Press is good. |
Maximum Ink did a full-page story on us in the most-recent issue. Awesome. With one of Michelle's photographs even. I can't and won't complain because they squeezed in an interview at the very last mi... Posted by The United Sons Of Toil on Tue, 06 May 2008 10:30:00 PST |
Getting there... |
Second show back after a five month hiatus. Went OK, but not as well as it could have or should have. Something was wrong with my amp (I suspect failing power tubes) and it's hard to play when you're ... Posted by The United Sons Of Toil on Fri, 02 May 2008 10:24:00 PST |
Rough Mixes Up |
Rough mixes for two songs are up. Take a listen to The Treaty of New Echota and Signing Contracts, Building Stockades. Let us know what you think. We'll have more stuff up soon. ... Posted by The United Sons Of Toil on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:55:00 PST |
Vocals done. |
Except for Bill’s backups all the vocals are done for the new record. I also finished guitar overdubs for three out of eight songs. Rough mixes up in a few weeks.Russell Posted by The United Sons Of Toil on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:13:00 PST |
Basic Tracks are done |
We tracked bass, drums and guitars for the eight songs on the new record on Saturday. After eight hours at Science of Sound, we walked out with digital files that I can take home and add guitar and vo... Posted by The United Sons Of Toil on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:28:00 PST |
More YouTube Goodness |
From the same Annex show in November 2007... Reconsidering the Green Mile and Fly the Friendly Sky.... Posted by The United Sons Of Toil on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:33:00 PST |
Live versions of songs from the forthcoming album |
The demos we've been recording for the new record have come out really shitty. Instead here are live versions of two songs that will be on the new rekkid:http://youtube.com/watch?v=WqsveKAmjdMhttp://y... Posted by The United Sons Of Toil on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:35:00 PST |
We finished writing our record |
We finished up all the songs for our next record, tentatively titled Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. It seems as though the lyrical theme is t... Posted by The United Sons Of Toil on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:25:00 PST |
The Onion AV Club: "best local album" |
The Madison edition of The Onion's AV Club did a roundup of local bands/releases for 2007. Here's what they said about us: 13. The United Sons Of Toil, "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act," avai... Posted by The United Sons Of Toil on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:34:00 PST |
Redemption |
So we've been playing a lot of shows lately and they've been going really well (apart from Chad going through some sort of intestinal distress before every show). Until Monday... we played the Four St... Posted by The United Sons Of Toil on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:17:00 PST |