| 2008-07-07 | New Song Up Each Day Till Album Release | We'll be putting up a song for streaming from our new album "Disgorge Mexico" on our myspace page: www.myspace.com/fuckthefacts ...up each day till the albums release on July 22nd (North America).
Here's the track listing with the corresponding dates:
July 7 – Borders
Disgorge Mexico will be released July 22nd (North America) & July 28th (internationally) via Relapse Records. |
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| 2008-07-04 | Western Canadian Tour Video - Part 1 | Check out Part 1 of our Western Canadian Tour Video. It was filmed last month during our 2 week tour with Neuraxis & Gross Misconduct.
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| 2008-07-03 | Free CD Release show - August 2nd | We’ll be doing a free CD release show in our home town on Saturday, August 2nd @ Le Petite Chicago (in Hull). We’ll be playing the entire new album “Disgorge Mexico” from beginning to end.
FUCK THE FACTS - Disgorge Mexico CD Release show |
| 2008-06-30 | Another New Song Posted: Apathy Is A Karma Killer | Just put up another song from our new full length album Disgorge Mexico on our myspace page: myspace.com/fuckthefacts. Check out Apathy Is A Karma Killer.
Disgorge Mexico is now available for pre-order from Relapse Records. Not only can you pre-order the CD, but you can also pre-order the CD & new "Disgorge Mexico" t-shirt combo for a super low price. Here's the links for pre-order.
Pre-order Fuck The Facts "Disgorge Mexico" CD
Pre-order Fuck The Facts "Disgorge Mexico" CD & T-Shirt Disgorge Mexico will be released July 22nd (North America) & July 28th (internationally) via Relapse Records. |
| 2008-06-28 | Live Victoria Videos & Abbotsford Photos | Some folks have sent us pictures and posted videos from our last tour with Neuraxis & Gross Misconduct a couple of weeks ago. If that shit interests you, check it out here:
“La Derniere Image” Live in Victoria, BC (June 11th 2008) - CLICK HERE “The Wrecking” Live in Victoria, BC (June 11th 2008) - CLICK HERE |
| 2008-06-25 | Full US tour w/ Psyopus, War From A Harlots Mouth & Left To Vanish | Hello United States of Americans! We are gonna be coming back your way for a full US tour running from August 18 – September 15, as part of the "Grinding Into Cataclysm" tour with PSYOPUS, WAR FROM A HARLOTS MOUTH & LEFT TO VANISH.
This will be our first US tour in over a year and our first full US tour in almost 2 years. We'll also be pushing our new album "Disgorge Mexico" which will see US release July 22nd. So buy that shit, memorize it and make us feel bad if we fuck something up live. Tour dates are as follows:
GRINDING INTO CATACLYSM TOUR
8/18 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory |
| 2008-06-24 | Thanks For Nothing Black Metal T-Shirts & Zip-Ups Now Available For Order! | The "Thanks For Nothing Black Metal" t-shirts and zip-ups are now available for order on-line. We have every size from Small – XXL in the t-shirt, but only XXL left in the zip-up. T-shirts are $18 (postage included) & zip-ups $40 (postage included). Simply go the merch section: FTF MERCH
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| 2008-06-21 | 2 new songs posted & Disgorge Mexico pre-order available! | Hey folks! We just got back from our western Canadian tour with Neuraxis & Gross Misconduct. Great times were had and we have plenty of photos and video from the tour that we’ll try and get around to posting in the near future.
I’ve just uploaded 2 songs from our new full length album “Disgorge Mexico” onto our myspace page. Check out “Absence And Despite” & “The Storm”, and keep an eye out for more songs to be posted in the near future. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN Disgorge Mexico is now also available for pre-order from Relapse Records. Not only can you pre-order the CD, but you can also pre-order the CD & new “Disgorge Mexico” t-shirt combo for a super low price. Here’s the links for pre-order.
