Tour Flier for late July East Cost Tour!

I’m working on my photoshop “skills” (or lack thereof)…

-steve.h

“Home” - a film

Live on Earth? Watch this film, in entirety.

Day 2: Curt Pissing Off a Gun Store Owner

Update: new version posted!

-steve.h

Day 0: “The Giant Flying Penis Tour”

Sometimes, life gives you a little gift when you would least expect. Like, for instance, when you go on Mapquest to check your tour routing, and it looks uncannily like a gigantic penis wearing a cape.

This is what we do for a living.

This bodes well. This bodes VERY well…

-steve.h

2009 Summer Tour (aka the “Get Chipotlaid Tour”)

Starting Saturday of next week, we shall be embarking on the first of at least 2, possibly 3 Summer tours.  Come headbang with us!

I made the flier myself: don’t make fun of me, I suck at photoshop!

-steve.h

I came across a great discussion: “Deep Listening - Why Audio Quality Matters”

For those interested in music and the affect audio quality has on our listening experience, check this out. It takes a while to get going, but it’s totally worth your time if you’re interested in Audio Quality and the general decline in the music listening experience, simply for the sake of something as trivial as convenience.

-steve.h

Shirts are in!

Come check ‘em out!

Request us on Pandora (+ some incredibly sexy shirt models!)

In case you haven’t heard of it, Pandora is a fantastic, free (with an advertisement-free paid version as well) online radio station that is controlled by you.  You make your own radio stations based on information you give it about what you’d like to listen to.  You can be as obtuse as simply typing in an artist’s name, to suggesting a specific song from a specific artist, and Pandora will automatically play you some songs based on criteria related to the song (pacing, vocal style, major vs. minor, and a shit-ton of others).  For instance: I went from Cult of Luna to Every Time I Die in about 7 songs (with such selections as Misery Index, the Deftones, and Poison the Well’s version of Soma).  It’s damn sweet, and definitely worth checking out. (feel free to comment on my profile, although the “profiles” they have set up are quite sparse indeed, compared to more social-networking-centric sites such as last.fm).

On a related note, and for obvious reasons, we’d like to have our music included in Pandora’s library.  Several of our friends/fans have suggested that we apply, but up until recently, they accepted only physical submissions with a press kit and such (something we don’t yet have).  They’re currently updating to a digital/online submission model, but have yet to unveil it.  This is where you come in.

We would like need you, our friends/fans/casual listeners, to shoot a quick email to suggest-music@pandora.com, telling them you’d like to hear our music on the site!  It’d take a grand total of 5 minutes of your time, and we’d honestly appreciate it quite a bit.  Heck, let us know you did it, and we’ll give you a free High-Five the next time we see you at a show (as long as you mention it)!

(ahh, Opeth’s “Burden” just came on.  Excellent!)

On a completely unrelated note, we hired some expensive European über-hot supermodels with HUGE personalities, to come model our shirts.  Unfortunately, they’re stuck in Customs, and so we sort of went with our second-string fashion connoisseurs, Curt and myself.  Let us know what you think…

"Drowning Man" - available only at shows

"Lé Fuckin' Buck" - available online shortly

Enjoy,

-steve.h

“Visions of Light” to be re-released by Tribunal Records!

Officially available at tribunalrecords.net on June 26th, our debut album “Visions of Light” is being re-released by Tribunal Records! This partnership allows us to remain independent, while both parties mutually benefit from any success we might have. We’d like to think collaborations like this between independent bands and independent labels, are likely to be the foundation of underground music distribution and promotion in the years to come.

This release comes with bonus material from other Tribunal artists, as well as slightly enhanced artwork (the disc is blue vs. black!). If you’d like to pick up a copy before the official release, they’re currently available here.

-steve.h

East Coast tour dates announced! (booking now)

We’re starting to book an East Coast tour! If you’re in a band, work at/own a venue, or promote, please feel free to contact us.

Jul 23 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jul 24 Toledo, Ohio
Jul 25 Buffalo, New York
Jul 26 Ithaca, New York
Jul 27 New York City, New York
Jul 28 Linthicum, Maryland
Jul 29 Columbus, Ohio
Jul 30 Indianapolis, Indiana
Jul 31 Chicago, Illinois
Aug 1 Marshalltown, Iowa

DIY tour booking is hard: be a part of something awesome!

Cheers,

-steve.h