{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Chapter Ahead Being Fake | type = EP | longtype = ([[Split album|split]]) | artist = [[Torche (band)|Torche]] and [[Boris (band)|Boris]] | cover = Chapter Ahead Being Fake.jpg | alt = | caption = Cover art for Japanese version | released = August 19, 2009 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = | length = | label = Daymare<br>[[Hydra Head Records]]<br><small>([[Hydra Head Records discography|HYH-186]])</small> | producer = Jonathan Nuñez, Boris | chronology = [[Torche (band)|Torche]] | prev_title = [[Healer / Across the Shields]] | prev_year = 2009 | next_title = [[Songs for Singles]] | next_year = 2010 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = [[Boris (band)|Boris]] | type = EP | prev_title = Smile Live in Prague | prev_year = 2009 | title = Chapter Ahead Being Fake | year = 2009 | next_title = [[Golden Dance Classics]] | next_year = 2009 }} {{Extra album cover | header = Alternative cover | type = ep | cover = Chapter Ahead Being Fake US cover.jpg | border = | alt = | caption = Cover art for North American version. }} }}
'''''Chapter Ahead Being Fake''''' is a split album featuring songs from Japanese band [[Boris (band)|Boris]] and American band [[Torche (band)|Torche]]. The album was released on August 19, 2009 in Japan through Daymare Records on CD, the same day Boris's split album with 9dw, ''[[Golden Dance Classics]]'', was released.<ref>[http://homepage1.nifty.com/boris/newsandshows.html Boris Heavy Rocks!!!] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004034647/http://homepage1.nifty.com/boris/newsandshows.html |date=2009-10-04 }} homepage1.nifty.com. Retrieved on 2009-07-21.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.inoxia-rec.com/chapter.htm |title="Chapter Ahead Being Fake" |access-date=2010-01-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921051959/http://inoxia-rec.com/chapter.htm |archive-date=2010-09-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="decibel">[http://decibelmagazine.com/Content.aspx?ncid=352471 Hear New Torche Track "King Beef" Here!]</ref> This is the first release from Torche as a three-piece band after parting ways with second guitarist Juan Montoya in 2008. A video for Torche's "King Beef" was released on January 5, 2010.<ref name="decibel"/>
''Chapter Ahead Being Fake'' was released on 10" vinyl in North America through [[Hydra Head Records]] on July 13, 2010 with alternative cover art.<ref name="decibel interview">{{cite web| last = Kitteringham| first = Sarah| title = Torche Interview and Update| work = [[Decibel (magazine)|Decibel]]| date = May 25, 2010| url = http://decibelmagazine.com/Content.aspx?ncid=372173| accessdate = June 21, 2010}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title = Chapter Ahead Being Fake – Overview| work = [[Allmusic]]| url = {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1825283|pure_url=yes}}| accessdate = June 21, 2010}}</ref> The American release was intended to be released on the same day as the Japanese release, but Daymare began selling the album without Hydra Head's knowledge. After finding out about the Japanese release, and realizing that Torche's song "King Beef" was already widely available illegally on the internet, Hydra Head was not in a rush to make the physical EP available in the US.<ref name="decibel interview"/>
An alternate, shorter mix of "Luna" is available on the international version of ''[[New Album]]''.
==Track listing== # [[Torche (band)|Torche]] – "King Beef" # [[Boris (band)|Boris]] – "Luna"
==Personnel== ===Torche=== '''Band''' * Steve Brooks – guitar, vocals * Jonathan Nuñez – bass, sound manipulation * Rick Smith - drums, percussion '''Production''' * Jonathan Nuñez – recording, mixing, production * Nick Zampiello – mastering * Ryan Haft – assistant engineer
===Boris=== '''Band''' * Takeshi – vocals, guitars, bass * Wata – guitars * Atsuo – drums, percussion '''Production''' * "FangsAnalSatan" – recording * Boris – production * Soulchira Nakuimura – mixing, mastering
==References== {{Reflist}}
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