signs of the southern cross....

We're inactive but nobody gives a fuck just like ever before.
justins married and trims trees and we barely talk, andy doesnt exist, zach moved to orlando to go to full sail(i miss you my man), our new drummer chris crashed his moms ride into an old stone carriage house. subsequently got his license takin away. Im(josh) currently rebuilding the stone wall because my company got contracted for it(hmm go FUCKING FIGURE), i havent told anybody on the job that though- other than that im at work 6/7 days a week fixing your fucking stone wall or your piece of shit porch and really don't do jack shit else except try to play as much guitar as i can when im not watching American Dad(fuck you) or making love to mother nature.

Justin and I moved all the gear down to eldersburg at the rousey ranch where some seriously cool cats reside. We have jammed once in the month that all the gears been there, so- eh. It went very well though, Justin and I really do have very many skelentons of songs I wrote and that he wrote that we both know from memory. So we spent most of the time getting chad to do his thing. Uncle John played harp on this riff i wrote a few times we jammed it and i was floored and to me it was magical and i havent had a musical experience(concerts included) like that in a long time.

yeah so i guess if we're not broken up we're just fucked up (what else is new)
we'll see what we decide to do

oh yeah theres a record recorded that needs to be mastered and i know or i would assume ex-label at this point since its been 2 years since its due date for a record nobody cared about in the first place. they do not have interest in putting out unless we tour a bunch. ain't gonna happen and we are not gonna get fill ins and bull shit our way across this country in already over crowded tour route. what we write is real and personal and we will jam the fuck out and write when we have the chance. however it is 9 songs, 30 minutes...its heavier than any stupid fucking band like Bad Seed(.....jesus christ people). Unless we press it ourselves i doubt it will come out.

so cheers ya'll!!!

Elephant riders

we are featured on stereokiller.com this week as a band to look out for, add us, get into it!

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Imaginary Mirror

My mind is alive, annihilate space and time!

Yo whats up! we're still illin' believe it or not. We still practice at least once a week and have been writing new songs and with the depature of Jon and subsequently the addition of Chris, honing old songs down with a somewhat changed approach in line-up. We gigged back in January and it wasn't so bad! Right now the focus has been on writing new songs and more recently urgent, getting the record out as soon as we can! Hell, thinking about that, if it had come out when we were finsihed recording we'd have been nowhere near ready to support the album. Still though, its been too long and well, we're going to do our best...stay tuned for something in carroll county regarding a benefit show so we can raise some money to put it out!

dealt the blues

In order to make honest music i feel like you at least have to believe in karma or more simply put, receive what you put into this world. In modern day "society", creative substance is put together in lackadaisical fashion and subsequently has basically defeated any soul that was lucky enough to find it's way over time. To me, many people may never be willing to tune into themselves and others around them and walk blindly down their own (self)righteous path. That's fine though, that leaves plenty of what could be good karma, left to come in my direction. It provides me with an answer when times come that i continually question intentions and realities of myself and everyone around me...Proving that those (not nihilist) live in fear of the image of ourself in somebody elses mind.

Contrary to what a lot of people often times say about music these days... i can see that the sense of community is only getting greater and that all walks of musical life are being accepted into homes across the globe daily. While music has always been the "single most greatest" influences in my life i can't say that i have been affected by any one thing in an extreme sense. Even writing music (lyrics earlier on, lyrics as well as music later) i can't say that i always felt i was one hundered perecent behind what i was saying. However a few years back when we got offered to do a record for a label of course we had to choose songs to record for that because frankly, we have a lot(that we dont play haha). When we decided songs i of course took care of the vocals, lyrics, pattern, ideas, backups, etc etc.

