POISON IDEA Confirms April Release Date For Brand New Southern Lord LP, Confuse & Conquer New Tour Dates Announced
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[photo by Jason Charles]
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POISON IDEA,
one of the most infamous and instantly recognizable names in the legacy
of hardcore punk, is preparing to release their first new album since
2006's Latest Will and Testament. Southern Lord Recordings,
responsible for reissuing the band's back-catalog in recent years, are
the ones irresponsible enough to bring to you Confuse & Conquer, now confirmed for US release on April 7th, 2015.
Soaking
up respect from generations of hardcore punks and dishing none out, the
dastardly denizens of mid-paced punk shred are in trademark form on Confuse & Conquer.
With longstanding members Jerry A (vocals), Eric "The Vegetable" Olsen
(guitar) and Chris "Spider" Carey (bass) alloyed by the fresh faces of
Nathan "Skinny" Richardson (drums) and Brandon Bentley (guitar), POISON IDEA's
brand new full-length proves itself both identifiable and rewarding to
listeners who have encountered them at any point from their 1980 birth
onwards. Inventive beyond its steadfast roots, yet altogether as blunt
as a stagediver's knee hurtling towards your face, Confuse & Conquer
sees the band wasting not a single second on non-music activities,
riding high on this wave of creativity. Their forceful hardcore pummel
is underwritten with dark humor, rage, disdain, and moments of real
melancholy well beyond the usual remit of the genre, but it's to be
expected of Portland's nihilistic champions, proudly unaligned with any
other sound out there. They were there at the beginning and they'll be
there at the end, and in the meantime they have a lot more punk rock
left to produce.
Confuse & Conquer
was recorded in their hometown by Joel Grind (Toxic Holocaust) and
mastered by Brad Boatright (From Ashes Rise) at Audiosiege over the
closing few months of 2014, and will see release via Southern Lord on
the 7th of April on CD, LP and digital formats. Additionally, expanded
reissues of seminal POISON IDEA titles War All The Time, Feel The Darkness and more are also in the works for the coming years.
Meanwhile, POISON IDEA
has tours planned on both sides of the Atlantic including a main slot
at the four-day Berserker Fest II in Detroit, Michigan, running from
March 11th through 14th, with Incantation, Iron Reagan, Coliseum, Full
Of Hell, In Defence and countless more, a massive European Spring tour
in April and May, as well as a whole host of other happenings yet to be
announced.
POISON IDEA Tour Dates:
3/11-14/2015 The Loving Touch - Ferndale, MI @ Berserker Fest II
4/17/2015 Schaubude - Kiel DE
4/18/2015 1000Fyrd - Aalborg DE
4/19/2015 Hafenklang - Hamburg DE
5/20/2015 Little Devil - Tilburg NL
4/21/2015 Willemeen - Arnhem NL
4/22/2015 TBA - Frankfurt DE
4/23/2015 Chez Heinz - Hannover DE
4/24/2015 Wild At Heart - Berlin DE
4/25/2015 Luka - Lodz PL
4/27/2015 Alte Malzerei - Regensburg DE
4/28/2015 Exit Us - Prague CZ
4/29/2015 Explosiv - Graz AU
4/30/2015 Arena - Vienna AU
5/01/2015 Unterhund - Ormoz SL
5/02/2015 Kaleidos - Poviglio IT
5/03/2015 Traffic Club - Rome IT
5/04/2015 Border - Torino IT
5/05/2015 Between - Bregenz AT
5/06/2015 Ondulatoire - Paris FR
5/07/2015 Borderline - London UK
5/08/2015 The Doghouse - Nottingham UK
5/09/2015 The Black Bull - Gateshead UK
5/10/2015 Audio - Glasgow UK
5/12/2015 Adam And Eve Pub - Birmingham UK
5/13/2015 The Exchange - Bristol UK
5/14/2015 The Owl Sanctuary - Norwich UK
5/15/2015 Het Bos - Antwerp BE
5/16/2015 MTC - Cologne DE
"What can I say? We're all happy with the record," reported Jerry A., on the completion of Confuse & Conquer. "It's
a group effort; we all had a part in writing the songs. We've been
screwing around for too long. We had to hang back and see whose heart
was really in this thing we've been doing for thirty years and who was
bullshitting. We have a lot of touring to do next year, to make up for
the last one being cancelled due to people with the wrong priorities.
Everybody in the band now lives to play and make music; that comes
first. It always has, it just took a long time to filter out the flakes,
and keep the diehards. So these guys know how to make this ship float.
As far as I'm concerned, it feels like being reborn, having a second
wind, a hardcore revival, and just discovering meaning, all at the same
time. To put it mildly, we're happy, I'm happy, and this is just the
start. No stopping from here out."
Southern Lord Recordings owner Greg Anderson issued on the signing and upcoming album, "I've been a rabid POISON IDEA
fiend ever since seeing them decimate the legendary Gorilla Gardens in
Seattle in 1985. Having the opportunity to work with this legendary band
all these years later is an inexplicable honor."
Formed in 1980, POISON IDEA
became a household name in the hardcore/punk scenes early in their
career, and are known as one of the most notoriously in-your-face acts
in the American musical underworld, with an enraged, high-energy live
set even more rambunctious than the massive roster of singles, EPs,
full-length studio and live releases and more, across a realm of labels
including Pusmort, Alchemy, American Leather, Bitzcore, Tim/Kerr,
Taang!, Farewell, TKO, Southern Lord, Candlelight, and their own Fatal
Erection. They've been an incredibly influential act to major performers
including Nirvana, Pantera, Napalm Death, Machine Head, Eyehategod,
Emperor, Turbonegro and an endless list of others.
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