MAXIMUM ENTROPY AND THE NEARLY BLACK OBJECT

 

Four songs pressed into 45 RPM 7" vinyl and released by Nerve Altar. Recorded August 2014 by Joel in our Abandoned Outpost of Anhedonic Filth and Misery. Bound in a wraparound cover and including an 8-page chapbook containing astronomically correct secrets and truths. In support of this release and our general self-destructive bent, we will play the following shows with several of our friends:

• FEB 19 - Cleveland, OH w/ KEELHAUL & Nyodene D at Now That's Class
• FEB 20 - Indianapolis, IN w/ Corpuscide, more at 5th Quarter Lounge
• FEB 21 - Chicago, IL Two-Piece Fest at ChiTown Futbol
• FEB 22 - Buffalo, NY w/ Gas Chamber, Black Iron Prison at Black Dots (matinee)
• MAY 16 - NYC w/ Full of Hell, The Body at ABC No Rio (matinee)

We will be restocked with tshirts and copies of both of our LPs. Accompanying us on our journey will be Nerve Altar and all of his releases. And of course, everything is available for mailorder should you not make any of the shows.

The Terminal Zone

Brief summary of current activities:

Weekend out with our Brooklyn instrumental friends Thurn & Taxis in these locations:

     Friday 10/17 in Albany, NY at Low Beat

     Saturday 10/18 in Ithaca, NY at Just Be Cause (matinee)

     Sunday 10/19 in Plattsburgh, NY at ROTA Gallery

Thanks to everyone who helped pull these shows together.

The four new songs we recorded in our former practice space (August 2014) will see imminent release as a 7" on the mighty Nerve Altar. Artwork and mastering are currently underway. Thank you Aaron.

Interview with Andrew Hernandez II Twin Lords/ Tombs for Ithaca Underground posted. Thank you Andrew.


And as we still have copies of the first and third LPs available, here is a kind review from Shane in a recent issue of Decibel.

This bass and drum instrumental duo, the former rhythm section of Anodyne (which has been extinguished for almost a decade... Jesus), are a spastic, time-signature-sodomizing, M.C. Escher painting of a band. Over the course of six tracks, they grind, groove, and warp rhythms into something that's intimidating and endlessly fascinating. Buy this and whatever else they'll sell you.

Thank you Shane.

And thanks to you for reading.

New LP Available

Covers and vinyl for Falling to Death Through Time and Space are completed and currently in-hand at the RBB Sweat & Blister Factory. These fine specimens, as pictured above, are available for mailorder, which is handled via the bandcamp account, or by emailing us directly. Diseased Audio in Chicago, and mysterious Canadians Mass Deadening will have copies presently, should you like to consolidate your order with other outstanding offerings. A digital version, priced at a very tempting 'pay what you will,' is also available at bandcamp.

We continue to have copies of the first LP, which can be ordered (or downloaded for free) in the same manner as the new one. We also have for download only (at the moment) the lost second LP Mythologies. We believe it will see a proper vinyl release at some point prior to the heat death of the universe.

Our string of dates with Triac went very well, and we extend thanks to everyone who helped organize that, put us up, and attended the shows. More of these trips will be planned and noted on this page.

Details not confirmed, but new songs and recording are underway. More to follow as events cohere. We thank you for your interest.

New LP and Triac Shows

Covers and vinyl for Falling to Death Through Time and Space are at their respective factories. We will have the completed units by the time we leave for our shows with Triac, which are as follows:

• Thursday, 6/5 Rochester, NY (Location undisclosed) with Televisionaries
• Friday, 6/6 Lima, OH at The Leather Shop with Pizza Hi-Five and others
• Saturday, 6/7 Chicago, IL at Club Rectum with Sea of Shit, Sick/Tired, and Bottomed
• Sunday, 6/8 Cleveland, OH at Castle Greatskull with Grin & Bear It and Fire Death
• Monday, 6/9 Philadelphia, PA at Half Moon Cafe with Chainsaw to the Face, Past Tense, and Prophet, Said I.

Come out and say hello, we don't do this nearly as often as we should. Records will be available for mailorder when we return, should you like one. Thanks to everyone who helped set up these shows, and all the bands for agreeing to play.

