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This song currently has the 13th longest song title ever, with 38 words.

The sample at the end of the track is a voicemail left on producer Matt Goldman’s cell phone while he and the band were on a lunch break from recording.

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Wars and Rumors of Wars is the third full-length album from the band The Chariot. The album is unique in that the first 25,000 CD cases were hand stamped, signed and numbered by the band, every member stamping 5,000 each. Similarly, the first 300 were stamped in red ink for a special pre-order.

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One Wing is the fifth studio album by The Chariot. The album was released on August 28, 2012 through Good Fight Entertainment and E1 Music. One Wing has been described by the band as being their “weirdest” release to date.

The album debuted at number 85 on the Billboard 200, the band’s highest position ever reached. It was also, upon its release, highly praised by reviewers, gaining a 94/100 score across six reviews on Metacritic.com.

The band started recording the album in May 2012. They tried to get singer Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins to be part of the record to some extent by contacting him on Twitter. Corgan ended up not being part of the project.

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Long Live is the fourth studio album by American mathcore band The Chariot. The album was released on November 23, 2010.

Shortly after the release of their previous album, Wars and Rumors of Wars, the band held a contest for its promotion through their Myspace blog. Readers were instructed to obtain one of each of the band members' signatures through purchasing copies of Wars, since Wars' CD cases were hand-stamped and each was signed by a different member. The first five people to do so would have a track on the band’s next album named after them. The “name” tracks, as they appear on Long Live, are in the order of the winners, from first to last.

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The Fiancée is the second full-length album from The Chariot, released on April 3, 2007. The first eight track titles make up a passage from a poem often called “The Backward Rhyme” or “Contradiction Poem”. There are many variations of the exact poem and the original author is unknown. A similar poem is “A Few Lines” by Groucho Marx

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Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Breathing, Nothing Is Dead, and Nothing Is Bleeding is the debut album by Douglasville, GA’s The Chariot. It was recorded completely live and overdub-free (as well as never being mastered), giving the album a very raw sound.

The liner notes on the CD contained the following message from the band:

This album was recorded live in a studio setting and no computers were used in the manipulation of our music. Everything that you hear was played by human beings, and was not copy/pasted by computers. That is why it sounds a little raw and uncoventional. Technology is a convenience, and it is okay to be used in moderation, but for the sake of the lost authentic sound of rock and roll, we decided to go the route of our forefathers and get it all in one take as best as we could. We believe that sweat and practice should persevere over the convenience of a computer. We believe that although this album may not be one hundred percent tight and perfect in every way (like you are used to) it will be authentic, and therefore understood. At least that is our hope. Thank you for your grace. Thank you for your support. We hope this album brings joy to your heart. -The Chariot

As such, the album has no production credits, however later versions (re-issues or the versions of the tracks which appeared on the compilation Before There Was) were produced by Matt Goldman and mastered by Troy Glessner

The track titles are intentionally long. Lead singer Josh Scogin made his thoughts on song titles clear in this 2014 interview with UTG TV:

I’m not into the idea of spoonfeeding. You know, making everything easy…. Part of that formula is you have a chorus that’s catchy and you name the song that. So that when you talk about this song, it comes up in my head, I remember it, now it’s stuck in my head.. it’s all part of the system. You’re a dollar sign, and that’s it…. the naming of the songs was very much just sort of, uh, I wanted to deconstruct that whole mentality…. I like the idea of not even having song titles…. I went through a phase where I named everything, like, 4 sentences long. And I enjoyed that as well, because it’s like you can’t yell that, like super simple “Play this song” and they’re done. It’s like, if they yell it, they’re committing to something. And that’s admirable.

Fan: “Hey man, play ‘Someday, in the Event That Mankind Actually Figures Out What it is That This World Revolves Around, Thousands of People are Going to Be Shocked and Perplexed to Find Out it Was Not Them. Sometimes, This Includes Me.’!”

