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More and more tour dates are being confirmed for both the European part and the USA part of our second Transatlantic tour. Unfortunately, for the European part in September there's still 3 dates to be filled in. If you can help us out with ANYTHING, we'd be extremely thankful for that. If you're curious for Jena Berlin, which you should be, go here to stream their album, Quo Vadimus. We're all really excited to go on a tour that is a little longer again.

And for that tour we'll be bringing the new merchandise Riekus announced yesterday. You can of course also order through this site.

Speaking of digital availability, you can from now download our album "Testimony" through services like I-Tunes, download punk and the like. Fond of Life Records released our album through European download stores, so feel free to check it out. The USA release date of the download will be September 23. Unfortunately the LP release of the record might get some delay because of problems at the pressing plant. We'll keep you updated.

Furthermore we're busy writing and practising new songs. Just to let you know.

Last but not least, thanks to all of you who came to or commented on the Propagandhi show in Temse, Belgium, to join us in our idolization towards Propagandhi. We know, that's not punk. We never claimed to be though, or did we? Hope to see you all soon.

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And already a new update. We plan on giving you more and more (smaller) updates, in stead of drowning you in huge updates once a month. We'll see if it works. For now we have a shows archive to announce. If you visit the shows section and you scroll down you can check the shows we have done in the past. Maybe the archive is not 100% complete,  but it's close enough and we'll improve it. If you miss something, let us know. For now it shows we have done over 300 shows in 7 years.

Secondly we added some shows across the Atlantic after this summer. We'll be going on tour with One Win Choice from New Jersey, check them out here. That's it!

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It seems like there is not much going on, but behind the screens we are preparing a lot of stuff. New tours and releases are being prepared as we speak. New dates are appearing on our website for the tour we will be doing together with Jena Berlin from Pennsylvania (USA) in September. Check out their music and message, great band in the style of Hot Water Music, Boy Sets Fire and Smal Brown Bike, really happy to be touring with them. If you want to help us out with a date just email us.

On the trip we made last week we had a lot of fun. Thanks to all people helping out with the nice festivals in Italy, and the nice show with Death by Stereo in Zurich (Swi). If you have pictures, videos or whatever let us know, we'd be delighted. Thanks to everyone for coming out and hopefully enjoying our music. It was actually our first experience with Pieter on bass and it turns out great! So we're very happy with that.

Thirdly we'd like to announce that our debut album "Silencing Civilization" is almost sold out. We have some digipacks left and after those this pressing is gone. Fortunately the amazing people at Shield Recordings offered us to re-release the album. And this time the album will appear as a jewel case CD-version and on vinyl! So that's extremely cool in our opinion. For this re-release the album will be remastered by our own Nico van Montfort for both CD and LP. Hopefully it will be out by our tour in September, but we can't promise anything since vinyl pressing plants can be slow … We will keep you up to date!

For those interested in live videos we have some new clips marked as favorites on our Youtube account. Among them a live video of our show in the Melkweg with Anti-Flag. Check them out and let us know if you have any videos that are not up there.

And last but not least. People in Japan can now order a copy of Testimony from Disk Union. Check this link for a direct order (At least, that's what I think it is. My Japanese could use some improvement).

That's it! See you all in Belgium! Propa-fucking-gandhi! If they sue us for plagiarism, I'm gonna sue them for stealing my sleep!

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Damn, did we have a blast at the Rise Against show, or what? Hope tomorrow is gonna be as good as that.

We have some really amazing news to announce. After a lot of requests from people from the USA for the record we can promise you that "Testimony" will be released in the USA, through Jump Start Records. Release date is set on September 23. It will be released on LP only and all copies will include a free digital download of the record. We are "Stoked" to say the least. And it's always nice to get new family members like A Wilhelm Scream, Belvedere, Astpai, Jena Berlin, Stockyard Stoics, One Win Choice, Giving Chase and many more. We will keep you updated on any more details around this release.

Speaking of "Testimony"; we got another nice review in from the respectable punknews.org. check it at their site or on this website. Great to read someone really captured the vibe of the record the way we tried to write it.

By the way, we're still looking for some shows for our July tour. Please help us out if you can! Anything will do.

So long and thanks for all the comments! 

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… and that's actually pretty literally. Because the worst thing we can do as a band is happening; we have to cancel a part of our upcoming tour. We are extremely sorry and appreciate all help from the people that worked to get this thing rolling. But sometimes things are not only in your own hands. Maybe some of the dates can be shifted towards the dates we were planning in July and September. We will keep you up to date. Please, read Yvo's explanation below:

"Hi there,
We have very bad news: we have to cancel a part of the upcoming tour in June. The reason is my girlfriend Suzette is pregnant of our second child and the pregnancy is not going very well. She's feeling really tired and she simply can't take care of both herself and our son on her own while I'm away. We've tried everything in our capacity to increase her health but this is beyond our reach. After Suzette ended up in the hospital, we had to draw our conclusion: I'm needed at home to take care of her and my son and we have to cancel a part of the tour.
We're really sorry to tell you this, we wish it was different. You all will probably know that touring is our fuel and the thing we like to do best, but the health of my girlfriend (and the little one inside of her) are the first priority.
We are playing the first three shows of the tour and after that we will be playing local shows. On those shows I can get home the same night.
A long time ago we already agreed on continuing the touring with a replacement bass player during the last months of my girlfriend's pregnancy. Therefore our friend Pitter (Rush 'n' Attack, Omission) will replace me on the tours from July till November. I will be at home, changing diapers and writing new songs. After November I'll be back on track."

So there were already plans to replace Yvo temporarily but nature's call was too urgent to anticipate in time and we can't do (all) the dates in Austria, Italy and France. We apologize and hope you understand and that you might come out to one of the shows we are actually playing. Or maybe catch you later this year? Take care, we will keep you up to date.

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