So, we hardly write in this but i figured "what the hey?" Lots of stuff to talk about, i'll try and make it as short as possible.
As you may already know, we've finally completed our line-up with the addition of bassist Nick Reyes. He's been a good friend of ours since the early days so we're very fortunate to have him in the band. With that, we've been doing lots of stuff to get Antagonist v3.0 going. First off is new music...
We've been writing a SHITLOAD, and i think for the first time ever, we have a surplus of songs. Usually we're scrambling last minute (i'm talking 2 days before we record an album) to write that 10th song to complete an album. That's how "the Chaos we Breathe" was written, that's how "Your Face Deserves a Crowbar" was written, and i think that's how "Nameless" was written too. Anyway...
We just recorded a brand new track, courtesy of our boy Adam Campbell from the Funeral Pyre. He's doing demo's for bands now, check his stuff out at www.myspace.com/theawkward. Anyway, the song is called "Wake Up and Smell the Lies," and it was written by Roland. It's been quite a while since I didn't have to be the one to write a song, and it's very refreshing. The new stuff will be more eclectic than usual. I don't mean we're going all psychedelic or spacey or experimental, it's still going to be metal. I just know our different guitar styles are going to make something kind of crazy sounding, so i can't wait for that.
And since we have our full line-up, that can only mean one thing: TOUR TIME!! Ah yes, the funnest time of the year, the thing we all look forward to...sort of. I've been booking a 2 week run since early August and I wasn't getting much help at all from promoters. We pretty much scrapped the tour 2 weeks ago because people just weren't responding and shows were falling through. But i stuck it out for a little longer and now we're back in action and ready to go.
It seems like NOBODY wants to help these days. The myspace generation is lazy, apathetic and socially retarded, and it's only going to get worse. To make things harder, illegal downloading and the oversaturation of bands in the market has made it virtually impossible to make a living playing this kind of music. Sure, you can easily contact people all over the world on myspace which seems like it would make booking a tour easier. But since there are so many shitty copycat bands out there regurgitating the same old bullshit over and over again and thinking they can go on tour playing their shitty brand of deathcore or what have you, it gives us less of an opportunity to do what we do best. I can go on for days about this, and I have before...but i digress.
Fact is, we're back in action, we're ready to tour, and soon we'll be itching to record a new album. It's tough being in a metal band this day and age, but someone's gotta do it. See ya on the road.
Conichiwa, bitches.
-carlos
Thursday, September 17, 2009
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Tour w/Fate Canceled
We're very sorry everyone, but we've decided our upcoming run of the southwest w/ Fate. The fact is, we have a broken down van, no trailer, and no money to fix any of these problems. We thought we'd have these problems resolved in time, but it just didn't work out that way. We're very sorry to all the promoters, Love as Arson Booking, the dudes in Fate, and all the kids who were planning on checking us out. It's really a situation that's out of our hands right now, we hope you understand.
As for Fate, i don't know if they're going to do the dates without us, but as soon as I find out i'll post another bulletin. Please spread the word, and we're very very VERY sorry again.
As for Fate, i don't know if they're going to do the dates without us, but as soon as I find out i'll post another bulletin. Please spread the word, and we're very very VERY sorry again.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Thanks Whittier!!
Hey guys and girls!!!
It's Lond here!! Just wanted to give a million thank yous to all the people who made it out to our show at the Red Cross! I know there were a few other really good shows going on that day (Cali Metal fest, Bleeding Through/ABRB, Paid Dues (Atmosphere)) but you guys came out and showed us what the Whittier metal/hardcore scene is all about!! I'm really proud that there were no fights and it looked like everyone got their money's worth!! Also big thanks to the dudes in Enthral (except all the anoyying friends they brought in the band room who drank all the water that was for the bands) and our close buddies in Random Animal who played there first show, did you anyone catch their set?? Some people said they were better then us?! Well whatever! As long as you're out supporting local/independant music thats all the matters, there is no way bands can do this without support from their local scene. So once again thanks and lets do this again at the Green Turtle April 14th w/ Fate! see you soon!!