Sooner Rather Than Later

Our next show is this Friday, these are the details:

April 11th

Hivesmasher
The Great Sabatini
Mother Brain
Geryon

The Acheron

57 Waterbury Street, Brooklyn
8PM // $8 // 21+

Our third record, Falling to Death Through Time and Space is at the plant now. We will have copies in time for our short run of dates with Baltimore's TRIAC. Those dates are as follows:

Thursday, 6/5 Pittsburgh, PA Rochester, NY
Friday, 6/6 Lima, OH
Saturday, 6/7 Chicago, IL with Sea of Shit, Sick/Tired, and Bottomed
Sunday, 6/8 Cleveland, OH (tentative)
Monday, 6/9 Philadelphia, PA

We'll update with further information as it trickles in. For now, our second record, Mythologies, is available for download, and we still have copies of the first as an LP or download.

Thanks for the support.

The Fragile Geometry of Space

Having recovered from our vicious injuries, we move forward with another show this weekend.

Saturday November 23, 2013 3PM

CAR BOMB (NYC techmetal psychos)

DIVIDER (intense Long Island post-metal)

HUSH (crushing Albany sludge/doom)

RADIATION BLACKBODY

ABC No Rio

156 Rivington Street

$8

Copies of the first LP and t-shirts will acompany us.

We have also posted our unreleased second session MYTHOLOGIES to bandcamp. Our third session, untitled at the moment, will be released on vinyl shortly. We appreciate your patience and your support.

Updated Shows

As near to complete information as we currently have. Thanks to Annihilvs Power Electronix for setting up these shows, and to Derek Rush for DJing.

Friday August 23 Brooklyn, NY at The Acheron (57 Waterbury Street) $10/ 21+/ 8PM

BLSPHM (Seattle)/ Radiation Blackbody (Ridgewood)/ Andrew Hock (Port Washington)/ Whorid (Hatesville)/ Chaperone (Philadelphia)

Saturday August 24 Philadelphia, PA at Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N Front Street) $8/ 21+/ 11PM

BLSPHM/ Radiation Blackbody/ Whorid/ Chaperone

Sunday August 25 Baltimore, MD at Club K (2101 Maryland Ave) $9/ 21+/ 7PM

BLSPHM/ Handy/ Radiation Blackbody/ Whorid/ Bride/ Mold Omen

The third RBB LP is now recorded and mixed. Thanks to Colin. News on its release to follow once the dust settles.

A Brief Description of Rapidly Approaching Events

Imminent: Recording of the third LP with Mr. Colin Marston at the Thousand Caves. Following this, we welcome our friends blsphm from Seattle for a short run of eastern shows including:

• Friday, August 23rd in Brooklyn at The Acheron with Andrew Hock, Whorid, Chaperone.
• Sunday, August 25th Baltimore at Club K with parties as yet undetermined.

We hope something will happen on the 24th. Feel free to check back for updates, or not, as suits your humor. These shows courtesy Annihilvs Power Electronix. Many thanks.

The usual plug re: Shirts and LPs. We have a new design that we believe is quite handsome. We will be selling them at shows and as always, they are available via mail.

Photos above courtesy Fred Pessaro.

The Persistence of Structures Favoring Death

1. New song "Missionary" has been posted to Bandcamp.  It's from the eventual second record Mythologies.  

2. Our next appearance, as the flyer above so scatologically proclaims, is Thursday August 16 with Misery Index, TRIAC, Amputee, and Strong Intention at St. Vitus.

Thursday

No black metal.  No thrash.  No death metal throwback.  No groove.  No power electronics.  No bounce. No new wave.  No doom. No stonerisms.  No neofolk.  No shoegaze.  No MoMAcore.  Nothing cool.  Mathematics and physics and headaches and staring problems and some grindcore.  We will be at St. Vitus with California's Wake the Machines, New York's Communion, and Brooklyn's Grudges.  June 28th, 2012.  You'll likely recognize this date as the Death reunion show.  That'll be weird.

An Endless Almanac of Terrifying Wounds

After a rash of shows clustered around the end of February, followed by some fruitful writing expeditions, we are finally starting to play out again. Two confirmed at this point, more to follow as we flesh out the summer.

