The Plague Sermon have uploaded two new songs to their myspace page for 10 days only. The tracks 'The Doves Fly North, The City is Forsaken' and 'We are Both Drowning' will sit on one side of a split record, with Philadelphia's BALBOA which will be released around the time of August 2009 in Europe by Midmarch Records, and the United States by Magic Bullet Records, on special coloured vinyl formats only, and on Tape via Malaysian based label Utarid Tapes. This release will never be available digitally.
http://www.myspace.com/theplaguesermon

ALSO

Coalesce [relapse/hydrahead]
Taint
Plague Sermon

Camden Underworld
19th June 2009
£10.00 19:00

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Oxbow's Lover Ungrateful 7"is available now at Midmarchrecords.com and the New Midmarch Big Cartel Page. The UK release date is Monday 29th of September with releases dates to follow aroudn the globe, so you can grab yours now worldwide from us and avoid those queues in your local indie store.

Designed to be the last will and testament of failed humanity, ladies and gentleman, I give you Oxbow. Quite possibly the most important band in the world right now, something that Eugene Robinson, Dan Adams, Greg Davis and Niko Wenner have been Fighting for some 20 years. Veterans of the world they have played all over; Oxbow now bring you 'Lover Ungrateful', a 7" record containing two of the best songs from the great history of this influential band. From 2002's An Evil Heat (Neurot) is 'Stallkicker' and from 2007's The Narcotic Story (Hydrahead) is 'Frankly Frank', both new recordings, using acoustic instruments only, these are harrowing versions of two classics, that make you feel right next to the band, a place for the brave, but one of the most rewarding on this planet.

www.theoxbow.com
www.midmarchrecords.com

Tracklisting
Stallkicker
Frankly Frank

In this months rock sound;

- An editorial 'Celebrity Record Label' feature on Aaron of the Plague Sermon taking about Midmarch Records
- "Cholera' on the covermounted CD, taken from the forthcoming, 28th of January in stores release, of Lavotchkin and Joseph's split CD. You can buy on our page now.
- In incoming feature with Lavotchkin.

Check it out, buy it. Stick it on your wall.

- Lavotchkin / Joseph

I'm pleased to announce the split EP from Newcastle's Lavotchkin and York's Joseph is finally here, its available from our website and myspace pages, and a song from the split can be found on our fixed media player! the guys play in a brutal manner ala cursed, converge and early drowningman, check them out and expect a full length from lavotchkin next year, as well as an official release date for the split. Lavotchkin have just got back from Europe, but check their myspace for a host of UK dates coming soon.

- Grizzly Twister

Are in the UK from tonight to start the UK leg of their European Tour, sponsored by Rock Sound Magazine, taking in 3 dates with daughters (hydrahead), the dates are as follows;

09.10.07 UK LEEDS @ The Fenton + Rolo Tomassi + Omerta
10.10.07 UK BRIGHTON @ Engine Room + Daughters
11.10.07 UK BRISTOL @ Croft + Daughters
12.10.07 UK SUNDERLAND @ Independent + Daughters + Lavotchkin
13.10.07 UK LONDON @ The Fly + Lavotchkin + Rolo Tomassi

- Site Updates

The Media Player as mentioned before has been fixed and is operational again, with some updates as well, almost an hour of free streaming music, check it out.

- Also check out

Stardust Magazine in Germany has done a feature on MIDMARCH in this months issue, its a full page spread, so if your about in Germany pick one up.

- iTunes

Now has Rainydayfuckparade 'Meridian', Take a Worm for a Walk Week 'Take a Worm for a Walk Week' and Grizzly Twister 'Ont Blod' up to buy, for all you who like your music digital, you can of course still buy the physical products direct from us.

- Coming Next

An exciting split 7", artists to be announced soon, one a new signing to MIDMARCH with another a more established artist. You'll be the first to hear, but let it be know that this coloured vinyl release will be very limited, and will fly.

Thank you all for your continued support.

