demo release show

eric, keith, our friend jeff and dan getting hectic. (both photos courtesy of our friend lauren miller)


wow. by far, the most fun any of us have ever had playing or attending a show. including bands, there was close to 100 people at friday's show, which is pretty unheard of for an all-ages hardcore show up here. so many bros, good vibes and good times. our friends in not sorry played first, and if you haven't checked them out, you're blowing it HARD. ex-members of how we are, my revenge, lemuria and this time tomorrow playing ill straight-edge hardcore. fans of fucking wimpy, "da-na-na-na-na" dime-a-dozen bullshit need not apply. this is hard, fast, raw hardcore punk and it fucking rips. buy the demo and get into it.



keith and eric give justin some mic love while getting mean-mugged by a pair of sitting guys (andrew and jon from parasitic skies)


after that was unrestrained, from portland, who are quite possibly envision's collective favorite northwest band. we played our second show with them, and it was love at first, uh, mosh. sick, heavy '90s-style hardcore with a serious undertow vibe. even though they were short a guitar player, they brought it so, so hard on friday. and justin has the best pompadour i've ever seen. pretty sure i could smell his pomade when dudes were still in oregon and, if you've seen this picture of eric sanford's hitler do(n't) that he's bandied around the internet, you know that i know a thing or two about smelling pomade.

then came parasitic skies, who brought a seriously nasty metallic '90s vibe. metal mike from this time tomorrow delivered some legit vicious riffs, and their drummer andrew played his second set of the night after holding it down for (i)NxS not an hour earlier. high-school mosh was wrought, a strife cover was played, and people were stoked. definitely another band to look out for.

finally, like a big bunch of assholes, we played last. keith kicked dan over, john was danked out on painkillers for a torn back muscle, and eric went into at least three rage blackouts. all in all, it was a fun set.

and yeah, that was our demo release show. huge, huge thanks to all the kids that came out, and to unrestrained, not sorry and parasitic skies for making the drive up to our little shithole to play this show with us. it legitimately means a lot that three of our favorite northwest bands came up for this, and, hopefully, it's the first of many times our paths are fortunate enough to cross. demo and t-shirt mail-order coming as soon as we get our shit together. dan shaves his chest.

xoxo, alex