Pre-order Fuck The Facts “Disgorge Mexico” CD:
Pre-order Fuck The Facts “Disgorge Mexico” CD & T-Shirt: Disgorge Mexico will be released July 22nd (North America) & July 28th (internationally) via Relapse Records. |
| 2008-06-12 | DISGORGE MEXICO cover art | We've just uploaded the cover of our new album DISGORGE MEXICO. You can check it out here. CLICK TO VIEW COVER
DISGORGE MEXICO will be released July 22nd (North America) July 28th (Internationally) via Relapse Records. |
| 2008-06-04 | Thanks For Nothing Black Metal T-Shirts available on tour! | We got some new t-shirts just in time for tour! Come to one of our western Canadian tour dates and buy yourself a Fuck The Facts "Thanks For Nothing Black Metal" T-Shirt for just $12. All size from Small to XXL are available and we have girl shirts and spags of it as well. We'll be putting these up for on-line sale when we get back.
See the design here: THANKS FOR NOTHING BLACK METAL T-SHIRT DESIGN |
| 2008-06-03 | Neuraxis / Fuck The Facts / Gross Misconduct - Western Canadian Tour starts tomorrow! | We’re leaving on our western Canadian tour with Neuraxis & Gross Misconduct tomorrow… Here’s the final list of dates.
Neuraxis / Fuck The Facts / Gross Misconduct - Western Canadian Tour
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| 2008-05-30 | The Making of DISGORGE MEXICO Studio video | You can check out a small behind the scenes video of us in the studio recording our new album “Disgorge Mexico”. The footage was shot Aug 6 – 17 2007 @ Liverpool Court Studios in Ottawa, ON, Canada. This is where we recorded all the drums, bass and guitars for the album with producer/engineer Craig Boychuk.
Watch the video here: The Making of DISGORGE MEXICO video DISGORGE MEXICO will see release July 22nd (North America) & July 28th (internationally) via Relapse Records. |
| 2008-05-27 | Disgorge Mexico Studio Photos | Just put up some pictures from the recording sessions of our new album "Disgorge Mexico". All the music for the album was tracked back in August 2007 from the 6th – the 17th @ Liverpool Court Studios in Ottawa, Ontario with producer/engineer Craig Boychuk at the board. We later recorded the vocals in November 2007 at our own home studio. The album was mixed and mastered by Craig Boychuk in Winnipeg from December 2007 – March 2008.
You can view some pictures from the Liverpool Court sessions here:
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| 2008-05-25 | DISGORGE MEXICO Release Dates | The official release dates for the new Fuck The Facts album "Disgorge Mexico" have been confirmed.
"Disgorge Mexico" will be available in stores in North America on July 22nd and internationally on July 28th via Relapse Records. We'll make a post when pre-orders are available. In the meantime check out the mp3s "Vangorge" on our myspace player, which features modified audio samples from our pre-productions demos for "Disgorge Mexico" and the video "High Street" which also includes early stages audio from the album as well as some video filmed during our 2 week road trip to write the album. |
| 2008-05-24 | Radioactive Metal Audio Iinterview On-Line | Winnipeg's Radioactive Metal has posted their latest podcast (Under Dog Overkill #57), which includes a recent telephone interview with Fuck The Facts guitarist Topon Das. You can listen to the whole episode at this location:
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| 2008-05-21 | VANGORGE: Disgorge Mexico pre-production audio on-line | I just uploaded "Vangorge" to our myspace player. This track was created during our 14 day road trip to write our new album "Disgorge Mexico", using pre-production recordings we made at various stops along the way. Everything was recorded using a hand held tape recorder with a Tascam 4-track and mixed onto our modified van stereo 1-track recorder.
Though this is not a song that will appear on the new album, Vangorge still gives you a listen into the writing process of the new album as well as a distorted preview of some of the music that will be on "Disgorge Mexico". |
| 2008-05-15 | Radio Interview On-LIne | Hammer Smashed Radio (CKCU 93.1FM) has uploaded an interview with Topon Das and touring bassist Marc Bourgon, done back in March. The entire interview can be streamed at this location until May 20th: http://www.myspace.com/hammersmashedradio |
| 2008-05-13 | High Street video | High Street basically documents our 2 week road trip to write our new album "Disgorge Mexico" and includes film and audio from the trip, as well as some early stages recordings from the upcoming album.
