War Profiteering Is Killing Us All is the sixth and final studio album by the Detroit, Michigan

Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...

 punk rock

Punk rock

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 band The Suicide Machines

The Suicide Machines

The Suicide Machines were an American punk rock band formed in March 1991 in Detroit, Michigan and disbanded in May 2006. During the course of their career the band released six full-length albums on the labels Hollywood Records and Side One Dummy Records...

, released in 2005 by Side One Dummy Records. The band broke up the following year while touring in support of the album. The album's artwork and many of its songs are critical of President George W. Bush

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

's administration and the Iraq War. Musically the album explores the ska punk

Ska punk

Ska punk is a fusion music genre that combines ska and punk rock. It achieved its highest level of commercial success in the United States in the late 1990s. Ska-core is a subgenre of ska punk, blending ska with hardcore punk.The characteristics of ska punk vary, due to the fusion of contrasting...

 and hardcore

Hardcore punk

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 styles the band was known for, with short, aggressive songs dealing mostly with social and political topics. A music video

Music video

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 was filmed for the single "War Profiteering is Killing Us All."

Track listing

All songs written by The Suicide Machines

The Suicide Machines

The Suicide Machines were an American punk rock band formed in March 1991 in Detroit, Michigan and disbanded in May 2006. During the course of their career the band released six full-length albums on the labels Hollywood Records and Side One Dummy Records...

1. "War Profiteering Is Killing Us All" - 1:27
2. "Capitalist Suicide" - 1:40
3. "Ghost on Sunset Strip" - 2:14
4. "Junk" - 1:39
5. "17% 18-25" - 1:39
6. "Capsule (AKA Requiem for the Stupid Human Race)" - 1:36
7. "All Systems Fail" - 1:40
8. "Red Flag" - 2:18
9. "Nuclear Generators" - 1:57
10. "Bottomed Out" - 2:38
11. "Rebellion Is on the Clearance Rack (And I Think I Like It)" - 1:48
12. "Hands Tied" - 1:56
13. "I Went on Tour for Ten Years…and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" / "95% of the World Is Third World" - 5:59

Performers

• Jason Navarro - vocals
• Dan Lukacinsky
  Dan Lukacinsky
  Dan Lukacinsky is a singer and musician who provided vocals and guitar for the Suicide Machines. He now plays guitar and sings in Kick Like Kato. He's also been working as a producer for other bands and has been selling guitars for a living. He grew up in Detroit, Michigan and is currently living...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
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  , backing vocals
• Rich Tschirhart - bass
  Bass guitar
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  , backing vocals
• Ryan Vandeberghe - drums
  Drum kit
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Album information

• Record label: Side One Dummy Records
• Produced by Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore with The Suicide Machines
• All songs written by The Suicide Machines
• Recorded and mixed in April 2005 at The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado
  Fort Collins, Colorado
  Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, United States. Fort Collins is located north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. With a 2010 census...
  
  
• Mixed by Jason Livermore and Bill Stevenson
• Additional engineering by Andrew Berlin and Brian Kephart
• Mastered by Brian Gardener at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood, California
• Paintings by Jime Litwalk
• Design by Steve and Rich Tschirhart