Loathe MySpace gets major overhaul

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?


The Dark Design Tour-Day 7

Another long day on the road today. Woke up quite late at Dodo’s in Keighley, had our showers and breakfasts, provided most generously by Dodo (the breakfast, we self administered the shower, thank you very much). Then we said our farewells to the mighty Dodo, and promised to see him again soon.

The road from Keighley to Wolverhampton was longer than we though it would be, even though we had already taken the exact same route to watch Slayer. All in all it took longer this time, but the the M62 is a huge repairs zone at the minute, so it’s to be expected.

The Giffard Arms in Wolverhampton is the venue of choice tonight. It’s a cool place, and we’re occupying the room upstairs. It’s all decked out in Halloween regalia tonight, complete with undead nurse/bar tender. I’ll get a pic if I manage. There’s even a cool mural outside, a pic of which is below.

The venue normally hosts Death Metal nights, but it’s cool that they and promoter Paul of Fucking Burning have accommodated us tonight. Sound is great too and the atmosphere seems right for another neck snapping night of metal brutality. Bring it on!


All about Despondent By Design

Before anything else is said, we’d like to thank you all for the phenomenal response we got from you since we uploaded the first song from our new album, Despondent By Design. Be it on Twitter, Facebook or MySpace, you guys have quite simply rocked our world with your awesome comments! Thank you very much! We shall have a new song for you very soon.

Back to the album, this is some info about it.

It is called Despondent By Design, has 10 tracks on it and shall have a total run time of 41 minutes. The tracklist is as follows:

1. Hellfire
2. As Cold As They Come
3. November
4. The Devil’s Playground
5. Black Light
6. Children Of A Lesser God
7. This Respect
8. This Overwhelming Grasp Of Solitude
9. The Dark Diaries
10. The End Of All Things Good

Lyrically, this is what the songs are about:

  • Hellfire deals with the story of a couple who push the boundaries of an unholy relationship and suffer the consequences thereafter.
  • As Cold As They Come speaks of the abuse of a partner in a relationship, laying the blame on them for leaving, inventing faults and then leaving them hung out to dry
  • November speaks of the loss of a dear person, Jade, in the month of November, of things planned and turned to shit and the regret and sadness from this untimely departure.
  • The Devil’s Playground is the place we find ourselves in so many times, the crossroads of indecision, generally after betrayal and trying to take a next step with someone else after it’s over.
  • Black Light is about the end of one’s life. Some people see death as dark, macabre and unwanted, but for others, though black, it’s also a guiding light.
  • Children Of A Lesser God treats the endless cycle of physical and sexual abuse and that which stems from it.
  • This Respect is about people who use the word respect as a punchline without ever getting into the merits of what respecting others really means.
  • This Overwhelming Grasp Of Solitude is about the sense of despair one gets when they feel they are not understood even by the people closest to them and whom they love.
  • The Dark Diaries is a dialogue between a shrink and a patient, in which the shrink repeats that it’s not so bad and it could be worse, while the patient screams that this simply isn’t good enough, this is not what he/she wants to hear, this does not lessen my pain.
  • The End Of All Things Good speaks of a vendetta carried down through generations, owing to an a horrid act carried out long ago yet never spoken of or atoned for.

And speaking of the end of all things good, I think that’s more than enough positive vibes for the day :-P I’ll leave you with our track Black Light for our enjoyment once again, and the promise of more new stuff soon!

Black Light by loathe


First track from Despondent By Design is now online!

Hey again everyone! We are now precisely 24 days away from going on tour and we are really looking forward to it! The flyer is online in the previous post, however, here are the dates in text format, come check us out if you will.

24th October, Leicester, Exiles @ Redeemer w/Spirytus

25th October, Neath (Wales), The Duke

26th October, Stourbridge, Katie Fitzgeralds, w/Godsize

28th October, Wakefield, The Snooty Fox

29th October, Manchester, The Star & Garter, w/MWP

30th October, Wolverhampton, The Giffard Arms

31st October, The Unicorn, Camden, London, w/Nebukadnezza & many more!

01 November, Birmingham, Scruffy Murphy’s, w/Morgue Orgy

As a special bonus (not really, this is something we’ve promised for some time now, the new song is below in our soundcloud player. The song is called Black Light and is the first to be published from our new album “Despondent By Design”. Said album should be released soon.

Hope you like what you hear! Later amigos…..

Black Light by loathe


New stuff with Loathe

Plenty of new things in the Loathe camp. By end of this month we should have quite a few of the items on this list:

New album (we are listening to the unmastered mix right now, and it sounds sickeningly good. Not blowing our own trumpet here, we’re just in love with how it sounds, and very satisfied too!)

New video (y’know, snippets of our idiocy at the studio while recording the album) New website (which should be like a town centre to all our profiles across a bunch of sites. Pretty cool looking so far. Still coding right now, but promise to have it online soon)

New tour dates (we do have them, we just need to get moving on a flyer, and then all the dates will be published. UK be warned)

New gig (yeah that doesn’t sound right does it? Anyway, we figure we ought to play live at least once every six months in Malta, so once the damn summer tapers off and things chill a little, get ready to see our drunken selves on stage)

That’s pretty much it for now! We’ll be touch with a checklist of what’s done soon!

Looking forward to seeing you all!

love

the Loathe boys