Cut to the Chase (Vampire Rodents album)

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Cut to the Chase
Vampire Rodents - Cut to the Chase.jpg
Compilation album by
ReleasedNovember 12, 2019 (2019-11-12)
Recorded1993 (1993) – 1995 (1995)
Genre
Length60:10
Label Rodentia Productions
Vampire Rodents chronology
Gravity's Rim (Instrumental Version)
(2018)
Cut to the Chase
(2019)
Daniel Vahnke chronology
Early Soundtrack Sketches, Vol. II
(2018)
Cut to the Chase
(2019)
ElevatorMan
(2020)

Cut to the Chase is a compilation album by Vampire Rodents, released on November 12, 2019, by Rodentia Productions. The album compiles tracks from outside the band's main discography, namely the previously unreleased songs "Cut to the Chase", "Henry Catwallace", "Lizardman" and "Blind Acceleration", remixed tracks by Chemlab, Killing Floor and Penal Colony and the song "Cocked, Loaded & Ready" with the original opening intact. [1] [2]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicArtistLength
1."Cut to the Chase" Daniel Vahnke Daniel Vahnke Vampire Rodents 2:50
2."Henry Catwallace" Vahnke Ether Bunny 4:20
3."Chemical Halo" (V. Rodents' Sax Mix) Jared Louche Dylan Thomas More Chemlab 4:30
4."Blind Acceleration"VahnkeVahnke Vampire Rodents 2:41
5."Lizardman"Vahnke
Vampire Rodents 4:36
6."Cocked, Loaded & Ready" Mel Hammond Vahnke Vampire Rodents 4:31
7."Gout" (V. Rodents' Mix) Dee Madden
  • Jason Hubbard
  • Dee Madden
  • Andy Shaw
  • Chris Shinkus
Penal Colony 3:01
8."Good Vibrations" (V. Rodents' Mix) Brian Wilson Brian Wilson Fleshhouse4:58
9."Combine" (V. Rodents' Mix)Madden
  • Hubbard
  • Madden
  • Shaw
  • Shinkus
Penal Colony 3:44
10."Valentine" (V. Rodents' Mix) Christian Void
  • James Basore
  • John Belew
  • Christian Void
  • Marc Phillips
  • Karl Tellefsen
Killing Floor 5:10
11."Reconciled" (V. Rodents' Mix)Madden
  • Hubbard
  • Madden
  • Shaw
  • Shinkus
Penal Colony 4:44
12."Clockseed" (Alt Vox Take)Vahnke Vampire Rodents 4:25
13."Heliopause" (Alt Vox Take)MaddenVahnke Vampire Rodents 2:50
14."Dowager's Egg" (Lo Vox Mix) Christian Void Vahnke Vampire Rodents 2:57
15."Chemical Halo" (Loud Sax Mix)LoucheMore Chemlab 4:44

Personnel

Adapted from the Cut to the Chase liner notes. [3]

Axon Tremolo

Additional performers

Production

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormat
United States2019 Rodentia Productions DL

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References

  1. Cappuccini, David (March 7, 2017). "Intervista a Daniel Vahnke (Vampire Rodents)". Santa Sangre. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
  2. Villa, Stefano (2009). "Vampire Rodents: La scienza del collage" (in Italian). Onda Rock. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  3. Cut to the Chase (digital). Vampire Rodents. Rodentia Productions. 2019.CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)