Killing with a Smile
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Killing with a Smile is the debut album by Australian metalcore
band Parkway Drive, released in August, 2005 through Resist Records. A video was produced for "Smoke 'Em If Ya Got 'Em".
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Australian surf group the Bra Boys
featured four songs from the album in the documentary film Bra Boys: Blood Is Thicker than Water, the songs featured are "Gimme AD", "Anasasis (Xenophontis)", "Mutiny" and "It's Hard to Speak without a Tongue". The songs were all released on the soundtrack except for "It's Hard to Speak without a Tongue".
Production
Metalcore
Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...
band Parkway Drive, released in August, 2005 through Resist Records. A video was produced for "Smoke 'Em If Ya Got 'Em".
Track listing
In popular culture
The name for the song "Guns for Show, Knives for a Pro" is a quote from the film, Lock, Stock And Two Smoking BarrelsLock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 British crime film directed and written by Guy Ritchie. The story is a heist film involving a self-confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three card brag...
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Australian surf group the Bra Boys
Bra Boys
The Bra Boys is an Australian surf gang founded and based in Maroubra, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. Dating back to the 1990s, the gang has gained notoriety through violent clashes with members of the public and police...
featured four songs from the album in the documentary film Bra Boys: Blood Is Thicker than Water, the songs featured are "Gimme AD", "Anasasis (Xenophontis)", "Mutiny" and "It's Hard to Speak without a Tongue". The songs were all released on the soundtrack except for "It's Hard to Speak without a Tongue".
Personnel
Parkway Drive- Shaun Cash - bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Ben Gordon - 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 ....
- Luke Kilpatrick - guitarElectric guitarAn 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...
- Jeff Ling - guitar
- Winston McCall - vocals
Production
- Adam DutkiewiczAdam DutkiewiczAdam Jonathan Dutkiewicz is an American musician, recording engineer and music producer, best known as a guitarist and backup vocalist from Massachusetts metalcore band Killswitch Engage.-Biography:...
– producerRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...