''Doomsday'' (also known as ''Brap: Doomsday: Back and Forth Volume 5: Live in Dresden'') is a live CD from the band,

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. The album was recorded at an August 20, 2000 performance at the

Doomsday Festival The Doomsday Festival was a two-day music festival held August 19–20, 2000, at the Ostragehege in Dresden, Germany. The event featured a wide range of bands, but is best known as the occasion of Skinny Puppy's reunion concert, which closed the fe ...

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. This performance marked the reunion of former bandmates,

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and

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. It was the first Skinny Puppy concert since 1992, first in Europe since 1988, and first ever in the former

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. Skinny Puppy resumed touring in 2004 with The Greater Wrong of the Right Tour.

Track listing

Original Performance

The CD is an edited version of the concert as four songs were omitted. The original concert

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was as follows: #Choralone * #Deep Down Trauma Hounds #Love in Vein #Inquisition #Hardset Head * #Convulsion #Worlock #Grave Wisdom #Killing Game #Social Deception #First Aid #Testure #Dig It #Tin Omen #Nature's Revenge * #Harsh Stone White #The Choke #Smothered Hope * * Denotes that this song was not included on the CD release. "Hardset Head", which had never been performed live before, was to appear on the CD but was dropped due to copyright issues. It was available for download as an

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file on Nettwerk's website and later appeared on '' Back and Forth 6'' in 2003.

DVD

The show was also recorded via DV video for a DVD release. Nettwerk, due to financial reasons, ultimately decided against the release.

Personnel

– live drums *

– vocals Backing tapes were used for the rest of the music.

Production

*''Stefen Herwig'' - Doomsday live show production *''Mike Schorler'' & ''Sven Borges'' - Concert Promotion *''

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'' - Recording & sound engineer *''

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'' Programmed By (Additional) *''Ernst Tochtenhagen'' - Local stage management *''Graf Haufen'' - Video footage, Video production *''Christian Poeck'' - Video production *''Udo Strass'' - Video Projection *''Alex Skull'' - Backline *''Ellen Döhring'' - Additional backline *''Marcus Scriba'' & ''

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'' - Ogre doubles *''Thomas Schöttler'' - Device coordination *''Gunter Wessling'' - Device construction *''

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'' -

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puppet creation *''Mark Bramhill'' - Backup vocalist

References

{{Authority control Albums with cover art by Dave McKean 2001 live albums Skinny Puppy live albums Skinny Puppy video albums 2001 video albums Live video albums Nettwerk Records live albums Nettwerk Records video albums