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This album was recorded in the spring and summer of 2004 at the sadly, now-defunct Goonsville Studios, in Seattle, Washington. Here’s the gear we used to make it:

Guitars:

• Either a custom Squire telecaster w/ humbuckers (outfitted by Peter Breyfogle of Breyfogle Instruments), or Epiphone Genesis
• Pedals:
  • Boss tuner –> Mesa/Boogie V-twin Tube Pre-amp (Modded by Peter, again) –> Boss EQ –> Boss Phaser –> Boss tremolo (Modded by Robert Keeley) –> Boss Delay Unit
• Amp:
  • Marshall Valvestate Amp head set on clean, just a touch of reverb -> Marshall 4-12 cabinet

Drums:

• CB700 Internationalle (tom, floor tom, 2 crashes) –> 4 mics (bass, snare/hi-hat, 2 overheads) –> Behringer mixer –> 4 track, tracks 1 and 2

Bass:

• Rickenbacker 4001 –> Crate bass combo, with a touch of compression

Vocals:

• SM58 or 57 run through a presonus tube preamp and DBX table-top compressor

Recorders:

• SM 57’s or Beta SM57’s for the overhead drum mics
• Yamaha MT4X
  cassette 4-track
• M-Audio Delta44
• Sonar3 Studio Edition

Duplicators:

• Diskfaktory in Irvine CA, 100 discs for 3.00 each

Hey Y’all,

Songs are back up! I’ve been telling people to come to the verse to listen to our album, and it hasn’t actually been linked here till now. Please enjoy, if you’d like to download the whole album in a .zip format just email me and i’ll get back atcha.

The Album Sounds like this:

1. The Valley of Jezreel
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2. In A One-Piece (On The Highdive)
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3. Sneakers & Skirts
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4. Opening The Mountain
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5. A Major American Poet
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6. If Your Daddy Hadn’t Pulled That Knife On Me (your Momma wouldn’t be cryin’)
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7. Separating Dark from Dark
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8. Pillow
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9. Setting Fire To The Walled City
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10. They Are So Very Hungry
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11. Sorority Security
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12. American Haircut
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13. There’s Only One Prophet Who Can Get This Party Started
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14. Never Find A Bigger Word
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15. He Is Your Son, Hobbes. He Is Your Son
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Get it all from the zip file here.

The Gods of Antiquity are:

Brooks Callison and Weston Sewall

Andy Feuk made the incredible art.

We are offering the entire record for download and Streaming, but if you dig the music and want the official cd, please feel free to purchase the disc. We also have the lyrics in case you are interested in knowing what is being yelled.

The music is being released under an attribution-non-commercial-share-alike creative commons license.