Future Addict

Future Addict
Studio album by Marty Friedman
Released	March 12, 2008
Label	Avex Trax
Marty Friedman chronology
Loudspeaker (2006) Future Addict (2008) Tokyo Jukebox (2009)

Future Addict is the seventh studio album by the American guitarist Marty Friedman. The album is a collection of reworked, reconstructed and completely remade versions of songs spanning Marty's entire career, including a few songs from his Megadeth years. In addition, there are also 3 new songs on the record: "Barbie", "Tears Of An Angel" and the first single "Simple Mystery".

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Barbie"	1:00
2.	"Simple Mystery"	3:44
3.	"Tornado of Souls"	5:23
4.	"Burn the Ground"	4:27
5.	"Where My Fortune Lies"	4:45
6.	"Breadline"	3:54
7.	"The Pit And The Pendulum"	5:18
8.	"The Killing Road"	4:21
9.	"Noise of Rain (Static Rain)"	2:48
10.	"Secret of the Stars"	4:11
11.	"Massive"	2:59
12.	"Tears of an Angel"	5:16

Notes

• Tracks 3, 6, 8 originally recorded by Megadeth (Rust in Peace, Risk, and Youthanasia respectively).
• Tracks 4 and 5 originally recorded by Cacophony ("Speed Metal Symphony", 1987).
• Track 7 originally recorded by Aloha (Demo, 1982) and later by Hawaii ("One Nation Underground", 1983).
• Track 9 originally recorded by Marty Friedman (1st Press "Loudspeaker", 2006).
• Track 10 originally recorded by Vixen (Demo, 1981) and later by Hawaii ("One Nation Underground", 1983).
• Track 11 originally recorded by Deuce.

Personnel

Band members

• Marty Friedman - guitars, bass (tracks 1, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12), backing vocals (track 5)
• Jeremy Colson - vocals, drums (tracks 1-9, 11)

Session members

• Tom Harriman - Orchestration (track 12), Conductor (track 12)
• Alan Steinberger - Orchestration (track 12)
• Jeff Loomis - guitar (track 4)
• Jimmy Amason - guitars (slide) (track 8)
• Billy Sheehan - bass (tracks 3, 5, 7)
• Masaki - bass (tracks 2, 4, 10)
• Alyssa Pittaluga - voice (track 8)
• Tom Azevedo - backing vocals (track 2)
• Elizabeth Schall - backing vocals (track 4)
• Nicolas Farmakalidis - programming (additional) (track 1), programming (atmospheric) (track 7)
• Masatsugu Shinozaki - Chinese Erhu (track 12)
• Takeomi Matsuura - audio manipulation (tracks 7, 11)

Production

• Allen Isaacs - engineering, mixing, producer
• Charlie Pakkari - engineering
• Ryosuke Maekawa - engineering
• Alyssa Pittaluga - engineering (assistant)
• Mike Laza - engineering (assistant), sequencing (track 8)
• Dino Alden - mixing
• Yuji Chinone - mastering
• Marty Friedman - producer
• Hiroshi Inagaki - executive producer
• Shigetomo Sugawara - executive producer
• Takaaki Henmi - photography
• Masa Ito - liner notes (Japanese)

External links

• Martyfriedman.com