Now here i am screaming words i wrote at the top of my lungs ... thinking a few things. First of all that im not that good at recording, second that if i'm screaming this shit that loud i better fucking mean it. I've read the lyrics to our songs through and through, i've also sang them time and time again. Now there is a very big difference between both methods of recounting your own words(singing lyrics as opposed to reading lyrics). Not neccesarily knowing what a particular line refers to is somewhat of an going theme in some of our songs. Looking back at that now, in reference and comparison has been so important to the way i have written songs. Leaving an outlined drawing on the canvas for the listener to paint. There have been a few lines from songs more straight forward that i have doubted myself over because of possible misinterpreation, but have followed through with original lyrics because i know what they stand for and you can't always take words for exactly how they're spelled out and put in order. Sometimes it requires looking a little deeper into the song, and possibly into yourself to find the real connection. ....

because you will always find a real connection if you fancy listening to our music. I endure bands that i can physically feel have no heart. I endure people that i can physically feel have no heart. The sound waves coming from our speakers may not be one hundered percent positive but it will always be real, coming straight from our fingers and throats.




.......not some fucking i-pod plugged into the PA on stage

Pull my digital leash...

Hey all we're all but having things paid off and sent away for pressing... a few hundred more.
please check the myspace and any DTR merch site to buy something from us online, perhaps make a note in support of our full length? perhaps not! we are playing a few shows and planning a few toures(WHAT!!!?) We have a drummer trained and on a leash now if we can just keep him around! I created a facebook page for us, i don't want to be left in the dust of the digital world.... In other news our old drummer is getting married in 3 months, and our currently guitar player justin will be getting married this september! congratulations to both of those guys. We're trying to write some more stuff but i'm always trying to write more stuff! Who knows though!? Right now there's plans for April 22-may 1, it'll look something like this

april
23 FRI West Virginia
24 SAT Bowling Green KY
25 SUN Nashville, TN
26 MON Tupelo, MS
27 TUES Chattanooga, TN
28 WED Johnson City, TN
29 THURS Atlanta, GA
30 FRI Columbia, SC @ House Of Hardcore
may
1 SAT Greensboro, NC @ Legit Biz/CFBG
2 SUN Virginia Beach / Richmond / DC

we got our fingers crossed that the band we asked to come will come, but we'll see.

also early july there are shows in the north east being planned and i'm looking to take it westward from there. Look out for me interviewing peter from Bishop and doing some reviews of shows in the states for readers overseas., as well as a few other pieces(possibly from the kill alarmed blog) getting printed.

also- if you're interested in reviewing our 7" or HAVE reviewed our 7". hit us up!
bookalarmed@gmail.com we'll send you a record if youre lucky but you can definatley get the digital ep.

peace and love

2 shows for now

saturday march 20th
@ cafe 661 , Frederick, MD
7pm $?

the defect
alarmed
age 16
cell mates
surf Nazis on ecstasy
more info tba

sunday april 18
@ the ottobar, Baltimore MD
tba

F*CK YOU GRAVE DIGGER

1. Brainwashed
2. The Great Dissapearer
3. Power Trippin'
4. Annhiliate Now
5. No Heaven (for a free mason)
6. American Dreams
7. Chill Pill
8. Most Loved for The Most Hated
9. Dead by 27

yeah so i thunked up a name for that new jam (track 6) i think this is the order it will go, willing to put money on no one really offering up advice on the tracklist! i have 3 sogns left so just saying we were 99% done was just silly i suppose. working it out as best as i can with Joe, he's awfully kind and understanding. However a few others have not been. Not gonna let it phase me though, i was never one to really force anything out of myself anyhow. We bailed hard on our june 8th show with Decades from TX and believe me i feel like a tool for that one. Sorry guys. No one else seemed to really be bothered though! Practicing with the new drummer dude once or twice, time to buckle down and get it going if we want to make it down to Significant Fest (our first real out of state fest, we played MD metal&hardcore 2 years). Mike C has mostly finished the cover art so that leaves me finishing the rest of the layout i wish i could have derek or pete over my shoulder this time....i'm going to have to pitch to them exactly what we want so we we know exactly what the outcome will be. That's where we are now, 3 songs left, most of the album packaging on its way to completion. After that it will be time to release. hopefully soon so we can have this drop the same time as 2 of our other favorite bands are releasing records later this summer (see: Clutch & Every Time I Die) Stranges Cousins from the west and New Junk Aesthethic . Real pumped. Hopefully see you soon?

