We got nominated this year! Help us out by registering and voting on their site.

http://www.nu107fm.com/

Here are the categories that we're nominated in:

Artist of the Year - Intolerant
Album of the Year - Reasons For Unrest
Vocalist of the Year - Russell Dela Cruz
Guitarist of the Year - Joey Dizon / Russell Dela Cruz
Bassist of the Year - Mic Gallegos
Drummer of the Year - Pepo Gohu
Best Album Packaging - Indios Bravos Multimedia
Producer of the Year - Intolerant

Tell all your friends and see you at the Rock Awards on October 30 at the World Trade Center.

Horns up!!!

Russell, Joey, Mic, and Pepo

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Hi girls and boys.

Even though INTOLERANT took a bit of a well-deserved (at least, we think it was…) vacation during the most part of March 09, we are fucking stoked to announce that April and May 2009 is going to be busy as fuck… we are going to be playing all over the place, and we mean ALL OVER!

First off though, we’re really happy with the turnout of Intolerant’s MYX North America interview, which debuted on the net and is probably showing on foreign television as we speak.   
The interview was fun, and we’re really pleased with the editing and how Myx presented the band- straight up and no bullshit, just the way we like it. Click on the following link to check it out: http://www.myxpi.com/pnoise-intolerant/
Next up, we’re very grateful to Rolando Gonzaga and the rest of the Splintr.com team for making Intolerant the artist of the month on their website. Great sound, great video footage of the band playing most of the songs off our debut album Reasons For Unrest. Be sure to check    out their website, as it not only features us, but a host of really great local bands we really like. As most of you probably know, this is the only site where you can view the performances as they were exclusively recorded for Splintr.com. So take a break from surfing for porn or from whatever else shit and check out splintr.com.

For radio fans, we’d like to once again ask for your support to keep our current single “Blunt Force Trauma” on air. You can help vote for the single by keying in NUVOTE BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA and sending to 29107. Or if you want to request the song, key in REQUESTNU BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA and also send to 29107. Or if you want to message The Home of Nu Rock on how great we (or, er, how much we suck…), key in MSGNU .. and- you guessed it – send to 29107. Stop wasting your credit/load on bullshit and waste it on us. Please?

As a reminder, our debut disc Reasons For Unrest is still available online for our brothers and sisters who are shores away. You can grab a copy of our album on itunes.com and on cdbaby.com. DISTANCE IS NO LONGER AN ISSUE! Also, there are still available Intolerant shirts online (courtesy of our good friend Denise…), so don’t hesitate to log on to her website at gotdahlin.multiply.com, and feel free to place your orders there.

Currently, we’re hitting the studios again when we can and we are almost done with songs post-Reasons For Unrest. We’re really digging it as it promises to be way angrier and sped-up than anything we’ve done on the debut. We’ll soon be testing ‘em out at the gigs, so we hope all of you can come and tell us what you think.

Meanwhile, here’s the gig schedule for the months of April and May 2009. Though 95% of these dates are confirmed, remember to check out our myspace.com/intolerantmetal site for additional dates as we are sure more will be added.

Apr 1, 2009     ROCK ED
                          Bilibid Prison
                          Muntinlupa, Alabang
                          3 p.m.   

Apr 2, 2009     FRANCIS M TRIBUTE NIGHT
                          Café Saguijo,
                          Makati City
                          9:00 p.m.
   
Apr 3, 2009     AUDIO SUMMONED FLESH TOUR
                          featuring SIN, BADBURN and DISSENT
                          Ten02 Bar, Quezon City
                          10 p.m.

Apr 14, 2009     AN ELYSIUM- 8TH ANNIVERSARY
                           Café Saguijo (with OREMUZ)
                           Makati City
                           9:00 p.m.
       
Apr 17, 2009     LAMB OF GOD ALBUM RELEASE TOUR
                          With BADBURN and other great metal acts!
                          6underground
                          Pearl Drive, Ortigas Center, Pasig   
                          10 p.m.

