''Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead'' is the fourth studio album by American

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band

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. It is the only album to feature vocalist

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, as well as the band's only album without vocalist Sherwood Webber IV. The album art features first person point view of Noah Carpenter wearing a

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pointing a rifle at them, perhaps even stabbing the onlooker with an attached bayonet.

Track listing

All songs written by Jason Keyser and Noah Carpenter.

Notes

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. The sample at the start of the next track, "A Unilateral Disgust," is from

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. The sample at the start of "Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead" is from

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. The fifth sample is at the end of track seven, "Execution of Reason," which is from

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- The Touch of Satan episode. The tour in support of the album included headlining the final

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Festival in

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, Australia.

Line up

*Jason Keyser - Vocals *Joe Keyser - Bass *Noah Carpenter - Guitar *Bob Beaulac - Drums

References

2006 albums Skinless albums {{2000s-death-metal-album-stub