Eve of the War is an EP

Extended play

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 from the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n progressive metal

Progressive metal

Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

 band, Alchemist

Alchemist (band)

Alchemist is an Australian progressive metal band from Canberra whose style combines death metal, progressive rock, psychedelic, Eastern, Aboriginal and electronic influences. The band formed in 1987 and has so far released six studios albums, an EP and a compilation album. Work began on a new EP...

. The EP was released by Shock Records

Shock Records

Shock Records is Australia's largest independent record label. It helps distribute records from overseas records labels such as Epitaph Records, and also for small record labels designed specifically for that band such as Cement Records...

 through its subsidiary label Thrust in November 1998. The title track, "Eve of the War" is a cover of the opening piece from the 1978 production, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a 1978 concept album by Jeff Wayne, retelling the story of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Its format is progressive rock and string orchestra, using narration and leitmotifs to carry the story via rhyming melodic lyrics that express...

. The EP also features two live songs; "Yoni Kunda" first released on Lunasphere

Lunasphere

Lunasphere is the second full-length album by the Australian progressive metal band Alchemist, and the first of their albums to be released by Shock Records through its metal subsidiary Thrust, in 1995...

, and "Chinese Whispers" first released on Spiritech

Spiritech

Spiritech is the third full-length studio album by the Australian progressive metal band, Alchemist. It was released in 1997 by Australian label Thrust and distributed by Shock Records. A promotional music video for the song "Road to Ubar" was released...

, a remix of "Yoni Kunda", and two re-mastered songs from Jar of Kingdom

Jar of Kingdom

-Band members:* Adam Agius − vocals, guitar* Rodney Holder − drums, * John Bray − bass guitar* Roy Torkington − guitar, artwork, layout and design-Production:* Mixed at Rich Music Studios, Sydney, Australia in February 1993...

. A video clip

Music video

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 of the title track was also made.

The EP is now deleted, with "Eve of the War" and the live version of "Chinese Whispers" later included on the Embryonics

Embryonics

Embryonics is a double-CD compilation of tracks by the Australian progressive metal band, Alchemist. It was released in 2005 in Australia by Chatterbox Records and worldwide by Relapse Records...

compilation album in 2005.

Track listing

Band members

• Adam Agius
  Adam Agius
  Adam Agius is the vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist and a founding member of the progressive metal band Alchemist. He formed Alchemist in 1987 while still in high school and is the group's only remaining original member...
  
   - vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , guitar
  Electric guitar
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  , keyboard
  Electronic keyboard
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• Rodney Holder - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• John Bray - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Roy Torkington - guitar, artwork, layout and design

Production/recording

• Produced and engineered by D. W. Norton at Backbeach Studios, VIC 1998
• Live tracks engineered by Chock
• Tracks 5 and 6 taken from Jar of Kingdom
  Jar of Kingdom
  -Band members:* Adam Agius − vocals, guitar* Rodney Holder − drums, * John Bray − bass guitar* Roy Torkington − guitar, artwork, layout and design-Production:* Mixed at Rich Music Studios, Sydney, Australia in February 1993...