Hey friends,

For whom the bell tolls, as Metallica (and indeed Ernest Hemingway) would say.

Friday Decmber 18, the night of our Grand Finale/Goodbye gig at Sticky Fingers in Gothenburg, is drawing nearer, and we'd like to take this chance to reveal some sweet shit that will go down.

Tix are flying out the door, so stock up asap! You can go HERE, or maybe HERE.

What's going down?
* There will be a bunch of cool give aways, including the rare, out of print CDEP "In Coveting Ways" to the first 100 through the door!
* The entire show will be filmed by for a potential DVD release.

What will we play?
* I know it sounds pretentious, but see this as 'An evening with Burst':
- two sets, the first being latest album Lazarus Bird, from start to finish, which means that we will be playing songs like Momentum and City Cloaked, which we never played live before.
-After a break, we'll play the second set, comprised of fan favorites as well as songs we rarely or never played live. It will be an unashamedly awesome mix of old, new-ish and new Burst memories!
* We have invited a bunch of cool guests to color both sets, amongst others Elias Holmlid (of Dragonlord), Ulf Eriksson (ex-The Great Deciever, ex-The Breeding) as well as our long time producer Fredrik Reinedahl (who apart from Burst has produced the likes of Abandon, Opeth and Sólstafír), as well as some potential guests we can't disclose now. This means that our heavy tunes will be colored by everything from percussion and hammond to saxophone and cello.

Remember to seize the opportunity to get some of the last THREADS before they sell out.

We really hope to see all of you on what will certainly be a stark, charged evening.



Swedes - This is what or booking agent Live Nation wrote:

BURSTS AVSKEDSGIG NÄRMAR SIG

 

Knappt en månad återstår tills göteborgsbandet Burst gör sin Grand Finale på Sticky Fingers i Göteborg. För alla som vill säga farväl till Sveriges mest dynamiska och innovativa hårda band när de är som bäst är 18 december höstens viktigaste datum.

Burst kommer att spela två set, varav det första är senaste plattan Lazarus Bird i sin helhet, från början till slut. Det andra setet blir ett uppsamlingsheat av publikfavoriter och låtar som sällan eller aldrig spelats live

Många låtar kommer att färgas av gästframträdanden, bland andra Elias Holmlid (Dragonland), Ulf Eriksson (The Great Deciever), Bursts eviga producent Fredrik Reinedahl samt några än så länge hemliga gäster. Förvänta er en kväll med stark metal färgad av allt från cello och slagverk till hammond och saxofon.

Burst kommer bjuda på flera give aways, bland annat kommer de första hundra besökarna få den utgångna rariteten ”In Coveting Ways” på köpet.

So we have some t-shirts left. S,M(No blacks left),L,Xl. These are the last ones, ever. So pick one up. Or maybe 10 and sell expensive on E-bay in the near future.

Pictures here: http://www.burst.nu

Prices include postage:

25 Dollars
20 Euros
150 skr

You can choose to pay through paypal at
merch@burst.nu

Or send money in an envelope, but please know that it sometimes is risky to do that. We dont take any responsibility if the postoffice fucks up. Which is not that currently but have been known to happen.

If you want to do this send us an email.

burstnu@burst.nu

So I found a sound recording of the last gig on the tour from Chicago on a torrent site.

The quality is actually good, since it is from a digital camera.

Burst Chicago 2009-10-13

Download and experience our last gig abroad.

So....this tour could've started better....

We left Friday's cool but by technial difficulties plagued gig at the Planet Caravan fest in high spirits, only to find that our coach bus had broken down. Ringo, bus drive extraordinaire (he drove fucking Britney Spears for God's sake), went crazy with the phone and managed to get a mechanic down to the bus in the morning. The mechanic, however, was a big boned-fellow, and since his hands were two fat to reach into the engine, that didn't work. He tried getting his retard son to come down and fix it (apparebntly he had thinner hands/arms), but he was on probation, so that didn't work.
Thus, we were stuck in the middle of the NC mountains (beautiful country though), forced to cancel the Richmond, VA show. Frustrating, to say the least. We're in this country to play music, not to sit in a bus and drink Milwaukee Best and look at the rain. Got to see Yob and Astra on the second day of the Planet Caravan fest though. Awesome.

