The End Is Near

The End Is Near
Studio album by Five Iron Frenzy
Released	June 18, 2003
Genre	Christian ska, hard rock
Length	45:02
Label	Five Minute Walk
Producer	Frank Tate
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Five Iron Frenzy chronology
Cheeses...(of Nazareth) (2003) The End Is Near (2003) The End Is Here (2004)

The End is Near is the fifth and final full-length studio album of the band Five Iron Frenzy. It was released on June 18, 2003 and sold only online and at concerts on their farewell tour, until April 20, 2004 when it was re-released as the first disc in the two-disc set The End Is Here. Album art by Doug TenNapel.

Track listing

1. "Cannonball"
2. "At Least I'm Not Like All Those Other Old Guys"
3. "So Far, So Bad"
4. "New Year's Eve"
5. "American Kryptonite"
6. "It Was Beautiful"
7. "Wizard Needs Food, Badly"
   • References Gauntlet, a 1985 arcade game by Atari Games in which the narrator announces that a character "needs food badly" when they are low on life points. This same message also appears in NetHack.
8. "Farewell to Arms"
9. "See the Flames Begin to Crawl"
10. "Anchors Away"
11. "Something Like Laughter"
12. "That's How the Story Ends"
    • This song is styled along the lines of "The Raven," a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
    • The gibberish at the start is "Sandwiches, they make the best friends" backwards.
    • References "Where Is Micah?", "Blue Comb '78", "Shut Up", "The Untimely Death Of Brad", "These Are Not My Pants (The Rock Opera)", "Combat Chuck", "Kitty Doggy" and "Kingdom Of The Dinosaurs".
13. "On Distant Shores"
    • The song transitions to the end of "Every New Day" during the bridge.