Throats preorders up!

Go check out the various packages now in the shop! Overall there is 2 colours of cd packaging available, 2 colours of vinyl available, a cd and 12" vinyl in a variety of combos! All pressing information available on the release page. The shirt and hoodie are exclusive to this preorder only. This preorder end by release date (Feb 1st) at the latest so get on it...

Dont forget you can still save loads and get the limited cd, limited vinyl, hoodie and t-shirt plus all old throats material you require, entry to throats gigs and more in THROATSOFGOLD club

Good tidings we bring....

Yoyoyoyoyoyoyoo!

So THIS FRIDAY is the last time we will be posting orders out until the first week of January. Dont forget pre-xmas orders over £25 get a free tote bag and over £50 get a free tote bag and a free t-shirt. YOU WILL RECEIVE IN TIME FOR XMAS IF YOU ORDER BY FRIDAY LUNCHTIME. YES.

As i'm feeling nice, here is what to look out from us over the course of the next month or -

- THE NEW THROATS CD/LP PREORDER STARTING NEXT WEEK WITH LOADS OF SWEET PACKAGES
- A Brutality Will Prevail t-shirt designed by Bill from Throats
- A ridiculously brilliant Hang The Bastard t-shirt.
- A kind of new Maths shirt that will look amazing.
- A new Cutting Pink With Knives shirt (hopefully)
- The Guilty Parents cd
- Another secret release that will be revealed the day it goes on sale

...you know us, some of this may get delayed or end up not happening or something, but this is the aim!

It's CHRISTMAS!

As it's now december, we thought we would let you know what's going on/going down/coming up yadda yadda sleigh bells.

- We will close for the Xmas break on Friday 18th December. This will also be our last day of posting for the year. FRIDAY 18TH DECEMBER IS THE LAST DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS WE WILL POST STUFF THAT WILL GET TO YOU IN TIME TO BE A XMAS PRESENT OR WHATEVER.

- From today until the morning of 18th december, any order of £25 or more gets a FREE TOTE BAG. Any order of £50 or more gets a FREE TOTE BAG and A FREE HOLY ROAR SHIRT.

In other news -

- Throats preorders on their self-titled release should be going up at some point in the week before Christmas. Get excited on these! Cd packaging will be available in 3 colours - 100 orangeypink from us, 800 in grey from us/in shops etc and 100 green direct from the band at shows. Vinyl will be available from us in 2 tbc colours. One will be limited to 50, the other limited to 200. Finally there will be a preorder t-shirt and a preorder hoodie. There will be a variety of bundles too to save monies. Again - this will all make sense when it goes up! This will be released and orders will be dispatched in time for Feb 1st. Why not join THROATSOFGOLD club and get cd, vinyl, shirt and hoodie, all forthcoming Throats releases and shirts for the next year, guestlist to gigs and any throats back catalogue you want? Its only £50 for a year membership. Would make an awesome xmas gift too!

- There might be another secret release appearing before Christmas. It depends on how fast we move, i'm trying to get it done though and it will be ultra cool I promise! It's gonna happen soon anyway....

- The Guilty Parents ep will most likely make an appearance early January.

New Holy State T-Shirt! Happy Holy Roar 3 SOLD OUT!

This years Happy Holy Roar tape compilation - the imaginatively titled 'Volume 3' - sold out on preorder in 24 hours. RIDICULOUS. It was purely available from the Holy Roar website and only on tape, an apparently dead format. This is amazing. Thank you so much to everyone that bought a copy! This will go out as soon as we can (early Dec is likely).

Now up in our webstore is brand new, amazing Holy State t-shirts. Metallica silver and purple/eggplant print on a light blue or white Gildan ultra cotton shirt. Only 50 were made (equally split between colours), of which we have 25. Each one comes with a Holy State hand tied tag.

Happy Holy Roar Volume 3 available for preorder

The third volume in our annual Christmas tape compilation series is here!

Once again limited to 100 copies, this years volume comes in 100% PCW recycled chipboard packaging with cover atwork and insert. On top of this the tape comes available in (provisionally) ten different colours, with 10 of each - red, mid blue, dark blue, green, orange, grey, lilac, purple, pink, and black.

We have made available a package so it is possible to buy all ten different colours for a discounted price. As its Christmas - anyone who buys this package will receive a bunch of other free stuff too, and i mean good stuff.

Side A is comprised of cover songs and the tracklisting will only be revealed upon purchase. Believe us this is massively worth it!

Side B is exclusive or rare songs. Of particular note is perhaps Easy Hips and Le Swing collaborating on a christmas themed thrashtastic original composition!

