TDB Records welcome Furnace, Phantom Glue, Choke Up to the family

For the last few years the TDB roster has been branching out far from our Boston locale, welcoming California’s Litany For the Whale, Germany’s Perth Express, and the Texans in Die Young. As wonderful as it’s been spreading our wings to work with bands further and further from our home, I am very proud to announce that we are finally returning to the city that got us started. Sometimes what you’re looking for is right under your nose and in the last month or so we’ve confirmed releases for three incredibly talented local bands.

First up are the boys and girl of Phantom Glue. Pilfering the heavy from seminal acts like Electric Wizard and High on fire, and the wailing guitars of Pentagram, these four shacked up with Kurt Ballou (Converge, Doomriders, Torche etc.) at Godcity last year to record a colossal debut full length. With mastering by Nick Z (New Alliance East) and hand painted artwork by artist and guitar player Matt Oates, this self titled record is scheduled for an April release. Those in the New England area can catch the band opening for Coalesce and Harvey Milk in March.

Our second release on its way to the plant will be the debut EP by Boston’s Choke Up. A surprisingly mature, epic, and emotive hardcore recording, this EP will strike a chord with fans of Against Me, Small Brown Bike and At The Drive In. These four high school friends from just north of Boston hit the studio in late in ‘09 at Andrews Lane Recording (Maintain, The Effort). The organic recording lends the instruments a lush and thick sound, though the songs are played with a true sense of urgency lost in much of the melodic hardcore scene. Look for a March release date on CD and April for digital.

Heading into the studio in mid-February as the third in the triumvirate of Boston brutality, are the down-tuned chaotic hardcore trio Furnace. Anyone bummed that Ed Gein dropped off the map a few years ago or who wishes Converge could still play basement shows will have a permanent boner for these Boston via New Hampshire transplants. Crunched into two minute songs are technically adept, catchy and chaotic riffs surrounded by blistering drums and thick distorted bass. Furnace will sit you down and make you headbang, smoke weed and consider killing everyone around you, all with a smile on their bearded faces.

All three releases will be available on CD and at all major digital distributors with special t-shirt/poster packages available on the TDB webstore for those who order early on. Check www.TDBRecords.com for
updates as they unfold.

-Jonah

I suppose I put it off for long enough, so without further ado:

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TDB Records is excited to announce the newest member of the family, Santa Rosa California’s litany for the whale. Our first brethren from the west coast, Litany are a mixed bag of dark charging hardcore, chaotic grit and haunting atmospherics. Exploring the seedy underbelly of raw punk and noisy “post rock” the four piece hit with a wall of sound that smells of booze and tastes of blood. The recording of their debut album “Dolores” was done at the famous Prairie Sun Studios (The Melvins) with mastering by Carl Saff. The artwork was handled by a friend of the band, Chris Taylor (Darkest Hour, Pig Destroyer, Pg 99). Dolores will be released this summer on TDB Records (CD and Digital) and vinyl will be split by MolSook Records and The Perpetual Motion Machine. The band will be hitting the road upon the debut’s release, look out for tour dates soon.

Check out the first track on the album here: www.myspace.com/litanyforthewhale

Here’s an update on the dates Ramming Speed have confirmed for our WORLD TOUR. If any of you ARE Euro’s or KNOW Euro’s that book shows, please holler at us!

This is the *tentative* routing. If you want to help with any of these dates please email: thrashxbastard@ yahoo.de and we’ll get shit going!

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I’ve been trying to get a new website together for a long time. Tired of bugging local web designers and running low on money to even pay them, I decided to do it on my own using Wordpress.  It looks slick, it’s easy to update and best of all, I didn’t have to write any html. I think I’m in love.

Please please let me know if you find anything that doesn’t work right. Just as important, leave a comment and let me know if there’s anything that you’d like to see on here. Interviews with the bands done by fans? Video updates from bands? Pictures of my roommates sleeping naked? Let me know what you want to see and I’ll get on it. This is the dawn of a new age. A shiny new age of me paying more attention to details. Step two is getting your orders out on time, haha..ha….ha..

Anyway, let me know what you think,
-Jonah

This is all of the news items from the old TDB Website. I copied them over for archival purposes but the formatting got kind of weird. Oh well.

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