13.09.07 DK COPENHAGEN @ Lades Kaelder?
14.09.07 DK HELSINGÖR @ Elverket + Imagine I had hands?
16.09.07 NL ROTTERDAM @ Poortgebouw + The Office Rules?
17.09.07 DAY OFF!?
18.09.07 D LUXEMBERG @ Rockhal Café?
19.09.07 D MANNHEIM @ Juz?
20.09.07 D FRANKFURT @ Clubkeller?
21.09.07 D MÜHLEIM A.D. RUHR @ AZ Mühlheim + Siffing Glue?
22.09.07 D ANSBACK @ 13eins?
23.09.07 IT MILANO @ Leonkavallo?
26.09.07 IT BOLOGNA @ XM 24?
27.09.07 CR RIJEKA @ Club Palach?
28.09.07 AU LINZ @ Ann and Pats + Meleeh
29.09.07 AU BERG IM DRAUTAL @ Q-bar + Asstronauts?
30.09.07 AU WIEN @ Tuwi + Meleeh?
01.10.07 DAY OFF!?
02.10.07 FR ORLEANS @ Le Metallic + Robot Orchestra?
03.10.07 FR ANGOULEME @ Mars Attack + Robot Orchestra?
04.10.07 FR POITIERS @ TBA + Robot Orchestra?
05.10.07 FR BOURDEAUX @ Heretic Club?
06.10.07 FR LA ROCHELLE @ WBC + Robot Orchestra?
07.10.07 FR TOURS @ Lilo?
08.10.07 FR TBA?
09.10.07 UK LEEDS @ The Fenton + Rolo Tomassi + Omerta?
10.10.07 UK BRIGHTON @ Engine Room + Daughters?
11.10.07 UK BRISTOL @ Croft + Daughters?
12.10.07 UK SUNDERLAND @ Independent + Daughters + Lavotchkin?
13.10.07 UK LONDON @ The Fly + Lavotchkin + Rolo Tomassi

THE GRIZZLY TWISTER
ONT BLOD (MIDMARCH)

ROCK SOUND MAGAZINE JULY 2007 REVIEW
8/10
If their label is to be believed, Grizzlytwister are Sweden's greatest band since Refused. A tad sensationalist, perhaps, but listening to 'Ont Blod' you can fully appreciate why they're so pumped about the Scandinavian noisemakers' second full-length. Throwing hardcore convention to the wind, the chaotic crew employ not one, but two synths (lead and bass, natch), fusing them with stab-happy guitars, rabid vocals and a feisty zeal that brings to mind – yeah, okay – Refused. 'Nothing Beats, Like a Dead Heart' is as ear-rapingly intense as anything Converge have t offer, while the unsettling electronic contortions of 'Knives' hint at something altogether more depraved. The shape of punk to come? We can live in hope…
Words: Mike Kemp

ROCK SOUND MAGAZINE JULY 2007 FEATURE
Refused and Norma Jean kicking the crap out of each other.
With their visceral guitar attack, Swedish noise merchants Grizzlytwister are about to unleash their latest album on the unsuspecting masses. 'Ont Blod', which translates as 'evil blood', is a 30-minute whirlwind of thrashing guitars and polemical commentary. Just the way hardcore music should be. "The scene in general has become less political and more about fashion," claims vocalist Jonas. "Clothing and dressing up can be a way of expressing yourself artistically, as well as playing music or making art. But the whole thing loses its value when it becomes 'business'. For us the punk / hardcore / indie scene has always been an alternative to mainstream pop culture, where it's all about looking right and consuming right!"
Since their inception in '02 the quintet have undergone several member changes before settling on their current line-up. And their views have changed too.
Say's Jonas: "Grizzlytwister today is pretty political; when we started out we just wanted to be as loud and wild as possible to scare all the pop kids in town. Nowadays, it's kind of the same but we get the anger from other places, the lyrics have real meaning and so on. The people in the band have always been politically aware, but maybe we didn't practice that in the same way as we do now."
While much of the so-called hardcore scene has descended into some trashy catwalk show, Grizzlytwister have plans to change all that.
Jonas concludes: "We're not pushing opinions on you and not telling you what to wear; come to a show naked and we'll give you a free album"
They'll be back in the UK in October, just remember to lose the clothes.
Current Release: 'Ont Blod' (album, MidMarch Records. Out June 25th)
Download This: 'Black Bricks'
On the Cover CD: 'Ont Blod'
Words: Darren Taylor

KILLER DIENAMITE MAGAZINE JULY REVIEW
"The Grizzly Twister are a hardcore band- from Sweden. Not only do I seldom come across bands from the said place, it's also rare to come across a band with such attitude and integrity that TGT undoubtedly have. In a music scene where the majority of bands are carbon copies of each other, to find a band like this is refreshing and somewhat special. Even more special is that they make incredibly heavy music without it sounding just like noise. Rather than going for the overdone simplistic, tiresome riffs and breakdowns, these guys have used synthesisers and samplers to make something surprisingly unique, making them superior to many bands on the hardcore scene. In short, this is something different for those who are bored with the repetitive music scene at present, and it's pretty much priceless."
9/10

