ACROSS TUNDRAS joins the label, "Herds of the Fathomless Valleys" available for free download!

UPDATE: We are not working with the band anymore, but enjoy this free album anyway!


Double whammy: we've teamed up with a new band AND posted their latest release in its entirety for free download! Nashville, Tennessee (by way of Denver, Colorado) is home to ACROSS TUNDRAS and we're very excited to be working with them on their next album, Old World Wanderer (read more here). To give you a rough idea of what you're in store for, we've posted Herds of the Fathomless Valleys an ACROSS TUNDRAS CD-R that they self-released earlier this year.

Comprised of a couple demos of songs slated for Old World Wanderer , one PINK FLOYD cover, some exclusive material and three old classics recorded live at their first and only appearance on the Grand Ol' Opry (prior to being banned for refusing to "turn the hell down")! These DIY recordings paint a raw but accurate picture of the vibe ACROSS TUNDRAS conveys, and are now available for free download here:

* download ACROSS TUNDRAS - Herds of the Fathomless Valleys (via MediaFire)
* download ACROSS TUNDRAS - Herds of the Fathomless Valleys (via RapidShare)
* download ACROSS TUNDRAS - Herds of the Fathomless Valleys (via SendSpace)

TRACK LISTING:
1. Weary Travelers Rest
2. Tectonic Shifts
3. Death Dealing Man
4. Badlands Blues (Live @ Grand Ol' Opry) - original found on Western Sky Ride
5. Cold Ride
6. Julia Dream (PINK FLOYD cover)
7. Blackbird Bloodred Sky (Live @ Grand Ol' Opry) - original found on Lonesome Wails from the Weeping Willow
8. Old Blind John's Song
9. Lake Bottom Blues
10. Ramblin' In The Shadows (Live @ Grand Ol' Opry) - original found on Dark Songs of the Prairie

We have a handful of copies of this limited release (and some other ACROSS TUNDRAS catalog titles) available in our Online Store. These releases can also be purchased direct from the band.

UPDATE: We are not working with the band anymore, but enjoy this free album anyway!

Brief update and THE ABANDONED HEARTS CLUB - Discography (re-post)

It's been an absolutely insane year, so that’s why there hasn't been much for posts here. I hope to remedy this in the future, which may result in shorter (less descriptive) posts since I still have a ton of weird archived stuff, but just no time to really write about it all as extensively as I'd like to.


Fortunately somebody else has scratched one off the ol' checklist for me and posted the entire THE ABANDONED HEARTS CLUB discography. I could say a lot about this (mostly good things, a couple bad) but Alex over at How Can They Intend To Heal kinda spelled out pretty well. The entire THE ABANDONED HEARTS CLUB recorded discography can be found in his lengthy post about the band. This blog is pretty thorough too, with a bunch of other rad and/or obscure Canadian hardcore/etc (do yourself a solid and check out ACRID).

THE ABANDONED HEARTS CLUB was cool to work with despite not knowing them terribly well. Definitely an underrated band that had a lot of potential to create something truly great, but kinda dissolved before the fabled full-length ever made fruition. RIYL: THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, SPREAD THE DISEASE, BOTCH, other good/obscure "old man mathcore".

p.s. their The Initial Confessions Of... 7" and Mutation CD comp are both available for pretty cheap here. Init also has the CDep version of The Initial Confessions Of... for like 2 bucks, so if you dig this stuff please support that over here.

01/24/10 UPDATE: posted two more "lost" tracks of theirs! posted separately, read/download here.