Thursday June 21, 2012 at Death by Audio 
(49 South 2nd Street Brooklyn, NY)
8pm / $7
The Gate
Radiation Blackbody
Key to Shame
Embarker/ Michael Barker

 Thursday, June 28th at Saint Vitus 
(1120 Manhattan Ave. Brooklyn, NY)
8pm / 21+ / $7
Wake the Machines (CA)
The Communion (NY)
Radiation Blackbody
Grudges (NY)

As always, we will have the RBB LP, Defeatist LP, newly-uncovered Defeatist 7"s, and RBB shirts with us for purchase.  Let's get wrecked.

Upcoming Shows

Throw off these shackles of ice and inertia and make our way north and west for the following shows:

Thursday Jan 26th Albany
at Valentine's downstairs 8pm $6 + 2 locals tba

Friday Jan 27th Cleveland
at Spitfire with Keelhaul and others

Saturday Jan 28th Rochester
All ages house show with Sulaco and Assbeer.
Email us for directions.

And be sure to check out Sulaco's new record, Build & Burn. It kills.

We will be carrying our usual shirts and LPs (including new Defeatist).

Next show

12/3 at the Barbary in Philly (951 Frankford Ave) with Tombs and Ladder Devils (members of Minor Times)
Quoting something I read somewhere...

7 PM (STRICT CURFEW OF 10PM) | $8 | ALL AGES
SPREAD THE WORD!!!

More shows coming in January.

And check out the Nerve Altar link, the new Defeatist LP just arrived.

Video from Charelston Show

2011-08-19. Here we are playing 'Aphelion' from the second record. Thank you Frank from Splinter Records. The following day we played a park in the woods with 100 skaters.

TShirts

We finally got our act together enough to make shirts, or at least to pay someone to make them for us. Fancy silver ink on black Gildan shirts. We sell them for $10 at shows, or if you'd like to mailorder one, throw in an extra $2 for shipping (paypal address to the right).

Our recent string of shows went well. Thank you to everyone who helped set them up, and to all those who came out. Oh, and also to the lonely Policeman who thought our volume was too high for the forest.

La Carte et le Territoire

The flyer above refers to an event that has not yet occurred: our next live appearance. Given the success of last weekend's endeavors, you certainly won't want to miss this one. We now have t-shirts (these exist, images to follow shortly), and they will be available for purchase at the show or via the email address to the right.

Thank you for your continued support, whether you exist or not.

That is all.

Updated Shows

Building on an earlier posting, listed are additional events and event details. We also mention here that tshirts are being printed by our friends HTB in beautiful Rochester-on-the-Genesee. These will be posted once we have them on-hand.

Thursday August 11, 2011
The Acheron, Brooklyn
Xaddax (Brooklyn)
Great Falls (Seattle)
Radiation Blackbody
Passage Between (Maryland)

Friday August 12, 2011
O'Brien's Lovely Pub, Boston
Great Falls (Seattle)
Radiation Blackbody
etc.


Friday August 19, 2011
The Charleston, Brooklyn
Sete Star Sept (Japan)
Penis Geyser (Ohio)
The Communion (NY)
Radiation Blackbody


Saturday August 20, 2011
A Lodge in a Park, Rochester, NY
Radiation Blackbody
Some other special guests
Pleasant surprises

Terminal Night

Thank you to our friends at Imperium Pictures for giving us the song title Terminal Night. The song will appear on our soon-to-be-released Mythologies 12". They have some excellent work posted on their site, so be sure to look around.

An error is introduced when the calculations are simplified.

The following shows are planned. We note the appearance of our friends Xaddax and Great Falls, as well as the devastating Sete Star Sept from Japan.

Thursday August 11, 2011
The Acheron, Brooklyn
Xaddax (Brooklyn)
Great Falls (Seattle)
Radiation Blackbody
Passage Between (Maryland)

Friday August 12, 2011
Somewhere in Boston
Great Falls (Seattle)
Radiation Blackbody
etc.

Friday August 19, 2011
The Charleston, Brooklyn
Sete Star Sept (Japan)
Penis Geyser (Ohio)
The Communion (NY)
Radiation Blackbody

We will have records for sale and possibly some tshirts. Hell, we'll probably even bring some Defeatist LPs to unload as well. Feel free to contact us if you can't get to the shows and would like to mailorder one.

Cake Shop Coverage

We long for summer heat and give thanks to those who came out. Some things were written (and videos posted) about our recent event by Brooklyn Vegan and Sunyata.

Thank You to BBG, 1000 Knives, and Atanamar.