Apr 18, 2009     AUDITORY ONSLAUGHT TOUR 2009
                          Intolerant Headlines This Metal Fest, Featuring the best local metal bands
                            Gumaca, Quezon Province    

Apr 24, 2009     LAMB OF GOD ALBUM RELEASE TOUR
                         With BADBURN and other great metal acts!
                          Ten02 Bar, Quezon City
                         10 p.m.

Apr 30, 2009     LAMB OF GOD ALBUM RELEASE TOUR
                         With BADBURN and other great metal acts!
                          Dayo Bar, Quezon City
                        10 p.m.

May 1, 2009     THIS IS WHAT WE CALL UNITY TOUR CAVITE
                           Featuring Hong Kong-Based hardcore act KING LYCHEE, plus SIN, BADBURN, 
                           TYPECAST, PILEDRIVER and local Cavite Acts
                            Padi’s Point Open Grounds, Cavite City
                           10 p.m.

May 2, 2009    THIS IS WHAT WE CALL UNITY TOUR OLONGAPO CITY
                           Featuring Hong Kong-Based hardcore act KING LYCHEE, plus SIN, BADBURN,    
                           TYPECAST, PILEDRIVER and Olongapo’s Finest POWERTOOLS, DRASTIC INTENT,
                           FIST FOUNDATION and more!!!
                          Padi’s Point Open Grounds, Cavite City
                         10 p.m.

May 8, 2009     LAMB OF GOD ALBUM RELEASE TOUR (TBC)
                          Musiklokal.com presents INTOLERANT, BADBURN and other great metal acts in   
                          this tie-up with Warner Music!
                          Venue TBA
                          10 p.m.

May 15, 2009    LAMB OF GOD ALBUM RELEASE TOUR (TBC)
                            Paseo, Rizal Province
                            10 p.m.

May 22, 2009    SONIC ATTACK
                            (with NYCTINASTY and THE AMBASSADORS)
                            Venue TBC
                            Cebu City, Cebu

May 23, 2009    SONIC ATTACK 
                            (with NYCTINASTY and THE AMBASSADORS)
                            Venue TBC
                            Tagbiliaran City, Bohol

May 29, 2009    SONIC ATTACK
                            (with NYCTINASTY and THE AMBASSADORS)
                           Venue TBC
                            Cagayan de Oro City, CDO

May 30, 2009    SONIC ATTACK 
                            (with NYCTINASTY and THE AMBASSADORS)
                            Venue TBC
                            Davao City, Davao

June 5, 2009    SONIC ATTACK
                          (with NYCTINASTY and THE AMBASSADORS)
                           Venue TBC
                           Bulacan

June 6, 2009    SONIC ATTACK
                          (with NYCTINASTY and THE AMBASSADORS)
                          Venue TBC
                          Baguio City, Baguio

JUNE 12, 2009    SONIC ATTACK
                            (with NYCTINASTY and THE AMBASSADORS)
                            Venue TBC
                            Laguna

June 13, 2009    SONIC ATTACK
                           (with NYCTINASTY and THE AMBASSADORS)
                            Venue TBC
                            Alabang


Whew! Not bad eh? We do hope a lot of you friends can join us at the gigs and won’t get tired of supporting us, because we really need it. Talks are going on about our first-ever music video, and all the members of Intolerant have been active in uploading photos, videos and other cool shit on various sites online, including youtube.com, friendster.com, facebook.com and wherever the fuck else. Please keep your eyes peeled and ears open for a bunch of extra shit we can come up with.

As a bonus, SKYCHURCH is doing a couple of shows with Intolerant, and we’re all very happy to see them play on occasion, so fans of the band might want to check out their gigs as well, as they only play on occasion and usually don’t really promote their shows as intensely as INTOLERANT does. Anyway, you can catch SKYCHURCH on March 31, 2009 at the DREDDBANGER’S BALL in Club Dredd Eastwood, Libis Quezon City, and again on April 2 (alongside INTOLERANT) at the Francis Magalona tribute night. Be prepared as they’re expected to jam with not one- but two- guests/friends on that night for a blustering Francs M cover. Bring your cameras and recorders!

