Release Presentations

The Crucified - "The Complete Collection" (2 CD/ 1 DVD Set) (Digipak)

Tooth & Nail Records - June 30, 2009 - {Tracklist corrected & tracktimes added; 17 Old-School Photos posted on Tooth&Nail Flickr profile}

June 30th, 2009


 
 
"The Complete Collection" - [Promotion Site] - [Old-School Photos] - [Pre-order: 2CD/1DVD-Digipak]
 
The Crucified, a true punk band both in substance and attitude, formed in ’84 and performed and recorded until ’93. In their nine year history, The Crucified’s pioneering musical fingerprint inspired an entire genre still seen and heard today. 2009 marks the 25th anniversary of when The Crucified started making music. To celebrate, Tooth & Nail Records will be releasing a collector’s edition box-set of music, video and history. This set will include the never-before-released KGB demo and almost two hours of rare video footage! The Crucified returns to Cornerstone Fest this year: The guys will take the Encore Stage Friday night, July 3rd at MIDNIGHT. Don’t miss this show!
 
“I wouldn’t be a Christian today if it wasn’t for The Crucified.” - Sonny Sandoval / P.O.D.

“They were a huge inspiration to myself and the guys in Living Sacrifice.” - Bruce Fitzhugh / Living Sacrifice

“Anyone that knows of them is surely confident of this: that they could have dominated if they were ever let loose from the underground.” - Doug Van Pelt, Editor, HM Magazine

“I can still remember seeing them at Cornerstone and realizing Christian music was moving forward with leaps and bounds with every note they played. I wonder if all of today’s bands realize the huge doors they opened.” - Dan MacIntosh / Writer
 
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The Crucified - "The Complete Collection" - 2-CD / 1-DVD Set - (Digipak)
Tooth & Nail Records (#TND95355) - June 30th, 2009
 
Disc 1 - Demos
Disc 2 - Albums
KGB (1985)
01. Apathy (1:12)
02. All You Need (2:03)
03. Jesus (0:04)
04. We’re in a War (2:09)
05. G.O.D. (1:40)
06. Crucify Me (2:23)
07. He is the Reason (2:17)
08. I’m Not Afraid (of Nuclear War) (1:36)
09. Bummer (1:49)
10. I Am (1:02)

Take Up Your Cross (1986)
11. Silent Scream (1:50)
12. You Don’t Understand (1:37)
13. G.O.D. (1:34)
14. Seal Number Four (3:00)
15. Conviction (1:41)
16. No Decay (1:58)
17. This Howl (3:23)
18. Be Warned (2:38)
19. Rebellion (1:09)
20. All You Need (1:55)
21. Problem Solution (2:15)
22. Directed Youth (1:55)
23. Washed Out / Apathy Medley (2:09)
24. Freedom (1:38)
25. I Want to Be a Bug (0:42)

Nailed (1987)
26. I’m Not a Christian Punk (1:03)
27. Death to Death (1:41)
28. Your Image (1:26)
29. God in a Cage (1:47)
30. Crucified With Christ (1:29)
31. Give It Up (0:48)
32. Disposal (1:02)

Live at the New Order (1989)
33. Conviction / Seal Number Four (5:24)
34. Disposal (1:04)
35. I’m Not a Christian Punk /
 Death to Death (2:44)
36. Your Image (1:35)

’93 Ocean Recordings (1993) [Remixed]
37. Straining Life (3:21)
38. Power of God (4:11)

Total Playtime: 73:14
The Crucified (1989)
01. The Pit (3:09)
02. DieHard (2:56)
03. Your Image (1:28)
04. Getting a Grip on Things (3:17)
05. Hellcorn (3:11)
06. Rise (3:48)
07. One Demon to Another (3:05)
08. Unity (3:23)
09. A Guy in a Suit and the Pope (1:40)
10. Back to the Cross (3:35)
11. Confidence (2:33)
12. The Insult Circus (2:43)
13. Thread (2:27)
14. Crucial Moment (3:23)

The Pillars of Humanity (1991) [Remixed]
15. Intro / Hateworld (5:19)
16. It’s All About Fear (2:28)
17. The Wrong One (3:40)
18. Mindbender (3:44)
19. Path to Sorrow (3:58)
20. Fellowship of Thieves (3:10)
21. Focus (2:31)
22. The Strength (3:50)
23. Blackstone - So-Called Living, 1991 (4:12)
24. The Pillars of Humanity (2:58)

Total Playtime: 76:28
 
 
Disc 3 - DVD
 
Featuring nearly two hours of never
before seen footage (20+ songs from
various live shows, behind the scenes
footage from 1987 to 1992, and more)

 
 
 
Notes about Disc 1 - Demos:
Tracks 1-10 are from the KGB demo recorded sometime in ’85 soon after Mark became their vocalist. This demo was never released or sold. Tracks 11-25 is from Take Up Your Cross (’86) and 26-32 is from Nailed (’87). Both demos were sold exclusively via mail-order by the band and via selected underground publications and both demos were reissued by Tooth & Nail Records on one CD in 1994. Tracks 33-36 was previously released as the Live at the New Order tape, recorded by Greg Heil on 3-5-98 and sold/distributed via mail order. Tracks 37 & 38 were recorded during the weekend of 1-16-93 in the newly-constructed, state-of-the-art Ocean Studios in Burbank. As it turned out, these were the final songs recorded by the band. For this disc, Jason Martin remixed Straining Life & Power of God and remastered everything.

