''Imperial Prototype'' is the eleventh studio album by

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. The album was released on Brandon's own record label Eastersnow and all the songs were written just prior to recording. A blog on the official Spear of Destiny Myspace said the album would be available through SOD's own mailing list and live outlets before their new distributors Redeyeusa made it available worldwide but Despite the blog saying the album would be available on iTunes as a download it never was. All the members of the band at the time of which the album was released were previously in other successful or semi-successful bands before joining

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. Craig Adams who plays bass was previously in

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and The Mission,

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has been in

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, Steve Alan Jones was in

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and Robin Goodridge was in Bush. Brandon claims his favourite song from the album is "Death in the Mountains".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Kirk Brandon; except where indicated # "Santa Clause" - 3:42 # "Berlin Berlin" - 4:13 # "Lock & Key" - 3:02 # "‘79" - 4:29 # "Donkey Ride" - 3:27 # "Death in the Mountains" - 5:55 # "Bizarre Personality" - 3:13 # "Wake of a Ship" - 6:09 # "Thoughts of an Imperial Prototype" - 3:09 # "Tupelo Prince" (lyrics:

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) - 2:51 # "Treachery" - 5:06

Personnel

;Spear of Destiny *

- vocals, guitar * Robin Goodridge - drums * Craig Adams - bass *

- guitar *Steve Allan Jones - keyboards

References

2007 albums Spear of Destiny (band) albums {{2007-rock-album-stub