- lond
It's Lond here!! Just wanted to give a million thank yous to all the people who made it out to our show at the Red Cross! I know there were a few other really good shows going on that day (Cali Metal fest, Bleeding Through/ABRB, Paid Dues (Atmosphere)) but you guys came out and showed us what the Whittier metal/hardcore scene is all about!! I'm really proud that there were no fights and it looked like everyone got their money's worth!! Also big thanks to the dudes in Enthral (except all the anoyying friends they brought in the band room who drank all the water that was for the bands) and our close buddies in Random Animal who played there first show, did you anyone catch their set?? Some people said they were better then us?! Well whatever! As long as you're out supporting local/independant music thats all the matters, there is no way bands can do this without support from their local scene. So once again thanks and lets do this again at the Green Turtle April 14th w/ Fate! see you soon!!
- lond
Monday, March 23, 2009
tour tales! my first blog!
what do you know about pink starburst from jamba juice?! that shit is my JAM! this is my first little bloggy woggy thing. I'm sure nobody reads these but us, but if you just so happen to stumble onto my random rants, feel free to laugh, cry, hurl, or what have you.
so we're going on tour again, in April. it's only 10 dates right now, hoping to extend it to 12 (so we don't have to drive straight home from New Mexico). We're going out w/ a band called Fate from the Sacto, CA area. Should be fun, once we figure out a few things. 1. who the hell is going to play bass for us? 2. are we going to find a trailer or do we have to just wing it and put all our shit in the van? 3. is there someone brave enough to tag along and help w/ merch/loading/unloading/driving duties? and 4. will our van be fixed on time?
if you didn't know, our van/trailer basically took every shit possible while on our last run w/ Last House on the left. Before we even left Whittier, Chris (our fill in bassist) noticed something had gone awry with the trailer tire. Turns out, the axle was all fucked up, so we took it to my house, unhitched it, and borrowed our buddies from the Funeral Pyre's trailer. This wasted a good 2 hours. Then as we come back to my pad to unload our gear from our trailer to the Pyre's, the wheel on our trailer completely breaks off. Turns out, the axle is fucked, and it takes us literally another hour to move our trailer into my driveway by hand.
So we finally load our shit into the new trailer, 3 hours later. Then we hit the road, onto Tucson Arizona we go! Shit is going just dandy...until we pass the AZ border. That's when good ol' Van-tagonist starts overheating...but i mean REALLY overheating, to the point where we had to pull over at least 2 to 3 times. We're already late as SHIT, so we're blasting the heater (in the middle of the desert, mind you), all the way to tucson. We're hauling major ass, as we pass through the city of Phoenix. Little do we know that they have cameras all OVER the fuckin freeway, and it takes snapshots of us about 4 different times. Why? Because we were speeding of course. I can't wait to get those tickets in the mail. Anyway....we still think we have a shot at making the show in Tucson, since we're headlining. But that all changes with a simple comment by Lond...."dude...don't we gain an hour going into arizona?" Our jaws drop, and we realize it's not daylight savings time just yet. See, the way it works is...because Arizona is SOOO fucking cool, they have to be one of the only states in the US (if not THE only state) that DOESN'T have a time change throughout the year. Why, you may ask? Fuck if I know. All I know is, this was pretty much the end of our high hopes that we would make it to the show on time. Fuck us, right?
Well...that's only the beginning...
Next day, on our drive to New Mexico...with about 20 bucks left in our name (Since we didn't make the tucson show, we didn't get our guarantee, which was probably the biggest on the whole tour), the van is STILL overheating, and we notice a little something in the windshield that wasn't there before. Yes, you guessed it, a hair line crack. No biggie, right? Not until it spread like a fuckin whores legs...well, not that wide. But anyway, it now stretches from the very bottom to the very top of the windshield. Yay!!!
We get into Albuquerque...Our boy Hesh feeds us like the KINGS we are, and we find a Midas. The van can't be checked til the next morning so we wake up at the ass crack of dawn and take the van to the shop when they open at 7am. Takes them four hours to change the god damn thermostat and flush the coolant out. and it ALSO costs a whopping 218 dollars. Not so much for a van repair, right? Well when you consider that the thermostat itself literally costs 20 bucks, you start to wonder if labor should really be THAT expensive. Whatever. We finally get on the road (2 hours later than expected) and the MINUTE we hit that freeway, that gauge starts hiking up higher and higher to that dreaded little H (you know, for "hot"). $218 down the drain. Turn that fuckin heater back on...
