Monday, December 31, 2012

The Year of Our Refrain

We have played 21 shows in 2012 from our record release show in Tempe February 10 to our most recent December 5. We have shared the stage with 60 + bands during this cycle, the shows can be found here: http://seas-will-rise.blogspot.com/p/shows.html

We took a week long trip up to Portland and back in early March, played around our home of Arizona more than we ever have, and made several small jaunts out to southern California. From the basements in Portland and record shops in Salt Lake to the Glasshouse Theater in Pomona, we met a billion kind and gentle souls that share the same desire/ fire that we posses to continue to do what ever it is we are doing.

We look forward to meeting up with you all again and to hopefully meet some new friends, 2013 will see less Seas Will Rise live (quality over quantity) but that isn't by any means a break or a slight on the shows we played in 2012, more to do with time management and our effort to write and record some sort of follow up to Disease is Our Refrain.

Speaking of which, we  released our full length record in 2012 on Anxiety Machine Records  and Man In Decline Records and digitally thru the Audiosiege imprint on Moshpit Tragedy Records. Audiosiege also did the mastering for our record, and did a bang up job. They also had a huge year, releasing remasters of High on Fire and Sleep and mastering and mixing tons of new releases, as well as welcoming a new member to their immediate family, congrats Brad and welcome Wesley.

Our record was recorded at Arcane Digital Recording with is ran by Ryan Butler of Landmine Marathon, who this year played some sorta of mega festival hosted by some big time recovering addicts, as well as welcomed a new singer to the fold. Krysta killed it and we look forward to more good things from Team Landmine.

We also welcomed a new member, Dominic joined in July and has been a great addition to our band.
With out the contributions of Chad Knapp, this band wouldn't be where it is, ascetically/musically and we look forward to his new projects as they develop. Check out his art work here and look out for new music from him coming down the line.

While this isn't a completely compressive list, because we ask and ask and we receive so much, the following peoples have been stand outs in support of our band and we wish to acknowledge them more then others, but know we appreciate ALL your help:
Mark and Anxiety Machine Records
Dominic and Sherise at Man In Decline Records
Brad at Audiosiege
Rayney at Moshpit Tragedy
Jera and Shay Mehrdad
Mihio Manus/ James Jay
David and all the Godhunter family
Sesar and the boys in Teeph
Corey and Jon in Portland for the great help
Matt and Ryan in Landmine Marathon
Michelle at Mantooth Group
And Satan for being cooler then Christ.

Happy New Year and we hope to continue to meet, be inspired by and enjoy each others company with new/old/forgotten friends.

Stay Pissed.



Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Silence is our coffin


We have "returned" from our geographical survey of Arizona. Our analysts...and no disrespect for Tucson, but the Ponderosa's of Flagstaff are superior to the desert lowlands of Tucson. But both citys are truly a pleasure for us to play. A different level of excitement comes from these college town's that isn't apparent in the mega sprawl of Phoenix. It is indeed an apples to oranges comparison, but something we wish to note.

Phoenix being 1.5-2 hour drive north or south to either of these ancillary Arizona city's is something that we plan to exploit more then we traditionally do. Bands like Godhunter and Territory in Tucson and Swampwolf in Flagstaff have become great ambassadors to their respected regions and we are lucky to have these people in our corner.

Over the past weekend we got the chance to watch Mutilation Rites twice and we feel that we have had a far better weekend then you, so get familiar with this band. Deal?

Come mid November we fire up the Dodge to head across the Sonoran into the Mohave and descend into low desert chaparral and play Fullerton and San Diego with our friends Lost Lands. The show on the 9th will be the ragers in  Ear/Splitters 3 year anniversary and they hopefully will be hosting a DIY swap meet, so take all our crap of Etsy and bring it down.

San Diego will be an epic time with Diatribe and Age of Collapse. We are bringing a new shirt design from Plagued Visual Design (the talented Greg Colson) and we are sure you will empty your wallets for this one.

In passing...go vote, unless you plan to vote for Romney.

That is all for now

Monday, October 15, 2012

Grand Canyoneers

This week kicks off a relatively busy run to round out what we are now referring to as, "The Year of Our Refrain". If all goes as planned, we plan to use and abuse the intra- and interstate highways to spread our agony and ecstasy across the region. Here's the rundown:

On Wednesday, October 17th, we will be playing live and co-hosting "Into The Void" with our friend Jonathan. Into The Void is ASU's premier (by default) underground heavy music expose and it runs for two hours weekly. We are going to share some of our new decidely punk rock canticles with you, so listen in if you care to be on the ground floor with the next generation of mosh inducing jock rock anthems. Here's their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/intothevoidmetal

On Saturday, October 20th, we will be playing the Southwest Terror Fest in Tucson. This should be a hell of a time. See their website for all the details: http://swterrorfest.tumblr.com

On Friday, October 27th, we will be playing Tacos locos in Flagstaff w/ Skeletonwitch, Havok & Mutilation Rites: https://www.facebook.com/events/419939674733583/?fref=ts

On Saturday, October 28th, we will do it all over again and play with the same bill in Scottsdale at Pub Rock: https://www.facebook.com/events/151594318315584/?fref=ts

Come November we will find ourselves in Fullerton Ca for the Ear/Splitters three year anniversary showcase on Nov 9 and in San Diego Nov 10 at the Steinhouse. We are playing these shows with our friends Lost Lands from Long Beach. Lost Lands sounds like Disfear meeting your face like a prize fighters fist. Stoked to be finally sharing a stage with these knuckleheads is a relief: our first shows in Southern California were with an earlier incarnation of this band and its high time we crossed paths again.

