check this out awhile...

PRODUCT OF WASTE - pissed off, play fast or gtfo, living the american nightmare(as opposed to the american dream)
www.myspace.com/productofwaste
LIE AND WAIT - texas has honed it's own fucking style and it is my FAVORITE
www.myspace.com/lieandwaithc
COPTIC TIMES - read above, not as fast, more bl'ast/obscure blackflag'ish
www.myspace.com/thesearecoptictimes
LION OF JUDAH - these guys are my fav, always the best shows whether it's a projection of various mind altering images behind them while they perform or adding a 3rd guitar player in the mix for a show at a venue that barely holds 4 piece bands
www.meowmeowloj.com / www.howsyouredge.com/loj / www.myspace.com/lionofjudahdc (nothin ever gets the update!)
CLOUDS - rock and roll lives, mix it up a little and let this one jam out awhile
www.myspace.com/cloudsrock


posted this on theb9.com , figured i'd post it here as well... the record is in it's final mixing stages and will be sent off in 2 short weeks with a release date tentatively slated for AUGUST 5TH. artwork, flyers, banners, hype. all that very soon. stay tuned.

Diamonds in the rough(no, NOT jack's old band!)

So joe has sent us the first mixes of the 5 new tracks we recorded with him a few weeks ago and i am ecstatic. i knew they sounded great because we heard them in the studio and we dont really need heavy mixes/producing to carry our sound so it's just the very fine tuning we will be paying attention to, like drum hits and standout parts, etc! Joe Mitra did an EXCELLENT job at recording us and all around just being able to handle and deal with Alarmed in a manner to enable us to record equally as excellent. I'm really pleased with Huge Leaps & Mouthbreathers - two relatively old songs that we breathed some life into and i'm very happy we did so. at first we were skeptical about putting Huge Leaps on the 7" but much like the story to that song, it's ended up rearing its fierce head over the course of it's existence. Mouthbreathers was given an intro/interlude almost and adds variety. I'm stoked on these fucking recordings....without giving too much away i just wanted to talk a little bit about the shit you think you will hear when you listen. I am still working on the layout and some shirt designs. Getting around to posting pics soon

Josh

Recording and the record that's coming out..

So we spent approximately 4 days with Joe Mitra at the makeshift wired wrist studios(new location tba!) Joe is simply fucking AMAZING to work with, we have only worked with about 2-3 engineers in our day and i use that word loosely because some were just dudes pressing the record button and the rest was all self recorded which can be kind of tough. Joe Mitra was as excited as we were about what was coming out of the speakers which in return made us very very stoked. We recorded 5 songs for our debut self titled E.P. i've concluded that this IS our debut 7" and that we have put out plenty of demo's and while they haven't flopped, they were all self released with zero distribution so if you weren't a pal of the band you probably have never even heard it. (unless you bought a copy on tour, i believe we sold 90 out of 100 on a month long summer gig tour).

ALARMED - alarmed
dead truth recordings 08

a side
1. the moon life
2. chill pill
3. huge leaps

b side
1. mouthbreathers
2. brainwarshed

this should be due out the first of the summer if not earlier... album art work will be done by yours truly, don't expect anything crazy, just a very good looking modest first contribution to record collectors everywhere. you will also be able to acquire this digitally. i'll post a few pictures soon.

'08 TOUR Re-CAP (part 4)

so before all of this slips away, i really need to finish. if i don't finish i will be pist. We were supposed to be recording the remanider of this week, however the engineer's MAC power supply blew up. We are reschedualing as soon as humanly possible. Now for the rest of the shows, BREIFLY AND LESS OPINIONATED.

