Pre Order /// Forfeit - The Lower Depths

FORFEIT “The Lower Depths” LP
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FORFEIT “The Lower Depths” LP / PRE ORDER VERSION RED VINYL

1. Something Against Me
2. Burnt Earth
3. Cut Off
4. Treading Water II
5. The Shift
6. The Lower Depths
7. Cease To Exist
8. Swift Judgment
9. Bloodletting
10. Bleak Reality
11. Parallel World


“Forfeit is a band birthed by the inspiration that its members drew from the legacy of their local scene. Having all been in previous hardcore outfits, Steve Hornyak, Ben Shaw, and TomDom felt a strong pull towards the roots of Syracuse hardcore. In 2007 the group started writing and playing songs in that vein together as Forfeit. That same year they recorded a demo at More Sound Studio. The following year brought the addition of both Brian McGee and Pat Benson to fill out the lineup and the sonic void.

In 2008, Forfeit released their first EP, “Visions” on Reaper Records. Touring to support the release with bands such as Trapped Under Ice, Death Before Dishonor, Terror, Blacklisted, Cro-Mags, Have Heart and Down to Nothing. Bringing the music to new fans of the band as much as they can and developing a great following in a short time.

2009 brings a new LP recording from the group that is being released this fall on Reaper Records. The album is entitled “The Lower Depths” and promises to build and expand on their musical vision. The group plans to tour extensively to support the release and bring both pride and glory to the scene that spawned them. “

Click Here to pre-order “The Lower Depths” from Reaper Records

Rare /// The Promise - True Love Demo

I was doing some lurking a few days ago and came across this demo posted on the Stuck in the Past blog. This demo featured members of Another Victim that would eventually go on to become the first 7″ep from The Promise, titled “My True Love”. Another Victim opened with these two songs at Hellfest 2001 (last show) and later handed out these demos. I was shocked when I came across this, I had never heard of there being a “True Love” demo.

I guess they only made a handful of these so coming across one would be hard to do. If anyone is trying to get rid of one or knows of one being sold, send me an email, I really need to get my hands on one of these. The recordings are the exact same as the EP released by Deathwish.

EDIT: From Buske
True Love was the original name of the band. We were talking with EVR about releasing a full-length and they informed us of another band named True Love that had the name already copy written. EVR advised us to contact this band to avoid any future legal issues regarding the name and they weren’t very cool with us borrowing their name.

While siting around the house one day, we had a “name the band” gather and started digging through our CD collections. Our good friend, Grez, pulled out the Ringworm record entitled, “The Promise” and there it was – hands down, unanimously

Vinyl /// Achilles - Hospice LP

This record is probably one of the most important records to come out in the past five years for me and it happens to be birthed right in my neighborhood (well close). I remember picking up this CD when it came out and I was not sure what I was really picking, I sort of purchased it on a limb. I had heard them on previous records but always forgot to keep checking them out. Needless to say this record blew me away right from the first listen, and it has been in heavy rotation in my car CD player and iPod for the past few years now. So when I found out that someone was going to be releasing this onto vinyl I made sure to remind myself to get a copy.

The record came out pretty cool if you ask me. It’s different than most that I have, the sleeve is a thinner card stock and the artwork feels and looks like a charcoal painting. If you look at the vinyl layout and the CD layout you can see some similarities. The lyric insert is straight and to the point and I like that. The record also comes with another insert that is on a thicker; opaque tracing style paper with the logo of the record as well as the hex, and farewell party logos. Looks pretty cool, I don't know why they just didn't make that the insert but I'm not complaining, its a unique record and the layout goes hand in hand with that.

Go and pick this up online at Farewell Party Records webstore, and I also believe Hex has a few of these in his distro, so pick one up at a show. I believe they will be playing some more shows in the near future when PBC is back from their world tour, but I'm not certain so keep an eye out.