Thursday, January 8, 2009
Blockade// Unearthly Trance split LP
This is apparently now a reality, songs are being written. The noise stuff we did will be a stand alone cassette release in the near future.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
2009
This is what 2009 is looking like for us:
Split LP/ CD with Bastard Noise, we're in the studio in feb to finish this. The collabortive aspects took a backseat due in part to Bastard Noise's ongoing mutations and the ongoing difficulty of Blockade in keeping our shit together. CD will contain extra material from both bands.
Split something with Unearthly Trance, was a cassette, now i hear it's an LP. It's not strictly a Blockade release as it's largely noise and recycled old material with some newer elements recorded specifically. Being worked on right now.
Split 7" with Agoraphobic Nosebleed, it's going to press this month.
The split 7" with Wadge is out of my hands entirely. I think the guitars are being re-recorded and then it's good to go.
Playing Maryland Deathfest in may, possibly with a well known noise act collaborating with us live, we're working on that. It's still undecided if we'll play any more shows around MDF
We're still figuring out if we can tour later on in the year, dirty south and the left coast, ideally with Hatred Surge
Split LP/ CD with Bastard Noise, we're in the studio in feb to finish this. The collabortive aspects took a backseat due in part to Bastard Noise's ongoing mutations and the ongoing difficulty of Blockade in keeping our shit together. CD will contain extra material from both bands.
Split something with Unearthly Trance, was a cassette, now i hear it's an LP. It's not strictly a Blockade release as it's largely noise and recycled old material with some newer elements recorded specifically. Being worked on right now.
Split 7" with Agoraphobic Nosebleed, it's going to press this month.
The split 7" with Wadge is out of my hands entirely. I think the guitars are being re-recorded and then it's good to go.
Playing Maryland Deathfest in may, possibly with a well known noise act collaborating with us live, we're working on that. It's still undecided if we'll play any more shows around MDF
We're still figuring out if we can tour later on in the year, dirty south and the left coast, ideally with Hatred Surge
Monday, December 29, 2008
The Endless Blockade// Shank split 7"
Our fellow dog lovers at Schizophrenic Records have released a new Blockade record.
Blockade does a Judge cover, Shank does a Citizens Arrest cover.
One time pressing of 300 copies
100 come on coloured vinyl with extra cover hand stencilled by The Chew (spray paint huffing art mosher) who also did a small run Primitive posters a while ago. Also comes with 7” painted with band logos.
One time pressing of 300 copies
100 come on coloured vinyl with extra cover hand stencilled by The Chew (spray paint huffing art mosher) who also did a small run Primitive posters a while ago. Also comes with 7” painted with band logos.
How much art can you take?
Shank was a weird beast, the most real band I’ve ever played in. Sometimes I miss it being a part of my life and then I remember that hindsight is a glorious thing and the stress and bullshit my life was full of at the time is thankfully a thing of the past
Shank, as an entity, was 100% a product of its environment; all the sectarian violence, not having enough money to eat, life hating, friends dying, bullshit UK hardcore scene, intense ned rage I could ever be bothered with. We were basically four spiteful people that hated our surroundings. We couldn’t decide if we wanted the world to be saved or destroyed; equal parts social Darwinists and utopian idealists wrapped up into one big heavy drinking, intolerant, anhedonic package rounded off with terrible dental care.
When the opportunity to move to Canada arose I took it as fast as I could and haven’t looked back.
The Shank song was recorded just before I moved away as part of the same sessions that our friend Brendan made happen for us that became the material for the Iron Lung split. The cover was originally for a Deep Six comp called Unreality of all hardcore bands. Seven years after being asked to be on it it still isn’t out so it’s been released in this form. My guess is that Unreality will be out once the Low Threat Profile 7” and Infest and Neanderthal discographies are released.
Bob Deep Six is awesome, I always enjoy my brief once every three year hang outs with him.
The Blockade song was recorded at the same time as the first LP. We played it live once and totally confused everyone in the room that was waiting for 86 Mentality to play.
Somewhere in the world there’s a Blockade recording of us doing a Von cover but I haven’t even heard that, hence its non-inclusion on this record.