From then til the end of the tour, the heater is blasting. But that isn't the end of our adventure.
Now comes the trailer...that wasn't even ours.
We hit this highway somewhere in bumfuck Texas, high winds shaking the van back and forth. I'm driving. I hear this sudden thud or something...I look in the rear view. What could it be?? Oh, just the fender from the trailer flying off into the horizon. We stop, Mr. Roland Leonard (the saint) runs about half a mile back to retrieve this damn thing, that is now so bent up, it could definitely not be put back onto the trailer.
We get back on the road, and take a pee break shortly after. And once again, Chris notices something. OH SWEET, the trailer tire is all torn up!! The fender must've been hanging on for dear life and shredded the tire in the process. So of course, we have to change the tire.
From here on out, the trailer was fine, but the van was still a bit temperamental. After all that, a few sheisty promoters, and sleeping in wal-mart parking lots for the majority of the tour (literally), we somehow managed to have a great time, play some fun shows, and do a lot of stupid shit w/ Last House on the Left.
So now...we just have to find a way to pay for all this shit. God damn.
-carlos
so we're going on tour again, in April. it's only 10 dates right now, hoping to extend it to 12 (so we don't have to drive straight home from New Mexico). We're going out w/ a band called Fate from the Sacto, CA area. Should be fun, once we figure out a few things. 1. who the hell is going to play bass for us? 2. are we going to find a trailer or do we have to just wing it and put all our shit in the van? 3. is there someone brave enough to tag along and help w/ merch/loading/unloading/driving duties? and 4. will our van be fixed on time?
if you didn't know, our van/trailer basically took every shit possible while on our last run w/ Last House on the left. Before we even left Whittier, Chris (our fill in bassist) noticed something had gone awry with the trailer tire. Turns out, the axle was all fucked up, so we took it to my house, unhitched it, and borrowed our buddies from the Funeral Pyre's trailer. This wasted a good 2 hours. Then as we come back to my pad to unload our gear from our trailer to the Pyre's, the wheel on our trailer completely breaks off. Turns out, the axle is fucked, and it takes us literally another hour to move our trailer into my driveway by hand.
So we finally load our shit into the new trailer, 3 hours later. Then we hit the road, onto Tucson Arizona we go! Shit is going just dandy...until we pass the AZ border. That's when good ol' Van-tagonist starts overheating...but i mean REALLY overheating, to the point where we had to pull over at least 2 to 3 times. We're already late as SHIT, so we're blasting the heater (in the middle of the desert, mind you), all the way to tucson. We're hauling major ass, as we pass through the city of Phoenix. Little do we know that they have cameras all OVER the fuckin freeway, and it takes snapshots of us about 4 different times. Why? Because we were speeding of course. I can't wait to get those tickets in the mail. Anyway....we still think we have a shot at making the show in Tucson, since we're headlining. But that all changes with a simple comment by Lond...."dude...don't we gain an hour going into arizona?" Our jaws drop, and we realize it's not daylight savings time just yet. See, the way it works is...because Arizona is SOOO fucking cool, they have to be one of the only states in the US (if not THE only state) that DOESN'T have a time change throughout the year. Why, you may ask? Fuck if I know. All I know is, this was pretty much the end of our high hopes that we would make it to the show on time. Fuck us, right?
Well...that's only the beginning...
Next day, on our drive to New Mexico...with about 20 bucks left in our name (Since we didn't make the tucson show, we didn't get our guarantee, which was probably the biggest on the whole tour), the van is STILL overheating, and we notice a little something in the windshield that wasn't there before. Yes, you guessed it, a hair line crack. No biggie, right? Not until it spread like a fuckin whores legs...well, not that wide. But anyway, it now stretches from the very bottom to the very top of the windshield. Yay!!!
We get into Albuquerque...Our boy Hesh feeds us like the KINGS we are, and we find a Midas. The van can't be checked til the next morning so we wake up at the ass crack of dawn and take the van to the shop when they open at 7am. Takes them four hours to change the god damn thermostat and flush the coolant out. and it ALSO costs a whopping 218 dollars. Not so much for a van repair, right? Well when you consider that the thermostat itself literally costs 20 bucks, you start to wonder if labor should really be THAT expensive. Whatever. We finally get on the road (2 hours later than expected) and the MINUTE we hit that freeway, that gauge starts hiking up higher and higher to that dreaded little H (you know, for "hot"). $218 down the drain. Turn that fuckin heater back on...
