Check these dudes out. Their new album is called REST and it is SERIOUSLY FUCKING GOOD.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Gilead Media Fest Recap - Part 1.
To start off, Cris had gotten home from tour with his other band Face of Ruin at about 4 am. I had been baby sitting his dog for the past couple of weeks, so I packed up my best bud Max (my dog) and Cris's spaz-oid german shepherd Doc into my little car and left for Milwaukee at 8 am! I knew I was in for a weekend of heavy, sludgy, doomy-doom-doom, so I kept the tunes on the drive pretty light. Well, I dunno, I guess they weren't "light" per say, but I pointedly didn't listen to most of the bands I was going to see at the fest. The ones I hadn't heard of organically anyway. I figured it would be way more fun to see and hear all these sick bands for the first time live.
(driving tunes: Ancestors-In Dreams and Time, Thrice, Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction, The Armed - Young and Beautiful, Battlefields - Agassiz, and a little Old Crow Medicine Show for good measure)
Just to get all this out of the way now, EVERYONE at the fest was amazing. Every single person I met ( except for 1 moron with a flip cam and way to much beer money) as insanely cool. From the crust punks, to the hippies, from the bar staff to the event staff, etc etc. Everyone was cool as hell. The environment was insanely open, there were no opposing security guards or dick-head cops across every corner, it was a great time in the company of great people. Now for the goods, although, don't expect anything scathing, literally every band I saw was fucking awesome.
(driving tunes: Ancestors-In Dreams and Time, Thrice, Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction, The Armed - Young and Beautiful, Battlefields - Agassiz, and a little Old Crow Medicine Show for good measure)
Just to get all this out of the way now, EVERYONE at the fest was amazing. Every single person I met ( except for 1 moron with a flip cam and way to much beer money) as insanely cool. From the crust punks, to the hippies, from the bar staff to the event staff, etc etc. Everyone was cool as hell. The environment was insanely open, there were no opposing security guards or dick-head cops across every corner, it was a great time in the company of great people. Now for the goods, although, don't expect anything scathing, literally every band I saw was fucking awesome.
Day 1. Saturday April 28
Darger+Plague Mother
these guys were a perfect fit for opening this show. Gentle, slow building waves of sound. It felt very calming to watch, and really seemed to put everyone in a relaxed, open-minded mood.
Arms Aloft
These dudes came out blazing. It was quite poppy, but it was fun, and punk, and while this isn't my style, I enjoyed their set.
Aseethe
I love this band. It's my second time seeing them, and I'm bias, as their bass player Drew is Cris's twin. But seriously, this 3 piece makes rafters rumble. Heavy isn't really a good way to put it. I think I'd say IMENSE. They paint such thick layers of distortion and delay, etc etc. Their records rule, but live is where these guys really make you feel what they are doing. Plus, their art, the hand-screen vinyl, ugh, so inspiring to see a group be so creative with their output on all fronts.
Protestant
Get Rad
Unfortunately I had to make a trip back to the hotel during Protestant and Get Rad to let my dog do the deeds, but I was told both bands ripped.
Hell
These guys crushed. I came in about 1/2 way through their set I beleive. Super heavy, incredibly dark, just what a band called HELL should sound like. Plus, their latest vinyl release is one of the coolest 12 inches I have ever seen. Check out Gilead Media's store.
Fell Voices
OH FUCK. This band smoothed out my brain. Think about black metal that is so fast, and so hypnotically unchanging, that you forget that you've been listening to the same riff for 7 minutes. These guys do that to you. That, and their drummer, who is already blasting 300bpm for 15 minutes on end, is the vocalist. Mic? Who needs a Mic?! This guy just fucking screamed over the entire band. SO GOOD.
Ash Borer
Ashborer was also completely insane. They roared through the most vicious and hypnotic black metal I have ever bore witness to in the live setting. Their sound was a caccoon of horror, in the best way possible.