High Street was created by David Hall (The guy that did our "The Sound Of Your Smashed Head" video), using all we gave him as well some of his own sights and sounds. |
| 2008-05-12 | Neuraxis / Fuck The Facts / Gross Misconduct - Western Canadian Tour | In June we'll be hitting the road with Neuraxis & Gross Misconduct for a 2 week run through Western Canada. We will be joined once again by ex-Tugnut bassist Marc Bourgon and the 2nd guitar spot will be filled by Jonathan Ibay (Drudgery, Partytank).
Galy Records and BW&BK presents: Neuraxis / Fuck The Facts / Gross Misconduct - Western Canadian Tour June 4 - Timmins, ON @ Victory Tavern * June 5 - Thunder Bay, ON @ Killroys ** June 6 - Winnipeg, MB @ The Zoo (18+) ** June 7 - Prince Albert, SK @ Exhibition Center ** June 8 - Calgary, AB @ The Underground June 9 - Kamloops, BC @ Chilli's June 10 - Abbotsford, BC @ McCallum Center June 11 - Victoria, BC @ Logan's June 12 - Vancouver, BC @ The Cobalt June 13 - Prince George, BC @ Columbus Community Center June 14 - Edmonton, AB @ Meadhall June 15 - Regina, SK @ The Exchange June 16 - Saskatoon, SK @ Walker's June 17 - Winnipeg, MB @ Rudolph Rocker Cultural Centre (AA) * June 18 - Fort Frances, ON @ TBA * * Fuck The Facts only | ** Neuraxis & Fuck The Facts only |
| 2008-05-07 | Disgorge Mexico road journal & medicated story telling… | Digging through all the crap that I horde, I stumble upon a whole bunch of items that I collected during the 2 week road trip to Mexico and back to write the new album. Though I remember my initial intentions were to write an actual journal, I wasn't in the right frame of mind to do it, so I basically ended with a whole bunch of random notes and drawing on various thing I picked up on the trip. I scanned everything that I found, which includes a list of work song titles, tab, photos, comics, pre-production notes and more drugged out ramblings. You can check it all out in our pictures on Myspace (in the "Disgorge Mexico Road Journal" album).
Also thought this would be a good time to re-post my written recollection of the pre-road trip story, as I wrote it back in September from my "rehab" facility in Victoria, BC. I don't actually remember writing it, but it's there, and now here it is: Day 1: Ghettno, QC (date unknown): Fuck The Facts aren't a bunch to cop out on contractual obligations, so we were more then surprised when 2 high powered lawyers and 3 muscle goons showed up at our house Monday evening. It turns out certain folks don't have much of an appreciation for our album "Keybored: Igloo Nation Of The Apocalypse", and after giving Vil a swift 15 minute beating we were handed papers with orders to complete a new album ASAP. Soon after the cavalry leave, Mel, Vil & I are left alone to pack Vil's wounds with frozen peas and contemplate the process we could under go to complete a new album under these circumstances. The idea of sticking around town and doing things the old-fashioned way was quickly dismissed and when Mel arrived at the living room table with a tray of vintage Mexican spice tea for everyone the answer became simple. "Mexico." I said, "We need to travel to Mexico, that's the only way we can write this album." "We can use our recording advance to fund the trip" followed Mel, holding the check which was still stained with Vil's blood in her hand. Ideas were shooting from everyone's mouth in quick secession and it all added up. We spent the next couple of hours packing our bags, limiting ourselves to only the most needed of materials; 2 milk crates of audio cassettes containing various jam and demo tapes with the riffs that would make this record, a Tascam 4-track recorder, a Radio Shack hand-held recorder, A 1987 Aria Pro 2 guitar with 4 strings and 5 broken tuning pegs, 14 obligatory black only band shirts and 17 bottles of the cheapest red wine you can buy. As I folded my Regurgitate t-shirt and placed it into the bag, I thought about what was to really happen. This journey would take us to distant places and make us see horrible things about ourselves that we might never recover from, I couldn't put Mel through this. I pleaded with her to stay home and work on the artwork and lyrical ideas while Vil and I get started on the first few songs and then we can rendezvous in Nashville once the worst has passed. Mel is insistent on coming with us, but once I remind her that the child she is carrying is the future of this band, she agrees to stay home. I give her a kiss on the forehead not knowing if I'll ever see again. After playing 365 shows in the past 285 days, our ridiculous nature has made it impossible for anything to work with the borders of reason; this