January 13th - Southgate, MI @ The Modern Exchange

On this day we sat around and watched NCAA basketbal in Findlay, OH with some friends. It was raining and weird outside. Showed up to the gig after getting lost for only a few minutes and the place is rather chill. First band is already playing, this band is All Hype from Detroit, Michigan. Detroit has a lot of suburbs that prefer you call them by the name, for what i guess is to not feel shame and say they live in Detroit city. I know that we played next and it was raining so we were figuring up load in. The place had a bay to back into and they closed garage like door and we were inside a building unloading. Shout out to Plague Years for the PBR. We played and i fell alot, i mean a lot- more than i've fallen probably on a month+ long tour. At least 3 times within a few minutes. I don't really know why. From what i heard i looked like a total idiot on stage, whatever i was "feelin' it", suck me. Kids went off and had about as much fun as i did, not a lot of bands seem to look like they're feelin that way when they play these days(blah blah blah)Plague Years played, i liked it. Show over, went out to eat, i stayed and did vocal practicies in the van for about 30 minutes(no homo?) my throat felt shitty and i dont like not being able to talk after shows because i am down for conversation. Got a hotel room, crashed out.

January 15 - Normal, Il @ Das Fun Haus

3 band gig, with Waster and Surroundings. good to see Gavin, Josh and Joe from back home and hearing about stories from out west. Shout out to tim and joey for the amazing hospitality and to the dude who made coffee in the morning. The kids were real good here and from what i heard from a few people usually the place has twice as money people but i don't know how that was a small space. We played decent kids were nice, i know were a little harder to stomach than the norm. Surroundings played after us and gavin had fucked up his leg and actually went to a hospital in CA i believe to get treated. Needless to say he was still doin the damn thang. We slept at the house and bailed the next morning.

January 16 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Borg Ward

CANCELED! can't have shows in below zero weather with no heater

January 17 - Minneapolis, MN @ The N.E.L.C

This show was awesome, shout out to COWARDS and LUMBERJACK. We should enough shirts to make us happy this night. We were able to eat applebees.


- - after this we hopped on the counting the days/hollywood weekend due to our shows going under. Hollywood dropped we took their place. We played Chicago, Detroit & Columbus. All the show's were great and turned out very nicely, although playing The Trap House without a heater was devestating, Triceratops dudes holla!

'08 TOUR Re-CAP (part 3)

Jan 1 - Richmond, VA @ Juice Tyme Basement

So the shows for the previous 2 days bombed and are now irrelevant to this blog as it's a tour update not a , lack-of-tour update. Through poor planning and probably a lot of laziness New years eve and new years eve eve were spent on the road without a show either night. We had planned the tour up to the 4th of the month but never got around to it. Packing up at lukes and driving really slowly to richmond is pretty much what went down. On the way we felt our show was in jeopardy because of a lack of P.A. or something of that nature. The show was schedualed at Ramakin's, however there was a house show down the street with Harms Way from chicago and richmond locals Juice Tyme. We played first, this dudes basement was small, we have played some small basements, but this shit was crazy small. Lane and I made our way to the corner store liquor spot right around the corner, i was thristy so i grabbed a 24oz of red stripe. it was really cold out in richmond that night. we played solid as possible, sounded crazy in that little room. all i remember is me trying to turn on the ceiling fan during our set and it didn't work. Our richmond homies Original Sin played after us and the hard pressed, solid. Goodtimes seein those dudes around. All i did after our set was freeze my ass off. Our house to sleep at fizzled out and we went to a sit down Sheetz with Paul white and the dudes. First time ive experienced sheetz with a dining area, this is the next best place if Wawa isn't around(holler!) Drove home to maryland that night, don't remember much from the drive. Shout outs to Steve "drive all motherfuckin' night" Barker.

We played one local show Jan 4th with Miami's Thick As Blood, shout out to Scott for that one. You weren't there.

