MINDLESS 7"

mentioned in a previous post about doing the art and printing for some limited tour edition covers of the new MINDLESS 'planet of pestilence' 7". austin based grind/hardcore featuring faiza k, formerly of HATRED SURGE, FAITHEALER, etc. not sure if i mentioned then, but i also did the art and layout for the regular edition. been a little slow keeping up, but the official release dropped and i got some copies in from the label. you can stream this and other releases on the MINDLESS bandcamp and order physical copies from the TO LIVE A LIE RECORDS label site.

FAR OUT tshirts

relatively new to playing out live, but a while in the making, FAR OUT is a new audio output by some friends out of houston. too pop to be punk, too rock to be pop, they're a hard group to categorize. but whatever it is they're doing, they're doing it right. as i understand it lacquers have already been approved and cover art shot for their upcoming 12". alex had dann miller come up with this tshirt design (based off the lace painting art of mark flood) and asked me to print some for them. as of right now they're still keeping things a little close to the chest until the album gets closer to the front of the queue at the pressing plant - no webstore and no song samples online. but highly recommended if anyone in the houston area gets the chance to catch them live.

NOT DEAD YET FEST poster

put together this poster for the IRON LUNG/ANASAZI/GLUE/COLUMN OF HEAVEN/ANIMAL MOTHER/FARANG show during NOT DEAD YET FEST in toronto. tried to keep with some of the previous stark, bold iron lung visual output without losing my own voice. also thought with so much going over those handful of days, a slightly cleaner poster might be beneficial. click the link for full lineups, dates, and locations for the rest of the shows during the fest.

HOLLOW TONGUE 'TIME/DEATH' 7"

recently finished the art and layout for the new HOLLOW TONGUE 'time/death' 7". this is the second time working with CROWN AND THRONE LTD, having done the limited covers for the TERRITORY 7" they put out as well. the label is on point with keeping a pretty tight schedule based on the turnaround time between finished art and physical records on the street. really enjoyed this project because garth is a great guy to work with and i've really like everything HOLLOW TONGUE has put out thus far. instead of a traditional cover they wanted to go with a two-sided poster style fold out, which i think ended up making for a nice presentation in hand. the band already had their sigil style logo, but i handled all the rest of the lettering. record comes in a handful of variants - test press, standard black vinyl, grey marble vinyl, and a limited clear blue vinyl with limited cover. i'm not sure who did the art for the ltd cover version, but i'm fairly certain they were screen printed by HOLY MOUNTAIN. available now through the band directly as well as the label. click photos for an enlarged/detail view.

CSD 2014

as mentioned previously, we dropped the ball in respect to our own label involvement with cassette store day. but that doesn't mean we didn't still attend. picked up this terence hannum tape/catalog that i was fairly certain had sold out in 2012. and rounded out my godflesh collection, having previously only owned 'songs of love and hate' on cd. i guess none of these were CSD specific titles, but tapes were purchased either way.
in an unrelated note i started a new instagram account for anyone that might like their media more social. it isn't sisster ssound specific, but a catalog of records that for one reason or another remain on my shelf. mostly second and third tier '90s and early 2000s metalcore. might slip a banger in every once in a while. @still.holding

swings and misses

never let it be said that sisster ssound as a label is anything short of a professional operation. or in the very least self aware. as we all know, this past saturday was the third(?) annual cassette store day - offshoot of the wildly popular record store day. in an attempt to cash in our ticket to the party boat we'd scheduled a tshirt and two new secret tape releases. secret because, knowing our own track record with meeting release deadlines, we never announced a CSD drop in fear that the product wouldn't be ready on time. the smaller irony being that they would still be available only in the webstore - a sharp contrast to the purpose of cassette store day in the first place. as the fates would have it, we weren't ready. didn't get the final tracks in time for the first tape. and the second, a scheduled live recording, didn't get a usable capture and said band didn't have any additional shows booked to re-attempt recording. incidentally we weren't happy with the sample from the first print run of tshirts either. but we will not be thwarted! intentions remain and as we get closer to actuality details will be made available on these new tees and tapes.

omm

was listening to xasthur and lurker of chalice today and remembered this exists. say what you will, or, rather, don't.