SUMMER DARKYARD Now Available On GRINDCORE KARAOKE

I love AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED. ALTERED STATES OF AMERICA is one of my all-time favourite albums. I mean, 100 songs in roughly 20 minutes? Hyerspeed musical journey.

With some help from my good friend DAVE HALL (he of HANDSHAKE INC), JAY RANDALL (he of ANb) has thrown me a massive bone in the form of releasing SUMMER DARKYARD on his incredible GRINDCORE KARAOKE online record label. This puts me in some SERIOUSLY good company. To name just a few - CLOUD RAT, BOLOGNA VIOLENTA, ROBOCOP, SURACHAI, BESTOWER, BURIED AT BIRTH, HOGLUST, DEATH GRIPS, WUGAZI, JUCIFER, GIGANTIC BRAIN....I could go on and on. A plethora of great music on there. It's an honour to be a part of it. HUGE thanks to JAY RANDALL for hosting TSTAT and more thanks to DAVE HALL for bringing TSTAT to JAY's attention. Phew!

Download SUMMER DARKYARD from GRINDCORE KARAOKE (for free!): CLICK HERE!

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TSTAT FEATURED ON SPETTRO RECORDS

Through a weird and convoluted set of circumstances, I was put in contact with SPETTRO RECORDS. They are an Italian record label that focus strictly on free digital releases. Basically, they host a lot of cool releases that one can grab for zero dollars, if one is so inclined. Not at all unlike what Jay Randall is currently kicking ass with his GRINDCORE KARAOKE venture. Anyways, my 3 existing releases are all available on SPETTRO RECORDS for free download. I'm hoping this will result in a substantial Italian fanbase cuz I fucking love that place. CLICK HERE

Oh, and this ad is featured in the newest issue of DECIBEL magazine (the one with Dave Mustaine snarling on the cover). Big-ups to Dave Hall and his HANDSHAKE INC. for making that happen. I'm huge.

DECIBEL MAGAZINE ONLINE HOSTS "DARKYARD"

Awesome review in DECIBEL ONLINE of the song DARKYARD, the title track (sort of) from SUMMER DARKYARD. You get to preview the song and everything. Big, huge thanks to the fine folks down at HANDSHAKE INC. for hooking that up. Starting to think those guys are really onto something with this whole online, internet deal.

CLICK HERE!

NEW RELEASE - SUMMER DARKYARD

The fine folks at HANDSHAKE INC. are doing me a major favour and hosting my new release there.


SUMMER DARKYARD. A 3-song single, online only and FREE as free can get (okay, I won't cover the bandwidth but I would if I could).

This release features one song I've had lying around since I worked on the material that wound up on the first 2 EPs (that's 2007, y'all). The remaining tracks were magicklly conjured over the recently dead summer. Definitely captured some weird, inverted summer vibe.

Grab SUMMER DARKYARD right here: CLICK!!!

THE SUN THROUGH A TELESCOPE & ALASKAN. TOGETHER AT LAST!

Been a pretty quiet summer for TSTAT but that doesn't mean that things haven't been in the works, okaaay?!?!? To wit, here are the results of Ottawa sludge/doom pros ALASKAN asking me to collaborate with them on a track to be featured a split release with CO-PILOT (Texas).

ALASKAN/TSTAT COLLAB! CLiCK HERE!!!

I'm also planning on releasing an online single within the next week or so. It'll be digital only and FREE, FREE, FREE! I'll post a link to my bandcamp site when it's up there. In the meantime, peep the cover art! Done up by my always amazing art-slave cousin and STREET MEAT bandmate Elena Chiara Palanza (with a picture taken from DEATH RAINBOWS and used with kind permission).

THE SUN THROUGH A TELESCOPE featured on GRINDING AFTERMATH - a free downloadable compilation -

So. Over at AMERICAN AFTERMATH, you got Ross. Then there's GRIND TO DEATH, where you got Alex (I picture them both renting out office space where they run their respective blogs. I'm sure this is the case).

These 2 dudes share at least one thing in common (at least one thing that I can confirm). They were both cool enough to throw a promotional bone my way. A fact for which I am eternally grateful. Seriously, all the bloggers and reviewers who have been kind enough to do up a review, share their thoughts, provide download links - it's amazing. It's making a world of difference as far as TSTAT listenership goes.

Anyways. These guys have pooled their resources and put together a FREE grindcore compilation of EPIC proportions. Seriously, the tracklist on this thing is like a who's who of the grindcore A-list (as far as I'm concernced, at least). Brutal Truth, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Fuck the Facts, Weekend Nachos, Rotten Sound, Kill the Client.....the list goes on. 69 tracks in all! THE PRIEST WITH ONE BLACK HAND, the one song of mine (so far) that is a grindcore qualifier, is also featured. Can't thank these guys enough for including me. They had nothing to gain and everything to lose by associating my stinky rottenness with their sweet hyperblasts. Merci.

Here is the link to follow in order to download the comp: CLICK HERE!