January 12th - Cleveland, OH @ The Brothel

Was stoked for this show, clevo is not far surprisingly. Rolled up to an area bordering a great lake in the winter time. It's rather chilly as we arrive. Roll up in the cut to this place called the Brothel, DIY space that just opened up with the help of some dudes living upstairs. right off the bat i see a lot of shit i like. i see an awesome ass blacklight weed poster on the back of the bathroom door, more like bathroom gate. Peeped in the stalls with no doors, checked out some nice nudes on the wall, strictly lesbo. Then i look up and i see Pauly boy from Meltdown fame.. we have played a few shows with this dudes' band. Don't front though we've had some sick shows with these guys, with bands like trash talk back when nobody was comin' out. So fuck you, slacker! Dude was there with Attitude/Forfeit catchin' a ride home to syracuse in a couple days. Pauly is a good dude and it's nice to see him around(and to what you said yo, hardcore is not dyin!) check his band out. All in all i dug this place and was way into it. 1 or 2 bands played before us that i dont remember the name of. right off the bat we waste no time playing, as every band should. I draw blood within minutes on my hand, it's pretty fucked up i dont know what happened but whatever i think zach and I had been drinking in the van prior. Clevo's fuckin liquor stores, WOOOO-O. had zach stay with the van for that one. I think 1 dude moshed hard but we we're recieved decently and nevertheless it was all good in the hood. Forfeit played next, good solid heavier vowel-howeling melallic stuff. They had some new shit that was off the hook, total Sabbathy slow groovy shit, it was word. Attitude played, we packed our shit up and got the fuck up out of there, it was late as hell and we had to drive about 2 hours to the place we were staying. We ended up getting there at 3am, partied until about 6 and couldnt fall asleep too much because girls that snore are somethin' else. Thanks for letting us crash though, and making us pancakes. Today we played detroit, it was weird outside.

post more later

NEW E.P. THIS SPRING

Alarmed has signed a deal with Dead Truth Recordings to be released this spring and then everywhere this summer. We will head into the studio to record with Joe Mitra on March 5th to lay down 4-5 tracks that will be on the as yet to be named release. Following the release we have 3 show's schedualed in March with more on the way. The record release party will be in May and the date will be announced soon.

07-08' TOUR Re-CAP(part 2)

Dec 29 - Myrtle Beach, SC @ The Sound Garden

I don't really remember a lot about this day but i know we drove from Charlotte, which didn't take very long at all. I also remember it raining a bunch on the way to Conway and the windshield fogging up a bunch which was pissing us off/putting us in danger haha. Showed up to the lower warehouse to a few kids, and a band that half their shit set up. Hard Pressed arrived before we did but hadn't loaded in yet. I do remember being somewhat groggy by the time we got to the show. Tossed the pigskin around a little bit, stretched my limb's and felt good to go. Saw a few dudes carrying the P.A. out the door and being the stand-up dude i can be i asked what was up because people got curious. Apparently the fucking sound guy didn't have a microphone, and pretty much has defeated his own purpose by his lack of responsibility, what a fucking step backwards that was. He is the resident sound guy for the lower warehouse as well. All that bitching about ethics aside...i had my own microphone AND cable with me, (as any/every person that may have to use a microphone during their own bands set,) should have. I started bringing my own for a few reasons.

1. to prevent incidents like this from happening
2. to be prepared faster
3. i caught a staff infection from using a previously designated mic, wherever it was we were playing i'm not sure
4. so if i break shit, at least it's my own(or a fellow bandmates shit, which will less likely result in serious conflict in extreme cases)

moving on, the sound guy packed up his shit and ducked out with his tail between his legs pretty much. if it were my guess it was because he forgot shit and felt very embarassed, or at least he should have. as a result of this, in short, i bugged one of the other bands that were looking to get on a show in myrtle beach and hard pressed and us ended up able to play. the show was going to be a late show at the club since one was going down already. the name of the bands playing escape me but i know someone else from the band knows. Super cock rocknroll covering foreigner, journey, the crue and the like. both those bands did. the later band's vocalist/guitarist was talented in the perspective he could scramble around the fret board with ease but his stage presence made me tune out and head for the door. we played first i think and it was pretty solid. our roadie lane was buying shot's at the bar all night. it's still weird to be 21 at a bar. All i remember after our set was it being about 1:30 in the morning and that it was pretty cold outside when i passed out in the van. Woke up at like 6:00am and freaked out, i didn't know where i was. called everybody trying to find out which fuckin' house i'm gonna finish up sleeping at.

another one later today...