Cover Your Heart and the Anvil Pants Odyssey

Cover Your Heart (CD) & The Anvil Pants Odyssey (DVD)
Studio album by Black Light Burns
Released	August 5, 2008
Recorded	YMA Studios Burbank, CA
Genre	Alternative rock, experimental rock, gothic rock.
Length	59:02
Label	I AM: WOLFPACK
Producer	Wes Borland
Black Light Burns chronology
Cruel Melody (2007) Cover Your Heart and the Anvil Pants Odyssey (2008)

Cover Your Heart and the Anvil Pants Odyssey is a CD/DVD collection from the industrial rock band Black Light Burns. The CD component features cover songs chosen by the band as being influential in their own music, as well as several instrumental b-sides from the band's debut album Cruel Melody. The album features artwork and design by band leader Wes Borland. This would be the first and last recorded appearance of bassist Sean Fetterman, who departed the band after the completion of the record.

Tracklist

#	Title	Time	Songwriter(s)	Notes
1	"Forkboy"	4:04	Paul G. Barker, Jello Biafra, Al Jourgensen, Will Fredrick Rieflin, Jeffery Thomas Ward	Originally performed by Lard
2	"So Alive"	3:33	Daniel Ash, Kevin Michael Dompe, David J. Haskins	Originally performed by Love and Rockets
3	"Hungry Like the Wolf"	3:44	Nicholas James Bates, Simon John Le Bon, Andrew Taylor, John Nigel Taylor, Roger Taylor	Originally performed by Duran Duran
4	"Lucretia My Reflection"	4:32	Andrew Eldritch	Originally performed by The Sisters of Mercy
5	"Rid of Me"	4:09	Polly Jean Harvey	Originally performed by PJ Harvey
6	"The Art of Self Defense"	2:46	Duane Paul Denison, Carey McNeilly, David WM Sims, David Lambeth Yow	Originally performed by Jesus Lizard
7	"On the Bound"	4:56	Fiona Apple, Maude Maggart	Originally performed by Fiona Apple
8	"I Am the Sun"	3:10	Michael Rolfe Gira	Originally performed by Swans
9	"Blood Red Head on Fire"	3:53	Wes Borland	Originally performed by Big Dumb Face
10	"Search & Destroy"	3:20	Iggy Pop, James Robert Williamson	Originally performed by The Stooges
11	"Drowning Together, Dying Alone"	5:08	Wes Borland	Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions
12	"Failing"	3:55	Wes Borland	Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions
13	"Ribbons"	1:50	Wes Borland	Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions
14	"Zargon Marfoauf"	1:36	Wes Borland	Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions
15	"Vennisoun"	2:04	Wes Borland	Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions
16	"Zlitchufdux"	1:46	Wes Borland	Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions
17	"Giving in Again"	4:36	Wes Borland	Previously unreleased instrumental from Cruel Melody recording sessions

Personnel

• Wes Borland - vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, synthesizers, programming, producer, mixing
• Marshall Kilpatric - drums, percussion
• Nick Annis - guitar
• Sean Fetterman - bass
• Greg Isabelle - drums on "Failing"
• Jeff Hannan - engineering, Mixing
• Austin Satterfield - engineering assistant
• Dave Collins - mastering

DVD

The DVD "Anvil Pants Odyssey" consists of a nearly two hour long documentary with the band, the music videos for "Mesopotamia," "4 Walls," and "Lie," and also features a behind the scenes look at the making of the "Lie" video. The DVD's content was primarily filmed during the summer and fall of 2007 and was filmed and edited by Satchel Underwood, including the video for "Mesopotamia" and the making of "Lie" segment. The video for "Lie" was directed by Josh Evans, while the video for "4 Walls" was directed by Wes Borland.

External links

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