''Re-Animated'' is a remix album and second EP from

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. It was released digitally on May 10, 2011. The album consists of remixes of earlier tracks which are all found on his 2008

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album. The cover art is also the same cover art used for that album but with a green tint added to Wednesday's face.

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, former lead guitarist of

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contributed remixes on 2 of the album's tracks. All tracks from the Digital EP were re-released on the 2014 box set Dead Meat: 10 Years of Blood, Feathers & Lipstick with 5 extra remixes under the Disc title: "Re-Animated Resurrected".

Background

The album was released as a project to help donate money to the people of Japan who along with Wednesday during his 2011 reunion tour with the

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in Japan experienced first-hand the magnitude-8.9 earthquake that rocked the country. It was the fifth most powerful earthquake recorded since 1900. For the first month of release a portion of all sales were donated to the

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who were supporting and advising the Japan Red Cross who were assisting the government in its response at the time.

Track listing

Personnel

- vocals, guitars *Nate Manor - bass *Racci Shay - drums *Jamie Hoover - piano, slide guitars Remixers *

(Tracks 2 & 4) *Ross Smith (Tracks 1, 3 & 5)

Re-release

A physical release featuring the entire EP was released as part of Wednesday's Dead Meat: 10 Years of Blood, Feathers & Lipstick box set under the Disc title "Re-Animated Resurrected". This version featured 5 extra remixes. The track listing of the re-release is as follows: # "All American Massacre" (Skull Soup Mix) - 3:23 # "Gimmie, Gimmie Bloodshed" (Punishment & Cookies Mix) - 3:50 # "No Rabbit In the Hat" (Shotgun Solution Mix) - 3:30 # "Put Your Death Mask On" (Meat Hooker Mix) - 2:48 # "Scream Baby Scream" (Ghost Boo-Ty Mix) - 3:12 # "Bad Things" (Suffocation Celebration Mix) - 3:39 # "Rambo (Bullets & Bloodshed Mix) - 2:43 # "I Wanna Be Cremated" (Fun In Funeral Mix) - 3:19 # "Get Your Grave On" (Abra-Cadaver Mix) - 3:54 # "Hail Ming" (Reign In Green Blood Mix) - 3:35

Trivia

The name of the EP is a reference to H.P. Lovecraft's

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References

{{Authority control 2011 EPs Wednesday 13 albums