''Congregation'' is the third full length, and first live, album by Irish

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band

Kerbdog Kerbdog were an alternative metal band from Kilkenny, Ireland, formed in 1991. Following two albums released on Mercury Records, the band split up in 1998. Since 2005, they have reformed for a series of occasional one-off performances. In 2012 ...

. The bulk of the album was recorded in 2012 at three different gigs in England and Ireland. A studio track entitled "Electricity" (a re-working of an old 1997 demo called "Soaking Wet") was recorded at Tower Studios in

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in July 2014. A Pledge campaign was unveiled on 23 June 2014 to help fund and promote the new release. The campaign had reached 100% of its goal on 6 October 2014. The album was released on 10 October 2014 through Pledge Music and Graphite Records. "Congregation" was released as a CD/DVD package and also as a Download. The DVD includes videos for "Electricity", "Severed", and "Pointless". There is also a live video of "On the Turn" from Sonisphere recorded on 6 July 2014, featuring Dave Draper on bass as a last minute replacement for Colin Fennelly, although the audio itself is the live album version from 2012.

Track listing

All songs written by Kerbdog. #"On the Turn" #"Pledge" #"

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" #"Secure" #"Lesser Shelf" #"Rewind" #"Severed" #"Didn't Even Try" #" Earthworks" #"Scram" #" Dry Riser" #" Sally" #"Sorry for the Record" #"End of Green" #"Pointless" #"JJ's Song" #"Electricity"

New studio track

Personnel

Cormac Battle Cormac Battle (born 11 July 1972) is an Irish musician and radio presenter/producer. He is the vocalist and lead guitarist for the bands Kerbdog, Wilt, Jonny's Boys, and On the turn. He is also the current presenter of RTÉ 2fm's alternative mus ...

– Guitar, Vocals *Darragh Butler – Drums *Billy Dalton – Guitar on tracks 9, 11, 17 *Colin Fennelly – Bass *Dave Draper – Producer,

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, Mixing *Canice Mills – Assistant live engineer *Elliot Vaughan – Assistant live engineer *Gareth Strange – Assistant live engineer

UK Singles

*"Electricity" b/w "Pointless" (live) (7" vinyl)

References

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