We’re happy that we’re busy and would like to thank everyone who has supported us and messaged, texted, congratulated and showed us kindness these past few months. We really appreciate it, and are looking forward to a great year. There’s so much in the works, like gigs outside the country, other media appearances and gimmicks, but we hope all of you can sink your teeth in these for the meantime.

Metal up your you-know-what!


Sincerely,

Joey, Mic, Russ and Pepo
INTOLERANT

hey guys, girls and gays

INTOLERANT would like to thank everyone who has been supportive especially these past few weeks, as we are happy to announce that even though 09 did start off a little roughly (mainly because of the whole Sinulog fiasco brought about by, well... check my notes on my FB page na lang...), we seem to be on a lucky streak and it feels good. we really appreciate it, thank you.

First of all, we are proud to announce that we made it to the pages of PULP Magazine's February 2009 issue- yes, the on with the cool, cool double cover featuring seminal rock icons Basti Artadi (Wolfgang) and Jett Pangan (The Dawn). Do grab a copy not just because we're in it and dressed in our Sunday's best, but because this issue of PULP Magazine is a definite collector's ish; great cover and photography from the (ahem) team who knows how to do it well. No less than Publisher Vernon Go wrote the story so do check it out. PULP Magazine is available for only PHP220 at all leading magazine shops nationwide.

Also, we have been featured in FUDGE Magazine's Feb/March 09 issue, so thanks to the kind people over there who gave us a chance, especially to Annie, Ed and the gang, plus to writer Karl De Mesa who wrote an excellent and entertaining story as well. There's also an Intolerant bit in this month's FHM Philippines, and we would sincerely like to thank the props given to us by Luis Katigbak, Erwin Romulo and Quark Henares who were unafraid to open their ears and minds! Cheers to all of you and again, we can't thank you guys enough for helping us out. Grab copies of these publications if you can too!

And speaking of publications, there's one you can get for free and the best thing is, INTOLERANT IS ON THE COVER! check out the latest issue of SONIC PRESS, the fanzine with cool cool music you can get free at all Sonic Boom events and productions. A job well done, we must say, to our sonic boom family. we'd like to extend our thanks to Alex, Aspen, Koi and the rest of those cast of characters for putting our faces on the front! If you want the entire article, log on to sonicboomph.com. and thanks to our buddy jay eigenmann for writing the story!

+666+

we will also be working on more merchandise soon. we hope everyone still has time to check out our friend denise's website gotdahlin.multiply.com- where the infamous FUCK YOU AND YOUR COLLEGE DREAM shirts are available exclusively. but hang on, we got more designs and more stuff coming your way, so keep an eye out for more announcements through here. feel free to let us know if you have any cool ideas for merch. we'd like to explore INTOLERANT hoodies and pins and the like, but any suggestions are welcome.

keep your eyes peeled by the way, REASONS FOR UNREST should hit the stores and record bars any month now... cross your fingers!

As far as gigs are concerned, we're playing on Friday, Feb 27 at Club Dredd Eastwood, right after our friends from Urbandub do their "Dub Is In The Air" gig in the central plaza of libis. think of it as a loud and merry after-party. check it out! Our friends from metal band Sanctus will also be launching their album on March 7th at the RJ Bar in Makati, and we've been privileged with an invite to play.

But what's most exciting is, we are finally going to do an awesome series of shows in the provinces and the  Visayas as well! That's right! No more being left by stupid planes and no more being abused by stupid airlines. WE WILL MAKE IT TO YOUR PROVINCE THIS TIME! So all our friends from all over the country, get ready to party!

