Thursday, October 9, 2008 Absolute Punk is hosting a contest titled Do You Heart Cunt? In keeping with our moniker, Absolute Punk is asking fans to make their own I Heart Cunt logo and send it to iheartcunt@ferretstyle.com using whatever medium you want from crayons, finger paint, cut up magazines. The best entry in each tour market will receive 2 guest list spots for you and a friend to our show on the upcoming tour with IWrestledABearOnce. For our show in Grand Rapids, MI there is a special contest. For that contest go to our MySpace Profile and listen to the song Dedication To A New Era and write down their interpretation of the lyrics (send to iheartcunt@ferretstyle.com), the winner will receive 2 guest list spots to the show for you and a friend, a limited edition rainbow splatter vinyl, a poster and a t-shirt. HERE ARE THE TOUR DATES! 10.14 | The Modern Exchange - Southgate, Michigan 10.15 | Skelletones - Grand Rapids, Michigan 10.16 | Beat Kitchen - Chicago, Illinois 10.17 | Boney Junes - Evansville, Indiana 10.18 | Hitts - Herrin, Illinois 10.19 | The Muse - Nashville, Tennessee 10.20 | The Keswick's Democratic Club - Louisville, Kentucky 10.21 | Club Octane - Charleroi, Pennsylvania 10.22 | Champion Ship - Lemoyne, Pennsylvania 10.23 | The Mainstage - Pompton Lakes, New Jersey 10.24 | The Bowery Poetry Club - New York, New York 10.25 | The Vibe Lounge - Rockville Centre, New York 10.26 | Club Diablo - Buffalo, New York 10.27 | Pirates Cove - Cleveland, Ohio 10.28 | Macs Bar - Lansing, Michigan Saturday, September 26, 2008 INTERVALS REVIEWS | underthegunreview.net We wanted to send it a huge thank you to everyone who took their time to make a video for this, they were all awesome to watch! The time has come to announce the winners, though, and as hard as it was to narrow it down we've chosen our 3. Congratulations to Mike Conner for his first place entry, he'll be receiving a copy of Intervals and the limited edition shirt that accompanies it. Brady Cornett and Ben Connell will also receive copies of Intervals. FIRST PLACE - Mike Cotter SECOND PLACE - Ben Connell Intervals Promo from neb iskavak on Vimeo. SECOND PLACE - Brady Cornett For the rest of you, it's not too late to win free stuff from us! We'll be announcing another contest very soon. Saturday, September 20, 2008 INTERVALS REVIEWS | underthegunreview.net I've been told by countless relatives and friends that I listen to "noise". Despite what anyone else has told me, I do not fail to see the beauty in the frantic art that is the grindcore genre. With that in mind, as far as grindcore is concerned: See You Next Tuesday is Da Vinci and Intervals is the Mona Lisa. Intervals is SYNT's second album, the first being Parasite. One of the best things about Parasite was its almost schizophrenic song structure; songs jumping all over the place in tempo and sound. Parasite didn't really have a central theme (as most of the songs were well established before Fox even got involved with the band) and there seemingly was no method to the madness. This isn't a bad thing though, I love Parasite and so do thousands of other people. On Intervals however, it's a whole different story. Intervals is about time. I didn't need to talk to the band to figure that out (although we did talk to them). One of the first things I noticed when listening to this album is that the music didn't just jump in to a breakdown. No, on this record, the music just naturally slowed down and sped up between brutal sludge breakdowns and frantic assaults of blastbeats and pick sweeps. There is a good example of this is the second track on the album "In The End". The song starts out really slow and just speeds up each time the verse riff repeats. It really sets the tone of the whole album. It was evident early on that this was a much more mature See You Next Tuesday then I could have ever imagined seeing. The production quality on Intervals is a lot better than most of the bands in SYNT's genre. For starters, it is stunning how amazing the drums sound. It's honestly one of the best sounding drum tracks on an album I've ever heard. The vocals stand out just as much as they should and don't overpower Drew's amazing guitar work. The album has a very live feel to it, but not so much that it sounds muddy. Something else that really surprised me about Intervals was the amount of ambient noises used in the background. Drew really explored all the different sounds you can get to come out of a guitar and put them all to good use. Here's the best part: they pull this off perfectly live. Drew runs his guitar up and down his amp to get feedback and string noises which adds a whole new level of awesome to an already amazing live act. Seriously, even if you hate the music, check them out when they come to your town, it's worth the sight. SYNT's raw energy and stage presence is unrivaled in my book. I can't get over how much I love this album. Ask James, he's sick of me talking about it. It's a masterpiece of music and the start of a new, fully realized See You Next Tuesday. It's everything I wanted in a good experimental deathgrind album, and a great sophomore release from an under-appreciated band. This is hands down, my pick for best album of 2008. *Written By: Justin Proper* GRADE: 9.8/10 Monday, September 15, 2008 VINYL PRE-ORDERS NOW AVAILABLE! 