{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Live Ruination | type = EP | artist = Job for a Cowboy | cover = Job For A Cowboy Live Ruination.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|2010|11|23}} | recorded = April 28, 2007 {{small|(tracks 2–3)}}<br> June 6, 2009 {{small|(tracks 4–6)}} | venue = Worcester Palladium, Worcester, Massachusetts {{small|(tracks 2–3)}}<br> First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania {{small|(tracks 4–6)}} | studio = Audiohammer Studios, Sanford, Florida {{small|(track 1)}} | genre = Death metal, deathcore | length = 24:22 | label = Metal Blade | producer = | prev_title = Ruination | prev_year = 2009 | next_title = Gloom | next_year = 2011 }}
'''''Live Ruination''''' is the second EP by Job for a Cowboy. It was released on November 23, 2010, by Metal Blade Records as a digital EP on iTunes.<ref name="iTunes"/> It contains the band's live performance from a live music video shoot on June 6, 2009, at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia.<ref name="Blabbermouth"/> Despite the album's title, only two songs from ''Ruination'' are on it, not including "The Matter of Splatter," which is a cover of Exhumed and a bonus track on certain versions of ''Ruination''.
== Track listing == {{Track listing | title1 = The Matter of Splatter | note1 = Exhumed cover | writer1 = Matt Harvey, Mike Beams | length1 = 3:43 | title2 = Embedded | writer2 = Jonny Davy, Bobby Thompson, Ravi Bhadriraju, Brent Riggs, Elliott Sellers | length2 = 3:32 | title3 = Altered from Catechization | writer3 = Davy, Thompson, Bhadriraju, Riggs, Sellers | length3 = 3:54 | title4 = Entombment of a Machine | writer4 = Davy, Andrew Arcurio, Bhadriraju, Riggs, Sellers | length4 = 4:27 | title5 = Unfurling a Darkened Gospel | writer5 = Davy, Al Glassman, Bhadriraju, Riggs, Jon Rice | length5 = 3:51 | title6 = Regurgitated Disinformation | writer6 = Davy, Thompson, Glassman, Riggs, Rice | length6 = 4:56 | total_length = 24:22 }}
'''Notes''' *Track 1 is a b-side from ''Ruination'' *Tracks 2 and 3 were recorded live at the 2007 New England Metal and Hardcore Festival *Tracks 4 to 6 were recorded live at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2009
== Personnel == *Jonny Davy – lead vocals *Bobby Thompson – guitar *Al Glassman – guitar *Brent Riggs – bass guitar, backing vocals *Jon Rice – drums, percussion
== References == {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="iTunes">[https://music.apple.com/us/album/live-ruination-ep/396575585 ''Live Ruination''] on iTunes.</ref> <ref name="Blabbermouth">[http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=147569 Job for a Cowboy to Tour U.S. with Skeletonwitch and Misery Index] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715191647/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=147569 |date=2011-07-15 }}. October 12, 2010. Blabbermouth.net.</ref> }}
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