album will probably kill us all or at least destroy the last shreds of sanity we're still left with. With the van packed, and after it takes 15 minutes to actually get it started, Vil and I drive off. I shed a tear thinking that these might be my last days, as we approach the liquor store where we can cash the recording advance and start our journey. Upon entering the store we are greeted by a Pakistani man with a thick Chinese accent, who is more then pleased to rip us off. "10% is mine!" he says with a sinister grin. "Look dude, this all we got to record our next album and this has to get us to Mexico or some bad people are going to break my drummers legs over there." I reply pointing to Vil, who is managing to sneak 2 large cans of Milwaukee Light into his pants. The man soon recognizes us as Fuck The Facts and turns to belittling us for a little while. "Ah, yes your last album "Stigmata High-Five" not so good. I will only take 5% then, in hopes that you can make something half-decent." We take his money , steal a few more beers and leave with a "thanks fuck-wad" and our middle fingers extended. The door closes behind us with a "Thank you, come again." Back in the van we open a couple of the beers and start to head towards the border at Ogdensburg. We have "Danzig 2: Lucifuge" cranked and are screaming along to "Tired Of Being Alive", with all the excitement I manage to barely swerve out of the way of a deer crossing the highway late at night. We recover quickly enough, but Vil turns to me and says, "Man, I think that deer was after Glen Benton from Deicide, we should stop him." We start laughing and Vil punches me in the face. We arrive at the border and do our best to look legit. It's about 1 am now, so there isn't much happening here, which gives them plenty of time to check us out. As I open my mouth to talk and hand over our passports, a tooth which Vil knocked loose falls out of my face. The border guard isn't impressed and orders us to pull over for inspection. We pull over, stumble out of the van and head into the border patrol office. The border office looks much different then how I remember it; the lights are very dim with small red spot lights in the top corners, incense is burning in the corner and on a tree perched in the middle of the room is an owl. Beside the owl stands a 7 foot black man wearing a Dillinger Escape Plan t-shirt, he motions us to come closer and tell us that he speaks for the owl. "I know why you are here." He says in a low voice. Uneasy about this whole situation I try and break the ice; "Look man, I already gave the guy at the gate our passports." I say. "I'm not here to discourage you, I am here to be your guide, bring you to your destination." The man says as the bird jumps on his shoulder. "You can not write this album without my help, your future is black and with my help you might survive the journey." We agree to follow the owl, because it doesn't seem like we have much of a choice, but before we go we have to watch the movie "Firewalker" starring Chuck Norris and Louis Gossett Jr., The movie really sucks but the black guy really seems to like it, so we're all smiles. We just want to get the fuck out of there. Soon after the movie is done the owl flies out the window, we high-five the dude get our passports and jump back in the van with extra motivation to get this fucker done. We'll be driving all night, so hopefully we can get some good shit done. Vil has already popped in a tape of riffs and is taking notes on what ones we can use. The tape sounds like shit and we only have one speaker, but like the saying goes; "When life gives you shit, make shit salad." or in our case another piece of Canadian Bastardized Grindcore. |
| 2008-05-02 | "Audio Tour Journal" Uploaded | Just to give you some background, I've uploaded to our Myspace player CLICK HERE the "Audio Tour Journal" from our last tour in June 2007, before we left to start writing our new album "Disgorge Mexico". Some of you might remember this being released before, back in the fall, when I put it up from my rehab facility in Victoria, BC. But I thought I should put it back up, cause it sets up well what's about to follow.
Though the Audio Tour Journal is 2 days in 6 parts, I've put all into one track. These recordings we're made on our modified van stereo, never mixed, with no additional processing. |
| 2008-04-24 | New album DISGORGE MEXICO – Track Listing & more… | If you were paying attention last summer/fall you might remember some rambling about a new Fuck The Facts album called "Disgorge Mexico". Well, this album does exist and should see release this summer on CD and LP via Relapse Records.