Third day of tour. Bus still unfixed. Mechanic at church. Ringo, the hero, has been on the phone to every bus driver and 80's rock hero in the country (he knows them all; Jackyl, Cheap Trick, Corabi...etc) to get us a new bus, but since we are faaaaar away from any tour circuit, getting a new bus has been a bitch. The latest news is that we will get a bus at 10 o'clock tonight...thus missing the Allentown, PA show all the same. DAMN IT!

Very sorry to all, we are so frustrated about this jinxed start of the tour. We WILL however, make the Brooklyn show and all following shows.

Greetings from five Swedes, lost in Deliverance country.

Brethren and…sisthren?

First, we would like to send you all humble gratitude and reverence for all the response about our hiatus/break-up/whatever. I guess you don’t realize how many people derive meaning from what you do until you die (are we right, Kurt Cobain?). ....

Aaaanyways, here be news:

FINAL GIG:
As we previously stated, we wanna go out with a big ass fanfare of a goodbye show in Sweden. The date has been set to December 18, and the venue will be Sticky Fingers in Burst home base Gothenburg, Sweden. And yeah, this really WILL be a special occasion:

Since this is our last concert, we’d figured we’d do something awesome. Thus, the night will be divided into two sets.
For the first part we will perform our last album Lazarus Bird in its entirety. Awesome for us, awesome hopefully for you too.
The second part will consist of a sort of Best Of Burst, ie. choice cuts from all our albums: Origo, Prey On Life, Conquest: Writhe, In Coveting Ways, as well as one or two from the real early stuff.
Also, we will invite some of the guest musicians we’ve employed on our albums during the years, which means that you’ll be hearing songs colored with live saxophone, Hammond, extra guitars, percussion etc etc.

Tickets will be fairly cheap. We want this to be a great night for everyone.

PLANET CARAVAN FEST:
The frankly awesome Planet Caravan festival is going X-mas on your asses and cutting gig fee by half - this week only! So run run run and get your $40 tix asap.

MORE US DATES:
We’re getting prepared to slay the US, Old Testament-style – locusts, floods, everything. We will have special merch with us, so come on out to the shows if you wanna take this last chance to stock upon some Burst gear.
Here’s the entire list of tour dates, please observe the new addition in Richmond, VA. Oh, there might be one or two more late additions, keep your eyes open.

18 sep 2009 Asheville, NC Planet Caravan festival w/ Clutch, Pentagram, Kylesa, Orange Goblin etc
19 sep 2009 Richmond, VA Wonderland w/Zoroaster + Woe, Bastard Sapling
20 sep 2009 Allentown, PA The Sterling Hotel w/ Zoroaster
21 sep 2009 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall Of Williamsburg w/ Gojira, Zoroaster
22 sep 2009 Baltimore, MD Ottobar w/Gojira, Zoroaster
24 sep 2009 Atlanta, GA Masquerade w/Gojira, Zoroaster
25 sep 2009 New Orleans, LA The Hangar w/Gojira, Zoroaster
26 sep 2009 San Antonio, TX Rock Bottom w/Zoroaster
27 sep 2009 Houston, TX Warehouse Live w/Gojira, Zoroaster
28 sep 2009 Dallas, TX The Lounge on Elm Street w/Zoroaster
29 sep 2009 Austin, TX Red 7 w/Zoroaster
01 oct 2009 Tallahassee, FL Big Daddy’s w/Zoroaster
02 oct 2009 Orlando, FL The Social w/Gojira, Zoroaster
03 oct 2009 Tampa, FL The Brass Mug
04 oct 2009 Birmingham, AL The Nick w/Zoroaster
05 oct 2009 Knoxville, TN Valarium w/Gojira, Zoroaster
06 oct 2009 Indianapolis, IN Murphy Building w/Zoroaster ***NOTE: new venue
07 oct 2009 Milwaukee, WI Rave Bar w/Gojira, Zoroaster
08 oct 2009 Detroit, MI Blondie’s w/Zoroaster
09 oct 2009 Mokena, IL The Pearl Room w/Gojira, Zoroaster

There SHALL be rock.

GREECE:

We adore you, by Dionysos! Larissa, No Budget Fest, thanks for the love and the energy. We will always have a special place in our hearts for Greece.

We are glad to announce that Burst will embark on our first US tour immediately following our appearance at the intriguing Planet Caravan festival in Asheton, NC on september 19. The tour will go through to October 10.
Half the tour Burst and opener Zoroaster will be gigging with the draconian French metal philosophers Gojira on their Metallica off-dates, half the tour we’ll do our own shows with Zoroaster.
See all the dates HERE (a few extra dates TBA soon).