10.14.08 PRE-ORDER Clear w/ Rainbow Swirl Colored LP $15 - HERE! PER-ORDER Picture Disc (Clock Face) LP $20 - HERE! All vinyl will be hand numbered, and first of 50 of each pressing will be reserved for pre-orders only!! SO PRE-OREDER NOW!!! GRADE: 9.8/10 Friday, September 12, 2008 INTERVALS REVIEW | kronosmortus.hu (hungry) On this record the total chaos is being created. It could be that 17 tracks are on the disc, but these guys doesn't need a long time to deal with the songs. The intro of the Nascence is starts with a brutal discordance, which makes us think that nothing was coincidence during the recording. This suppressed aggression is getting stonger in 'In the End' and blows up in 'The Life in Death' and from that time all tracks burns. To describe the music I must say that it's a deeply depressive, chatartic, aggressive-experimental, discord grindcore / hardcore stuff and I have not mentioned everything. It is a hate mass and if someone would free it to the world, it'd rut. The previous stuff was more like 'deathcore', but this time it uses different powers. It's stodgy, not so pop, but drives people crazy. The darkness, massivness and the discordance is peculiar to the whole record. No one would think from the looks of these guys, that they can commit such a music. I could mention as an influence the Coalesce, since it's really that tough. Maybe the fancy fashion fellas won't like the new tunes, altough it contains a lot moshable parts, but as I said in an alternative way. After songs like 'Dedication to a new Era' everything falls into ruin. Since the about 25-30 minutes long record is incredibly harsh –for some of the listeners plesure- it's quite enough. Personally it makes me listen to it all over again, because of the huge energy of this 17 tracks. The last album called 'Parasite' came out in 2007 so they didn't take their time to creat the theme. In October every fan and listener can gather the latest See You Next Tuesday disc, which was recorded by Dan Kenny and John Cinotta –who has worked with bands like This is Hell or Suffocation-. The mastering happened in Scott Hull's (Pig Destroyer, Agraphobic Noisebleed) studio. The band declared of the CD, that they had worked more together than last time. The guitarist Drew said he was listening to screamo when he played and made up the songs, but what they do is not screamo, just has a lot influences. The Intervals could be a great guide to a bunch of bands. It's also noticeable that the group from Michigan used different tuning, but they told that as well. The sounding is great, much more dirty then the previous one. In the beginings they shared stage with bands like Despised Icon and Acaica Strain what for they can thank their manager's attention. In the last few years they toured a lot in the company of The Banner, Elysia, Knights Of The Abyss, Beneath The Massacre, Born Of Osiris or the Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza. At the moment they are in Europe and we hope that next year these serious guys will visit us as well. Saturday, September 06, 2008 INTERVALS REVIEW | metalsucks.net When pimply fat dudes handed the keys to grindcore over to skinny kids with tight pants and funny haircuts that didn't like emo, things got a little weird. Suddenly every town with a metal scene started spouting bands with sentence-long band names that played nothing but brief, hugely dissonant walls of sound. And while this resulted in some interesting output, it quickly devolved into what most scenes devolve into - kids who have no idea how to play music associating themselves with avant-grindcore for something to do and to be noticed. And even though this brand of heavy is hard to listen to for sustained periods of time, due in part to its design but also the fact that the genre's shittiest bands are clearly making noise to mask the fact that they don't know how to write songs, the better bands know how to jostle grindcore's carcass and find new places on which to feast. Through just 30 unnerving minutes, Intervals, the latest by See You Next Tuesday, manages to tear you asunder by being both low and lumbering and fast and precise, always in eerily perfect portions. To be honest, the only way to tell these songs apart is to watch the tracks change as the album plays. Intervals is a miasma of jagged highs and earth-splitting lows, propelled by tempos usually only blazingly fast or a notch above a drone. While there's barely a melody to be found on the album, the production is pristine enough to make every part clear, revealing rare spurts of rich guitar work before quickly shifting back into a prickly mess of pins-and-needles shrieking above a torrent of blast beats. The thing that makes See You Next Tuesday exceptional, much like their brethren/godfathers Animosity or Pig Destroyer, is the know-how to occasionally fall into a midtempo groove (best observed on "Forever on Deaf Ears"), providing a semi-brief moment of ease and clarity before being dropped back to the wolves. But there are no moments of ease on Intervals - just moments of edgy calm, with the knowledge that the fiercest blow lays at the end of that soft passage. Though it's certainly hundreds of thousands of miles from a Chevelle record, there's still some parts to grab on to and savor on Intervals, making it a prime example of a grind record worth returning to. And this is by no means a small feat; See You Next Tuesday certainly push hard toward the unlistenable end of the spectrum more often than not, subtly reshaping what was once thought unsuitable. But the more digestible parts are by no means dirges into clean singing or clear-the-floor breakdowns. In fact, "Dedication to a New Era" is essentially one long breakdown, but never once feels like a nod to the nautical-starred mosh kids in the crowd. It just feels like another pulsating slowness to remind you of the blistering speed they're are capable of. For a band too concerned with getting shows to call themselves Cunt (or perhaps too nervous about the wrath of one of the other numerous bands called Cunt), Intervals is a goddamn behemoth that reminds us of the gnarl and ferocity of which metal is still entirely capable. (4 out of 5 horns) -SO PREORDER INTERVALS NOW!