Scogin: “You got it, dude, just for your dedication”

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The Chariot was an American hardcore band from Douglasville, Georgia, formed in 2003. The band was formed by Josh Scogin shortly after he left his position as vocalist in Norma Jean, and has experienced frequent lineup changes since its inception. The band plays an abrasive style of hardcore that does not adhere to typical stylings such as melodic/abrasive dynamics and harmonic vocals. They have built a reputation around their powerful live performances, with Josh Scogin’s lyrics covering topics like materialism, personal struggle, current events, politics, and Christian themes. Their music has been critically acclaimed as something “that will melt your face and leave you wanting more.”

On August 16, 2013, the band posted an announcement video for their final tour. The video, titled “All’s Well That Ends Well,” was captioned with a note to their fans:

Thank you. To everyone on this planet Earth that has ever supported us, helped us, watched us, hung out with us, given us a place to stay, given food, prayed over us, loaned us equipment, advised us, booked us, or given us a chance, no matter how big or small…we are forever grateful.

The band’s final show took place on November 23, 2013 in their home town of Douglasville, GA. Exactly one year later, they released a documentary about the final tour called “Forget Not”.

#members
Josh Scogin – Lead Vocals
Stephen Harrison – Rhythm Guitar, Backup Vocals
David Kennedy – Drums
Brandon Henderson – Lead Guitar, Backup Vocals

#former members
Jon Kindler – Bass Guitar, Backup Vocals (2006–2012)
Jon Terrey – Guitar, Backup Vocals (2006–2008, 2010)
Bryan Russell Taylor – Guitar (2008–2010)
Dan Vokey – Guitar, Backup Vocals (2008–2009)
Dan Eaton – Bass Guitar, Guitar, Backup Vocals (2006–2008)
Jake Ryan – Drums (2005–2008)
Joshua Beiser – Bass Guitar (2003–2006)
Keller Harbin – Guitar, Vocals (2003–2006)
Jeff Carter – Drums (2004–2005)
Tony Medina – Guitar (2003–2005)

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Son of the Morning is the second studio album by American metalcore band Oh, Sleeper. It was released on August 25, 2009, through Solid State Records. Vocalist Micah Kinard describes it as a concept album about a battle between Satan and God.

Kinard further explains that the story of Son Of The Morning is a direct chronological prequel to Oh, Sleeper’s following record, Children of Fire.

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Children of Fire is the third album by American metalcore band, Oh, Sleeper. It was released on September 6, 2011, in the United States through Solid State Records.

The album’s story is a direct chronological sequal to Oh Sleeper’s previous album, Son Of The Morning. Children Of Fire focuses on the aftermath of the battle between God and Satan. It begins by continuing from the end of “The Finisher,” which is the last track on their previous album Son of the Morning. The Finisher describes the final battle between God and Satan, and it ends in God severing the horns of Satan. Now, as the starting of the aftermath in this album, Satan’s horns have fallen to the ground, causing both God and Satan to vanish. Now all of humanity is left wondering what happened, so the first half of the album describes everyone coming to the general consensus that God and Satan are both dead and that they have killed each other in battle; thus, now there is no fear of Hell or reward of Heaven.

The album also follows two characters, one being an overzealous religious type who feels betrayed that he had devoted his life to God and that God has abandoned him. This drives his faith to unfurl, and it reveals that he had a shallow understanding of God. The other character is his daughter, who was a profound atheist, but became proven wrong after witnessing the battle between God and Satan. This delays her questioning of Christians and why they read God and Satan in different, less violent ways than she has just seen them. Towards the end of the album, she finds a group of believers who give her all the answers to her questions. The album ends with the destruction of the world, which occurs due to everything that has happened.

The first and only single for the album was “Endseekers”.

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“Dealers of Fame,” is a first-person narrative telling of the Dnepropetrovsk maniacs, who are infamous for their leaked online video that depicts their torture of an elderly man in a forest.

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