From then til the end of the tour, the heater is blasting. But that isn't the end of our adventure.
Now comes the trailer...that wasn't even ours.
We hit this highway somewhere in bumfuck Texas, high winds shaking the van back and forth. I'm driving. I hear this sudden thud or something...I look in the rear view. What could it be?? Oh, just the fender from the trailer flying off into the horizon. We stop, Mr. Roland Leonard (the saint) runs about half a mile back to retrieve this damn thing, that is now so bent up, it could definitely not be put back onto the trailer.
We get back on the road, and take a pee break shortly after. And once again, Chris notices something. OH SWEET, the trailer tire is all torn up!! The fender must've been hanging on for dear life and shredded the tire in the process. So of course, we have to change the tire.
From here on out, the trailer was fine, but the van was still a bit temperamental. After all that, a few sheisty promoters, and sleeping in wal-mart parking lots for the majority of the tour (literally), we somehow managed to have a great time, play some fun shows, and do a lot of stupid shit w/ Last House on the Left.
So now...we just have to find a way to pay for all this shit. God damn.
-carlos
Black and White design contest!!!
Here is some more details about the black and white design contest!
We need a black and white design for a sticker/button/shirt!!! the winner will get the prize of his art being printed on a piece of Antagonist merch and one free item from our merch table at any upcoming show.
Rules for the contest!!
1. All artist must use the black and white logo from our myspace photo album, unless you create an original logo.
2. Please be original and creative, although we are open minded, please try not to photoshop googled images.
3. You may submit as many designs as you wish, but you can only win once.
4. Don't message use asking "What do you guys want for the design?" We want to see YOUR creativity, you're the artist! you're the boss!!
5. Please no homophobic or racist designs, we will not tolerate such senselessness.
6. All designs must be sent to Antagonistinfo@hotmail.com with "Black and White Contest" as the subject line no later then April 30th 2009
7. I must stress that all designs must be in BLACK and WHITE only, this will be printed on a shirt, sticker, and or button.
...I think the rules are pretty simple, we will pick four (4) winners; each winner will be announced on May 4th 2009 via email, there will be one t shirt design winner, one sticker design winner, and two button design winners. Each contest winner will receive the prize of having their art work printed on a piece of Antagonist merchandise, one free item from our merch table at any upcoming show (limited to stock on hand) as well as the finished product with the artist's artwork.
We need a black and white design for a sticker/button/shirt!!! the winner will get the prize of his art being printed on a piece of Antagonist merch and one free item from our merch table at any upcoming show.
Rules for the contest!!
1. All artist must use the black and white logo from our myspace photo album, unless you create an original logo.
2. Please be original and creative, although we are open minded, please try not to photoshop googled images.
3. You may submit as many designs as you wish, but you can only win once.
4. Don't message use asking "What do you guys want for the design?" We want to see YOUR creativity, you're the artist! you're the boss!!
5. Please no homophobic or racist designs, we will not tolerate such senselessness.
6. All designs must be sent to Antagonistinfo@hotmail.com with "Black and White Contest" as the subject line no later then April 30th 2009
7. I must stress that all designs must be in BLACK and WHITE only, this will be printed on a shirt, sticker, and or button.
...I think the rules are pretty simple, we will pick four (4) winners; each winner will be announced on May 4th 2009 via email, there will be one t shirt design winner, one sticker design winner, and two button design winners. Each contest winner will receive the prize of having their art work printed on a piece of Antagonist merchandise, one free item from our merch table at any upcoming show (limited to stock on hand) as well as the finished product with the artist's artwork.
March 28th at the Red Cross
this show will be fun, it's also our official first show with our new guitarist Roland Leonard! Kids from Whittier,CA might recognize him from local metal band Stealth, well he's in Antagonist now so give him a high five at the show and pick up some merch from us!!
Welcome to Immaculate Misconception
Thanks for checking out our new blog site, this will be a place where we will write updates from the road, random news, rants, as well as all the stuff we'll post on myspace but this blog will hold some exclusive content so make sure to keep checking up with us, see ya soon!
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