… working on a batch of new songs. And the mysterious ninja empress Raqmo is dreaming up a little something for your eyes. All of the buttons and switches are brightly lit and waiting to be pressed on the Derangement Machine…
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Anarchy Club has been hitting the rehearsal room, working up a set for live performances. The new guitarist is working out just fine… you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and blood will trickle out of your ears…
Stay tuned for show news in the following months.
Here’s a clue to the mystery of the next Anarchy Club song, to be released in a couple of weeks. This is Russell Farhang laying down his mournful violin on our upcoming track…
Coming in a couple of weeks: a new double-A-side digital single, “Für Immer Verloren / Criminal”. I’m just putting some finishing touches on the guitars and Raqmo is finishing her cover art. As he was born to do, Keith brings the fire on these two songs, lyrically and vocally.
The first track is a pounding fist, steady and thunderous, while the second is more of a roller coaster whose brakes have stopped working.
I sincerely hope these new tunes cause a delightful loss of bodily function control for you all.
Stand by…
Right now I’m in South Korea, where the big news story is that their local equivalent of Eminem just pulled out a bunch of his teeth in an attempt to avoid mandatory military service. This drew the wrath of the populace, prompting him to give a tearful press conference in which he apologized and said he’d join the army after all.
Trying to picture 50 Cent or Nas in similar circumstances. I think the essence of “thug life” is getting lost in translation here…
Today, Caleb came in for some guest-drumming on an upcoming ditty, “Criminal”.
And since we’re on the subject of guest drummers, here’s some footage shot by Keith during the making of “The Art of War”, featuring Ernesto Longoria wigging out on “If I Can”. The studio is a couple of floors of Chris Kirkpatrick’s house; hence the marionettes hanging in the kitchen.
Since it’s almost Christmas, it’s time for one of my favorite holiday movie specials, Zeitgeist! But this ain’t no Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Whether you agree with Zeitgeist or not, it will certainly give you something to talk about around the holiday dinner table.
I recommend skipping the first 11 minutes of pointless, hard-to-watch introduction. WARNING: PARTS OF THIS FILM ARE *EXTREMELY* VIOLENT, GRAPHIC, AND DISTURBING. Happy holidays!
“The opposite of success isn’t failure; it is name-dropping.”
Ok, hopefully this revamp of the website has brought a modest amount of fresh Anarchy Club insight into your world. However, despite the fact that Keith and I are as pretty as pressed petunias on a misty spring morning, I suspect you’re really here to get the latest on the music.
We are deep in recording mode, with about half a dozen ditties well underway. One, tentatively called “As Towers Fall To Sand”, is a swaggering, crunchy beast, with an anthemic chorus and one of my favorite guitar solos. This is going to be one for blasting loud in the car while going 180 MPH. Another, tentatively called “Criminal”, is a speedy series of punches to the face, the musical equivalent of a Gatling gun, and for the first time ever, Keith literally freestyled the lyrics on the chorus. I was sitting at the mixing board and was like, “what the… where did all that sudden awesome come from?” And another one, with a real Teutonic stomp to it, we are currently referring to only by what it sounds like: The “Nyrrrnyrrrnyyyyyrrrrr” Song.
Anyway, I don’t want to give away too much. And as always, Anarchy Club songs take a while to fully marinate and ripen. But you WILL be hearing from us in the new year…
– Adam
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