What's new
Cheap Tragedies preorders, A Varning fest, and more!
How do you like this-- 3 updates over the course of a month! Something of a record for the MATW website, but we've been saying for a while we want to get this thing updated on a more regular fashion. Some of you who visited our webstore over the past 3 days might have taken note of some significant additions. The Cheap Tragedies LP is now up for pre-orders. Here's the plan: of the first pressing of this Cheap Tragedies LP, 700 copies will be available on black vinyl and 300 will be on clear vinyl, all pressed on 140 gram vinyl in reverse cardstock gatefold sleeves. Here's the clear vinyl pre-order and here's the black vinyl pre-order. Expect these at the end of November/ beginning of December. I'm not exaggerating (and it's not without a little bit of pride) that I can say this record blew me away and is easily one of my picks for the best hardcore record of the past few years. Folks who enjoyed the two 7"s (on Livewire Records and High Anxiety/ No Idea will NOT be disappointed as the crew from Cleveland really and truly outdid themselves. Consequently, we at MATW tried to oblige with some great packaging, which of course nowadays costs a pretty penny. Take note that our mailorders ship out of Canada for the time being and so our webstore, so you notice it when the webstore calculates your postage. Sorry! It'll be worth your while though. (If you need some preliminary convincing, check out "I am the Zodiac" at our myspace page. We'll post another song in the next few days if you're still a non-believer.) Maybe pick up some other stuff from our store to offset the postage costs a bit. BTW: word got out about the pre-orders before I promoted it at all-- if this is any indication as to how fast the clear vinyl will go, you had better act quick! Of the 300, the band will be around 50, a handful will go to some soon-to-be-disclosed stores at various stores throughout North America, and the rest will be for mailorder only.
You also might have noticed the Omegas demo for sale on the website. Remember tapes? Please note, my cassette player is broken, so I can't vouche for whether or not Spoiler didn't just decide to put some Milli Vanilli tapes with some Omegas covers. You can download that nonsense for free still. But if you insist on dropping your hard earned cash on some troublemakers from Montreal, be my guest. It'll help us rent vans and buy beers and chocolate milks (for Spoiler) so we can roll into your town. Lastly, we have some t-shirts as well. Maybe those will show up on the site eventually. Speaking of the Omegas, we have around a million songs; all scientifically designed to promote convulsive slam-skanking. We'll record some more soon, and will keep you posted on upcoming records. Some stuff is in the works. Also, Omegas will be playing at the second annual Varning in Montreal fest this coming Sunday with a bunch of other good bands. I will not be there, having to head down south for a wedding. This will hardly stop the Omegas... who will be the surprise drummer? You'll have to go to find out.
Last but not least, word leaked out about the A7 reunion taking place at the Knitting Factory in early December organized by Guillotine and Complete Control productions. I'll post more information as it develops, but it will be an absolute trip. Lots of surprises. Direct yourself here for some preliminary information on the event. If the prospect of Urban Waste, Antidote, No Thanks, and a whole handful more is enough to pull out your wallets, direct yourself here to buy some tickets.
2008-10-24Omegas demo
Back in April, the Omegas went on a trip to Toronto to play a show, hang out with our friend Mike the Mosher on his berfday, and record some songs with Jonah Goofcheese. The process was well documented over here, and it involved piling into a car, listening to True Mathematics, butchering an Outburst cover, Tony puking mythic proportions, crashing a party, passing out in a car, and along the way record a few songs. Four of the resulting songs are now the Omega's first demo, appropriately titled "Psycho Dives on Slam Skank Anthems". There was talk about doing a 7", but instead we decided what we really needed was another guitarist. Enter Yanny, who now rocks the six strings as well. Then we wrote some more songs.
"Oops, we should really release those songs." They are now available as a demo. You can buy the demo from your local pawn shop (or from this very site in a few days), or why not just download it right here: OMEGAS DEMO. More songs to be recorded soon!
2008-10-16MATW site updated
So we've finally updated the Mad at the World site and hope you enjoy the new design. This will be significantly easier to update, so this one will be kept a lot more current than our past site, so come back often. We're still building some of the site, including the individual band pages, so come back periodically for those. We've got ann archive's worth of material that we can put to use for the site, which we were never able to get up on the old one. There's also links to our growing webstore and the blog I've been maintaing for the past 2 years. Basically, I'd like to make the site much more of a resource than it's been previously. Now that we're in a much more work-able format, our ideas can finally come to fruition.
Our very next release will the Cheap Tragedies LP. Following up both of their 7"s released this summer, the LP artwork is just being finished up, while in the meantime the test presses have been approved. Pre-orders will be up on our webstore shortly. The first pressing will come in a gatefold sleeve; 300 copies on clear vinyl and 700 on black. The band will get a number of clear vinyl copies, along with a select group of stores (check back for the list once we've got this confirmed), and the rest will be for mailorder. The record will be one of the sickest you've heard so don't sleep on it! The band will be playing the Fest 7 in Gainesburg Florida on November 2nd, and a date in Syracuse on November 15th as well.
