Severance is the debut album by

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band Daysend. It was released by Chatterbox Records in Australia on 3 November 2003 and in the

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by Locomotive Records in November 2004. The song "Beggars With Knives" was included on the Faultline Records compilation album ''

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2005'' in 2005. ''Severance'' took ten days to record and was produced by DW Norton and Nik Tropiano.

Track listing

#"Born is the Enemy" − 5:21 #"Ignorance of Bliss" − 4:29 #"Blood of Angels" − 3:54 #"Countdown" − 5:20 #"Prism of You" − 3:40 #"End of Days" − 4:09 #"Severance Day" − 3:41 #"Sellout" − 4:33 #"September" − 4:09 #"Beggars With Knives" − 3:04 #"Sibling" − 7:00

Personnel

*Simon Calabrese -

Vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

*Meredith Webster -

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*Aaron Bilbija -

Lead Guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

*Wayne Morris -

Drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

*Michael Kordek - Rhythm Guitar {{DEFAULTSORT:Severance (Album) 2003 debut albums Daysend albums