We recorded it in August of 2007 with Craig Boychuk at Liverpool Court Studios in Ottawa. The track listing is as follows:
0. Borders For those interested, here's the story of what basically happened at the FTF camp over the past year. We completed what we planned to be our last tour for "Stigmata High-Five" at the end of June 2007, a regional tour with Emeth and Heaps Of Dead. We came home and parted ways with our bass player Steve for reasons that aren't that uncommon of why bands and people split. A few weeks later we jumped back in the van and spent the next 2 weeks on a road trip to Mexico and back writing our new album, we made regular stops, staying with friends that let us jam in their basements, garages, stores, whatever… We came home with 15 new songs and spent another week or so fine tuning shit and getting ready to record. In August we enter Liverpool Court studios in Ottawa with our producer of choice Craig Boychuk at the board. We spend 11 days tracking our new full-length album which we had given the working title "Disgorge Mexico". I guess it could be many factors, but at this point we were pretty much burnt out as a band and as individuals. Mel had moved back to Montreal, and after the music was tracked for the album that was pretty much it. Mel was gone, I was pretty heavy into drinking and drugs, and Vil, being the tough kid he is did his best to keep things together. But we decided a break was in order, so Craig flew back to Winnipeg with our album and I flew to B.C. to drink, do as many drugs as possible and then eventually straightened myself out. We hadn't broken up, but we had no plans and even finishing the album at times didn't seem like it was gonna happen. It wasn't till October that we started talking to each other again. I was back home bored as fuck, Vil was bored and Mel was back in Ottawa with a new job, probably bored too. We got back into it slow and November recorded the vocals in my home studio, and shipped it off to Craig to mix and master the album in December. The process was long, not only sending mixes back and forth through the net but it seemed like we ran into every problem possible. During the mix of this album my dad, step father and grand father had all past away. It was an intense time and we had also started doing small tours in January that slowed shit down even more. Finally, in March everything was finished and we shipped the masters off to Relapse. So that's it… Our new album "Disgorge Mexico" is done, and we'll be posting mp3s from it, videos from the studio and road trip, and more soon. |
| 2008-04-15 | 2008 Band Photos | |
| 2008-04-05 | LAUDERDALE (featuring Fuck The Facts & Daiquiri members) – CD out now! | LAUDERDALE is a project featuring FUCK THE FACTS guitarist Topon Das, DAIQUIRI’s Leigh Newton on drums/electronics/vocals & David Hall (the man behind recent FTF and TODAY IS THE DAY videos) on bass/vocals.
The project began when all 3 were incarcerated in the Kingston Penitentiary back in 2005. Started as a work-release program, Lauderdale performed live twice and has now just recently released there first album under the title “Life’s A Beach”. The album as been released as a first pressing of 66 hand numbered copies created using penitentiary facilities.
Check out LAUDERDALE here: |
| 2008-03-30 | New Live Videos & Photos | We got a bunch of video and photos from our Canadian show with Today Is The Day & Complete Failure. Check 'em out...
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| 2008-03-22 | Today Is The Day, Fuck The Facts & Complete Failure shows start tomorrow! | TODAY IS THE DAY (Nashville, TN) FUCK THE FACTS (Ottawa, ON) COMPLETE FAILURE (Pittsburgh, PA)
Sunday, March 23rd: Montreal, Quebec @ Katacombes (1222 St. Laurent)
Monday, March 24th: Ottawa, Ontario @ The Rainbow Bistro (76 Murray St.)
Tuesday, March 25th: Hamilton, ON @ The Underground (41 Catherine St. N.)