Side A
Throats
Run Walk!
Hang The Bastard
Maths
Betty Pariso
Senator
Manuscripts
Esquilax
Guilty Parents

Side B
LeEasySwingHips - This Turkeys Bezurkey
Dreamboats - Night Creatures
Youves - Casino No, No
Bastions - Her Casket Holds No Bones
Crocus - A Spiritual Polemic (live)
Livimorket - Black Alkymi
Brutality Will Prevail - Life
Wreck Of The Minotaur - A Kiss For Luck But You Still Shit Your Knickers
A Boat To Row - Best Wishes
Hammers - The Weight of Days [

I literally have no idea how i'm going to top this one next year!

GET ON IT

New Motherfucking Band on Fuckingmother Holy Fuck Roar

Blog title indicates my excitement on multiple levels. FINALLY i'm working with a band from South Wales. I was born in Caerphilly and grew up in Cardiff, so why the fuck i've worked with English, Scottish, American and European bands before my own kind i'll never know. I must be a fucking idiot. Thank fuck i've finally rectified this. Secondly, i'm finally working with a band that is close to another aspect of my musical roots. Anyone that ACTUALLY knows me will tell you i love THE MOSH. This band are not generic mosh by any stretch of the imagination, but they make me want to bang my head and cut the shit. No twanging, no noodling, no pussy bullshit. Thank fuck. FINALLY.

Who are they? Please welcome Brutality Will Prevail.

These dudes have been working hard for around 4 years now I believe. But at the beginning of this year the band unleashed an ep called 'Forgotten Soul', and combined with a ridiculously intense live show, my mind was totally blown. 'Forgotten Soul' is cinematic hardcore tuned to drop HELL on downers. Slow, thick and sludgy, BWP are like a suffocating black tar or a steamroller hellbent on a slow march to hades. Beneath it all shards of strewn melodies and refrains drag you even further into this bands HEAVY FUCKING SHIT. Oh and lets not forget perhaps one of the scariest drummers you will ever see performing live.

An album by Brutality Will Prevail will drop within, we believe, the first half of 2010.

Go and get yourself acquainted with the band before the year is out (there's a fuckload of dates on their myspace which will appear on the Holy Roar site too within the next couple of days).

THROATS NEW CD

At this stage, I would pretty much say Throats are one of the defining heavy bands on Holy Roar, if not the defining band. All the way back in 2005 (i think?) my old old band, Seducedwomandead played an alldayer in Spalding with a very early incarnation of Throats. I'm pretty sure they did an awful Slayer cover and I thought nothing more of it. Two years later, after the band had sent me, essentially, a pretty poor demo, our pathes crossed at Rapturefest in Reading. The band were a shambles, having to borrow even a distortion pedal from me. The first glimmers of potential were shown however when the band closed their set with an early version of 'Deathnaps' - a song that would appear on their split cd with Maths the following summer. Anyway, off the back of this performance I asked the band to be on the first Happy Holy Roar tape and they nailed their first awesome recording in the form of a version of 'Reign of Low', and from that it was sexy time between Holy Roar and Throats.

So that I don't turn this into a fucking bio, since then the band have released the aforementioned split cd with Maths (June 08), a split cd with the_Network (Nov 08) and a split 7" with Rolo Tomassi (Aug 09) where they covered each others material. During this time, despite spending 2009 with a drummer conscripted to the German army, the band have still managed to tour with Rolo Tomassi, Maths, Crocus, Johnny Truant, enormo-halls with Gallows and Everytime I Die, Blackhole, The Plight and Battletorn as well as shows with Coliseum, Trash Talk, Gold Kids, Rise and Fall, Ghost of a Thousand, Youves, Lewd Acts, and a million other bands. They've had props from some fucking huge bands from all corners of the globe. Still press has largely ignored them - well that's their loss. Frankly Throats are the biggest selling artist currently actually on Holy Roar - proof that fucking hard work, touring loads, having amazing music and a good aesthetic works over hype, dumb pr and idiots in positions of power.

SOOOOOOOOO now we arrive at the first definitive statement from Throats - a self-titled record that is being recorded this week at Serafina studios with the awesome Nick Kinnish. This will be released on February 1st 2010 by Holy Roar in the UK and by Twelve Gauge Records in the USA. There are tonnes of plans in the works for this release, all of which will be revealed gradually as it gets closer. I've had the record played to me, bare bones, in a rehearsal studio, and it slayed even there. See -

Throats practice from Throats Dude on Vimeo.

First up for more info and stuff - we will be conducting a live twitter interview with the band at 3pm uk time tomorrow (Thursday)........

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