July 11 2009 -
"Holy Blade of Death" is now ready for download from Mediafire. 

Please feel free to download, burn to your I_pods or a CD, re-post it at your blogs, and play it very loud. Loud. Very Loud, please.  We're also going to upload it to Last.fm, and have some samples streaming at our Myspace page.  This one is a little different -  more jams and spacey sections, and a few guitar solos courtesy of our friend and co-producer, Dave Lanciani (aka Dimaension X). 

Stop over at our Myspace and Last.fm pages and drop us a comment.


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June 30 2009 -
Second album is quickly nearing completion - tentatively titled "Holy Blade of Death".  Dimaension X (Mr. Dave Lanciani) really out did himself this time - what a huge help he's been since Everett had to leave us.  Everett did manage to get some synth tracks done here and there, and Dave stepped up to the plate confidently, writing some great jams, blasting out some great solos, and adding some great voice samples.

We also decided not to downtune the guitars quite as much this time.  Drop-D is to lowest we went, and we think everything just sounds clearer and cleaner.

There's a lot of unexpected twists and turns also, mainly due to Dave's involvement.  Way more jamming (including some blues AND a reggae section.  Yeah, I said REGGAE!), some odd jazzy sounds, some of Dave's extended guitar solos that you usually get on his Dimaension X albums, but there's still plently of blast-beats, double-bass, and thunderous metal riffing.

Definitely a bit more avant-garde and open-minded.  Oh, here's a preview of the potential album cover.


Hopefully the album will be completed in a month or so. Oh yeah! There's an uncredited eighth track, a cover of, ... well, you figure it out when you hear it!


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June 22 2009 -
Everett Jordan announced yesterday that he would be leaving the band.  He will be moving to Oregon to help with the care of his parents.  We wish Jordan and his family all of the best.

In the meantime, the rest band will begin working on its next album, and has asked Dimaension X (aka Dave Lanciani) to take on a more active and creative role (i.e., we need help with the synths, samples, and programming that Everett was so adept at).  We're also hoping that Jordan might still have some time to work on a few synth parts and email them to us.

The show must go on... and will...


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June 17 2009 -
The album is now available for FREE download.  Yeah, free download at a Mediafire link (for now).  After much thought and consideration, we decided just to distribute it for free, and let anyone have it.  This way, we get plenty of distribution and promotion without worrying about record contracts, royalities, etc., which most bands get screwed over anyway.  So why not say screw you to the record labels and let anyone and everyone who wants it can have it (is that grammatically correct??).

Just go to our discography page (there's only one album there anyway) and there's a link at the bottom of the page.  We were also kinda inspired by Dimaension X, who gives all his stuff away, not to mention helped us out immensely for nuthin'!!  He's had almost 15,000 downloads (dude!!) of his albums.  Pretty impressive.  So we figured it's probably better to get lots of people to listen to our tunes and spread the word.  Spread the disease!!!


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June 15 2009 -
We have completed recording and mixing our debut album, "A Tale of Modern Ruin," and it is available to preview at our Myspace page and our last.fm page.  We got it done a lot faster than we thought, mainly due to the major helping hand from our buddy, Dimaension X (aka Dave Lanciani), who helped with the mixing and mastering process.  Since we both use Reaper as our main DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), it was easy to exchange files, add effects, etc.  Plus, our drummer uses an electronic drum kit with Toontrack samples (and Dave also has the same samples set), so the drums came out great.  Everythng is recorded direct, so no miking hassles, pissing-off the neighbors, etc.  The whole process was just simple.  Now hopefully people will give the album a good listen.