# Live Ruination

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Live Ruination
| type       = EP
| artist     = [Job for a Cowboy](/source/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](/source/Worcester_Palladium), [Worcester, Massachusetts](/source/Worcester%2C_Massachusetts) {{small|(tracks 2–3)}}<br>
First Unitarian Church, [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia), [Pennsylvania](/source/Pennsylvania) {{small|(tracks 4–6)}}
| studio     = Audiohammer Studios, [Sanford, Florida](/source/Sanford%2C_Florida) {{small|(track 1)}}
| genre      = [Death metal](/source/Death_metal), [deathcore](/source/deathcore)
| length     = 24:22
| label      = [Metal Blade](/source/Metal_Blade_Records)
| producer   =
| prev_title = [Ruination](/source/Ruination_(album))
| prev_year  = 2009
| next_title = [Gloom](/source/Gloom_(EP))
| next_year  = 2011
}}

'''''Live Ruination''''' is the second EP by [Job for a Cowboy](/source/Job_for_a_Cowboy). It was released on November 23, 2010, by [Metal Blade Records](/source/Metal_Blade_Records) as a digital EP on [iTunes](/source/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](/source/Ruination_(album))'' are on it, not including "The Matter of Splatter," which is a cover of [Exhumed](/source/Exhumed_(band)) and a bonus track on certain versions of ''Ruination''.

== Track listing ==
{{Track listing
| title1 = The Matter of Splatter
| note1 = [Exhumed](/source/Exhumed_(band)) 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](/source/Ruination_(album))''
*Tracks 2 and 3 were recorded live at the 2007 [New England Metal and Hardcore Festival](/source/New_England_Metal_and_Hardcore_Festival)
*Tracks 4 to 6 were recorded live at the First Unitarian Church in [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia), [Pennsylvania](/source/Pennsylvania) in 2009

== Personnel ==
*Jonny Davy – [lead vocals](/source/singing)
*Bobby Thompson – [guitar](/source/electric_guitar)
*Al Glassman – guitar
*Brent Riggs – [bass guitar](/source/bass_guitar), [backing vocals](/source/backing_vocalist)
*Jon Rice – [drums](/source/drum_kit), [percussion](/source/percussion)

== References ==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="iTunes">[https://music.apple.com/us/album/live-ruination-ep/396575585 ''Live Ruination''] on [iTunes](/source/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](/source/Blabbermouth.net).</ref>
}}

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Category:2010 EPs
Category:Job for a Cowboy albums
Category:Metal Blade Records EPs
Category:Albums with cover art by Pär Olofsson

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