Finally, in writing and recording news: we recorded rough demos of 7 new songs over the weekend and are well on our way to having material for a new full-length and some splits that will see the light of day after the new year.

That's it for now; hopefully, we'll see you in the coming weeks.


 

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Southwest Terror Fest

We haven't spoken to you in a while and we will take several moments (this one, which will soon be passing) to give you sage insight into the comings and goings of this collection of responsible citizens we call seas will rise.

We have several shows in place to round out the Year of our Refrain and they include several Arizona shows. Two of which we will expand upon right now.

We recently played with our friends in the Portland OR based band HONDURAN in Flagstaff AZ. It was a great time with great people and we have been wanting to share our despair with the peoples of the Kaibob plateau for years and glad that it was w/ the bands that played that night. Steve from Swampwolf was a gracious host and put on a hell of a gathering. Thanks to Amy for putting us up/knocking us down. AYE CARLY! Cheers Flagstaff!

Our next short trip from the sprawl of the metro Phoenix area will be to Tucson AZ for the Southwest Terror Fest. This is the inaugural gathering of this HEAVY festival put on by David from Godhunter and other headbangers from brown town. The lineup is decidedly bent towards Arizona hardhitters (that is such a lame description used by lame journalists. Color us lame though, because totally using it then totally justify using it by calling  it lame but ironically using it) with some guest appearances by touring acts such as HULL, Pigeon Wing and Bereft.

What makes this fest really exciting for us, aside from it being in our grand canyon state and in Tucson which has always been a pleasure to play, is its packed to the brim with heavy bands and priced less then an extra large pizza. Gregory Colson, who makes amazingly dark designs, did an bang up job on the art for this festival and we encourage all of you to take a moment to check out his work at Plagued Visual Designs


So pile into a van, hop a train or at the very least use your parents quick trip gas card to get down to Tucson Oct 19th and 20th.

We will have more info soon on another Flagstaff show and a short run in southern California...plus a new comp we will be on as well.

As usual, stay pissed.





Tuesday, July 24, 2012

End Us in Chino Hills


We had an amazing time in California last weekend.We're truly honored to share our music and the experience(s) with everyone involved. It was a surreal experience to say the least and we would like totake a quick minute to thank the people that made this weekend so great:

Rayney at Moshpit Tragedy: it was a pleasure meeting you in person, Bud, thanks again for everything!

Brad Boatright at AUDIOSIEGE Media: thanks for always being in our corner.

Jeff and Josh and everyone involved with Beyond andScion A/V: thanks for taking such good care of us. We envy your Peter Pan lives.

Our airplane mates in Morne: you are incredibly kind/rad dudes and seeing you play was a highlight of our trip. We hope to play together again soon.

Joe Grindo and the Skarp crew for hanging into the wee hours and letting us play 10 minutes of their 20-minute set. We’re better for knowing you.

And all the other maniacs in Phobia and Total Fucking Destruction: thanks for blazing fast daytime grind and excessive poolside drinking.

Sherise at Man In Decline Records for dealing with us in her car, her room, her dinners, and for sitting in endless blankets of sticky heat to sell t shirts and records. Saying she’s a trooper is an understatement.

Thanks to the crew of The Glass House and the backline company as well as the photographers and interview team for being fun people and excessive drinkers (and professional human beings, of course).

Amy Rial and Greg Mauri for driving gear and overloaded duct taped boxes around Los Angeles county for us and Skarp. Thanks, we would have been playing air guitar without you.

And the people that treated us well at the Joint; you,Sirs, are also sweet and gentle souls.

Finally, the biggest thank you: to all the people who purchased our records, said a kind word, and left us kind messages on social media sites—thank you so much. We appreciate all your support and love being able to meet you. Speaking of support, we can’t acknowledge those who support us without saying an EXTRA MEGA special thank you to Michael and his lady friend who red eyed it from PHX to Pomona to catch our set. You are all true believers.

Ok. That’s probably enough emotional gushing for now. We will be back in California before you know it. We’ll let you know when and where on this blog. We hope to catch up with you then.

stay pissed.

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Moshpit tragedy Label Showcase

We have been asked to and accepted a chance to play at the Moshpit Tragedy Records Label Showcase Presented by Scion A/V July 21st in Pomona California .  We are more then excited to have been given the opportunity to represent Moshpit Tragedy Records/Audiosiege Media alongside bands like Morne, Phobia, Skarp and Total Fucking Destruction.