KERRANG! MAGAZINE JUNE 30TH REVIEW
KKK
LOOPY SWEDES UNLEASH HALF HOUR OF INVENTIVE HARDCORE MADNESS
It may be barely 30 minutes in length, but after that time your eyes will be bloodshot, your ears ringing and your head feeling as if it's just been split with a pitchfork. Grizzlytwister are exponents of frantic hardcore punk, that never pauses for oxygen, and twists, loops and cobra rolls like a nightmare rollercoaster. Occasionally synths rear up in the background, but only to create a shadowplay behind the insane, bludgeoning guitar work and crazed, from-the-gut vocals. Opener 'Black Bricks' is their most inventive five minutes, before the likes of 'Your Hell Saviour' simply attack, attack and attack again.
Words: Steve Beebee

-Take a Worm for a Walk Week / DeSalvo Split 7" Available now

Yeah that's right, finally the take a worm for a walk week / deSalvo split 7" is available on our website, and myspace pages, links below. It's been a long wait but it was well worth it, the take a worm for a walk week side boasts a previously un-released track as well as a track from their outstanding debut album on MIDMARCH. DeSalvo's track on the flip side also previously un-released is the follow up to their debut on 7" on Rock Action. The band includes members of PH Family, Fretlin, Stretchheads, Fenn, Dawson, and Idlewild.
In more Take a Worm for a Walk Week news the band just finished a week of date's that took in shows with The Red Chord and Saosin, and plan to head out again in August support of their recent releases. Check their myspace page for details as they arise.

-The Grizzly Twister

'Ont Blod' hit stores in the UK on Monday just gone; the album has been met with excitement from all quarters,
"The shape of punk to come? We can live in hope…" 8/10 in Rock Sound
"For those who are bored with the repetitive music scene at present, and it's pretty much priceless." 9/10 Killer Dienamite Magazine
"Like a less abstract Wolf Eyes taking on prime Refused they breathe some much needed life into hardcore." NewNoise.net,
To quote a few. The CD is packaged, as standard in a cardboard gatefold sleeve will hit Europe soon. Grizzly Twister are to tour Europe in October, with 5 UK date's to be announced soon.

-Lavotchkin

MIDMARCH records newest addition have a whole host of tour dates up on their myspace page; as well as some exciting new tracks that will form part of the next MIDMARCH release.

-Rainydayfuckparade

Hit the road with Converge, Rise and Fall and Animosity next week. They play the following dates;

2nd July @ Concorde 2, Brighton
3rd July @ TJ's, Newport
4th July @ Rock City, Nottingham

The Brighton date is sponsored by MIDMARCH, Doors are at 7pm, Advance tickets are £11.00 and can be bought at ticketweb and most Brighton independent record stores. Hope to see you all there.

Much more to come soon.

Aaron
midmarchrecords.com
myspace.com/midmarchrecords

Grizzly Twister album 'Ont Blod' to be released through MIDMARCH

Sweden's best band since Refused, no fucking joke! these guys have recorded on helluva album, and we can't wait for you to hear it, and it won't be long. Expect it to hit shelves worldwide in June followed by a european tour. The armageddon is gathering pace.

Newcastle's Lavotchkin have inked a deal with MIDMARCH records to release thier debut full length in the latter stages of 2007. The album will be a follow up to their awesome EP 'The Oldest Suicide Cult' which came out late last year. The band have a shed load of tour dates lined up in the mean time which can be found on thier mySpace. More news to follow on this great band soon.

RAINYDAYFUCKPARADE - MERIDIAN
MMR013 MIDMARCH RECORDS


KERRANG! NOVEMBER 2006
KKKK
WORDS: Dom Lawson
Great Ideas Meet Glorious Ugliness
For starters, that's a great name for a band. And, as you might imagine, the music is equally disconcerting. Dark, angular and looser than a slag's knicker elastic, these four filth ridden slabs of art-noise blubber suggest that RDFP are suckers for the droning menace of Neurosis, the fuming rage of Today is the Day and the jittery vehemence of Converge, but they're also determined to whip up something distinctive, hurling in some unsettling ingredients of their own. In particular, the brutish twang 'n' thrash of 'Horror, Heaving and Choking' comes across as the soundtrack to a Spaghetti Western directed by Satan himself. More of this please!

ROCK SOUND DECEMBER 2006
[7]
WORDS: Lewis Fraser
Easily one of the darkest and moodiest releases heard for some time, Rainydayfuckparade take their musical inspirations from many of the US underground legends of past and present – Black Flag, Botch, Keelhaul being just three that spring to mind. Vocalist Hooper barks, growls and spits out his menacing best throughout these four tracks on offer, backed by a solid outfit of crushing drums and metallic riffs. Opening track 'Wasteland', replete with poem recital mid-song (the Urne Burial by Thomas Browne – How Creative!) is easily the strongest track on offer here, a Neanderthal cascade of violence and noise before morphing into an epic swirl of near beauty. The future for these boys looks very promising indeed.

