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, which was released in 2001. After this album the band split up and

Karl Buechner Karl Buechner (born December 23, 1970) is an American musician from Syracuse, New York, best known as the frontman for the hardcore punk, hardcore band Earth Crisis. He is also the singer of Freya (band), Freya, Path of Resistance, Vehement Sere ...

, Erick Edwards and Bulldog went on to form the band Freya. This album consists of seven covers of songs by other bands, three demo versions of earlier songs, and a new track titled "Panic Floods".

Track listing

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Children of the Grave "Children of the Grave" is a song by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, from their 1971 album ''Master of Reality''. The song lyrically continues with the same anti-war themes brought on by "War Pigs" and "Electric Funeral" from ''Paranoid ...

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) – 4:18 # "City to City" ( DYS) – 1:58 # "Earth A.D." ( The Misfits) – 2:44 # "The Order" – 3:40 # "Broken Foundation" – 4:07 # "Gomorrah's Season Ends" – 3:29 # "Panic Floods" – 3:36

Credits

– vocals *Scott Crouse – guitar *Erick Edwards – guitar *Bulldog – bass *Dennis Merrick – drums

Trivia

* On the back of the album some tracks are mislabeled. Track 3 is actually "Children of the Grave", track 4 is "Paint it Black", and track 6 is "City to City".

References

Earth Crisis albums Covers albums 2001 albums Victory Records albums {{2000s-metalcore-album-stub