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Country: England
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Year: 2013
Format: Album
Released on CD (also limited digipak; tin first aid kit box set, limited to 1000 numbered copies), 12" vinyl (see details below).

Tracklisting
1. 1985 (01:15)
2. Thrasher's Abattoir (01:50)
3. Cadaver Pouch Conveyor System (04:02)
4. A Congealed Clot of Blood (04:14)
5. The Master Butcher's Apron (04:00)
6. Noncompliance to ASTM F899-12 Standard (06:07)
7. The Granulating Dark Satanic Mills (04:10)
8. Unfit for Human Consumption (04:25)
9. 316L Grade Surgical Steel (05:20)
10. Captive Bolt Pistol (03:17)
11. Mount of Execution (08:25)
12. Intensive Battery Brooding * (04:43)
13. A Wraith in the Apparatus ** (03:30)
= 00:55:18


* = Bonus on digipak and Japanese editions.
** = Bonus on Japanese edition.

Produced by Colin Richardson.
Mixed and mastered by Andy Sneap.
Recording engineered by Carl Brown.
Recorded at Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire, England, and The Treehouse Studios, Derbyshire, England.
Additional preproduction and final mixing and mastering at Backstage Studios, Derbyshire.

All music by William Geoffrey "Bill" Steer / Jeffrey "Jeff" Walker / Daniel "Dan" Wilding.
All lyrics by Walker.

Cover art composed by Walker based on an original concept by Martin Nesbitt. Photographed by Ian T. Tilton.
Additional incidental art by Mircea Gabriel Eftemie.
Band photography by Adrian Erlandsson.

Line-up (up, left to right):
William Geoffrey "Bill" Steer - guitar, additional vocals
Jeffrey "Jeff" Walker - bass, vocals
Daniel "Dan" Wilding - drums

Additional musicians:
Ken Owen - additional vocals on 2 & 8
Chris Gardner - backing vocals


Vinyl editions:

First European pressing, 2x12" (09/13/2013)
- 100 hand-numbered copies on silver vinyl + poster (for Nuclear Blast Bronze Customers)
- 250 hand-numbered copies on dark blue vinyl + poster (for Nuclear Blast mailorder)
- 250 hand-numbered copies on light blue vinyl + poster (for Nuclear Blast mailorder)
- 250 hand-numbered copies on orange vinyl + poster (for Nuclear Blast mailorder)
- 250 hand-numbered copies on dark brown vinyl + poster (for Nuclear Blast mailorder)
- 350 hand-numbered copies on red vinyl + poster (for Nuclear Blast mailorder)
- 200 hand-numbered copies on purple vinyl + poster (for Supreme Chaos Records mailorder)
- 200 hand-numbered copies on clear vinyl + poster (for High Roller Records Records mailorder)
- 100 copies on toxic green vinyl + poster (for Napalm Records, Austria)
- 1000 copies on white vinyl + poster
- black vinyl + poster

Second European pressing, 2x12" (10/11/2013)
- 200 copies on gold vinyl + poster

First US pressing, 1xLP (09/17/2013)
- 200 copies on clear vinyl
- 250 copies on yellow vinyl
- 250 copies on purple vinyl


First aid kit box set includes:
1 digipak - deluxe edition
1 pair of scissors
1 sterile first aid package incl.
- 1 adhesive tape
- 1 first aid dressing
- 4 adhesive plasters
- 1 standard dressing
- 2 wound dressings
- 1 conforming bandage
- 4 disposable gloves


Related websites:
Nuclear Blast Records website :: www.nuclearblast.de

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