''Further'' is the first full-length album from

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. This album's cover art was done by Heavy metal art veteran

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. Originally released in 2000, the US version featured 8 tracks, while the European version contained an additional 2 cover songs. A revamped version featuring these two additional songs was re-released in America in 2005.

Track listing

German/2000 Vinyl release

#A1 "Man Dog" – 7:11 #A2 "Black Unholy Ground" – 7:30 #A3 "Whistle Pig" – 4:14 #B1 "Followed" – 8:29 #B2 "Suspicious Tower" – 4:40 #B3 "Another Life" – 4:32 (

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) #C1 "Hungry Mother" – 2:26 #C2 "Angels Dreaming" – 9:01 #C3 "We Bite" – 2:12 ( The Misfits

) #D1 "Heavy Birth/2-Fisted" – 11:28 #D2 "Hungry Mother/Reprise" – 1:30 This version has a different running order of the tracks, the instrumental "Hungry Mother/Reprise" is only released here. It was pressed as a double LP in colored vinyl by the German Label "People like you Records" and released under the following catalogue number: PRISON 991–1. "Heavy Birth/2-Fisted" was cut before the silence began.

US/2000 release

#"Man Dog" – 7:11 #"Black Unholy Ground" – 7:30 #"Followed" – 8:29 #"Whistle Pig" – 4:14 #"Hungry Mother" – 2:26 #"Angels Dreaming" – 9:01 #"Suspicious Tower" – 4:40 #"Heavy Birth/2-Fisted" – 16:23

European/2005 release

) #"We Bite" ( The Misfits

) * The title ''Further'' is an indirect reference to

's debut EP ''Distanced from Reality'', the idea being that the band is "distanced even further from reality". * Lyrics to only four of the songs on this album have ever been officially released. It is commonly believed that the intensely personal nature of vocalist

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Line up

* Tommy Southard: Guitars *

: Vocals, Lyrics * Rob Hultz: Bass *Bill "Bixby" Belford: Drums *Eric Rachel: Recording, Production *Alan Douches: Mastering

References

External links

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