Notes about Disc 2 - Albums:
This disc contains the two albums that The Crucified released. Tracks 1-14 is from their self-titled album which was recorded at Casbah Studios in the summer of 1989 and first released by Narrowpath Records and distributed by Pure Metal Records. It was later purchased and reissued by Tooth & Nail Records in 1994.
Tracks 15-24 is from The Pillars of Humanity, recorded in March/April 1991 and released that summer on Ocean Records and distributed by Word Records. The master tapes were baked and then digitally transfered by John Strother at Penguin Recording and remixed in late 2008 by Jason Martin (jasonmartinrecording.com) and Steven Dail (myspace.com/stevendailrecording). Troy Glessner (spectrestudio.com) in Seattle mastered the disc.

Notes about Disc 3 - DVD:
Most (if not all) of the video footage was shot using Greg’s camera by either Greg himself or someone else. The footage was then imported and edited by Greg and Brian (Dexter) Poindexter (magicofdexter.com) in late 2008 and early 2009 using Dexter’s Mac and Final Cut Pro.
 
 
 _The Crucified in 2009 - Mark Salomon (vocals), Jeff Bellew (bass), Greg Minier (guitar), Jim Chaffin (drums)
 
 
THE CRUCIFIED - "The Complete Collection" - Biography 2009
 
We were there.

When the Crucified started out, no one was talking about money.

No one was talking about record deals. No one was talking about fashion or genre or marketability.

No one was talking about being “pioneers.”

There was no pretense.

There was a guitar. There was a bass. There was a set of drums. There was even a microphone.

(And occasionally, a P.A.!)

We practiced three times a week, because… why wouldn’t we?

Getting a show was terrifying. Getting a tour? Silliness.

Radio? Stop it, you’re killing us!

With all that practicing, how we ever had time for the High School we met at or the Bible Study where we became friends is difficult to comprehend. And how did we find the time in all of that other stuff to fall in love with the music of everyone from Minor Threat to Metallica?

Funny what one can accomplish when surrounded by miles of... nothing.

All we were attempting to do was to create something we didn’t already have. That’s what we did. Necessity being the mother of invention and so forth, we needed some music we liked – but we hoped God would like it too.

So… we made it ourselves.

We were tired of sifting through entire albums for one song that would make us go crazy, so we wrote only those kinds of songs. We were tired of music we couldn’t play for our friends (without cringing), so we made our own. We were tired of T-shirts that looked like they were handed out after Sunday school, so we made our own. We were tired of going to shows where none of the bands were our kinds of bands, so we booked our own.

We were tired of hearing no good reason why you can’t sing like that / look like that / wear that / listen to that, so we just… did what we liked and waited for someone to give us a good reason why we couldn’t.

They never did.

We talked a lot about Jesus.

We prayed before we did anything, because… why wouldn’t we?

It was simple and sincere – if a bit naïve – and it was fun.

It was fun before anyone bought “bulk rate postage.” It was fun before “zines” grew up to become magazines. It was fun when “merch” meant a t-shirt and a sticker. It was fun when no one cared what you were wearing as long as it wasn’t something you were told you had to wear. (For some of us, a little more attention to what was being worn might not have been a bad idea.) It was fun when there was Artwork to hold, study, dissect and interpret. It was fun when there were liner notes. It was fun before The Internet, before “Soundscan,” before Blogs and before Downloads. It was fun before there were tours or sponsors or cell phones or book deals.

It was fun when jumping off the stage or into the Pit was not only legal but

Expected.

(And almost annoyingly commonplace.)

And it was fun when nobody knew we were doing any of it.

Eventually, some people found out. Then more. Then more and more.

Plans were planned, decisions were decided, but The Will of God is… reality.

Turns out, there’s more to Jesus than just talking about Him. Turns out, God is not mocked.

(Who knew?)

Turns out, being Crucified with Christ isn’t just an anthem, but a life.

A life that requires respect for whatever He decides that life will be.

Turns out, He knows better than we.

What else could be said that hasn’t already?

1984 - 1993

THE CRUCIFIED

What else should be said?

It was fun.

We were there.
 
 
 
 
"For I have been crucified with Christ, therefore I no longer live, but Christ lives in me." (Galatians 2:20)
 
 
 
 
 

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