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Vote for Loathe in Toni Sant’s MMI poll

Loathe — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:33:47 +0000

Still smarting from losing out in the Malta Music Awards, (not really, we’re happy just to get a mention), we have another opportunity to be top of the game, and this time, you can help us!

Toni Sant’s Mużika Mod Ieħor Podcast is produced weekly by the good man himself, and many metal bands, including Loathe, have been featured in the 236 episodes produced so far.

This year, Loathe are included in the Top Album category, on the basis of our full length CD, Despondent By Design.

To help us out, all you have to do is go to www.tonisant.com/podcasts/mmi2010, connect using your Facebook credentials and vote for Loathe, found on the first screen.

After that, vote for all your other favourite artists, videos and releases of this year. Simple!

Voting is open until Saturday 1 January 2011 and results will be announced on Saturday 8 January 2011.

Thanks Toni and you all who are going to vote for us!

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Loathe video of gigs in 2010

Loathe — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:41:26 +0000

We’ve now got a compilation video online on YouTube. It shows a bunch of our best moments during some of the many gigs we played in Malta during 2010. These include the Despondent by Design release gig at the Black Pearl, the Xtreme Metal Assault in Buskett and Notte Bianca 2010, Valletta.

Watch the video below or on YouTube. Share it with your fellow metal heathens to help us out and spread the good metal word!

However, we’re still not done for this year! On the 27th of November we’ll be flying the flag of heavy metal at the Malta Music Awards, where we’ve been nominated for Best Heavy Metal Band, alongside Nomad Son, Memento Nostri and Frenzy Mono.

We also have something else coming up later on in the year, and we’ll let you know more about it later on. It should be awesome!

As awesome as getting kicked in the head in the Loathe pit.

If you can’t get your fill of us, contact us here to buy Despondent by Design on CD, or get a copy of it on iTunes.

Download “Despondent by Design” on iTunes

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Get Loathe’s Despondent by Design from iTunes

Loathe — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:38:54 +0000

You can now get your hands on a copy of Despondent by Design without ever coming to a gig or sending us any emails! The album is fully available on iTunes, so make sure to buy it for yourself, or gift a copy for your special someone at Christmas! Nothing like a bit of Loathe to grow the love!

Click on the CD cover or the button below that to goes straight to iTunes.

Loathe-Despondent By Design

Download “Despondent by Design” on iTunes

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Loathe nominated for Best Heavy Metal Award in GO Malta Music Awards 2010

Loathe — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 11:07:21 +0000

Loathe has been nominated in the Best Heavy Metal Award in the Go Malta Music Awards 2010. The 15th edition of the awards includes categories such as Best Dance Production, Best Female Artist and Best Hip/Hop / R’n'B Artist, all of which we can’t say we’ve really mastered. However, Heavy fuckin’ Metal we can do with the best of them!

Loathe was nominated on the strength of 2010′s achievements, which included releasing our fist full length opus ‘Despondent by Design’ on UK label Casket Records, playing the London Bridgefest 2010 alongside UK death metal stalwarts Trigger the Bloodshed, and playing for rabid audiences in Malta such as the Xtreme Metal Assault and Notte Bianca 2010.

The GO Malta Music Awards 2010 will be awarded according to scoring by judges and will feature performances by some of Malta’s biggest artists such as Winter Moods, Red Elektrick, Airport Impressions and Chasing Pandora. Foreign artist Anthony Costa from British boy band BLUE will also be performing Blue hits. Loathe will be on the dance floor boogying the night away and looking like this:

Or maybe not

Results will be announced on November the 27th 2010.

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Thank you Notte Bianca 2010!

Loathe — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:04:21 +0000

It is with extreme gratitude that we thank you all for the amazing show at Notte Bianca 2010, on Saturday 25th September. We had a great gig and it was all thanks to you who turned up, had fun, danced and moshed with us and made sure no trees were broken or uprooted.

Seriously though, it was a great event for us, and hopefully for all the other bands who played there too, Synergy, The Overouts, R.A.S., Memento Nostri, The Lesser Gods and Forsaken. It was also very fitting that the event celebrated both our capital city and rich history, as well as our musical history, since it marked the launch of M3P, the Malta Music Memorial Project, or the Malta Music Wiki. This ongoing project has the ambition of including information about every single piece of music ever recorded, written or sung in Malta, as well as who was behind the music. It’s a huge project, but ambition never killed anyone.