One of the aspects of this event that intrigues us the most are the nature of the two entities involved in this showcase: Scion A/V and Moshpit Tragedy Records.


In Scion A/VMetals own words:
"Scion A/V Metal works with the world’s best and most vital metal bands, bringing them to the stage at Metal Matinees, releasing exclusive audio releases and creating new music videos."
Alot of these metal matinees they curate are free/RSVP based events, they also pay the artists and they promote the shows. This isn't an argument for or against the marketing department of a car company's role in under ground music, its just stating what role Scion A/V is playing.


In Moshpit Tragedys own words:
"Moshpit Tragedy Records is a punk/metal label from Canada, which is proudly the very first label to fully adopt a pay-what-you-want (even nothing for most titles) download concept." 
While our record is on this site for a pay what you want starting at $3.99, most of the releases are set at $0. 

The reoccurring theme here is that both Scion A/V and Moshit Tragedy are entities that are essentially offering music, live performance and recorded, for you the fan for free. You don't have to sneak in to the show or get on a bands guest list, you don't have to pirate the music or borrow it from a friend. These two "thriving" entity's are in the business of providing you with free entertainment at a very effortless commitment on your part. 


That is both bizarre and incredibly awesome.

Is this a the new standard? Are we looking at revolutionary weirdos or carpetbagging war profiteers? A mix of both? I say a whole lot of the first and a little of the latter. With music increasingly being a digital entity, with gas prices and rent increasing forcing outlets of cultural/musical/art/expression to adopt new models, some of them not benefiting heavy music, makes us find this event incredibly significant in a new culture of music and performance in general. At least in terms of public awareness. 


Or we could be full of shit and this is just a label showcase put on by a car company, either way, RSVP and lets drink water together.


RSVP LINK


CVLT NATION is also hosting a mixtape which features two of our songs as well as a bunch of other songs by Moshpit Tragedy artists


CVLT NATION LINK






If you feel dirty from reading all this praise to corporate sponsorship then read about these groups and do your part to balance the scales


NO MORE DEATHS LINK 

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB PHX LINK

TUMBLEWEED LINK

Monday, June 18, 2012

Anti Nautical, Anti Christ

We have a pair of shows to announce today, for the last weekend of July

The first will be Friday July 27th in Tempe Arizona w/ American Standards, Glass Dimensions, Flying Scorpion, Gay Kiss, Like Wolves & Crowdkill @ The Fix Coffee shop

This is a packed bill with bands that normally under traditional marketing standards wouldn't be playing together, but all suggest aggressive themes and attitudes. (punk)
This show will also be a donation drop off for Operation Hydration to get some much needed water to those who defy odds and live on the surface of the sun (homeless/transient peoples of the Phoenix area)



And on Saturday the 28th we head to the northern stronghold of Flagstaff to play Taala Hooghan Infoshop w/Closet Case & Der Blerg.

We haven't played Flagstaff in over two years and then we went by cagematch and we had yet to play live with Corey. So this is exciting for us, plus get to leave the heat, so valley of the sun-ers, head up with us to rage in the woods.

More info and a flier coming soon. 
We got some other stuff in between we will announce shortly. 

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Does the pope shit in the woods?

We are writing new material and game planning how we are going to get this songs to you, the well fed yet hungry masses. We are thinking some split releases and some 7 inch records may be on the horizon.

Here is some proselytizing for other entities (names are linked for your internet navigation purposes)

Man In Decline Records has some killer releases and a distro with even better releases, support.
Anxiety Machine Records has some new stuff coming out as well
And head over to Moshpit Tragedy w/ $20 and come back with some where near 15 complete records.
Your lives will be better for this.

Also if you have a chance head over to this "darkened whatever" ragers from California's bandcamp and do what you must BLIGHTED

And  our fairly new yet solid friends in TEEPH have a new record as well and are on tour, so check them out.

Audiosiege  has been mastering some epic jams lately (SLEEP, High on Fire, Deviated Instinct) so get your music to him before he gets caught up in an epic 4 year mastering session of a Pearl Jam record also From Ashes Rise has a new 7" coming out that picks up where NIGHTMARES left off and adds some more despair and angst that only the past 10 years can add.

Our friends in Landmine Marathon are touring this summer on there way to Atlantic City to play with some old metal band, they will have a new 7" with them, so...you know...check it out.

Here is a review of Disease is Our Refrain from Stay Ahead blog and one from Rip It Up Zine as well.

See all of you Phoenix folks Saturday June 2nd?

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Raunch Records 3/3/2012

Sans Corey in Salt Lake City on our spring western states trip

Sleepers Cell

In Dust and Blood & Washout and Rust

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Onward (anti) christian soldier

We had a blast Tuesday May 1st at the Inner City Youth Center w/ Tragedy and all the other excellent bands. Really great seeing everyone out raging on a Tuesday.


