Muertos Vivos by Gob

Muertos Vivos, Gob's fifth studio album, came out in Canada on October 30, 2007, on Aquarius Records, and the Langley, British Columbia punks lean hard into alternative metal here. The title is Spanish for "living dead", and the cover borrows Calavera Oaxaqueña, a skeleton print by the Mexican folk artist José Guadalupe Posada, which suits the record's grim, grinning mood.

Tom Thacker still leads from the front, with thick, churning riffs rumbling under his hooks. It's the only Gob album with bassist Tyson Maiko, who left in 2008. "We're All Dying" was the first single, "Underground" followed after Vancouver's The Fox gave it its first spin, and "Banshee Song" came out in 2009. One song Thacker wrote for these sessions, "Panic Attack", escaped: it became the title track of Sum 41's Screaming Bloody Murder.

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