Black Ice

2008 Blues Rock Hard Rock

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Tracklist

A1 Rock N Roll Train 4:21
A2 Skies On Fire 3:34
A3 Big Jack 3:57
A4 Anything Goes 3:22
B1 War Machine 3:09
B2 Smash N Grab 4:06
B3 Spoilin’ For A Fight 3:17
B4 Wheels 3:28
C1 Decibel 3:34
C2 Stormy May Day 3:10
C3 She Likes Rock N Roll 3:53
C4 Money Made 4:15
D1 Rock N Roll Dream 4:41
D2 Rocking All The Way 3:22
D3 Black Ice 3:25

Musicians

Production

Brendan O’BrienProducer

Also credited. Art Direction: Joshua Marc Levy. Design: Joshua Marc Levy. Illustration: Joshua Marc Levy. Engineer (Additional): Billy Bowers. Engineer (Assistant): Eric Mosher. Engineer: Mike Fraser. Mixed By: Mike Fraser. Graphics: You Work For Them. Lacquer Cut By: Marko Kluge. Management: Alvin Handwerker, Prager And Fenton LLP.. Mastered By: George Marino. Photography By: Guido Karp. Technician (Equipment): Geoff Banks, Richard Jones, Rick St. Pierre.

Release notes

Recorded at the Warehouse Studio, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Mastered at Sterling Sound, NYC.

Housed in an embossed gatefold sleeve, the red elements to the front are embossed. The sleeve is gloss black intercut with a highly intricate matte patterning.
The discs are held in side opening black / red picture inner sleeves of thin card. These have a soft sheen finish.
Some copies came with a hype sticker applied to the shrink-wrap.
Some copies from independent UK retailers came with a 25mm button pin badge.

The numbers 88697383771-1 and 88697383771-2 are printed on the inner sleeves.

Runouts are stamped except 88697383771 are etched.
Pressing plant and lacquer cut identified based on the runout areas.

[Additional information about the faintly inscribed geometric marks:]
In the runouts, variant 1 “=l2”, “T=2”, “T+2”, “UT”, variant 3 “2I=”, “2=T”, “2+Λ”, “ⱽI=” are mirrored.