Antillectual

We spent our winter in the studio, recording our new album. Now we are happy to get out there again, play some shows and announce the release of our new album. Most of the news below was already announced through our newsletter last week. Sign up if you would like to be among the first to receive these updates.

Euro tour with Smile and Burn

Together with our friends in Smile and Burn we will be going across Europe. Check Smile and Burn, and come out to one of the shows.

• 29-03 GER – Hamburg @ Rote Flora *
• 30-03 GER – Rees @ Bistro *
• 31-03 GER – Essen @ Weststadthalle *
• 01-04 GER – Lindern @ Osterrock *
• 02-04 FRA – Strasbourg @ Molodoi *
• 03-04 GER – Ulm @ CAT
• 04-04 CH – Luzern @ Treibhaus
• 05-04 AUT – Lustenau @ Culture Factory
• 06-04 ITA – Lodi (near Milan) @ CLAM
• 07-04 ITA – Torri di Quartesolo @ Route 66
• 08-04 AUT – Graz @ Sub
• 09-04 AUT – Vienna @ Venster
• 10-04 AVAILABLE chris@horrorbiz.de!
• 11-04 CZ – Prague @ Klub 007
• 12-04 GER – Leisnig @ AJZ
• 13-04 GER – Münster @ Baracke
• 14-04 GER – Mönchengladbach @ Blaues Haus

* with City Light Thief, April 10 still available.

New merchandise

Since we sold out most of our merch we made some new T-shirts, girlies and tote bags for this tour. See if there is something you like and order from our web shop.
As always; shirt = 10 euro, shirt + album = 15 euro

Shirts and girlies are in black & navy, tote bags black & olive. Designed by Andrea @ It’s Simply Max.

Release of our new album

Time has come to lift a small piece of the veil; a title and release date have been chosen for our new album: “Perspectives & Objectives” will be released on Friday August 23rd, 2013. Before that date we will uncover more and more as the release gets closer, think pre-orders, music videos, streams, etc. So far these labels will be releasing our new album: Suburban Records (Benelux), Destiny Records (GER), Lockjaw Records (UK), No Reason Records (ITA), Angry Chuck Records (RUS), Undermusic Records (BRA), Destroy It Yourself Records (POR). More to be confirmed.

Awaiting this new release, we have  a free download of our last EP, “Future History”, including 2 songs that will re-appear on the new album.

Keep an eye on our site for ‘one more thing’ thursday! 

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While we are sending out newsletters with details about our upcoming album, there’s one exclusive piece of news we can’t help but share with everyone. We are very happy to announce that Suburban Records will be releasing our new album in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg on August 23rd. Suburban Records is the home of bands like the Tenement Kids, John Coffey, Black Bottle Riot, Automatic Sam, Peter Pan Speedrock, Paceshifters, Komatsu, Bullerslug and Gingerpig.

More information about our new album will be released soon! In the meantime, 3voor12 did a little interview (in Dutch) about our signing to Suburban. Right here!

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Three years ago we got the chance to play the Macbeth stage at Groezrock. We had an incredible time doing so, seeing so many friends from all over Europe in one place. This year there is a group of bands that wants to do the same. By voting for your friends’ band you can support them getting a spot. Now we are not gonna give a voting advice, there’s simply too many friends of us in there. But maybe you have friends in there as well, go ahead and help them out!

Bands you can vote for (every day) right here. Any familiar names?

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As you may have noticed on the Twitters, Facebooks and other news outlets, we’ve started the recordings of our 4th, as of yet untitled, full-length album. Here’s a little peek for you.

We’ve taken a little more time to prepare for this album than we’ve done in the past. Willem made rough demo’s at home and we did pre-production and recordings before recording the real thing. The biggest difference from “Start From Scratch!” is that with this album we’ve tried to bring some more compact and even more melodic songs to the writing table. Rest assured: not melodic in a virtuoso Pink Floyd or Dream Theatre sense, but generally a higher hooks-per-song ratio than we may have done before. Then again: there is always a big difference in perception between the listeners of music and those who wrote that music, so we’re very curious to hear your opinion when it’s ready!

Last weekend we started (and finished!) recording drums, and Riekus hit the drums and cowbell as hard as he could, so it sounds very promising already. In the next weeks Willem and Glen will be recording bass and guitar at our headquarter (= home), and vocals at Nico XPZ‘s home studio. How DIY is that? After we’ve recorded all bass and guitars, we’ll be re-amping them. This may sound a little technical, but it basically means it will sound great! Last we’ll be throwing in some extra, not-so-punk instruments like organs, pianos and cellos, which you may have expected after the “Future History” EP.

Behind the scenes we’re doing more work involved in releasing an album: talking to labels, planning tours, discussing artwork, thinking about an album title (how could we forget that!), brainstorming about (yet another!) music video and planning a release show. All in all there’s a lot to be done, but nothing will stand between us and world domination. We’ll try to keep everyone updated as the plan unfolds …

In the mean time, we’re still playing shows! Keep an eye on the shows page and hope to see you out there

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While it may seem as if we’re taking it easy, recording a new album and all, we’re always working on booking tours, festivals and shows. It’s been in the works for a while already, but we can now finally announce that we will be touring Europe from March 29 to April 14. We’re looking forward to sharing stages with our buddies Smile And Burn from Berlin and on the first five shows, we’ll be accompanied by City Light Thief, also from Germany.

The tour is booked by Horrorbiz Booking, and we’re open for offers. If you feel like helping, get in touch with Chris.

The routing is roughly this, but – as always – we’re open to suggestions.

29.03: Germany *
30.03: Germany *
31.03: Germany / Belgium *
01.04: Belgium *
02.04: Belgium / North France *
03.04: North France / Southwest Germany
04.04: Germany
05.04: Switzerland
06.04: Switzerland
07.04: Austria / South Germany
08.04: Austria / South Germany
09.04: Hungary
10.04: Czech Republic
11.04: Czech Republic / Southeast Germany
12.04: Germany
13.04: Germany
14.04: Germany

All dates: Smile And Burn + Antillectual
Dates marked *:  Smile And Burn + Antillectual, City Light Thief

Please RSVP to the Facebook event if you wish to receive updates when shows are added to this tour, or if you’re planning on going to one of the shows.

And please check out the bands

Smile And Burn (Germany – Fond of Life Records)

facebook.com/smileandburn
www.youtube.com/user/smileandburn

City Light Thief (Germany – Midsummer Records)

facebook.com/citylightthief
citylightthief.bandcamp.com

See you out there!

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