First off, there's the THIS IS WHAT WE CALL UNITY TOUR 2009. This mini-tour is going to be loud as fuck, and super crazy mainly since our hardcore/metalcore bros from hong kong KING LYCHEE and SHEPHERDS THE WEAK are ready to invade the country once again! on April 30th, King Lychee and Shepherds The Weak will be playing The PULP SUMMER SLAM 9: COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION to be held at the Amoranto Stadium. Let's show 'em our support and welcome back the almighty SHADOWS FALL, who are playing as headliners!!!! Tickets will be available soon so be sure to catch this show! The carnage continues the next day as both Shepherds The Weak and King Lychee travel with us to Cavite City, then on May 2nd, we head for the AURAL MASSACRE in Olongapo City. Thanks very much to our friends Deny and Jerk from Gapo, and our friends Jen and Mally for putting together these great, great opportunites. we'll be coming out soon with more details about these shows, but here's the travelling lineup:

SHEPHERDS THE WEAK (Hong Kong)
KING LYCHEE (Hong Kong)
Intolerant (Manila)
Badburn (Manila)
Sin (Cavite)
Piledriver (Laguna)
Typecast (Laguna)
Gayuma (Batangas)
Powertools (Olongapo)
Drastic Intent (Olongapo)

again, details are still in the works, but we'll surely update you at the soonest time!

then, it's time for SONIC ATTACK! Alongside our friends from excellent bands like THE AMBASSADORS and NYCTINASTY, we're scheduled to tear everyone a new one on the following dates at the following provinces:

May 15 (Friday) - Cagayan de Oro
May 16 (Faturday) - Davao City
May 22 (Friday) - Cebu City
May 23 (Saturday) - Tagbiliaran City
May 29 (Friday) - Baguio City
May 30 (Saturday) - TOWER OF BOOM- The Culminating Event at Dayo Bar, Quezon City

whew! pretty busy eh?  we're thankful we are. thank you everyone for your trust and support. we're currently hitting the studios again once more and putting together new songs, and we promise you they'll be faster, angrier and better. cheers mates!

er, did we already say thank you?


sincerely,

joey, russ, mic, pepo
INTOLERANT

p.s. check out our facebook, multiply and friendster pages and myspace pages for more shit.  and check out a special performance of SKYCHURCH on March 4 at 6underground for the second monthly installment of LORDS OF THE LOUD. Support metal!!!!

Hello Everyone,
Finally, our cdbaby,com page is up. To those who are interested in purchasing our album (especially the people who live outside of the Philippines) you can go to:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/intolerant
It's priced at $8.99 and you can get a 10% discount  if you order more than one cd. That's right, a 10% discount if you order more than one cd! Wow! What a steal!!! (sorry i watch too many home tv shopping infomercials).
So how's the NU107 voting going? Well, we're still not in the countdown but we hung out with Dylan recently and apparently a lot of people have been requesting Blunt Force Trauma especially on Remote Control Weekends. Entering the countdown would be cool but getting constant requests for our song to be played is much better. So once again, thank you to the people who have been requesting our song (you know who you are). Keep those calls and texts coming. It would still be cool to get in the countdown.
Have you watched our MYX Bandarito performance this past Saturday? Hats off to the engineer who tweaked our sound for the episode. They were able to catch the live feel of our sound. To those who missed it, the replay is this Thursday, Feb 26 8pm.
Those are the updates for now. You'll be hearing from us again soon.
-Mic-
 
 
 

Kamusta?
First off, to those who voted for us sa NU107, we want to thank you for the support. Please keep those texts and calls coming. We really appreciate the help.
If you check out our profile pic, you'll see that we're on the cover of the new Sonic Press. You can grab a copy at any Sonic Boom gigs and it's FREE. Kaya kuha lang kayo ng kuha and pamigay nyo sa lahat ng mga kakilala nyo. I think we have naked pictures in there so it's a must see. Haha!
Speaking of magazines, Intolerant is also featured in the latest issue of Fudge Magazine (with Bamboo on the cover) and the latest PULP Magazine (with Basti Artadi on the cover). It's full of great interviews and useless trivia about us so grab a copy of those mags as well.
Next, our MYX Bandarito performance will be aired this Saturday Feb 21, 2009 @ 3pm. So make sure to tune in to MYX this Saturday. We don't know what the replay schedules are but we'll definitely post them as soon as we find out.
Finally, to those who were expecting us to play this Saturday in Bloogum Bar Marikina, we won't be pushing through with the gig because we had some issues with the organizers. To be specific, they never contacted us again. We tried to contact them numerous times but they never answered back. So we'd like to apologize to those people who were expecting us. Bawi kami sa sunod na gig.
That's all for now. Keep those horns up!
-Mic-

