in the year 2000

THE COMMUNION @ Bandcamp - most of our releases from the last 2-3 years are available for streaming/download. some live stuff that previews a few of the tracks that will appear on a Desired Level of Unease, the one-sided 12" from PRISON TATT RECORDS. more on that later.

THE COMMUNION @ Bigcartel - releases are up there for those of you who still want physical media (cause some of us are still stupid like that... i know i am), plus t-shirts and other memorabilia. i wish it was Mum-Rabillia. dude is fucking hardcore.

next show will be a showcase for WM Berger's PRISON TATT RECORDS in Brovember. more on that later, too.

the bulk of 10 songs has been layed down once again by our old young friend Tony Biscuits. we still need to add some noise. some Twin Peaks melodies, mix and master, and it should be done within the month. we think you'll dig it.

SWANS tonight.

recent musical obsessions: Bestial Mouths , Ash Borer , Lolita Black , Mother Brain , Seven Sisters of Sleep , Low Places , Dead in the Dirt , Atriarch , Dephosphorus , Halo Manash , Barghest , Raspberry Bulbs , Hebosagil , OFF! , Iceage

Just when I Updated you most

- thanks to Brain and Vanessa Catbomb for the amazing show this past Sunday. also thank us for having the decency to forgo our version of Mary J. Blige’s ‘I’m Going Down”. twas amazing.

- thanks also to Josh from Cordyceps/Unmen for the show on Friday in new Brunswick. also to Salo for ruling.

- no shows for a while. gonna try and wrap up these recordings that keep getting put off.

On their way to Savannah, Georgia yesterday, Transient was in a head on collision when an SUV flew over the medium and landed on them. Krysta had to be airlifted to the hospital. We are all relieved that they are alive and doing ok. Krysta had to have surgery on her wrist and her hip put back into place. The van has been totaled and we need help getting them home safely and also help pay for some medical bills.

TRANSIENT


help them out.

new shirts soon. new music soon.

Are you ready for the Updates?

- in August our bud butties in TRANSIENT will be stopping through for a couple of shows. also appearing will be CASTEVET, ARTIFICIAL BRAIN, and more to be announced. later that month we'll be playing with the blindingly awesome SETE STAR SEPT. shaping up to be pretty swick.

- in the meantime, we'll be working on more new recordings. four songs are rough-mixed, and we'll be going in to record drums this weekend for about six more tunes. still have 2 others that will get done at another time, but we have two brand new lil' blasters ready to be put to tape;

THE INVALIDIST: total grind, with blasting almost all the way through. hit us after playing with THE KILL, NOISEAR, and DOUBLE OVER. especially NOISEAR. lyrics loosely inspired by Molly Parker in Kissed. title is a reference to the Cult of Invalidism, which was the accidental basis for the villains in Pascal Laugier's Martyrs.

GARBAGE ISLAND TECTONIC SHIFT: 1/2 grindy metallic hardcore. 1/2 Gravity Records esque screamo. the one you'll hate which makes me love it all the more. lyrics are about achieving spiritual and emotional clarity through group masturbation in a junkyard.

I just saw the deadest guy on earth

Seth Putnam of ANAL CUNT is dead.

Speaking personally, AxCx is crucial to me... one of the bands that made me wanna do this bullshit that i do. saw them in 2001 in a little bar in a Long Island suburb. to this day its probably my favorite show ever. Heavy, psychotic, hatefully fun, funnily hateful, and brutal in the truest sense of the word. Morbid Florist is one of the first pieces of underground music i ever owned, and i haven't looked back since hearing it at age fourteen. all the Earache records, the Early Years, Defenders of the Hate, even the mockingly shmaltzy Picnic of Love still find their way into regular rotations around here.

last time i saw them was about 5 years ago in Brooklyn, about a year after Seth had his overdose. he could barely stand-up, fell into the drum kit after commandeering Josh's guitar, and still sounded more viscous on the mic than any transcendental black glitter core pantywaist could ever dream of being.

Hate in Peace, Seth Putnam.

- all of us at THE COMMUNION.