METAL HAMMER JANUARY 2007
[7]
WORDS: Nick Cracknell
Proper Noise? Here's the real black parade
If your gonna copy a bands sound you could do worse than Mastadon, and Brighton four piece Rainydayfuckparde appreciate this. As is the case with the great Atlantans, don't expect to 'get' their music instantly. If you delve deeper than a cursory listen into this four track EP, you'll be astonished at the amount of shit going on. And good shit that is too, not, erm, shit shit. 'Carried on Tides' transgresses brutal weight, broody textures, epic build-ups and moody acoustics I the space of five minutes. While tom Hooper's vocals aren't exactly varied (short barking scream, long throaty scream), there's enough going on elsewhere in the guitars and the rhythm section to suggest the likes of High on Fire, Converge and Neurosis need to get their asses in gear or risk being fucked in the parade along with everyone else.

TERRORIZER DECEMBER 2006
[7]
WORDS: CT
Any band with aspirations toward 19th Century Manx poetry and a decidedly brilliant aesthetic have to be worth notice. Granted it's a tried and tested formula, but there is still something essentially interesting about the Mogwai-inflected school of crescendo and release, and these guys do it well. In RDFP's case however, the almost Today is the Day-influenced drumming adds another dimension of involved heaviness that many of their peers lack. Brutal even in it's expanse, it's a promising debut.

NEW NOISE NOVEMBER 2006
As great band names go, that is a mighty fine one isn't it. It's a line from a Cable song, not the UK indie band but the noisy Americans that hung around with Neurosis and Botch. But even that doesn't help to totally predict the sort of unholy slabs of noise that London trio Rainydayfuckparade make. This is something altogether bigger and better than some soundbite about heaviness and the usual short list of the usual small influences.
Rainydayfuckparade (nope, it never gets old) formed in the big smoke in 2004 when guitarist Nigel Morton started jamming with drummer Paul Dudey, their previous positions in metal and post-rock bands going another step towards explaining their current band's sound. Vocalist Tom Hooper (officially a 'scary looking dude') and bassist Stuart Cooney completed the line up and the fully-fledged carnival began to tie up the songs that Morton and Dudey had first started unravelling.
The biggest kinks were worked out at live shows; including some stellar slots supporting High On Fire, Pelican and even AFI. The tracks were then locked on tape by Ben Phillips (November Coming Fire, On Thin Ice) at City Of Dis studios in Kent; a place that has also captured the brutality of The Break In and the beauty of Jairus, and then they were sent to the States to be mixed by erstwhile Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou. And the end result is 'Meridian', 22-minutes of chugging, charging riffs, raw, fiery vocals, titanic drums, emotional, shimmering quiets and brain-vibrating louds.
This is music that sounds like the bastard child of Mastodon, Give Up The Ghost and Slint. If you need reference points closer to home then think the natty brawl of November Coming Fire, especially the real length and breadth of their newer material, or the expansive waves of hostility that made Eden Maine so good. And, if you really want to get deep with it, whether there's hope hidden in here or not, this sounds like a four-track dissertation of spiralling desolation, nightmarish loneliness and a black, awful, grimy, very British lack of closure. It's the sort of thing that shakes scenes apart and cities to the ground.
See, much more than just a great band name.

MONTAG PRESS .CO.UK
Fun fact for you - Rainydayfuckparade's Thomas Hooper works at the same tattoo studio as Gallows' Frank Carter. One can only wonder if he's a tiny bit incensed by this, Gallows have been around all of a year at most and have the magazines regularly licking out their assholes whilst Rainydayfuckparade, a veteran troupe of London-bound noise-mongers have never really reached such frenzied tabloid acclaim.
Maybe that's for the best, for over-exposure would dull 'Meridian's raw and untamed power. The recording quality experiences a strange drop off the louder the music gets, all is well with the delicate teasing Isis-covering-At-The-Drive-In-chords but once they unleash a thunderous, rumbling drum-led crescendo the sound fuzzes like the speakers in a Nova and it's far too close to call as to whether this enhances or dulls the power of the band's debut mini-album – because it IS powerful. Best not think about it and let Rainydayfuckparade slowly prosper under the gentle cultivation of the cult metal gardener rather than burn out under the introspective heat-lamp.