Listen to the new Sabertooth Zombie record you can buy it here: http://www.twelvegaugerecords.com/

No Quarter

Its hard to wrap my head around one thought, we've got a lot up in the air right now. Still two to three days tracking and I want to do something a little special we need to get together maybe we get roll something out beings were jamming with Jon on drums...I guess I'll see what they think. A man named Mike C is doing the cover art we'll handle the rest of the package and can't wait to see what he comes up with. More once we get closer to finishing the record!

CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE

The full length is about 99. something percent finished ( hurry the fuck up josh!) hahaha But bigger topics are at hand. For those who dont know , Steve ( founding member and drummer) has left the band and is getting on to different things in life. Hes getting married in the next year so big ups to Steve. They will be some big shoes to fill as not just anyone can get behind the set and slam out our tunes. We aren't bitter , we are all friends and are not taking this easy but we are taking it maturely ( ya feel me?)
With that said...... we have the open spot taken care of and we look forward to writing more and evolving as we have over the past 6 years. We are showing no signs of stopping anytime soon. The full length sounds raw as fuck and we cannot wait to release it.
Big thanks to Joe mitra at wired wrists studios , derek zipp and uncle Pete with the dead truth camp , and thank you to the select peoples who are out checkin our groove.

I dont mean to beat a dead horse but I never get on here to spit at ya'll. I just want to say thanks to Steve. I aint getting sappy on ya'll but Steve has been an integral part of the person standing in my shoes everyday. Its going to be a huge hole in all of our hearts not having Steve around even aside of his skill on the kit. We're all proud of what he's done for us and we are more proud of what he's definately going to achieve in life . He's got it going on and we wouldn't want him to have it any other way. Can't be a ramblin' man forever. Thanks Steve!

justin

wrapping up tracking...

Working on recording vocals..comin in after work on some days sucks I'm so smelly, tired, dirty and just pissed so I guess that makes for a decent setting to get the vox done...got about 5 songs left to do. Joe and I are playing this by ear..he is generous enough to let that go down. Dude is lookin out for us in a big way...

As for anything else...
We've got to get new guy schooled on all of our songs for drums so we can do some touring. Right now we have plans to go down to florida and hopefully out west..sit back, stare at the clock and watch time crawl so slow...

i like the nightlife baby

Damn just woke up in this wretched ass funk..everytime I reach for you it just feels like the skins pullig off my bones. That's okay because I still remember standing on these city streets and it goes through me like a shock. This life feels like a warzone, the beauty of our brashness speaks for itself these days. Just some bullshit.. I know we're gonna shiver. Just like I know this shit coming out of the speakers. Its true, honest, meaningful and a reflection of roads less traveled that maybe we all need to consider taking. Learn how to love, forget how to hate. Heading back in all day today and laying down vox tonight. J. Mitra is killing it people, watch out.

day 7 @ wired wrists

Well everyones rolled out. Leaving me alone to do the vocals so I guess all I can do is try my hardest to crank this out. The songs are sweet and I'm happy alarmed has outlasted plenty of trends as well as fairweather friends. I'm beat to death exhausted mentally and physically is another story. I hope this means tonight ill get to sleep early. Before I start to ramble off...since I'm cold chillin all solo in the studio, everyone has bailed. We'll see how this goes

Day 6 @ wired wrists

The songs are coming along I think were close to 50ish hours here...some nights have been longer than usual for some of us. Plenty of getting down and visitors to occupy the blank time for he who's not recording. In the studio we've been getting the sounds out of this record that we essentially always needed. The final touches on most of the guitars are being put on moving this project on to the vocal piece. J. Mitra is doing a stellar job helping us experiment and grow with our recording process. We've got some progress left to make tracking on top of mixing. There will be two songs from the e.p. Re-recorded for the full length and the rest will be pulled out of the hat for this record... We couldn't be more ready for this record to come out. We've got a lot of groove to instill in the ears of future listeners.

day2 @ wire wrists studio

Didn't have a chance to make it down it in last night/ had to work and decided I'd spend majority of the time here with strings and doing vocals. So far we've recorded scratch tracks and completed all the percussion tracks, may be steves last impression on the band he helped shape! We hope not and don't think we'll lose him for good but regardless the tracklist is as follows;

(Tentative order)

1. Alarmed
2. Brainwashed
3. The Great Dissapearer
4. Power Trippin'
5. Annhiliate Now
6. No Heaven (for a free mason)
7. New song #1(unnamed)
8. Chill Pill
9. Most Loved for The Most Hated
10. Dead by 27

Joe will be helping produce this with Alarmed and were stoked. The mans got a lot of good ideas. Probably going to hit up O'sheas for Drews 22nd birthday and to slam a few guiness.