Loss
Normally, I'm not a huge fan of funeral paced doom of this sort. Not live anyway, I tend to enjoy it more in the van on a long stretch of highway I guess. Either way, Loss was actually pretty fun to watch live. Despite some technical issues, they sounded pretty awesome (although I was all the way up front and directly in front of a 4x12). Loss provided the wind-down to the collective attendees after the previous 2 hours of pummeling hypno-black metal. hahaWednesday, April 18, 2012
...silence...
Hey folks,
SO, right now we are working on lots of exciting things. Unfortunately for us, that means we'll be laying a bit low for the first half of the summer. We'll have a few shows here and there, but nothing to crazy. We hope to cover some ground in the 2nd half of the summer. Also, we are working on new music a bit, as well as some ideas for a cover we hope will see the light of day sometime in 2012. Either way, please spread our music and help us continue to get AVOHFASIH out there. Thanks!
SO, right now we are working on lots of exciting things. Unfortunately for us, that means we'll be laying a bit low for the first half of the summer. We'll have a few shows here and there, but nothing to crazy. We hope to cover some ground in the 2nd half of the summer. Also, we are working on new music a bit, as well as some ideas for a cover we hope will see the light of day sometime in 2012. Either way, please spread our music and help us continue to get AVOHFASIH out there. Thanks!
-T
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Dat shit grey
Grey on grey as well as a slew of other stupid new combinations of bleak colors of merch for the upcoming shows. 
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
...all is not quiet
We are working on booking s bunch of shows currently. We will be hammering the midwest through out spring. Announcements, some new merch and artwork, and a bunch of other fun stuff will be announced soon. Thanks for your patience as always.
-T
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
woah...
it is very important to us that we are able to create an atmosphere when playing AVOHFASIH live. Whether a bar, basement, or club, we want to convey the same emotion and energy.
We will finally be putting our visual show into motion on our weekend warrior with Morality Crisis and Speaker Eater.
Hope to see everyone out.
-T
Monday, January 23, 2012
Better off Dad: 3 days with Blue Ox and OJ
holy.fucking.weekend.
As some of you more adventurous folk may know, Orwell spent the last 3 days on the road with Blue Ox and Our Judgment. We started in Merrill, went south to La Crosse, and then back north to Minneapolis.
Overall, the weekend was a blast.
Friday night was unfortunately a bit of a trainwreck for us. My(Tim) amp decided not to work once we got loaded onto the stage. Then over the coarse of the next 3 songs, both of my guitars went. On top of that, Cris was caught in a snowstorm on his way to the show, and literally made it to the venue with enough time to walk directly on to stage. Luckily Dan from Blue Ox is a righteous fucking dude, as he let Cris use his kit to save time. Anyway, we owe you one Wausau! hahahaha Honestly, we still had a great time, Ox, OJ, and all the other bands destroyed and we met some awesome people. Also, we did karaoke with Blue Ox at the bar after the show, videos coming soon!!! hahaha
Saturday was crazy. We got to the Kwik Trip about a mile from my house in Wausau and had to change a tire. Not a great start to a morning. After getting the van moving again, we high-tailed it to La Crosse, and took all of my non-working gear to Dave's guitar shop, where our muscly, bald, goateed savior Bern waved his magic shred hands and made all our problems go away. A few pots, selectors, and tubes later, my rig was back in working order and being backlined on the warehouse stage.
The warehouse was amazing as always. Our brothers in Heir to the Throne and Climactic absolutely destroyed. Blue Ox put on one hell of a show, and Our Judgment were as tight as I had ever seen them. Our set also went great. Steve at the WH provided some fog, and what seemed to be very specific lighting throughout the show as well as gave us maybe the best stage mix we have ever had. Plus, the kids, fans, and all of our amazing La Crosse friends made the show a huge win.
After tearing up the downtown area for a while and making a stop at the wonderful JB's Speakeasy, we crashed at Erik's.
