GRAVE ROBBER “BE AFRAID”
(Collector’s Edition)
Band Name: Grave Robber
Album Title: Be Afraid
Style: Horror Punk/Metal
Product ID: RAR7858
Record Label: Retroactive Records
Release Date: October 6th 2009
Barcode: 845121010763
Insert: 4 panel Digipak with lyrics, full color
Tracks: 16 including one bonus track Remix by Angel of the mainstream metal band Dope/Love Hurts cover song
ABOUT THE ALBUM
If you like your gothic/shock rock spiked with a little arsenic and a healthy dose of dark humor, check out Be Afraid! Band members Dr. Cadaver, Nameless, and Maggot offer you chainsaw guitars, super-tight arrangements, and blatant morbidity wrapped around insanely catchy choruses. Wretched provides elite vocal skills in a mesmerizing Danzig/Rob Halford sort of way! Their theatrical stage show, zombie-like costumes (in GWAR-like fashion!), let fans know this is not your everyday band.
Formed in 2005, these devil's rejects arm themselves with sonic, vibratory executions and images of horrific realities, bringing an onslaught of sound and warning that will ring into eternity. Rest assured, you will be afraid. You will be very afraid. Fans of Rackets and Drapes, The Misfits, Alice Cooper, Type O Negative, Gwar, Kiss, Danzig, and Rob Zombie will find themselves feeling as though they strolling in familiar musical history, yet simultaneously wading through a dense mire of uncharted territory. There's nothing more terrifying than the unknown. Grave Robber is the one band that can hold your hand on a decidedly horrifying romp, leading you safely to the other side. Heed the call of Grave Robber. Die and escape the grave, or die eternally.
The band's name (taken from a Petra song) references Jesus' return as the true grave robber, when Christ's followers we will be "raised as incorruptible, and we shall be changed" and "Death is swallowed up in victory." (1 Cor 15:52, 54) While in church one evening, the message of Romans 6:11, which instructs to "reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God yet alive in Christ" was preached just prior to communion. This concept of being "dead" to sin and symbolically eating the flesh and drinking the blood, coupled with a passion to reach a people who are largely ignored by the church, sparked a flame in the hearts of the members of Grave Robber to begin this unique ministry.
This four panel digipak is the re-release of the 2007 jewel case version. It features the alternate cover (that was the back panel on the 2007 edition) and the unreleased bonus track, “Love Hurts” made famous by band, Nazareth (exclusive to this release).
KEY SELLING POINTS
- Collectively the band member shave opened for At The Drive In, Building 429, Calibretto, Cracker, Dead Poetic, Disciple, Ghoti
Hook, Headnoise, (hed) PE, The Huntingtons, Jackyl, Jeremy Camp, John Rueben, Joy Electric, Kids In The Way, The Misfits,
Mute Math, Papa Roach, Petra, Relient K, Saliva, Skillet, Squad 5-0, Stryper, Superchic[k], The Undead (Ex-Misfits Bobby
Steele), The Urge, The Verve Pipe, W.A.S.P., Atreyu, Billy Idol, Fall Out Boy, The Offspring, Dropkick Murphys, My Chemical
Romance, and Taking Back Sunday, Godsmack and Stryper, plus many more!
-HM Magazine feature spot, Heaven's Metal subscribers sampler cd
-Featured on 5000 Headbangin' 201 Retroactive Records budget sampler CDs & 7000 SOD subscribers CDs
Tracks: 1) The Exorcist, 2) Skeletons, 3) Burn Witch, Burn, 4) Bloodbath, 5) Rigor Mortis, 6) Buried Alive, 7) Screams of the Voiceless, 8) Golgotha, 9) Reanimator, 10) Schizofiend, 11) Dark Angel, 12) I Wanna Kill You Over and Over Again, 13) I, Zombie, 14) Army of the Dead, 15) Bonus Track: Rigor Mortis (Team Cybergeist Remix) by Angel from the mainstream metal band Dope 16) Love Hurts (Nazareth cover)
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