Ill update with a few pictures later!

day2 @ wire wrists studio

Didn't have a chance to make it down it in last night/ had to work and decided I'd spend majority of the time here with strings and doing vocals. So far we've recorded scratch tracks and completed all the percussion tracks, may be steves last impression on the band he helped shape! We hope not and don't think we'll lose him for good but regardless the tracklist is as follows;

(Tentative order)

1. Alarmed
2. Brainwashed
3. The Great Dissapearer
4. Power Trippin'
5. Annhiliate Now
6. No Heaven (for a free mason)
7. New song #1(unnamed)
8. Chill Pill
9. Most Loved for The Most Hated
10. Dead by 27

Joe will be helping produce this with Alarmed and were stoked. The mans got a lot of good ideas. Probably going to hit up O'sheas for Drews 22nd birthday and to slam a few guiness.

Ill update with a few pictures later!

Recording? Recording !

Getting back up with joe mitra in early may 2009 to lay down what will be our debut full length...

Stay Tuned...

RECORDING IN APRIL , SUMMER PLANS , WHAT IT IS?!

YO! been a minute since I've really had a chance to get on here to say anything. Then again , their has not been shit to really say until now. so anywho , we got alot of plans coming up here in the spring and summer for all ya'll. First week in april looks like the week that we will embark on the full length due out in July. If you've been out to any shows in Baltimore or caught us on the road this past fall and winter , you'll know what to expect on the new record. We're all very excited about the newer material and can't wait to get ya'll slammin your head into your steering wheel while your drivin to that shit! While we will be recording in April , we will be hitting the road with these dates and locations ( they are subject to slight change) :

may 24th baltimore MD
May 25 NJ
May 26 providence RI
May 27 syracuse/NY
May 28 clev/ohio
May 29 Chicago/peoria
May 31 IN
jun 1st parkersburg WV

Now that spring is over with..... summer time. With the full length dropping in July there will be a very extensive supporting tour to stretch from the end of july into the end of august. with who? probably nooone , ALARMED style always flyin solo , down for the longhaul! Also a week or two in costa rica are definately in the mix for the summer. Stay tuned for more updates! PEACE LOVE ROCK AND ROLL

BURY ME IN SMOKE

Windows are closing
Keep me locked away
No chance was given
To find myself today
My time of aging
Wonder when I'll die
But when my time will come
I know the reason why

I have an escape
Alone it keeps me safe within my home
I have a reason
To keep me satisfied until I'm gone
Don't regret the rules I broke
When I die bury me in smoke

Under the world
I wait for my fate
My soul is resting
Beneath my blissful haze
My time of aging
Wonder when I'll die
But when my time will come
I know the reason why

I have an escape
Alone it keeps me safe within my home
I have a reason
To keep me satisfied until I'm gone
Don't regret the rules I broke
When I die bury me in smoke




......please?

upcoming area shows

FRIDAY JANUARY 16 @ CCAS IN BALTIMORE-
ALARMED, PRODUCT OF WASTE(RI), REVENGE(MA), PLAUGELAND(Ex DITR) + more

MONDAY FEBRUARY 9 @ CCAS IN BALTIMORE-
SOUL CONTROL, ALARMED, DEAD MECHANICAL + more

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10 @ The MACC IN CROFTON, MD -
ADVENT, TORCH RUNNER, ALARMED + way more

WEDNESDAY MARCH 11 @ TBA IN YORK, PA
SHE RIDES, UNDER ANCHOR, ALARMED, + more

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