Archive for March 2011
Come join SWAMP, Juice Magazine & Conspiracy Skateboards for a Texas Blowout with live music by Kylesa, The Roller, HOD and Mammoth Grinder! SWAMP will have posters & other stuff for sale. The Beer will be Cold & Plentiful! All Ages! $6 cover 21+ / $10 for minors!
Thats right mutants, simply purchase any product from the Metal Blade Records stores of the above bands and you will receive a FREE signed CD booklet!* There are tons of sweet items to choose from. Get weird!
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*While supplies last. Customer will receive signed cd booklet from the band they order from. Must be from Metal Blade operated store.
Click here to listen to the new song “Treat Me Right.”
In the fall of 2010, a 3 album deal with the historic metal label Metal Blade Records was announced! Last Rites, the album Liebling had been dreaming of for ages was announced for release in the spring of 2011 and will once again include Griffin’s nephew and Pentagram alumni, Turley, with the latest addition being new drummer Albert Born.
Pentagram has proved time and time again that giving up is not an option. With the strongest lineup yet, a clean and sober Liebling, and 12 new tracks of pure classic metal coming to fans via Last Rites, Pentagram are poised to conquer the masses and claim their rightful throne atop the metal mountain.
PRE-ORDER* will ship on or around 04/07/2011
1. Treat Me Right
2. Call the Man
3. Into the Ground
4. 8
5. Everything’s Turning to Night
6. Windmills and Chimes
7. American Dream
8. Walk in Blue Light
9. Horseman
10. Death in 1st Person
11. Nothing Left
12. All Your Sins – Reprise
PIck up more tee shirts at thePentagram merch store.
Happy Tuesday! Welcome to the first installment of my weekly interviews on the IndieMerch blog. First up we have Darkest Hour, D.C.’s finest since the Bad Brains were banned from their fair city. DH has been tearing up the metal circuit for fifteen years and their latest album “The Human Romance” is a true testament to their storied career.
Special thanks to guitarist Mike Schleibaum for taking the time to sit down with these questions and their manager Mike Mowery of Outerloop Management for making it happen.
1. The band has a penchant for making albums with no filler. “The Human Romance” is no exception. Is there a lot of music left on the cutting room floor or do you guys have a firm grasp of what will be on the record before you go into the studio?
MS: Well, all the music starts as guitar riffs mainly. So there are no shortage of those. We always have plenty of material lying around what we like to call the “riff farm.” But you never know when those ideas will become songs. Sometimes we have hung onto ideas for years before they actually make a record. Actually, the intro of the record was around from The Eternal Return it just wasn’t right for that record. But full songs…we have few if any of those around. There is however a bonus track, a song called “Ripe in a Rotten Age.” It only exists as a preproduction track but it is the only song that made it to preproduction that wasn’t recorded for this record. I think it will surface in Japan but all you net geeks will find it for sure.
2. Based on the “making of” videos there appeared to be a relaxed yet focused vibe in the studio. Was there a different approach to this record or was it business as usual?
MS: Well we definitely spent a lot more time grinding out the songs and working on the details before hand. This was probably the most finished record we ever started recording. We demo’ed everything (which we had done in the past) but this time the songs took shape along the way as well. The final product you hear was actually a journey of sorts as it kind of developed along the way.
3. The Atticus Metal Tour III recently kicked off at 9:30 club in Washington D.C., how was the response from the home crowd for your record release show?
MS: Amazing, DC always does it right! We have a blast rocking there and cant wait to go back. Man there are so many clubs in the world but the 930 has to rate in the top 10. We love that club and playing that city for sure.
(Photo by Mike Mowery)
4. Is it difficult to blend new material with older songs for your setlists? What can fans expect on the Atticus tour?
MS:Yeah picking a set list for this tour was hard but I think we have a good mix here. We are playing some new songs and some songs from the older records as well. Fans can expect that we’ll start playing more new tunes soon….we’re gonna rip all these jams live!
5. How has the IndieMerch experience been for you guys so far?
MS: Amazing we love the guys over there and the print quality is amazing. We have been with a few “merch companies” but these guys know their shit! Trust me when you order from IndieMerch you are getting quality printing and merchandise from some cool ass dudes! There a true “small american business” so buy some shit from em, what could be more American then that?