 Our next show is the Southern Lord tour w/ Black Breath + MARTYRDöD + Burning Love + Enabler + True Cross (maybe, hopefully?) at Chasers in Scottsdale AZ Monday June 5th (that venue needs a better name right? bring back Atomic Cafe) 


In case you are unaware we do have the Disease is our Refrain on our big cartel (all links found in the contact section) as well as Anxiety Machine, Audiosiege/Moshpit Tragedy (digital) and Man In Decline Records. (our lawyers remind us we do have a responsibility to try and push records other people invested money in, out lawyers are those people BTW)

We have some mildly epic news brewing and can't wait to let you folks know, til then bang your heads to the storm troopers in occupied territory







Friday, April 6, 2012

In other news

Things aren't slowing down for us one bit, but our many other interests are taking center stage momentarily.
Here is a quick run down and some regurgitated Seas Will Rise info.

Chad is currently showing his art at the Trunk space, and coincidentally they are having an 8 year anniversary party tonight w/ performances by Andrew Jackson Jihad and food from Green, if you feel so inclined to attend.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/jackalope/2012/04/trunk_space_eighth_birthday.php?page=1

Corey has been asked to contribute to a hyper specific blog about Phoenix Beer Culture. Even if your not in the Salt River Valley, check out his ramblings and inside jokes.
Beer PHXation: The Session #62 | What Drives Beer Bloggers

Eric's other band, Come On Die Young is releasing an EP on Man In Decline Records titled Weights and Measures and rumor has it they will have test presses at Way Out West Fest.

Speaking of Way Out West Fest. We are scheduled to play Friday April 13th and look forward to seeing you all of you down there. Coreys band Said Gun plays Friday as well, with Come On Die Young opening festivity's Saturday. The Man In Decline distro will also be there all weekend. So wear maroon and gold and head south next weekend.

David is still in the process of finishing his one man band concept album/performance piece called "Davematch: Journey Into the Eye of the Ether" so hold your baited breath.

If your in the Tempe area Wednesday April 11th tune into 1330 AM The Blaze or head over to the website
http://www.blazeradioonline.com/
as we will be broadcasting our religious doctrines (or lack there of)

stay busy/stay pissed

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Left Wing Media DeControl / Updates

According to the stat tracker application that comes with the blogspot/blogger/google info mining mad men, the 2nd most visits to this site are from Russia. Probably has everything to do with vaguely pornographic sounding labels we add to the tag section. Your welcome Rusk, may all your searches be humanitarian.

So we are playing with Tragedy May 1st at the Inner City Youth Center (ICYC) and we couldn't be more excited. It should be obvious they have a massive influence on our band.

Info:
Tragedy
Criminal Code
Avon Ladies
Seas Will Rise
Sacred Followers
ICYC $8 8pm
175 s. 32nd St PHX AZ.

Our next show though, is in Tucson for a 3 day festival called Way Out West Fest. We play on Friday w/ our inlaws Said Gun. Erics mistress band Come On Die Young plays the following day as well. Check out the fest and if your in Arizona come out and get crazy (or something) with us.

http://www.wayoutwestfestaz.com/

We are doing a podcast with Azpunk and a radio show with Into the Void coming in the next coupleweeks, we will post those when they become available.

We also have some mega huge stuff (relatively mega huge, but your interested now right!) potentially coming down the line, and you will be the first to know, loyal shredder!

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Merchandise...its keeps us alive

Music is the least respected "art" form yet the most consumed when it comes to capital investment. Only a handful of art thieves in Paris "steal" a sustainable amount of monetary value in regards to "fine art". We (the we as in the peoples of the world) steal the holy living shit out of music. This is known fact. We aren't saying this in the whiny Metallica way, just sayin'.

The dichotomy of "fine art" and musical "art" is interesting/frustrating. Across the whole Internet you can find kickstarters and like websites where people beg you for money to start their movie/video/7" record/art installment/dance routine. And on a whole these things seem pretty successful. And in this day and age the direct "artist" to consumer relationship has become incredibly personal. You get a chance to help the "artist" craft their project, you get semi direct input to the success of the final project. That is pretty cool. 89% of the time it is total ego stroke garbage though. Which is also pretty cool, because if your in any type of creative outlet, its all an ego stroke at some level, if not you would be holed up in a bunker painting the fresco's on the wall then lighting the whole place on fire.

We bring up kickstarter to try and correlate this to the old dinosaur record label. Its apparent the industry is either in its final death throws or in some awkward puberty like transition, either way the cocaine snorting, extra marital affair having corporate titans of industry have seen better days. How does that relate to smaller bands and kick starters? Well...the original kickstarter was the record industry. Only the approach was different then the kickstarter approach. With a record label, they saw an "artist" and saw potential for capital gain. If they invested in this artist, they would in return receive monetary gain by presenting you the consumer with a product they felt would get your feet swaying.

kickstarter is a request for you to give them a chance, a record contract is a calculated gamble that you will want to give this a chance. Same end game, different approach. We speak of this in relation to our recent record. We had every intention of recording this album, but we had no idea how it was going to be released, we threw around the idea of digital only and selling shirts at shows that came with downloads (digital/material sales is another blog, stay tuned if you want more rambling on that). Then along came two record labels from Phoenix AZ, Anxiety Machine and Man in Decline, who felt that this record should be pressed on vinyl and put up the capital to make this happen. This was a coup for Camp Seas will Rise, and also a micro version of kickstarter campaign (if you consider 6 dudes in an alley with 2 of those dudes actually having money and the other 4 being needy, yet broke "artists" a kickstarter like scenario)

So whats the point of all this? Yes, people paid to make your record, yes people pirate music, yes people make kickstarters for horrible projects, but your project is horrible as well so whats the fucking point?

