I Exist 2010

I Exist are releasing their debut album 'I: A turn for the worse' through Common Bond Records/Stomp on the 7th of May. They have a new song up 'One thousand hooves' on their myspace.

I took a new promo photo for them, their first one with new guitar player Josh. Josh plays guitar in Pod People and used to be in Blood Duster. 430ex in shoot through umbrella camera right, 430ex bare camera left behind band, 430ex directly behind band pointing at the wall behind,

The songs on this album are so much heavier and doomier than anything they have previously done. The band is mostly know amongst the hardcore scene, but I think this will really open them up to a more metal fanbase, for people who enjoy Eyehategod, Down and Sleep

This is the album cover, artwork by Glen 'Glenno' Smith, the internal artwork looks amazing also.

The band will be on tour with Shai Hulud in May

Converge live video Brisbane

It was a lucky coincidence that Converge were playing the last show of their Australian tour, on the same day that I Exist and Phantoms finished off their Queensland tour. Not only were both shows in the same city, but literally around the corner from one and other. So when I Exist and Phantoms finished their afternoon show, we had time to eat dinner, some of us ate at The Forrest which made awesome vegan tempe burgers, and then most of us headed to the hifi bar to watch Converge. I shot some video and took some photos, more of which will be posted soon.

The setlist for this show was:
Concubine
Dark Horse
Heartache
Hellbound
You Fail Me
Bare My Teeth/Black Rose
No Heroes
Locust Reign
Cutter
Vengeance
Reap What You Sow
Worms Will Feed
Axe To Fall
First Light
Eagles Become Vultures
The Broken Vow
Drop Out
Hope Street
Bitter and Then Some
Last Light
Jane Doe

Slowburn's last show video

The photos from this show are in the previous post. All the video is shot at a 1/100th sec, to make it look like Saving Private Ryan. Not really, but I like the fast shutter speed look. The video of 'Bongs' looks and sounds the best.

There was a good turnout to this gig, a number of people traveled from Melbourne and Sydney for it. It was sad to see Slowburn go, but it was a very fun day. They played a set that covered their entire time as a band, right from the early Top Gun songs, through to the album that was never released.