Loathe would also like to thank Toni Sant for compering and helping in the event set up, as well as Joanna Bowman from the MCCA. And last but not least, we would like to thank our guest drummer for the night and best friend Max Vassallo, who already powers two bands (For the Godless and Abysmal Torment), yet found the time to help out with our predicament.

We are still looking for a permanent drummer to join our ranks, so if you’re interested or know someone who’d fit the bill, get in touch on the Contact page.

Meanwhile, here’s a video of us playing a snippet from Hellfire. Apologies for the poor sound quality and a huge thanks to everyone who was in that enormous and savage moshpit! If you have better quality video, or maybe a few good pics, let us know here, and we will love you forever!

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Loathe play Xtreme Metal Assault 2010

Loathe — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:12:27 +0000

As we said in the run up to the event, Loathe was to play the Xtreme Metal Assault 2010, held at the Buskett Roadhouse on the 4th and 5th of September. Loathe played late on the 4th, or early on the 5th, according to your understanding of time. At the time, we were quite hampered in the understanding department.

In any case, our show went down a storm, thanks to the crazy maniacs in the pit who slammed, moshed and mostly behaved with very little civility. Just the way we like it really!

A big thank you goes to Edward who was the brains and brawn behind the event, Paul from the AV Warehouse who took care of sound and all his minions, Steve Lombardo who was of great help in setting up and of course the hundreds of rabid metal fans who trudged from all over the island and convened to give us bands a wonderful two days of metal, as we all hope we gave you.

In addition, we all remembered and drank to our brother in arms Wayne Vella who sadly left us too young of age in August.

Here’s a video of Loathe tearing through Hellfire, the first song off Despondent By Design. You can buy the album on PayPal by clicking here.

Meanwhile, you’ll see us back on stage very soon, on the 25th of September actually, when we play the M3P Inaugural Event during Notte Bianca, at Hastings Gardens, where so many of you popped their cherries. And we’ll be ripping Valletta a new one with our guest drummer that night, so be sure not to miss it! Event details here (on Facebook) and here (on M3p.com.mt).

UPDATE: If you crave better quality video than this, a festival DVD should be on its way. For the time being, check out this incredible photo set by Kevin Cassar here.

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Pics from Despondent By Design launch night

Loathe — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:47:58 +0000

And here they are, some of the best pics from our big night! If you have pics of your own which you would like to submit to this space, contact us here. We will not steal your pictures, and you will always be credited for them, as well as have our unwavering appreciation!

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Thank you for a great release gig

Loathe — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:57:26 +0000

We’d like to thank a few people for the great release gig for Despondent By Design that we had. Alex and Arthur from the Black Pearl were great to us. Tripwire were a real blast and played extremely well. However, our biggest thanks go to everyone who came and rocked out, especially the ones who bought the new CD. We also want to wish happy birthday to one of our biggest fans, Mila, who is now 19!

Here’s what some of you told us after the show:

“Great night yesterday at the Black Pearl, fantastic atmosphere, very good sound and two bands that kick ass…congrats to both bands..”

“Was a great gig, keep it up! =)”

“Rawr!”

“Fuckin’ awesome gig last night..once the hangover clears off I will really enjoy the CD!”

“Amazing night. I enjoyed it a lot . Well done!”

“Dude as much as we rule for coming and buying you guys fuckin rule for the awesome show you guys gave!”

If you want to hear tracks from Despondent By Design go here. Meanwhile here’s a few pictures from the night:

We’ll be adding more and more very soon! Next step is practicing hard so we give a great show when we play with Trigger the Bloodshed!

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Loathe on the Sunday Times

Loathe — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:16:11 +0000

It’s with great pleasure we announce that apart from il-Mument, Loathe has also been featured on Malta’s largest circulation newspaper, the Sunday Times, once more. Have a look at the scan of the article below:

Loathe on the Sunday Times, July18th 2010

We are also going to have another media surprise for you, but we’ll keep our mouths shut about that for now, and promise to let you all know what it is later…..

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Loathe MySpace gets major overhaul

Loathe — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:16:25 +0000

Between 2003 and 2007, some of you may remember a little thing called myspace. You know, before and in the run up to facebook. Myspace was cool, and for bands, to this day, is arguably the best social network to be on.

Loathe have been on myspace for around 5 years. Myspace redesigns have happened before, but nothing quite so major. Lo and behold, the new loathe myspace, complete with despondent by Design themed artwork, which was, of course, courtsey of our friends Cedric and Clint. If you’d like them for your band’s design, contact us. If you wanna bang your head before Friday is upon us, then go here: www.myspace.com/totaloathe

Innit beautiful?

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