Well...the point is. We understand that the economy sucks, we understand that everyone can't rope record labels into making them records, we understand that with the age of the Internet there are so many bands its impossible to not be constantly inundated with new material, we understand that complaining about people not paying for music is something dickheads do. We get all that, which is why we strived to make this record:

A) as accessible to you the consumer
B) not a complete monetary black hole for the party's involved.

The thing with independent small record labels, is not only are you supporting the people that kickstarted that band you enjoy, but allowing them extra capital to invest into more projects that you may also enjoy. Really a win/win...or a win/lose, but key word is win.

So onto the details
Disease is our refrain is available on colored vinyl w/ digital download from:
Anxiety Machine Records on "concrete" colored vinyl for $13 + S/h
Man in Decline Records on "bone" colored vinyl for $13 + s/h
From US on "Rust" colored vinyl for $13 + s/h

Not into buying vinyl/ More into instant gratification its available online from
itunes, amazon, mp3.com...essentially all the digital outlet stores.

AND additionally...in case you hate paying full price, you hate having your mp3 seamlessly integrate into your music player and or hate high marked up Ipads made in sweat shops, it is available at AUDIOSIEGE Media an imprint of Moshpit tragedy at a name your own price (as low as $3.99...as close to free as we can get it)

A quick site note about buying from these labels:
By purchasing it from Anxiety Machine you help a label that has released records by hardcore act gay kiss and poppy indie rock dudes ROAR so you can see where your investment is going, eclectic, DIY music across the board.

Man In decline is home of the melodic punk band Come On Die Young as well as a Raw Nerves/Acts of Sedition split if that paints a picture of the type of tunes you would be "kickstarting"

Audiosiege and moshpit tragedy have a full plate of aggressive music you can check out here

You buy from us you support our ability to record again, potentially drive to you and play you songs, or fix our broken gear.

So incredibly long story short, you have options, you have a price structure, hopefully we have given you enough choices to be content with your purchase decision or fodder to say fuck this jerks and steal this record. its all up to you, we don't judge...we only hope to facilitate.

Thanks.


Monday, March 12, 2012

Arizona Everywhere

We saw a lot of familiar faces and faces we have never scene but already knew. Arizona ex-patriots are in abundance from Portland down to LA and it was a pleasure meeting all of you, but above that, people that seemingly understand that pointless things can help make things seem better, emotionally, physically, sexually(?).

People hyped on the release of energy/anger/frustration/a shitty day/a shitty life or people just hyped to bang thy heads. We aren't shocked about this, we know you are out there, it was just nice to meet you. Share a moment in time with you, and salute you.

We kept a diary of sorts about the food we ate, but we could have easily done one about the coffee we drank, the trees we saw, the people we shared bread with or the talks we had as a band, just know whatever it is we did, we do in communion with you...so thank you.

Our little trip was awesome thank you to everyone who gave us a place to stay, an ear to bend and a good time to have:
: Larry Brough and Yayo Tacos, Gavin Hoffman Raunch Records, The Wax House, Jonathan (raw nerves) Brad Boatright Sesar and Teeph, Courtney Drant, Loren and Austin Candela, Daniel Trovillion, Corey Dieckman, the north hole, the know, death machine, old city, pageripper, Honduran, force hounds and the people of Chico, Idols Plaque for pounding the streets, heist for the same, Jesust , our families back home, Dominic Prime and Mark for putting out this record. Everyone else we forgot or fell in the margins, your not alone, we forget alot of things.

see you all soon.


Saturday, March 10, 2012

We on a food tour #8

LA CA
Astro Burger

So we made it thru the endless slaughter houses and piles of shit that is the central California I - 5 stretch that randomly takes you thru magic mountain. How lame of a pay out is that? And we ventured into the belly of the beast. First and foremost, LA gets alot of shit, alot of people dislike it, and those people are right. Sure, we have a lot of friends and know alot of decent people, we like moderate coastal climats, we like the ocean and errr other stuff....ROLLER COASTERS we like roller coasters. But essentially everything else about your over crowded dirty town sucks. We say that as nice as we can, because we consider you, a fellow modern car based city in arms and want to spend more time with you, learn to love you like you love yourself, but man you make it so hard.

