Exhumed/Iron Reagan

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Exhumed/Iron Reagan
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EP by Exhumed and Iron Reagan
Released January 7, 2014
Genre Death metal, crossover thrash
Length11:45
Label Tankcrimes
Producer Ryan Butler, Bob Quirk
Exhumed chronology
Necrocracy
(2013)		Exhumed/Iron Reagan
(2014)		 Death Revenge
(2017)
Iron Reagan chronology
Worse Than Dead
(2013)		Exhumed/
Iron Reagan
(2014)		 Spoiled
Identity EP
(2014)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Exclaim! 6/10 [1]

Exhumed/Iron Reagan is a split EP released in 2014 by San Jose, California death metal band Exhumed and Richmond, Virginia crossover thrash band Iron Reagan. [2]

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Contents

Track listing

Side one (Exhumed)
No.TitleLength
1."Gravewalker"2:29
2."Dead to the World"2:18
3."Seeing Red" (Minor Threat cover)0:52
4."Ready to Fight" (Negative Approach cover)1:12
Side two (Iron Reagan)
No.TitleLength
5."Life Beater"0:54
6."Gave Up on Giving a Fuck"1:24
7."Mini Lights"1:33
8."Holy Water Makes Me Wet"0:54

Personnel

Exhumed

Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

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References

  1. ↑ Rancic, Michael (6 January 2014). "Exhumed & Iron Reagan Split". Exclaim!. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "The New Exhumed/Iron Reagan Split is a Bloody Mess of Awesome". Noisey. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
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