Hello Everyone,
We'd like to ask a small favor from you and help us get in the NU107 countdown.
Just type NUVOTE INTOLERANT BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA and send to 29107. Standard text messaging rates apply.
For landline voting, you can call (02)6360099
Thanks in advance to those who'll be sending in your votes. Tuloy lang ang suporta!
Keep it sick!!! ..m/
-Intolerant-

ok so here goes. i'm sure everybody who cares enough to wonder about how and why we weren't able to make it to the sonic boom/sinulog festivities has been waiting for this info, or some sort of explanation.
it's because Cebu Pacific hires morons... and most people working in their company are idiots who have no capacity to take care of paying clients nor make decisions to keep the company reputation clean.
this is how it went down: our flight was scheduled for 6pm. we arrived a little before 5pm. mindful of the standard one-hour-before-flight-check-in, we rushed to the check-in counter and presented our group ticket. the dumb bitch behind the counter barely even looked at us and simply said "you can no longer check-in sir. your seats have been given to someone else because you're late. it's first come, first-served."
funny thing is, an announcement was made that our flight for 6pm was delayed. the fucking plane wasn't even there. so point number one: why is it when paying fliers/clients are late, we get penalized? but if the flights are late, didn't we deserve an extension on our grace period before they decided to give our seats away?
then this moron in a brown barong takes our ticket and scribbles something on the top. "5:25," which we later find out means we checked-in at 5:25pm. So these idiots give our seats away (which were reserved last November 2008 pa), then make us liars. jesus.
so instead of fighting and bickering with the people behind the counter, we decide to get our tickets re-booked. RE-BOOKED because, again, we HAD tickets that were paid for months ago. we shoot for the last flight of the evening, arriving at 7:20pm. we line up a few minutes before 6pm. PLENTY OF TIME. we are informed that there are still free seats. and we are informed the charges are PHP1500 per head. so we're thinking "fuck it. let's just pay for whatever so we can keep our word and perform at Sinulog."
so just as we're about to pay PHP6,000 for the re-book, again, we are approached by these dumbasses who inform us that we will be charged for regular priced (peak-season) one-way tickets, which were amounting to PHP 26,000+. TWENTY SIX FUCKING GRAND. i mean, it was bad enough that it wasn't our fault we had to re-book our flight because they unfairly gave away our seats and that we had to pay a fine, but again, pay PHP26 grand for something that wasn't even our fault?
what's funny was, WE ACTUALLY AGREED TO PAY TWENTY SIX FUCKING GRAND just so we could get to Cebu. honestly, we were hell-bent on making it to Sinulog. we weren't ready to give up, no matter how shitty a deal we were getting.
now by this time, the dumb bitch who refused to check us in in the first place was nowhere to be found. we were asking everybody behind the counters who she was, so that we could file a complaint as well. the funny thing is, NOBODY KNEW WHO WAS ON DUTY. it was not more than an hour since we talked to her and she refused to check us in, but it seemed nobody knew who was at the counter. there wasn't even some kind of log or whatever. too bad we didn't get her name, but it's just plain stupid if you're a reputable airline and do not know who's working for you, am i right? so we asked who was in charge of the booking and the checking-in and all that bullshit. two ladies present themselves. we ask them if shit like this happens. all they say is "sirs, we are sorry, but you are the least-priority passengers right now."
fucking bitch. Pepo (our drummer) fires up. i lose it. but we calmly explain that what she said was just fucking insulting. we keep our cool, knowing that we've been given a shot to hitch a ride on the next flight. well, we get a PHP26,000 shot, that is.
then something totally fucked-up happens.
just as we're about to hand em our credit card to pay for the PHP26,000 seats, the dumb bitches inform us that there are only three seats left. they sold the other available seats to people who weren't there as early as we were, during the time we were still negotiating for seats we really felt we deserved. it was simple. those people owed us seats because they gave away ours way before it was the right time to do so. but then, they just wanted to make money and sold em to other dudes who probably just got to the airport that moment.
so by then, our jaws dropped. we asked them:
"so are you saying that we can't go to cebu, because you gave away our tickets, and that we should just go home with nothing? nagbayad kami for tickets pero pinamigay niyo so uwi na lang kami ng lugi?"