So here is some sucky food

Chads Hamburger
Coreys Vegan Chili Fries and veggie pepperoni sandwich



Well its been fun, hope you enjoyed the food pics and my train of thought

Stay Pissed poseurs

Thursday, March 8, 2012

We on a food tour #7



Chico California
Drank too much ate dominos, eat shit.

Sacramento CA
Chad had the best Rueben had EVER HAD. We had grilled cheese that was decent and drank alot of beers that were expensive.


The shining jewel of Sacramento is Insight Coffee. KISS: Keep it simple stupid. The menu has 5 items, its great coffee, roasted beans in house, don't want to bag on stumptown, but this place was hands down the best coffee on this trip. Plus you can buy beans by the OZ, not just the lbs. So like yeah, very cool.

Sacramento is a very cool town, very reminiscent of our native salt river valley in its a capital, its got big buildings, and its got decent solid people.

Ugggmmmmm.....well. Thats it

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

We on a food tour #5

Portland Oregon
Sizzle Pie
Voodoo Donuts
Stumptown Coffee

First and foremost, Portland is an incredible place of endless bars and awesome restaurants. The US Geological survey needs to do something about making it not so damn far north, Perhaps move it to Reno, just pick up the rivers and trees and old dirty town and drop it on top of Reno, I think all citizens of the United States would benefit greatly from this. Newt, if your reading, you can still take this election if you run on this platform...just throwing it out there.

So, pizza. Sizzle Pie Uber Alles. Good goddamn jesus christ on a cross dripping pools of marinara sauce from his open stigmata wounds onto a buttery crust of delicious pizza.

Eating at this place made me want to put the owners of every single other pizza place in a headlock and ram there foreheads into the side of a brick building. How hard is it to order veggie faux meat options and have a vegan, veggie and meat menu...apparently not very at all. So why don't you EVERY ONE ELSE!!!

Pussys thats why. Death to false pizza!

the Steve Caballero (vegan pepperoni, seitan spicy sausage, onions, cheese, green peppers cheese)

Rainbow Donuts, we heard was all hype, nope, its all delicious donuts and David will fight any one that says other wise. We didn't even mean to go there, but it called to us from a far


Stumptown coffee was weak and burnt tasting, maybe it was a shitty barista (ask tyler king about the per capita of barristas and dish washers in Portland) We were going to take you on the road with us, stumptown, but we were priced out of your coffee beans ($60 Peaberry infused chocolate or something LBS was enticing)

We also had some tofu Vietnamese sammies and some other stuff, but we entered a food coma Chad has yet to recover from and are currently deciding if we should pull the plug or not, so gotta run

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

We on a food tour #4 (aka end me in portland)

Portland Oregon
Los Gorditos
Tiger Something
Tecmo Bowl Burrito

We are short on time, so lets just say this. Portland, you are amazing. Why in the world does every restaurant have a vegan option, because your awesome. Seriously, what the fuck...Thank you!

Oh and chad wants to know why there is such a high up charge on guacamole in Portland, is it because the distance the avocado has to travel? Is it because Portland has no sales tax, thus the taco industry is trying to get there's some how? Or is it because he ordered two burritos when he was trying to just add quac to an existing burrito? The world might never know.

Fajita Fury Burrito

Soyrizo burrito
Rueben

Sunday, March 4, 2012

We on a food tour #3

Salt Lake City Utah
Vertical Diner (again)

This place is so incredible good it has to be eaten twice, or so I am told. A real test of a place for me is breakfast. I consider myself the Master of Breakfast, so a good breakfast place really has to knock my socks off. Other then being the most important meal of the day, it is the best, you can go anyway and not fail with breakfast. Greek...yep, southwestern, yep, simple, sure, complex and over the top...of course. Breakfast flat out rules the food world.
Chad tore into Tofu scramble, cali garden paddy, horizontal chili, biscuits and gravy. Shining example of the versatility of breakfast, fucking chilli makes an appearance. I have never been hyped on a tofu scramble not made by myself, so hopefully this place comes correct, which I have a feeling they do.

david expanded his waste with biscuits and gravy, hashbrowns, tofu scramble, portebello mushrooms, red anti green salsa (?) and the best tap water he ever had. If you are reading this and from Phoenix and never been ANY where else, some places have legit tap water. Imagine that!
Eric ordered Same as davey only with a sausage biscuit.
I need to get to SLC to try this place, as do we all!
One of the most exciting times in random restaurant going to for me was in Inglewood California (home of the Great Western Forum, Fuck the Lakers) Went to some random diner next to a Nation of Islam church or masque or whatever the shit they call them and a southern baptist church. Thank you 5% for your weird juxtapose of ancient text and random traditional African practices, because this diner did not serve pork, but instead used morning star veggie sausage Patty's. Same with the gravy, this place was off the proverbial hook. And I went in expecting to eat a shitty waffle and be pissed the lakers won so many championships in the zip code I was in.