Upon slamming down a shitload of coffee and bacon, we all hit the road. The drive, was not fun at all. Freezing rain, icy literally EVERYWHERE. Luckily our van is a beast and a half. We had a few moments that freaked us out a bit, but hey, nothing is quite as scary when you are only going 45 mph. lol So yah, it took us forever to get to the cities, but we got there. The Triple Rock is one of my favorite venues on earth. The sound is amazing, the stage is perfectly sized, and there are always a ton of righteous people there. Without making this longer than it needs to be, we had a great set, met up with some awesome friends, did some interviews, said a bunch of goodbyes and jumped back on the icey roads at about midnight. It took us somewhere near 5 1/2 hours to get home from the cities (and Cris still had to drive another couple hundred miles to get to his house). This was pretty close to the most scared I have ever been behind the wheel. White knuckle, 25 MPH feels to fast, slippery, blizzard, shit.
Either way, we made it home safe and crashed hard.
ANYWAY. Thanks to our brothers in Blue Ox and Our Judgment, and everyone who came out to the shows and chilled this weekend. We had a blast!
Merrill, WI: Jan 20, 2011
The Warehouse: La Crosse, WI, Jan 21, 2011
As some of you more adventurous folk may know, Orwell spent the last 3 days on the road with Blue Ox and Our Judgment. We started in Merrill, went south to La Crosse, and then back north to Minneapolis.
Overall, the weekend was a blast.
Friday night was unfortunately a bit of a trainwreck for us. My(Tim) amp decided not to work once we got loaded onto the stage. Then over the coarse of the next 3 songs, both of my guitars went. On top of that, Cris was caught in a snowstorm on his way to the show, and literally made it to the venue with enough time to walk directly on to stage. Luckily Dan from Blue Ox is a righteous fucking dude, as he let Cris use his kit to save time. Anyway, we owe you one Wausau! hahahaha Honestly, we still had a great time, Ox, OJ, and all the other bands destroyed and we met some awesome people. Also, we did karaoke with Blue Ox at the bar after the show, videos coming soon!!! hahaha
Saturday was crazy. We got to the Kwik Trip about a mile from my house in Wausau and had to change a tire. Not a great start to a morning. After getting the van moving again, we high-tailed it to La Crosse, and took all of my non-working gear to Dave's guitar shop, where our muscly, bald, goateed savior Bern waved his magic shred hands and made all our problems go away. A few pots, selectors, and tubes later, my rig was back in working order and being backlined on the warehouse stage.
The warehouse was amazing as always. Our brothers in Heir to the Throne and Climactic absolutely destroyed. Blue Ox put on one hell of a show, and Our Judgment were as tight as I had ever seen them. Our set also went great. Steve at the WH provided some fog, and what seemed to be very specific lighting throughout the show as well as gave us maybe the best stage mix we have ever had. Plus, the kids, fans, and all of our amazing La Crosse friends made the show a huge win.
After tearing up the downtown area for a while and making a stop at the wonderful JB's Speakeasy, we crashed at Erik's.
Upon slamming down a shitload of coffee and bacon, we all hit the road. The drive, was not fun at all. Freezing rain, icy literally EVERYWHERE. Luckily our van is a beast and a half. We had a few moments that freaked us out a bit, but hey, nothing is quite as scary when you are only going 45 mph. lol So yah, it took us forever to get to the cities, but we got there. The Triple Rock is one of my favorite venues on earth. The sound is amazing, the stage is perfectly sized, and there are always a ton of righteous people there. Without making this longer than it needs to be, we had a great set, met up with some awesome friends, did some interviews, said a bunch of goodbyes and jumped back on the icey roads at about midnight. It took us somewhere near 5 1/2 hours to get home from the cities (and Cris still had to drive another couple hundred miles to get to his house). This was pretty close to the most scared I have ever been behind the wheel. White knuckle, 25 MPH feels to fast, slippery, blizzard, shit.
Either way, we made it home safe and crashed hard.
ANYWAY. Thanks to our brothers in Blue Ox and Our Judgment, and everyone who came out to the shows and chilled this weekend. We had a blast!
-T
Pictures courtesy of Jeanette photography in Wausau and our friend Laura Godden in La CrosseMerrill, WI: Jan 20, 2011
The Warehouse: La Crosse, WI, Jan 21, 2011
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