6. What is your all time favorite shirt design you have sold at the merch table?
MS: Damn thats a hard question. We have had so many designs in the past its amazing, I wish I had saved one of each now cause it would be an amazing spread. I think my favorite designs are either some of the new ones based on The Human Romance cover or the shirts we did based off of Deliver Us. To be honest I like designs themed to records and those just have great themes. Oh and there was this Van Halen rip off shirt that I loved, but yeah the new shit looks dope…The Human Romance hoodie…I wish I could wear our own merch but we’re just not those dudes!
Be sure to catch Darkest Hour on the remaining dates of the “Atticus Metal Tour” and their appearance at the IndieMerch sponsored “California Metalfest” on March 19th. Check the flyers below for more details.
Darkest Hour official merch store.
Follow Darkest Hour on twitter.
Darkest Hour facebook.
Go here to enter this sweet contest!
Up for grabs is a sick Darkest Hour skate deck from Indie Merch, a copy of the latest Darkest Hour album and some Vans apparel including a pair of kicks, a tee and a hoodie. 3 lucky winners will be chosen at random when the contest ends on March 25th.
HOW TO ENTER:
- Send an e-mail to music.vans@gmail.com
- Enter DARKEST HOUR in the subject line
- Include you full name, mailing address, clothing size and shoe size (remember to specify Men’s or Women’s sizes)!
Good luck everyone!
From the band:
We’re stoked to offer this giveaway from Vans because some of us have been wearing Vans since we were little shredders. Vans has kept it real all along, and that’s why we still rock their shit!
Go here to enter this sweet contest!
CONTEST! Want to win a pair of tickets to this years California Metalfest? Simply “Like” our Facebook page, post the above picture on your page and tag IndieMerchstore (put the @ symbol before IndieMerchstore) with the text “Check out this years California Metalfest lineup!” and you will be entered! *must provide transportation to event/limited to U.S. residents only* We will be picking random winners next week. Spread the word!!!
Preorders for the new Between The Buried And Me are now up.
The next step in BTBAM’s musical journey involves a new label home in Metal Blade Records and another trek into boundary and genre defying song-writing that is their new album, The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues.
The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues serves as the first installment of a two-part story. Hypersleep introduces two human characters who live in different planes of existence, separated by millions of light years. We find that each of them is confronted with similar personal issues that they need to reckon with. Both characters make decisions that will change their lives, and perhaps the course of the universe, forever. The follow up album will pick up the story with our two main characters, with the help of near light speed travel, meeting each other and realizing together their purpose in the universe.
Musically, it sounds like Between the Buried and Me. Hypersleep has elements of aggression, beauty, quirkiness, and pure cacophony. Vocalist Tommy Rogers adds, “For Hypersleep, we establish several themes which I’m sure will be revisited in the next album, which is something we really look forward to. We love to expand on simple ideas and see where they take us.”
*PRE-ORDER* will ship on or around 04/07/2011
Track listing:
1. Specular Reflection
2. Augment of Rebirth
3. Lunar Wilderness
CLICK HERE TO PREORDER
^EXCLUSIVE version of the Kid Monster tee that is ONLY available with this pre-order.
On this date in 1893, Nikola Tesla gave his first demonstration of the radio to a small audience in St. Louis, Missouri. Over one hundred years later, GaGa’s and Bieber’s are now attacking our audio senses through his discovery. But I digress.
A big congratulations to our winners of a couple contests we were part of. Matthew from Albuquerque won the Decibel Magazine GWAR contest , where he received a ton of GWAR merch as well as a year subscription to Decibel mag. Sweet picture Matthew!
Next up were our three lucky winners of the Facebook contest. Daniel, Jared, and Adrian all posted their favorite Indiemerch shirt on their page and were chosen at random. Thanks to the winners who are supporting the cause and thanks to everyone else who entered. We will be doing a lot more contests this year so be sure to follow us on twitter, “Like” us on Facebook, and bookmark the blog!
GWAR official merch store.
Black Dahlia Murder official merch store.
Decrepit Birth official merch store.