See You in Idaho Falls (again)
The Lakers Suck

Saturday, March 3, 2012

We on a food tour #2

Salt Lake City Utah

So...the
exploratory committee first wave occupational unit (the 3/4th of Seas Will Rise currently out posted somewhere between Salt Lake City and Idaho Falls Idaho) took this food tour blog to a level worthy of a zagats reviewer. If that zagats reviewer was a 30 something unwashed dude fueled by coffee and the call of the wild. What I am getting at here is the level of food that was dispatched to the western front was ridiculous
Incredibly quick pre amble, Vertical Diner got a top ten faux chicken on 2009 from PETA magazine. The restaurant is 100 percent vegetarian and buys local and organic ingredients whenever possible. I can get on board with all of this. And a quick once over of the menu, place looks priced about right. Lets see the goods:

Eric had a jerk Chicken burrito
I am assuming its tasty, the potato's look good. Quick tangent about vegetarian faux meat dishes. At least in my experience, eating faux meat entrees is like a 3 times a month ordeal, vegetarians aren't sitting around wishing they can eat a chicken sandwich everyday. So, like when you have a coca cola (Mexican, cane sugar uber alles) once a month, so when you do drink it, it is amazingly good as opposed to a steady diet of modified high fructose corn syrup all day every day. Same with faux meat, its breaks up the monotony and adds some spice to life, but is not an essential diet staple.

Another quick tangent, look at the cultures that have the "best" vegetarian foods: Hispanic, Asian: Indian/Thai/Chinese. These cultures diets are not focused around the plentifulness of meat. Look at Mexico, traditionally, beef was not available, ever. Sometimes pork was, but mostly chicken, if there was any meat at all. Thus the need to develop making "boring" fruits and veggies taste great. If your diet is mostly corn, beans and tomato, then you best make those ingredients taste amazing. Same flys for the asian cultures only add religious sentiments.

David had the american dinner
According to the menu: Choice of hand cut fries, mashed potatoes or hashbrowns smothered with gravy topped with fried chicken. As a person who never really thought about making gravy, it was always a meat eaters thing, until I recently started making gravy based dishes, I am shitting My pants while simultaneous high fiving the air. This shit sounds tasty and patriotic.

Davey topped it off with this gem. A chocolate peanut butter brownie with homemade chocolate syrup and extra peanut butter. I think that description sums this up.
This is what Chad got, he didn't say what it was but he did say "nom" being he isn't a 13 year old girl or asian anime character I am going to just post a picture and end it at that.


So...moral of the story is, make good food, eat good food, if your an omnivore who choose to eat the meat side of the omni, try some of these type of restaurants out, if your a veggie, frequent places like this, keep them around, especially once that buy local and organic as much as humanly possible, the fate of the world is on your shoulders.

See you in Idaho Falls.

We on a food tour #1

The Seas Will Rise regional food critic and taco enthusiast tactic assault and recovery task force has set off on a sojourn of personal and pallet enlightenment. We bring with us a bias towards awesome tamales, burritos and tacos from our Sonoran desert stronghold. Also 3/4ths of us refrain from eating the brutally acquired flesh of animals (we are ovo-lacto vegetarians, but the pope was a NAZI so no one is perfect right?) The 1/4th who chooses to clog his coronary arteries and pad the wallets of factory farms will not have a deciding vote on this quest for for food, so take heart that all these will be vegetarian dishes. We are in a dodge van traveling up from Arizona thru zion, thru the snake river valley into neverland down the gold coast and back thru the city of angels. We bring forks and empty stomachs (and hearts). The idea of a tour food blog is neither novel or generally exciting, but neither is downtuned hardcore, so either turn back or come along with us.

(editors note, listen to A Tribe Called Quests "Award Tour" and tell us it doesn't sound like they are saying "food tour"...really...well we think it does.)

Las Vegas Nevada


FULL DISCLOSURE: Corey, the author, was not here, and is working off how the food looks from dispatches from the front.

Yayo Taco is apparently in some half empty strip mall that all western US citys are blighted with. I am sure there is a nail salon, a $1 store, maybe a water and ice store. Doesn't matter, good tacos are good tacos, and from the looks of this plate and erics correspondence of "holy fucking shit these tacos were awesome" this place isn't messing around. PLUS they host aggressive music concert events, which is rad. This is the 2nd taco shop Seas Will Rise has played (the first being Tacos Locos in Flagstaff when we were still referring to ourselves as CAGEMATCH) That place was passable to mildly decent, but all food in flagstaff is, sans Primos Hotdogs because that place is off the grid.

If Corey had been on this trip he would have politicked HARD for a capprotis sandwiches stop, which would have probably not been as refreshing and different as the Yayo experience (you know what yayo is? ask E-40 )

Anyhow, see you dorks in Salt Lake.
Stay Hungry.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Stay Pissed

We as a band are a collection of the most "normal" jerks you can assemble. We have mortgagees, children, wives, college degrees, car payments, pets, the complete domestic spread. We are school teachers, finical auditors, warehouse clerks. We work 9-5 monday thru friday for established corporate entities and come home and share dinner with our loved ones then rinse and repeat.