In the immortal words of the (marginally) better half of Glasgow: Tiocfaidh Ar La ya prick
Shank was a weird beast, the most real band I’ve ever played in. Sometimes I miss it being a part of my life and then I remember that hindsight is a glorious thing and the stress and bullshit my life was full of at the time is thankfully a thing of the past
Shank, as an entity, was 100% a product of its environment; all the sectarian violence, not having enough money to eat, life hating, friends dying, bullshit UK hardcore scene, intense ned rage I could ever be bothered with. We were basically four spiteful people that hated our surroundings. We couldn’t decide if we wanted the world to be saved or destroyed; equal parts social Darwinists and utopian idealists wrapped up into one big heavy drinking, intolerant, anhedonic package rounded off with terrible dental care.
When the opportunity to move to Canada arose I took it as fast as I could and haven’t looked back.
The Shank song was recorded just before I moved away as part of the same sessions that our friend Brendan made happen for us that became the material for the Iron Lung split. The cover was originally for a Deep Six comp called Unreality of all hardcore bands. Seven years after being asked to be on it it still isn’t out so it’s been released in this form. My guess is that Unreality will be out once the Low Threat Profile 7” and Infest and Neanderthal discographies are released.
Bob Deep Six is awesome, I always enjoy my brief once every three year hang outs with him.
The Blockade song was recorded at the same time as the first LP. We played it live once and totally confused everyone in the room that was waiting for 86 Mentality to play.
Somewhere in the world there’s a Blockade recording of us doing a Von cover but I haven’t even heard that, hence its non-inclusion on this record.
In the immortal words of the (marginally) better half of Glasgow: Tiocfaidh Ar La ya prick
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Bastard Noise// Blockade release
Blockade recorded our 15 minute instrumental track last weekend at Audiolab. Vocals and additional electronics will be added in the new year once we've decided with Bastard Noise what the next step for this release is going to be.
Also got to record some dense harsh noise on our full backline and get a studio recording of it which was incredible (fuck 0db compression or in the red line-in "noise"). Sections of it appear in the Blockade track.
Also got to record some dense harsh noise on our full backline and get a studio recording of it which was incredible (fuck 0db compression or in the red line-in "noise"). Sections of it appear in the Blockade track.
tapes
Everything is now sold out apart from the Death Agonies// Piss Horn tape.
Fellacoustic has some digital versions of the Windscale - Servitude release left.
In the new year the Death Agonies// Pig Heart Transplant tape will be available.
Winters in Osaka will be releasing a WiO/ Death Agonies collaboration CDR (different from the split on Survivalist). One live collaboration recorded in the Blockade space and two pieces using material recorded the same day, one by Nolan (Windcale, Joshua Norton Cabal), one by Carroll (Gack)
Death Agonies// Torso split sometime after the PHT release
Harsh noise through compulsion, not entertainment.
Fellacoustic has some digital versions of the Windscale - Servitude release left.
In the new year the Death Agonies// Pig Heart Transplant tape will be available.
Winters in Osaka will be releasing a WiO/ Death Agonies collaboration CDR (different from the split on Survivalist). One live collaboration recorded in the Blockade space and two pieces using material recorded the same day, one by Nolan (Windcale, Joshua Norton Cabal), one by Carroll (Gack)
Death Agonies// Torso split sometime after the PHT release
Harsh noise through compulsion, not entertainment.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
live// dead
We played our last show of 2008 recently with Hatred Surge, Iron Age, Eating Glass and Fucked Up.
We're probably not playing any shows again until may 2009, when we'll play a limited number of US shows on the way to Maryland Deathfest and back. We're also trying to get Sickness and Slogun to play Toronto with us before we leave.
Late 2009 we're hoping to tour with Hatred Surge again, west coast and Texas. This is probably going to be our last tour (but never say never right?)
We're probably not playing any shows again until may 2009, when we'll play a limited number of US shows on the way to Maryland Deathfest and back. We're also trying to get Sickness and Slogun to play Toronto with us before we leave.
Late 2009 we're hoping to tour with Hatred Surge again, west coast and Texas. This is probably going to be our last tour (but never say never right?)
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
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