Last weekend we had some crazy days recording the music video for the first song from our new album, “Soundtrack”. The video will be released June 21st. Until then we present you a little report we made during the recordings of our new album. Enjoy, there’s some new music in there too …
On August 23rd we will release our new album “Perspectives & Objectives”. After announcing all those amazing summer shows prior to the release, we thought it is about time to inform you a bit more about this album.
Like we did with our previous album we will stream all songs before the official release date. One by one, week per week: the first song will be up on June 21st. That date we also start taking pre-orders for albums (CDs and LPs). Pre-orders will be limited packages, including nice goodies and you will receive a stream of the new album immediately after placing your pre-order. Definitely the way to get your hands on the new stuff first.
The artwork more or less speaks for itself. It is once again done by David Finke from FairTradeMerch, the picture is taken by Christian Pankratz.
The album will feature 10 songs:
1. Soundtrack
2. Welcome to Le Jungle
3. With Gaga on Our Side
4. Work Horses vs Show Ponies
5. Pink Print
6. To All Members of Parliament
7. Future History
8. Bullies
9. Mother Inferior
10. Books
Of course we are not alone in this. So far the following labels have confirmed cooperating on this release:
Suburban Records (Benelux)
Destiny Records (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
No Reason Records (Italy)
Angry Chuck Records (Russia)
Undermusic Records (South America)
Destroy It Yourself (Portugal)
Lockjaw Records (United Kingdom)
5FeetUnder Records (Scandinavia)
Effervescence Records (France)
To celebrate our new baby we will throw a nice release festival in our hometown Nijmegen on August 23rd. It’s going to be a cool festival at Doornroosje with Just Like Your Mom providing vegan food, Typewriter Distro providing mental weapons (books that is) and Shield Recordings providing physical music. Nijmegen is only 5 km away from the German border, so there’s no reason not to cross it! Oh, and there are also bands playing:
– Lawine (Yvo is our old bass player, this is his new band)
– Dead Giveaway (Koen filled in on bass for us in 2011. This is his new band with Riekus on drums)
– 3 more TBA (including more former bass players)
But, before all that will happen we have one of our most anticipated tours coming up in July, together with Propagandhi. And some more crazy shows getting ourselves and everybody else ready for the release:
JUN 22 ITA Palermo The Island’s Revenge Festival (Rocket Bar). w/ Whales’ Island, Lineout, Malemute Kid
JUL 04 NOR Arendal Grand. w/ Propagandhi
JUL 05 NOR Trondheim Verkstedhallen. w/ Propagandhi, Rifu
JUL 06 SWE Gothenburg Sticky Fingers. w/ Propagandhi
JUL 08 GER Bochum Matrix. w/ Propagandhi
JUL 09 FRA Paris Petit Bain. w/ Propagandhi, Homer
JUL 10 FRA Toulouse Dynamo. w/ Propagandhi, Bias
JUL 11 FRA Marseille Molotov. w/ Propagandhi
JUL 13 SLO Tolmin Punk Rock Holiday. w/ Propagandhi, Millencolin, Strike Anywhere, Anti-Flag, Astpai, Atlas Losing Grip, H2O, Implants, Madball, Mute, Snuff, Suicidal Tendencies, Swinging Utters, The Menzingers, Waiting for Better Days, many more
JUL 14 GER München Antifest (Backstage Werk). w/ Anti-Flag, Strike Anywhere, ZSK, Radio Havana, The Computers, Apologies I Have None, Radio Havanna
JUL 17 NL Amsterdam Winston. w/ Strike Anywhere, The Minority
AUG 11 NL Tilburg 013. w/ NOFX
AUG 23 NL Nijmegen Doornroosje Release show “Perspectives & Objectives”. w/ Lawine, Dead Giveaway, 3 more TBA
AUG 24 BEL Duffel Ecofest. w/ Teenage Bottlerocket, Downset, Belgian Asociality, Archetype, This Kid, Toxic Shock, Momma Knows Best, Face the Fax, Harsh Realms, The Reeves, The Sex Toys, Knalselder, more
After playing 2 great shows in our hometown Nijmegen last week, it’s about time to announce our next hometown show. And not just some show: on August 23 we will release our new album “Perspectives & Objectives” and celebrate that with a release festival at Doornroosje, in Nijmegen. We hope to make it a memorable day by organizing a festival close to home after spending the summer all over Europe. Looking forward to present our new album and celebrate it with great friends, bands and distros! The day after the release show we will present the new album to our Belgian friends at the Brackrock Ecofest in Duffel (BEL).
The first 2 announced bands in Nijmegen are Lawine and Dead Giveaway. Two fresh all star bands featuring long running scene stars known as former and current members of Antillectual, Sand Creek Massacre, Of No Avail, Laternpoll, Landverraad, Grinding Halt and probably more. Three more bands will be announced together with distros to provide you with rad music, rad literature and vegan food.
To our German (or other international) friends we would like to stress that Nijmegen is only 5 km across the German border, close to the Ruhrpott area. You will be able to get tickets in advance so there really is no reason not to drop by on this great day.
August 23 – Antillectual at Doornroosje, Nijmegen (NL)
Release show “PERSPECTIVES & OBJECTIVES”
w/ Lawine, Dead Giveaway, 3 more TBA
Including music distro’s, books stands and vegan food
Tickets: 10 euro Ticket link
Facebook event
August 24 – Antillectual at Brakrock Ecofest, Duffel (BEL)
Release show “PERSPECTIVES & OBJECTIVES”
w/ Teenage Bottlerocket, Downset, Belgian Asociality, Harsh Realms, Face the Fax, Archetype, This Kid, Toxic Shock, Momma Knows Best, The Reeves, The Sex Toys, Knalselder, more
Facebook event
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.
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.
* with City Light Thief, April 10 still available.
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.
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!
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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