Often, and this may be the case for all members of downtuned hardcore bands, we aren't sure, our extra curricular music entities are discovered by co-workers. This is more often then not awkward, as most often they ask what kind of music you play and for a 30 + year old to say punk rock you get a giggle and smirk. They picture adolescent kids with mo hawks and ask "...so like blink-182?"

We don't expect them to understand, because they never have and never will. But it brings up an interesting dichotomy. Playing punk rock is to the masses scene as a juvenile thing, and in a large way punk is a juvenile tool of expressing anger and frustration, something teen agers are full of. But its also much more then that to many people. It shaped our lives, thru the outlet, thru the ideas, thru the community and thru the exposure to much more then we would have received by listening to a Collective Soul record.

We feel there is something predisposed in a person to be initially drawn to the misfit and deviant culture of punk rock, of skateboarding, of heavy metal, of hip hop of the "sub genres" of our youth (and today). There wasn't much glamorous about being called a dirt head, a loser, an outcast. But there was that draw, that spark that drew us to it. It various upon personal experience, be it the angst of broken homes, the anger of feeling left out, the hunger to want to create and encourage a community of like minded losers and outcasts brought us all together.

Then you grow up. You go to college or you get a job, or you do both, you date and you meet new friends, you change the way you dress, you act "older" and alot of the ideals you had when you were younger don't seem as important. Or you feel you need to make them less important because you don't want to be wearing a crass shirt in a sea of sport coats. Thats fine. Crass shirts and drinking malt liquor in parking lots is all auxiliary to the original spark (unless wearing crass shirts and drinking was what excited you about "counter culture" then in that case your probally a poseur. Not shame, just sayin')

Having a career, having a family, dressing like everyone else, isn't a resignation of the anger and frustration that brought you to this music. You are still that person who questioned authority, who didn't fit in, who felt like screaming at the top of there lungs about anything and everything. Only now your a more potent weapon of change. Your a real cog in a wheel, and you can help shift the tides. You have more of a vote if your a person with a career, you vote with your money, you decide whats fucked up and whats not with your monetary support. Instead of screaming anarchy, you can actually choose to no longer support slave labor by shopping else where. You can vote, you say hey, your policy's suck and fuck you your not getting my vote. You can choose to not support companies that support candidate that you feel suck. You can choose stand up unfairness in your work place, hell if your a boss you can choose to treat your employees fair, you can change the way you look, change the way you approach your day you can do whatever you want, and you can do it all with the same convictions that brought you to this place to begin with.

Doesn't matter how old, how happy, how well adjusted you are, you can always stay pissed. Because nothing is ever ok, no one where is ever perfect, things are always fucked, and its your duties as a conscious living breathing person to fight for that in any way you can, for as long as you can.

Your never to old, stay pissed.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Search Engine Overload

We got an amazing review by the head bangers at Hellride Music.
http://www.hellridemusicforums.com/forum/showthread.php?p=405177#post405177

Needless to say, we want to buy this fellow a 3 foot party sub or something, but his enjoyment of our music is gift enough (the pleasures all yours).

But seriously, it really reinforces our ideas and commitment to this band and this music when people are picking up what we are putting down. We can get into a long winded bullshit tangent about the creative process and the artists vision and all that, but lets break it down like this:

When we hunkered down to record this album and when we were making these songs, it was in relative isolation. We played these songs a billion times, got into our heads about them and they are totally different beasts to us then what it initially sounds like to you. Hell they are different beasts then when we started them. So its really refreshing that we did convey what we set out to do and nothing was lost in translation. Our mission has been the whole time to get you to smash your cubicle and throw a water cooler thru the break room window. So if you tap your toes to one of our songs, we are 20% on our way.

So on that note, where is a link to an exclusive stream of the opening track,
http://www.metalsucks.net/2012/02/07/a-sleepers-cell-by-seas-will-rise-a-metalsucks-exclusive-music-debut/

Friday, February 3, 2012

Record Release Show

The flier below was done by Gregory Allen Colson, who plays in the band rituals, who have a menacing, haunting, doom sound that is spooky and punishing all in one swoop. You should get familiar with this band as soon as possible. Their new record sounds great.
This show features our friends Lago who have been wearing gauntlets as long as we have (and by gauntlets we mean they have been playing in the Phoenix area as long as we have, but Cole does wear a gauntlet) They do a HIS HERO IS GONE cover, so get into that.

Tomorrow We Disappear is a post rock band more in the indie vein, but fit the bill. We listen to the full gambit of music, so if you can bring the pain with a harmonic we will back you (not that they play harmonica, but if they did!) Eric and Chad played with members of this band in Roman Arms, which was a band Corey was into after the demise, if that means anything to you. I mean he has 127 twitter followers, so it probably should.

Godawfullnoise bring grindcore and we feel that speaks for its self. Right!

The man in decline records distro will be on hand for this show, so now you can pick up that deluxe version of Metallicas St Anger you always wanted to buy as a gag gift.

Stay Pissed you chickenshits, its all we have to hold on to.