music video for "Taking Cassandra to the End of the World Party" provides artwork.
Also, this is the first album where the majority of the lyrics are written by lead vocalist David Marion. On all past albums, lead guitarist and back up vocalist Adam Rupert Fisher wrote the vast majority of the lyrics.
Experimental rock
Experimental rock or avant-garde rock is a type of music based on rock which experiments with the basic elements of the genre, or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique....
band, Fear Before. The album was released on October 28, 2008 through Equal Vision Records
Equal Vision Records
Equal Vision Records is a record label based in Albany, New York, which has a focus in metal or punk-based rock genres. Equal Vision Records was founded in the early 1990s by Ray Cappo ....
and was produced by Casey Bates and recorded at Johnny Cab Studios and London Bridge studio in Seattle, WA. This is the first album on which they do not use their former name "Fear Before the March of Flames".
On September 22, 2008, the band released the song "Fear Before Doesn't Listen To People Who Don't Like Them" in mp3 format to those exclusively on their mailing list. The song is now listenable on their MySpace
MySpace
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From October 20, 2008 to October 21, 2008, the full album was up for streaming on the band's last.fm page
Track listing
Personnel
Fear Before- Adam R. Fisher – guitars, keyboards, vocals, programming
- Clayton "Goose" Holyoak – drums
- Michael L. Madruga – bass
- David M. Marion – vocals
- Zachary M. Hutchings – guitars
Guest vocals
- Robert Smith of Heavy Heavy Low LowHeavy Heavy Low LowHeavy Heavy Low Low is a four piece Mathcore band from San Jose, California.-Biography:Formed in early 2004 in San Jose, California, Heavy Heavy Low Low began playing what may be called thrash , then metalcore, before evolving into a decidedly more style, and now, with the release of...
– on track 4 - Zach Carothers of Portugal. The ManPortugal. The ManPortugal. The Man is an American psychedelic rock band based in Portland, Oregon, but originally from Wasilla, Alaska. The group released their first two albums with Fearless Records. They also released material on their own imprint Approaching AIRballoons through indie label Equal Vision Records...
– on track 6 - Dreu Damian of I Am The Ocean – on tracks 7 and 10
- Thomas ErakThomas ErakThomas Joseph Erak , is the former lead guitarist and lead vocalist from Mukilteo, Washington based progressive rock band The Fall of Troy. His new project, Just Like Vinyl, was officially announced on July 8, 2010. Thomas is currently endorsed by Gibson USA, Orange Amplification, Ernie Ball and...
of The Fall of TroyThe Fall of TroyThe Fall of Troy was an American progressive math rock trio from Mukilteo, Washington. The trio consisted of Thomas Erak , Andrew Forsman and Frank Ene...
– on track 10 - Quentin Smith of VauxVaux (band)-History:Vaux was formed in 1997 in Denver, Colorado, under the original name Eiffel. They released a 7" single themselves, To Write A Symphony, in 1998. Indie label Undecided Records signed the band after they had toured the East Coast extensively for two years, and the band's debut album...
– on track 10
Production
- Produced and engineered by Casey Bates
- Mastered by Will Quinnell
- Art by David Bell
Trivia
The song JabberwockyJabberwocky
"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense verse poem written by Lewis Carroll in his 1872 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
is named after the nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
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This is the first album where former drummer Brandon Proff does not provide artwork and also the first album not to feature some form of skyscrapers on the cover. Instead, David Bell who directed the music video for "Taking Cassandra to the End of the World Party" provides artwork.
Also, this is the first album where the majority of the lyrics are written by lead vocalist David Marion. On all past albums, lead guitarist and back up vocalist Adam Rupert Fisher wrote the vast majority of the lyrics.