Blamethrower

Infobox Single
Name = Blamethrower


Artist = Reuben
from Album = Very Fast Very Dangerous
Released = 18 April, 2005
Format = Download only
Genre = Rock, metal
Label = Xtra Mile
Reviews =
*DiS 5/10 [http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/6536]
Last single = Moving to Blackwater (2004)
This single = Blamethrower (2005)
Next single = A Kick in the Mouth
(2005)

"Blamethrower" is the seventh single by Surrey-based rock band Reuben, and the first track to be taken from their second album, "Very Fast Very Dangerous". It was released in April 2005 as a download-only single, a first for the band. Inevitably, opinion was divided on this, the first new Reuben track to be heard since the release of the first album the previous year, but the new track got numerous plays on Radio 1 and made video of the week on MTV2 in February 2005. The band wanted to release something quickly and easily for fans and newcomers to hear in the gap between the first album and the warm up for the second, and it was agreed that a download single before the 'proper singles' would be best. The download also featured a 'b-side'; downloaders who purchased Blamethrower also received the track 'Freddy Kreuger' from the first album for free, in the interest of promoting interest in the band and their first album.

Track listing

#"Blamethrower"
#"Freddy Kreuger"

Personnel

*Jamie Lenman - Guitars, vocals, piano
*Jon Pearce - Bass, vocals
*Guy Davis - Drums

Trivia

(From [http://www.wordsfromreuben.com the band's site] )
*Blamethrower is the first Reuben track to feature samples and drum loops.
*The track was nearly left off the album as it was not popular in the demoing stages but Jamie decide to see if the samples he had made for the track would make it sound any better, and once they were mixed into the demo version of the track it became a firm favourite.
*The video [http://youtube.com/watch?v=qNrcNFq7OuA] for the song was filmed at the West End Centre in Aldershot, the same place the Freddy Kreuger video [http://youtube.com/watch?v=zhlQIcbG4zU] was filmed, and featured computer graphics designed by Jamie and his old chum Vincent Oliver.