Wednesday, March 26th: Toronto, ON @ The Reverb (651 Queen St. W.) |
| 2008-03-20 | ex-FTF Drummer starts DRUDGERY | Drudgery is the new band of original FTF drummer Matt Connell (also formally of Exhumed & Experiment In Terror), which also features members of Arise In Ruin & Dear Black Diary. This is some pretty grindtastic shit ya’ll should check out: http://www.myspace.com/drudgeryband |
| 2008-03-18 | Radio Interview Tonight | Fuck The Facts guitarist Topon Das and touring bassist Marc Bourgon (ex-Tugnut) will be guests on tonight’s (Tuesday, March 18th) episode of Hammer Smashed Radio, which airs 10PM to Midnight (EST) on CKCU 93.1FM if you live in the Ottawa area. You can also listen live on line here: http://www.ckcufm.com/listenlive.html |
| 2008-03-10 | Mel featured in "The Apparatus - Female Artists in Technical Music" | Well, we've once again managed to trick people into thinking 1) We're technical. & 2) That Mel is a girl. But we'll take what press we can get. You can read an article posted my webzine The Apparatus regarding "Female Artists in Technical Music" here: Click Here |
| 2008-02-20 | New Interview | Here's a new interview for you to sink your teeth into, that I recently did with Turkish Webzine; Extreminal. That is, if you can handle the "truth".
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| 2008-02-14 | Split 10" w/ The Crinn, World Downfall & Nesseria - Out Now! | Germany's IV Seasons Records has just released a 4-way split 10" vinyl record with us, The Crinn, World Downfall & Nessaria. The release is limited to 500 hand numbered copies and features our song "What's Left Behind" taken from the album "Stigmata High-Five".
Here's the official press release from the label: Be prepared for the second IVseasons records release, everyone. We are damn proud to announce that our second 4-way-split vinyl will contain the overwhelmingly brutal Canadian grindcore four-piece FUCK THE FACTS, the insane and impressively talented chaos core heroes THE CRINN from USA, Germany's top grindcore machine WORLD DOWNFALL and a major contribution from France to the convergish type of punkrock driven hardcore called NESSERIA. Each band is going to enrich your musical horizon since once again we've brought bands together that have the spirit of heavy music in common but a completely different way to express this spirit in their songs and thus do NOT sound the same. There is no more room for wanna-be's and rip-off's... period! To make sure you'll get your copy of this strictly limited record contact IVseasons records: IVseasonsRecords@aol.com Check the IVseasons records profile: www.myspace.com/fourseasonsrecords |
| 2008-02-08 | Hamilton Show Pics & Video | You can see some pictures from our January show in Hamilton, ON here: Hamilton Show Pics Here's some little video clips from our last show in Hamilton that have been posted courtesy of our friend Will from No Data. |
| 2008-01-26 | Legacy Of Hopelessness Girl Shirts | We have some "Legacy Of Hopelessness" Girl shirts (Spag and U shapes) left over from tour that we're now selling on-line.
We have S, M, L available in "Spag" and S available in "U". Visit our Merch Page to order and see the designs. |
| 2008-01-23 | Ottawa Show Video | You can check out a small video with a couple of snippets of our January 16th show @ Maverick's in Ottawa, ON. Little bits of "The Sound Of Your Smashed Head" & "What's Left Behind".
Thanx Musky. |
| 2008-01-21 | Ottawa Show Pics | You can check out live pics from our show in Ottawa last week here:
http://www.facedead.com/2008/01/fuck-facts-january-16th-2008.html http://s39.photobucket.com/albums/e153/testiculoso/fuckthefacts/ If you or anyone you know has pictures, video, audio, transcriptions, etc… from our past tour with Psyopus please get in touch and shoot them our way. The only thing we enjoy more then laughing at our own jokes is looking at ourselves and crying. |
| 2008-01-19 | TODAY IS THE DAY / THINE EYES BLEED / FUCK THE FACTS / COMPLETE FAILURE shows | We got 4 shows lined-up with TODAY IS THE DAY, THINE EYES BLEED & COMPLETE FAILURE at the end of March.
Dates are as follows:
3/23 Montreal, QC @ Katacombes |
| 2008-01-10 | Psyopus / Fuck The Facts Tour Starts Tomorrow! | The PSYOPUS / FUCK THE FACTS mini-tour starts tomorrow. Be there or be an equilateral quadrilateral. In other words, a four-sided polygon in which every side has the same length.
PSYOPUS / FUCK THE FACTS - Tour Dates
January 11th 2008
January 12th 2008
January 13th 2008
January 14th 2008
January 15th 2008
January 16th 2008
* January 17th 2008
* January 18th 2008 * with BENEATH THE MASSACRE. |