''Future Addict'' is the seventh
studio album
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by the American guitarist
Marty Friedman.
The album is a collection of reworked, reconstructed and completely remade versions of songs spanning Marty's entire career, including a few songs from his
Megadeth
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years. In addition, there are also 3 new songs on the record: "Barbie", "Tears Of An Angel" and the first single "Simple Mystery".
Track listing
Notes
*Tracks 3, 6, 8 originally recorded by Megadeth (''
Rust in Peace'', ''
Risk
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'', and ''
Youthanasia
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'' respectively).
*Tracks 4 and 5 originally recorded by Cacophony ("Speed Metal Symphony", 1987).
*Track 7 originally recorded by Aloha (Demo, 1982) and later by Hawaii ("One Nation Underground", 1983).
*Track 9 originally recorded by Marty Friedman (1st Press "Loudspeaker", 2006).
*Track 10 originally recorded by Vixen (Demo, 1981) and later by Hawaii ("One Nation Underground", 1983).
*Track 11 originally recorded by Deuce.
Personnel
;Band members
*
Marty Friedman - guitars, bass (tracks 1, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12), backing vocals (track 5)
* Jeremy Colson - vocals, drums (tracks 1-9, 11)
;Session members
* Tom Harriman - Orchestration (track 12), Conductor (track 12)
* Alan Steinberger - Orchestration (track 12)
*
Jeff Loomis
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- guitar (track 4)
* Jimmy Amason - guitars (slide) (track 8)
*
Billy Sheehan - bass (tracks 3, 5, 7)
* Masaki - bass (tracks 2, 4, 10)
* Alyssa Pittaluga - voice (track 8)
* Tom Azevedo - backing vocals (track 2)
*
Elizabeth Schall
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- backing vocals (track 4)
* Nicolas Farmakalidis - programming (additional) (track 1), programming (atmospheric) (track 7)
* Masatsugu Shinozaki - Chinese
Erhu (track 12)
* Takeomi Matsuura - audio manipulation (tracks 7, 11)
;Production
* Allen Isaacs - engineering, mixing, producer
* Charlie Pakkari - engineering
* Ryosuke Maekawa - engineering
* Alyssa Pittaluga - engineering (assistant)
* Mike Laza - engineering (assistant), sequencing (track 8)
* Dino Alden - mixing
* Yuji Chinone - mastering
* Marty Friedman - producer
* Hiroshi Inagaki - executive producer
* Shigetomo Sugawara - executive producer
* Takaaki Henmi - photography
* Masa Ito - liner notes (Japanese)
References
External links
Martyfriedman.com
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2008 albums
Marty Friedman albums