Hello Boils and Ghouls!,
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Don't be a damn fool and miss out on this!!
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Eternal Bond is being unleashed on limited edtion vinyl Picture Disc by Jail House Records!!
It looks like it should be ready for Pre orders in Feb but keep checking back to make sure. We are looking at a march release date now.
We are also featured on the new episode of Diablo Podcast!!
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As posted in the subject line, we are now working on our new record and are set to start booking the southeast region of the US for April!! ( GA,FL,AL,MS,LA,TX,OK,MO,AR,TN ) SERIOUS OFFERS ONLY!!!
“in-de-pend-ence n. 1 the state or quality of being independent; freedom from the influence, control or determination of another or others 2 [Now Rare] an income sufficient for a livelihood” - Webster’s New World Dictionary (Third College Edition)Y’see, no matter how far things spiderweb and branch out, it’s always gonna come back to one thing: scary. Scary, scary, and - since we’re already talking about it - scary.Hearsay has it that the only thing scarier to sprout from the muck and mire of South Carolina’s swampland than guitarist Willy B is his partner-in-grime Evil Presly. Whereas Mr. B has that gentlemanly Southern smarm and a drawl that simply drips with “git th’ shovel”, Mr. Presly - a leather ‘n leopard wrapped mass of mange, canines and charisma that’s charmed the pants off more than one chimpanzee - is a brash, one-man avalanche. Put simply, put the two together on a stage, in a van or bar tab and somebody’s gonna end up hurt and bawlin’.
In For The Kill Album Cover
In the early 1990’s, the pair joined forces, vowing to destroy the boggy boredom and stereotypical sasquatch**** that was plaguing their local music scene. With an unhealthy devotion to horror films and frighteningly diverse musical tastes in tow, the Demonic Duo decided that the best way to pay tribute to their heroes - Conway Twitty, Iron Maiden, Etta James, The Specials and the Ramones among them - were to hammer them all into a shaker (no stirring, thank you) and serve the whole steaming and quickly-congealing mess over ice. A few years of doing so laid waste to not only a few band members, but a handful of demo recordings, compilation appearances and scads of hellish live shows as well, culminating into a deal with indie label Rockduster Records and the release of The Independents’ debut, IN FOR THE KILL. Extensive touring for IFTK resulted in shows with Voodoo Glow Skulls and Blink 182, as well as blossoming a friendship between Evil and Ramones bassist CJ Ramone. A few opening dates of the Ramones ACID EATERS tour followed, ending with The Independents being taken under the motherly leather wing of Joey Ramone, who volunteered to manage and produce the band. The Metro Chicago, IL 1997 saw the band signing up to release the 7-song STALKER EP on Elevator Music, and then heading out onto the road yet again and teeming up with Rancid, Reel Big Fish, Green Day and several dates of the Ramones’ Farewell Tour, as well as the CMJ and South By Southwest conventions. Touring was followed by stints in the studio to record songs for the hilariously-hits-home Bruce McDonald film, HARDCORE LOGO, a Joey Ramone/Daniel Rey-produced cover of Danzig’s “Mother” and several as-yet-unreleased ditties with Ramone himself handling vocals. 1998 was celebrated with the release of a self-titled single on Hellcat/Epitaph as well as dates on Van’s Warped Tour, the New England Ska Fest and opening for everyone from Ronnie Spector to Cheap Trick, Citizen Fish and Sebastian Bach. The grueling recording for their BACK FROM THE GRAVE album (also produced by Ramone and Rey) was broken up by an appearance in Robert Tucker’s horror spoof FATAL RINSE, shooting videos for the songs “Little Blue” and “Death Notice” with renowned director George Seminara (Ramones, Danzig, Beastie Boys) and a $60,000 incident involving the abduction of their van, trailer, merchandise and equipment - some of which being irreplaceable gifts from the Ramones. BACK FROM THE GRAVE and THE UNHOLY LIVING DEAD EP were both released independently (no puns) before the band set off on a tour of the U.S. with the Misfits - dampened considerably by the untimely passing of Joey Ramone on April 15, 2001.2002 was spent vanning to and fro with the likes of The Queers, The Eyeliners and The Briefs and several headlining stints. Early 2003 saw the release of the live opus LIVE FROM MURDER BEACH as well as compilation contributions for the likes of Cleopatra, Fast Music and Peephole Records and even more live debacles with The Pietasters and Voodoo Glow Skulls. An extremely busy 2004 (which included the release of the FULL MOON ARISE EP/CD-ROM, a rousing rendition of “Sword Of Damocles” on Spring Man Record’s THE ROCKY HORROR PUNK ROCK SHOW comp and a successful “No Rest For The Wicked” U.S. jaunt) came to a rather unnerving end in mid-November. In the first days of making their long awaited UK/European debut with pals The Dangerfields, The Independents were involved in a horrific bus accident in England that left their bus driver in cranially critical condition and a cut and crisped Willy B with numerous rattling crumbs previously known as a left arm.Upon mending up and returning home, it was only a matter of weeks before the punishment gluttons were back at it, burning up asphalt, eardrums and Alka-Seltzer with two full headlining campaigns and another lengthy stint with The Queers. Because of outstanding sales (damn ‘em!) BACK FROM THE GRAVE and LIVE AT MURDER BEACH had to be repressed not once, but twice and 2005 was brought to a catastrophic close with the final touches being put on the long, long, looooong awaited ETERNAL BOND. The forecast for 2006 is as bleak and black as it’s always been: scary-as-all-hell with a 110% chance of abject terror and piss-jetting panic. That is, more music (ETERNAL BOND, a reissue of STALKER with bonus tracks, performances with Joey Ramone on the LIVE AT THE CONTINENTAL compilation CDs and DVD), more Constant Commuter Miles, more jugular-jabbing joyrides, more finger flippery, more broken bicuspids and more satisfied ‘n sighing gothapotami than you can shake your foot-long coney at. Evil Presly and Willy B With Joey Ramone Manitoba's, NYC 12/12/00 Be ascared. Be very ****ing ascared.
-- Edited by Joey_Ramone rulz at 22:00, 2007-02-10
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"They put the "fun" back in funeral. Great songs, punk meets ska meets surf meets the Ramones, with a touch of Elvis. There is nobody like them!" - Joey Ramone