Features

ROCK SOUND NOVEMBER 2006
WORDS: Darren Sadler
Keelhaul with British punk rock attitude
"If you have an obsession with heavy, emotive, passionate music played with integrity and balls, you should check us out, as we're coming from the same place you are." Explains RDFP axeman Morton. The line-up is completed by Dudey (drums) and Hooper (vocals), and after one listen to trio's Kurt Ballou-mixed debut release, the six-stringer's comments certainly ring true. Named after the first line of Cable's (the US not UK band) song water.down.rock from their 'Variable Speed Drive' album on Doghouse, RDFP are a bleak, if according to Dudey somewhat optimistic, proposition. Although only now getting around to their first release, the London-based mob have managed to clock up some tasty support slots. The most notable of these was probably with AFI; a gig that turned out to be a great success. Recalls Dudey, "The AFI show was pretty crazy. Being on stage larger than at a lot of venues we play in was surreal. There were more people in that room than had been at all of our previous shows combined. It was a captive audience; they had no choice but to take notice!"


TERRORIZER DEMEBER 2006
WORDS: Jim Martin

Clearly answering a question he's become used to having to answer, drummer Paul Dudley intones the words firmly and clearly: "There's a band from Connecticut called Cable. They have an album called 'Variable Speed Drive'. The first line of a song on that album is "Rainy day fuck parade." "We never really looked more than a month into the future when we named the band anyway," reflects guitarist Nigel Morton. "A lot of people think it's some kind of sarcastic, ironic stance on the band Sunny Day Real Estate, which might be where they got it from. We were actually gonna do a Sunny Day Real Estate t-shirt, and put our name on it."

So that's that one out of the way at least. What's more, woe betide anyone, like your humble correspondent, who initially failed to take Rainydayfuckparade seriously owing to their name. Deceptive monikers aside, the debut EP from this predominantly London-based outfit, just unleashed on up-and-coming Brighton-based label Midmarch, is a work of gloomy disquiet, incendiary aggression and impressive artistry, all effortlessly standing alone from the hordes of Isis and Cult Of Luna clones doing the rounds in this fast-moving realm of the mid-'OOs. Testimony to the swift progress that RDFP have made in their two years or so of existence is that they've found themselves gracing, seemingly right from their very inception, all manner of daunting stages in prominent supporting roles, playing with the likes of Pelican, High On Fire, and even, more recently, platinum sunlight-dodgers AFI, and somehow managing to hold their own, sometimes even at the proverbial drop of a hat. "I think we got a day's notice for the AFI show, and, was it twelve hours for the High On Fire one?" ponders Nigel. "Yeah, I was on holiday, and I had to come home a day early to play it," remembers Paul. "The AFI show went really well. We thought we were gonna get heckled, and, yeah a few kids told us to get off the stage, but, y'know, besides that I could get used to the kind of treatment we got at that show. At the same time, my favourite shows have always been when there's some disaster on the way there. Cars breaking down, strings breaking, no one turning up ... " "It was nice to be spoilt," notes Paul dryly.

It doesn't take long in the company of these two unassuming characters to realise that they're not exactly experts in the fine art of blowing one's own trumpet. This despite the fact that 'Meridian', self-effacingly dismissed by this twosome as a 'posh demo', boasts earthshaking gravitas and intricate elegies both, not to mention a certain hard core backbone and gnarl all too often lacking from the more sensitive forays into the land of all things morosely monolithic. Or even the fact that this band was originally founded by these two over a series of summer vacations from full-time education. "Every summer, it just got heavier and heavier, until pretty much we couldn't take it any further without doing something ridiculously slow," remembers Nigel. Seeking two new members, they eventually boasted ex-Army Of Flying Robots bassist Stuart Cooney (alas since departed) and towering, charismatic and heavily inked frontman Thomas Hooper, who has indeed also found a certain amount of renown not merely for his imposing bellow, but as a talented tattoo artist in London, with a particular penchant, as rumour has it, for doing his day-job to the strains of Khanate. "Tom, I knew just from going to shows," remembers Nigel. "I think I met him at an Isis show or something like that. It was just like, 'This guy looks like he can sing.' I pretty much just went up to him and said hello, and pretty much just said, flat out, 'D'you wanna join?' It was pretty clear we shared a similar background."

As one might imagine from that rather sardonic handle, Rainydayfuckparade, down-to-earth to a tee, are scarcely the kinds of rockers to take themselves too seriously, no matter how hard their music might disagree.

"To be honest, the sound we've got now came along when we stopped listening to other bands," reckons Nigel. "Besides the music, time is a big factor. None of us have got any. We all work jobs, some of us have got families. We're just coming from a punk rock background. Not that we're ever gonna get a chance for things to go to our head, but they never will."