At the same time, we’d like to announce that our first US tour will also be our last.

Following a band meeting at the end of June, we have decided that it is time to let Burst sleep.

We will honor our commitments, play the planned No Budget fest in Larissa, Greece as well as the US tour, and a possible best-of show in Sweden in late fall. But after that and for the foreseeable future, Burst will lay down its arms. Whether it is definite or indefinite, we can’t say. Thus, in accordance with modern internet heavy metal news site lingo, we’ll call it an “indefinite hiatus”.

Burst have made music in this constellation for over ten years now, and while our creative urges remain intact, the energy and motivation it takes to be in a band that continues to grow and gets a lot of touring offers has slowly but continuously weakened over the last years. Why? Who knows.

There are a million and one reasons why we haven't been able to reignite ourselves following the release of Lazarus Bird. We were so proud of that album, and we should have had all the power in the world within us. But something’s been missing. For a while now our band has been shaky, unmotivated and prone to a lot of internal discussions, and all that has sucked the energy out of us. That’s not how it should be.

We guess the most significant reasons are that we have different views on what our band should be about, how much effort we are able and willing to put into it, as well as individual band members’ wish to prioritize other things in their respective lives.
We are too proud of our band and our music to let it slowly wither or perhaps explode in a flurry of intra-band conflict. So, we’ll end it now amicably and avoid what could possibly turn into a less friendly split. We might have separate views and wills, but there is no animosity between us now.

When you think about it, being in a rock band is a fucked up social experiment: five different persons are to agree on something as individual as creative visions AND have the personal chemistry to be able to spend a disproportionate amount of time together on tour buses and cramped backstage rooms. There are a lot of nasty smells to be digested, a lot of insane behavior to be handled, a lot of mundane issues to be solved.

Burst is a shining example of this: being in this band is like being in a dysfunctional but loving family. There is a lot of love, and there are no huge egos - but there are a lot of strong opinions and disparate personalities that sometimes make it difficult to agree on where we are going. Burst has been the most important mission in our lives, but we have come to a point where we need to stop kicking the old, tired body.

Kind of sad though. Burst has been central for us all for so long. But hell, there is a point in itself to drastically change the components of your life now and then, isn’t it? You might lose stuff that’s important to you, but you probably gain something new. If you never change, if you never risk anything, you don’t fucking live. Who knows, maybe we'll get together in a couple of years and make a new album. Given how we thrive when making music, the embers might start glowing again some time.

With that said, we are super excited to play in Greece and FINALLY go to the US! We’d like to ask all fans to take this last opportunity to see Burst live - expect a band and a show in full power.

Who dares, wins.

Harmony for all.

Robert, Linus, Patrik, Jonas, Jesper

We wanna thank all the nice people in Greece who once again made us think about why we still live up here in the northern parts of Europe. You made us feel at home even though we were million miles away. And to all the people that showed up for the show:
We salute you!!!!
We will come back that..s for sure.
Here are some links on youtube from our performance:
We are dust - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93gIeQm8JVM
I Exterminate The I - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYVvoj_IDsE

We are confirmed to play the afterparty for Metaltown In Gothenburg the 27:th of June. It..s at Parken. If you need to be challenged after watching metal for a whole day, be sure to show up for this show. We will not waste your time.

And furthermore. Don..t forget about the Arvika Festival friday the 3:rd of July. We will hit the stage at 20.00.

Missed last night's P3 live radio broadcast of our show in Stockholm?

Stream the cacophony HERE.
Click where it says "P3 Live med Burst" (that's Swedish for 'Don't Fuck With Mr Zero').

The stream will remain for 30 days, so get streaming before june 6 folks.

Whoa - we're on the radio!

Or at least we will be. May 7th, Sweden's national radio network P3 will broadcast our March 24th gig at Debaser in Stockholm, Sweden.

Not a Swede? Go HERE and stream the motherfucker.

Link no good? Here you go:
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/p3/nyhetssidor/index.asp?programID=2663

Upcoming gigs:
May 30 Kristinehamn, Sweden
June 6 Athens, Greece
July 3 Arvikafestivalen, Sweden

we´re going back to where it all began, our hometown kristinehamn!

may 30 people!may 30....

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