Jen: AK on Pure Metal Sickness

Pure Metal Sickness has done some great things for Texas metal and now has our episode online for all to see. There's separate connections for both broad band and dial up, so check it out HERE.

Jen

Jared: Angerkill.com

Hey to everybody out there. Right now we are focusing mainly on our myspace page but we do have our our domain. Angerkill.com is still alive and kicking. hopefully with the completion of the new record currently in progress we'll have time or "jen will have more time" to revamp our website. i have no idea how to build or maintain websites so i am of course no use when it comes to that. so anyway how bout yall show some support and go sign our guestbook. go to angerkill.com enter the site and click on interaction. from there select guestbook and tell us how much you love us. by the way, the new shit we're recording will fucking blow you away. can't wait to get something solid enough in our hands to offer at least a taste of the new album. okay well that's it for now and my first AK blog.

jared

angerkill

Dave: Studio update

Studio update, completion of day 2. All drums are finished, main guitars done on about half the stuff.

Man...i'm exhausted!! Quote of the day from Keith (in my opinion)..."Man....you guys didn't make this easy on yourselves, did ya?" (Regarding the speed, complexity, and insanity of these songs we're doing...i think he said this right after I finished guitars on H.S.S. and New Light's First Kiss).

Keith, bandmates, I've got to hand it to you...you guys defintely brought out my best, when i thought i was done for!!

Rock on,

AK Dave

Jen: There's so much anticipation... I'm having nightmares!

We redeemed ourselves on May 27. It wasn't a flawless show, but ranks as the best we've played this year. There's definitely something to be said for hydration - we drank a 24 pack of water in three hours. Good for performance.. bad for pissing.

We begin recording tomorrow. I'm not sure when the recording will be completed because that depends on a number of things with 1 being studio availability and 2, our finances. So far so good.. we have this weekend and next weekend booked up for core recording. No kidding about the nightmares.. for the past week, I've dreamed about my basslines. That's never happened to me before... I'm just glad we're finally here after all these years. We've got some ideas for artwork that will involve anyone who wants to be involved so I'll let you know of that early next week. There's way too much going on right now for me to spec out all the details.

We have three shows booked: June 30 at the Underground, July 7 back in Austin at Redrum and July 21 at Rock City. More details as they come available.. we're still working some shit out but they're going to be good ones. We're looking to book August in Austin and SA.. we aim to play once a month in each city. Starting back in 2001, Austin has embraced AK equally as San Antonio.. so we'll do what we can to be there for you guys too.

That's it.. we've been practicing between 5 and 6 times a week to get tight for the CD. We're all going in feeling great about it.

PS Jared's looking for a job. Anyone know anywhere hiring? It's got to be on the Northwest side to avoid punctuality challenges..... unless it's something he'll really really like.. then he'll be on time. Or do what we do.. punish him with having to buy 1 beer for every minute late. (He currently owes a keg and a twenty pack)

We'll definitely be posting some clips for you guys.

oh yeah! Thanks if you went out to the show. Special thanks to Ric from Adrian and the Sickness for driving in from Austin. Hope you guys enjoyed it.

Damn.. can't say that without thanking Scott from Curse the Form for booking it. Nice to finally play a show with you guys... and Chris from Deadpool (drunken bastard) and Pinky for helping us out with all our gear.

I noticed a couple of people taking pictures at the show. If you wouldn't mind, please do us the favor and email them to jendiazdeleon@aol.com. I'll post them on our site. I got a few, but none of us performing.

Jen

caught in the rain.. what a great moment.

I'm pretty shy when it comes to throwin' the horns... but c'mon it's Mike! We go back middle school style when I was a preppy little girl listening to New Kids on the Block and wearing Z Cavarricci and Girbaud jeans. Only Mike and my husband can call me a poser.. because they're the only ones that saw it first hand.

Jen: "We SUCKED", for sale & more

Formal apology time. Our show at the White Rabbit last Friday sucked ass.. we played everything WAY too slow and dragged bad. We still got compliments, but we think because many were hearing the stuff for the first time. Trust me, it was AK-Crowbar style.. We talked about it last night and have officially closed the door on it and decided to move on. Each one of us denounced this show as the worst yet. It was poor decisions made on our behalf to not take care of ourselves before hitting the stage. We have reinstated the "no drinking" rule before we perform.. not even one beer. None of us were buzzed at all, but our music is physically challenging for us enough.. without feeding our bodies beer. We should be hydrating ourselves as much as possible, eating right the day of, etc. We've had two shows like this so far.. we finally caught the hint. If we want to attack and tear down walls, we need to walk up there 100% prepared to do that. It won't happen again.. well, now that we know what we have to do, shame on whoever doesn't! It's supposed to be fun, but it's all for nothing if we don't perform to our potential.

