Heirs to Thievery

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Heirs to Thievery
Misery Index - Heirs to Thievery.jpg
Studio album by
Misery Index
ReleasedMay 11, 2010 (2010-05-11)
RecordedJan 2010 [1]
Genre Death metal, grindcore
Length34:21
Label Relapse
Producer Misery Index, Steve Wright
Misery Index chronology
Traitors
(2008)		Heirs to Thievery
(2010)		 The Killing Gods
(2014)

Heirs to Thievery is the fourth full-length album by American death metal band Misery Index. It was released by Relapse Records on May 11, 2010. [2] It is the band's final album with lead guitarist Sparky Voyles.

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, aggressive, powerful drumming featuring double kick and blast beat techniques, minor keys or atonality, abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes, and chromatic chord progressions. The lyrical themes of death metal may invoke slasher film-stylized violence, religion, occultism, Lovecraftian horror, nature, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, science fiction, and politics, and they may describe extreme acts, including mutilation, dissection, torture, rape, cannibalism, and necrophilia.

Misery Index (band) American deathgrind band

Misery Index is an American death metal band formed in 2001 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, by Jason Netherton, Mike Harrison, and Kevin Talley (drums). From 2006–2010, its line-up consisted of Netherton on vocals and bass, John Voyles on lead guitar, Mark Kloeppel on vocals and rhythm guitar, and Adam Jarvis on drums. In 2010, Voyles left the band and was replaced by Darin Morris.

Relapse Records record label in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, United States

Relapse Records is an American independent record label based in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Matthew F. Jacobson in 1990. The label features a large number of grindcore, death metal, and sludge metal artists.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Embracing Extinction"Jason NethertonAdam Jarvis, Mark Klöppel1:49
2."Fed to the Wolves"NethertonJarvis, Sparky Voyles3:47
3."The Carrion Call"NethertonJarvis, Klöppel3:46
4."Heirs to Thievery"NethertonJarvis, Klöppel2:53
5."The Spectator"NethertonJarvis, Netherton3:04
6."The Illuminaught"KlöppelJarvis, Klöppel3:54
7."The Seventh Cavalry"Klöppel, NethertonJarvis, Klöppel4:44
8."Plague of Objects"NethertonJarvis, Netherton3:08
9."You Lose"KlöppelJarvis, Klöppel2:30
10."Sleeping Giants"NethertonJarvis, Netherton2:56
11."Day of the Dead"Mough Alvarado, KlöppelJarvis, Klöppel1:50
Total length:34:21

Personnel

Misery Index

Drum kit collection of drums and other percussion instruments

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum. A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones – most significantly cymbals, but can also include the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some kits also include electronic instruments. Also, both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used.

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Electric guitar electrified guitar; fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

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Dying Fetus American death metal band

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Production

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r1783932
  2. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003813LB8
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