Denial of the Species

It has been a long time.

Our brother Stefan has left the band due to health reasons. It pains us all, but we all know as well that this was the only possible outcome. Below is his farewell.

Hey all. Let me take this opportunity to let you all know that, with both sadness and relief, I have decided to quit my guitar activities for the band.
The reasons for this are diverse. Some of you might know that these last few years have not been the easiest for me, and though I'm doing quite OK now, it has left an imprint. Therefore a full on rehearsing/recording/touring outfit is simply not made for me anymore. A heavy hearted feeling that's been itching for a while and I simpy have to step up and face it.
An other equally important reason is a desire in me to channel my thoughts and feelings into productive within the realm of other musical genres (than Metal/Hardcore).
So no, you're not rid of me yet! In fact, I already have been invited for several projects and this year I will focus on getting a solo project called Lantern Slides more running. Next to that there is talk of ending the hiatus of my former band Osewoudt.

Is this the end of TDH? Of course not! In fact a follow up for me might be lurking around the corner sooner than you can say 'a rage of rapture against the dying of the light'. So work on the full length will continue!

So let me sign off with a great big heartfelt !thank you! to all the people that booked us a show, drove our van, recorded with us, shared a stage with us, released our vinyl, did our live sound, offered us a place to sleep, anything that helped us out and of course those that bought the records/merch and banged hard at the live shows. You know who you are and I certainly am glad I do, too.

Finally of course a big warm hug and a smoky whisky to Johan, Joost, Richard and Demian, the brothers in arms that took part in the realisation of some of my dreams.

Be Seeing You. Non Timetis Messor! XO Stefan.

When we started looking for replacements, or actually, someone to bring his or her personality, way of thinking and playing style to the band, hardly a name popped up. Yet, we found a kindred spirit

Jelle A., of Nihill fame, has joined Terzij de Horde. He will be writing along and playing on our full-length, the eternal white whale. But Ahab's gaining. 

We have a couple of shows coming up, alongside Planks in Germany and with Wildernessking as these South-African friends tour the continent. As soon as more info is present, we will inform you.

I See No Civilization

This is the first show we'll announce for the coming months, more will follow soon. But as a start, this is pretty okay. Right?

Primula Signis.

In three weeks, we'll have played with the band responsible for the best "Cascadian black metal"-song ever.
YES I SAID IT.

Due to an amazing weekend on the road with the new Dutch metal pride VERBUM VERUS and the astounding Svartidauði, no new songs can be shared, but over the course of the next months the full-length will worked on.
The day before, we'll have the same line-up, minus us, plus Grinding Halt, Dutch down-tuned sludge-blasts, old and dirty like the men they are, and the first ever show of Black Decades, a band consisting of ex-Cathode, the Barnhouse Effect and Staathaat-members, who combine these three bands with the fury and darkness of bands like Mitochondrion.

Looking forward to these shows, I hope to see you there.

Oxex Dazis Sastris

I know it has been too long.
We have toured the UK with our friends from The Great Old Ones which was an absolute blast (judging from the reviews in Metal Hammer, Terrorizer and amazing blogs). A huge thanks to the LURKERlads, to Sam of CLDH and Paul Priest, all of them are worthy of your money, booze and tips on proper music.
One of the reasons it took so long is the amount of time we could spend on writing new material. We had been writing on one of the songs for a year approximately, when a bunch of amazing shows came up. Getting back to the drawingboard is difficult then. BUT the new songs are suddenly appearing, and I fell it's safe to say that this year will finally be the year that new releases will be recorded.
At this point, the full-length is the focal point, but we have a split 7" in the works as well.
Because of the amount of shows of lately and the desire to write new material, we have decided to play an absolute minimum of shows before the summer, being a show with Ash Borer and Fell Voices in Amsterdam, and a tentative show with Sadhaka (members of Fauna) in Groningen.
If you want to celebrate the tenth edition of Footprints in the Void with us, you're more than welcome on Saturday the 30th of March. Five amazing bands, a special edition beer and a celebration of kindred spirits.

Coughing the Blood of Hope and Love

It has been a while. We have been busy getting married and saving Africa.

The split with Starve was released, finally, and we have no clue as to how many have been sold. Email badgerrecords@hotmail.com to see if he has any clear vinyl left.

We have a couple of black ones left, but still need to add them to our bigcartel/bandcamp. If you want one, email us. They're €12,-, if you'd like a shirt as well, we can arrange a package deal.

We are touring the UK in January with our French labelmates The Great Old Ones. Two dates haven't been filled yet, but the 7th is being finalised this weekend, the 8th would be a bonus on the way back. If you can help us out along the way, let us know.

5th: LURKER presents: Underworld, London, w/The Great Old Ones, Oblivionised
6th: KRAAK Gallery, Manchester w/ The Great Old Ones, Wode, Burial
7th: Leeds (more info soon)
8th: Brighton or Oxford (more info soon, perhaps)

Besides our buddies, we are stoked beyond belief to be sharing the stage withWode, and the other bands, what we could find, sound very promising indeed. I hope they have beards.

For the tour, new shirts will be pressed. The old ones (they're great) we still have are running really low, except for the ones in size S. Skinny people, emo kids, hipsters, help us out!

New record is really in the making now, a couple of friends will help us out along the way, the tentative name for the record is "Self". But nothing is certain yet. Hopefully, we can post some new recordings soon.

That's all, thanks for sticking around.

Take As Needed For Pain

THERE IS POSITIVE NEWS.

Three weeks ago we received the test-pressings of the 12" with Starve. We heartily approved them (the sound is so much better when compared to the mp3). GO AND PRINT.

Well, no.

But now, all the artwork problems have been resolved and today we got an email, telling us that they'll be shipped the 29th of August!

There are 250 black LPs and 50 crystal-meth, pre-orders have started via badger_records@hotmail.com, but as soon as there are records proper, we will make them obtainable in our bandcamp.

So, we have another release-party to look forward to. But this time, the records will actually be there. And of course, we will have our CRY ME A BADGER FEST 2012 at the ACU. It will take place the 16th of September, a Sunday late afternoon show, and we will be again bejoined by STARVE, our Northern buddies in Ortega and the amazing UK Caveman Battle-Doom heroes of Conan.

As soon as there's a flyer and more info it'll get posted here.

As for the rest, we are still looking at an end of the year/start of next year tour with label-buddies The Great Old Ones, so bookers take note. We are mainly looking for shows on the mainland Europe, but the UK is doable too.

New songs are coming up too, we have just started working on what might well be the last song needed for the full-length. As soon as everyone's done holidaying and marrying we will finish this elusive beast.

Bless Them That Curse You

As I said previously, I won't post untill we are certain of the date the record will be released.

I kinda lied. We're STILL not certain, but we're hoping for somewhere in the next few months. For fuck's sake.

To ease the waiting, we have uploaded our song, A Chosen Hollow, for the split to our bandcamp as a pay what you want download. You'll get full artwork, lyrics and lossless song, so worth it.

We were supposed to play a release show in two weeks time. now it's a show filled with friends! The 13th of June, we'll be heading to the ACU again for a show with our friends HAMMERS from Manchester, who are touring their amazing record "Vardøgr" and have kindly pestered the organisers to let us play. Starve are playing too, as are Sloth, a young crustpunk band with a great future if they can learn to start and stop at the same time. But in any way, it's vicious, hyperfast noise that sounds excellent.

Thanks for sticking with us while we wait for a record, the writing for the full-length is drawing to a close, we have some great news when we finish writing, so with a bit of luck you'll be told MARVELS AND WONDERS around December 2016.