Cat Rapes Dog is a Swedish

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, EBM and heavy metal band, formed in 1984 by Joel Rydström and Magnus Fransson. Initially the band self-released a number of albums on cassette, (then a trend followed by many independent acts of their type), plus a cassette album & vinyl singles on Swedish label Front Music Production. Between 1989 and 1991 Cat Rapes Dog released three studio albums on KK Records, a Belgian independent label specialising in

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or Vomito Negro) that released over 300 titles between 1987 and 1996. Multiple Cat Rapes Dog albums were later released on Swedish independent labels

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in 2013. Additional retrospective compilations have also been released by the above mentioned labels.

Discography

Albums

* Cat Rapes Dog (1986, MC) * Nekronomikon (1987, MC) * Property Produces Bodily Injury (1987, MC) * Maximum Overdrive (1989) * God, Guns & Gasoline (1990) * Superluminal (1991) * Schizophrenia (1993) * Moosehair Underwear (1993) * Biodegradable (1995) * Fuck Nature (1995) * More Than You Bargained For (1995) * The Secrets of God (1998) * People As Prey (1999) * Life Was Sweet (2013)

Singles and EPs

* Columna Vertebralis (1989) * Down & Out (1998) * American Dream 7" (1990) * Chuckahomo Bridge 12" (1990) * Fundamental 12" (1990) * Madman / True Love 7" (1990) * I Sometimes Wish I Was Famous (1991) (A Swedish

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cover album: CRD collaborates with one track: "Something to Do" in which they altered some of the lyrics.) * The Banzai Beats (1991) * Superluminal (1991) * Trojan Whores (1992) * Moosewear (1993) * Nej till EU (1994) * Sucking Dry (1994) * Motörhead Tribute (1995) (A Scandinavian

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cover album: CRD collaborates with " Deaf Forever".) * Motorman (1998) * Workers of The World (1998) * Miaow at the Moon (2003)

External links

Official homepage
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Discogs Entry

artist information/discography page at CyberNoise
{{Authority control Electronic body music groups Swedish industrial music groups Musical groups established in 1984