Our first song, "Abrasions" has been recorded and is in the process of being mixed (thank you, J-Flex, Chris and Weldon). It's an acoustic song dedicated to our friend, Jesse.. but it still rocks like AK. We are two weeks away from immortalizing this new stuff with Keith at Monster Studio (beg. June 3rd). We're recording 13 pieces (11 new jams with 2 covers - "Davidian" from Machine Head and "Once in a Lifetime" metal style from the Talking Heads). Dave and I have some shit to sell prior to help with finances (message us if you're interested). We have a baptism, dance recital and three birthday parties to fund this summer right along side studio. One of the challenging aspects of being married in a band:

Rocktron Hush Pedal (two channel)	65.00
Hartke HA 400 Bass Amp	300.00 (sells 499 at Sam Ash)
Tama Swingstar Kit with Yamaha double pedal, cymbals and stands (don't know exactly what yet - we have to spec. it out)	300.00
Bass box & sub for truck	60.00
Italian made crib, drawer on bottom, natural blonde wood stain with thick varnish - new. Used 2 mos total	200.00 (sells for 400)
Cerwin Vega home speakers DX-9 (so cheap because of a small tear in one speaker)	200.00
New in box - 10 pk 750 MB Iomega zip disks	100.00

Our next show is coming up - May 27th at the White Rabbit with Curse the Form, Anomik & Before the Bloodshed. I've got a flyer on the main page of our myspace. Any help passing this thing out and promoting is very much appreciated!!

Until I have more rantings & non-hearings for you all,

Jen

PS by the way, Rantings will be our first video. We also sat around and pretty much scripted it last night. In due time (when our pocket book heals..) - It's gonna cost $600-700 dollars to do.

Jen: White Rabbit 10th Anniversary show & studio progress

We have a show this Friday at the Rabbit. It's another one of those insane attempts at putting a million bands on the bill. Check out the lineup below. It looks like it's gonna be a packed house. The backroom lineup is really good.

Main Stage
6:30 PM Mark Searcy Delta Blues
7:15 PM Daniel Walker & the Lake Eerie Oarsmen
8:00 PM Strikes Back
8:45 PM Adelin
9:30 PM Structure
10:15 PM Desdemona
11:00 PM Meek
11:45 PM Lokey
12:30 AM When Words Attack
1:15 AM The Blend?

Jam Stage
7:30 PM Jobber
8:15 PM Threat
9:00 PM Enormity
9:45 PM Brotherhood
10:30 PM Thirteen Muses
11:15 PM Angerkill
12:00 AM Deadpool
12:45 AM Before the Bloodshed

In other news, I'm fuckin' way tired. We finished up our studio pre-production stuff on Monday and got it to Keith last night. It turned in to a last minute rush to get it done. I did a quick, really quick mix and dumped them night before last, finally finishing up at 5am. This was a great thing and even though it was such a major pain in the ass, I would recommend doing it to any band. It really shows you where your areas of improvement are. We have a few things to hone in on before we get in there and thats where we're at now. We need to just play the hell out of these songs (to a click - I'm currently working on the tempo maps) and Jared has to get his solos concrete.

We'll be recording two covers but we're not sure if they'll be on the CD or not. We haven't decided what we want to do with them just yet. The covers are "Davidian" from Machine Head and "Once in a Lifetime" from the Talking Heads. We started working on our rendition of "Once in a Lifetime" this past Saturday and it's really promising. It sounds GREAT as a metal song.

Kids are awake.. i'll have to finish this up later! Hope to see you all Friday.

We are not playing Bonds tomorrow!!

It says so in the Edge Magazine, but it's not so! We were asked to play but declined (we were already booked twice in SA this month.. one more time than we usually allow).

So... sorry for any misunderstandings. Next show is May 12th at the White Rabbit for the 10th anniversary party.. 11:00 backroom.

Jen