The Great Divide (Ice Age album)

The Great Divide is the debut album by the progressive metal group Ice Age, released in 1999.

The Great Divide
Studio album by Ice Age
Released	1999
Recorded	Summer and fall of 1998
Genre	Progressive metal
Length	74:26
Label	Magna Carta
Producer	Jimmy Pappas
Ice Age chronology
The Great Divide (1999) Liberation (2001)

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Track listing

All lyrics are written by Josh Pincus except where noted; all music is composed by Ice Age

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Perpetual Child"	10:29
2.	"Sleepwalker"	5:24
3.	"Join" (Pincus, Aponte)	5:55
4.	"Spare Chicken Parts" (Instrumental)	8:50
5.	"Because of You"	5:32
6.	"The Bottom Line"	4:44
7.	"Ice Age"	11:08
8.	"One Look Away"	5:40
9.	"Miles To Go"	5:01
10.	"To Say Goodbye, Part I: Worthless Words" (Instrumental)	3:13
11.	"To Say Goodbye, Part II: On Our Way" (Pincus, Aponte)	8:18
Total length:		74:26

Personnel

• Jimmy Pappas – guitars, bass on tracks 1 and 4
• Arron DiCesare – bass
• Josh Pincus – vocals and keyboards
• Hal Aponte – drums and percussion

Notes

The only voice heard (not counting the chicken sound effects) on the instrumental Spare Chicken Parts is a clip from 2001: A Space Odyssey of astronaut Dave Bowman saying "Open the pod bay doors, please, Hal."