the answer: "kayo sir..." fucking priceless. that was the dumbest answer ever. it was actually hilarious at this point.
so we accepted that we were no longer going to cebu. the lady who introduced herself as an authority and who had the power to make decisions that would help us gave us two pieces of paper. they were complaint forms. and she advised us to "call customer care."
"we are not going to talk to some call center agent who obviously isn't directly part of this company," we said. we wanted to solve our problem. and we wanted some sort of compensation. we felt we were entitled to it. we told her we were willing to go to the office and talk to whoever just to sort out what the fuck went wrong.
then she says: "well we can't help you now because it's a weekend. there's no work on weekends."
so i say: "oh there's no work on weekends because fucked-up shit like this DOESN'T HAPPEN on weekends?" it sounded to me that they they didn't really have any plans of helping us.
blank stares. the dumb-asses bow their heads and whisper shit to each other. it's clear they no longer want to help or talk to us. which made sense because by that time, the 7:20 plane was ready to take off.
we couldn't help asking though: why didn't you reserve the tickets we were paying for? wasn't it the right thing to do to reserve seats for passengers who lost theirs because of the company's fuck-up? wasn't it risky to have even just one, displeased customer?
they tell us: "sir, to buy NEW TICKETS, you have to get a number, then fall -in line over there and blah-fucking-blah and whatever."
there was no "over there." there were no other lines, there was nobody giving away "numbers," not even a machine or some sort of counter in sight. we were there at 5pm, fighting our way to get what was justly ours, they knew we had a problem which technically wasn't our fault, but not one of them (even the morons behind the other counters who didn't want to mind their own business and simply watched us miss TWO flights in one day...) bothered to help us out, or show us a little courtesy. we were tired of arguing that we weren't actually BUYING NEW TICKETS and that they gave away our seats and whatever-the-fuck-bullshit. we were fed up. we wanted to break shit... faces and heads included.
we couldn't help adding: "so why did you waste our time and effort if you weren't going to give us seats anyway? did you really not give a fuck that we, your clients (and frequent flyers who have friends who liked to travel as well...) were having trouble because of YOUR screw-up? did you really think that we were that un-important? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO WASTE OUR TIME? WHY ARE YOU SO STUPID?" these were questions that were flashing through our heads the entire night.
again, they bowed their heads, pretending to work and scribble senseless notes on scratch paper. i gather that this was sort of their version of the typical idiot jeepney driver who breaks the road law/s and crashes his jeep into another man's car and scratches his head when it's time to pay up.
so after three senseless hours at the airport, we finally did the most logical thing of the evening. we smoked, and accepted the fact that incompetence takes no holidays. we accepted the fact that advanced booking and reservations really don't mean shit if for some reason, the airline screws up. we accepted the fact that if these people don't want you on their fucking plane, then it gives them the right to not help you out, even though you paid for it. we accepted the fact that some people are just stupid.
now i know this will probably mean jack-shit to most of you, and that there's really nothing we can do about it. and we actually don't want to cry over spilt-milk (or, again...all together now... TWENTY SIX FUCKING THOUSAND PESO FLIGHT TICKETS WE WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO PAY FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE...), but i guess we just want to share what happened to us. we are all laughing about it now even though it sucks- because we simply choose to accept how fucked-up shit can get. we're not expecting anything to happen and sadly, we aren't expecting to be compensated for the shit we went through, but we want to say this: think twice when you're traveling. when you feel like going on a vacation or visiting friends in the provinces, THINK TWICE which airline you want to fly with. it's not always a privilege to choose, we know, but if you want to avoid shit like what happened to us, maybe another airline would be a better choice. just maybe. think twice.
we were SO looking forward to the hundred peso softdrinks and stale biscuits and overly priced mineral water pa naman.
but that's life. sometimes you catch a flight. but sometimes, you miss it, because of dumb pieces of shit who don't know what the fuck they're doing.