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Brethren and the Evil Empire

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BUY THE NEW ALBUM,"IS THAT WHY YOU BROUGHT ME ALL THE WAY OUT HERE TO THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE?" FROM CDBABY.COM NOW! ONLY $4.99 TO DOWNLOAD ALL 21-TRACKS!



ALSO, LEAD-OFF SINGLE, "I'M HIGH" IS AVAILABLE AS A FREE DOWNLOAD FROM THE OFFICIAL BATEE MYSPACE PAGE...IT'S A GREAT SONG! DON'T MISS THIS CHANCE...
How about this...You preview the entire CD before you buy it...or not...Please do...
New and Final Version of "ITWYBMATWOHTTEOTU"...Out on 10/10/09

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Brethren and the Evil Empire started as a group of three friends in the mid-nineties...under the moniker of Enchantment until 1996 at the latest, when the band became simply Brethren...Some of the early live shows were played under this name...It was about 1998 when they started using the "...and the evil empire" part...The band rehearsed heavily at the Alamo recording studio for the next few years and played a limited number of gigs at long-gone venues like the Ozone and the USA Cafe in the local Las Vegas area...as well as shows outside of the city limits, like one for the Boyscouts of America up at Mt. Potosi, which became a case of boyscouts acting like maniacs (cool stuff) and there was also one in Kingman, Arizona at the House of sound (A BIG production by many accounts)...The band started work on it's debut album around this time and didn't get it out until 2002...Shortly after this, drummer Ryan left the band...Leaving the band without a way to play live shows anymore and forcing it's remaining members into the studio without a drummer...The end result was the Plastic Factory...The album is more subtle and stripped down than the first effort, but also takes the band in a new and unexpected direction...Putting "melody before loud"...After that, the Too Much Fun Club was was released, followed by 2007's Green On Silver...following that, a still-unofficially unreleased group of songs, were recorded in between that CD and the new album, which we'll get to in a second...It was to be called Brown On Gold at first, but became Excesses in Violence and Greed...It was a record that was going to go up against the powers that be at the time and felt a little "too late" by the time it was completed...So eventually it was scrapped...It was time to start over again...Which brings us to the new album being released on www.CDBaby.com on 10/10/09...The album is a fantastic journey through 21-different tracks of sadness, love, anxiety, fun, experimentation, honesty and lies...There's acoustic songs, there's loud songs, there's strange songs, there's piano ballads, there's punk, there's rock n' roll, there's songs about life and death...Basically, you never know where Brethren and the evil Empire's going to hit you from next...and did we mention that you be able to get "Is That Why You Brought Me All the Way Out Here to the Edge of the Universe?"(long title...huh?) for less than five bucks? 21-tracks, over an hour's worth of music and a price that can't be beat?...We'll see you at CdBaby.com!
BUY THE NEW ALBUM,"IS THAT WHY YOU BROUGHT ME ALL THE WAY OUT HERE TO THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE?" FROM CDBABY.COM NOW! ONLY $4.99 TO DOWNLOAD ALL 21-TRACKS!

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Member Since: 06/10/2006
Band Website: www.brethrenandtheevilempire.com
Influences: Queen...the Beatles...Pink Floyd...Bright Eyes...Brian Jonestown Massacre...the Libertines...Babyshambles...Leonard Cohen...Radiohead...Travis...Rolling Stones...The Animals...
Sounds Like: Snippets of psychedelic randomness...Really it's very diverse! Listen...
Record Label: POMPOUS NECTAR PRODUCTIONS
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

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Are you an artist? If so...Why not leave a sample of your work as a comment within this blog...Anything that is arts-related...I'll start...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:13:00 GMT

It's all in here...I got the goods!

And I'm loving it...BUY THE NEW ALBUM,"IS THAT WHY YOU BROUGHT ME ALL THE WAY OUT HERE TO THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE?" FROM CDBABY.COM NOW! ONLY $4.99 TO DOWNLOAD ALL 21-TRACKS!ALSO, LEAD-OFF SINGLE, "I...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:12:00 GMT

LISTEN YOU FUCKERS!!!

I'm teasing...Did you see hamlet 2?  Anyways, the new album is out tomorrow...It will be available as a download...Sample it now... ...WWW.CDBABY.COM/BRETHREN5                                          ...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:06:00 GMT

This is the Youtube playlist of the new album! All 21-tracks!

We have uploaded the full album as a playlist to YouTube...So feel free to skip anything you don't like...Don't matter to us... or you can still get "incapacitated" and listen to the full...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:21:00 GMT

Album is in here as well...in addition to main page...

I gotta say this so it eventually sinks in..."Is That Why You Brought Me All the Way Out Here to the Edge of the Universe?" will be available as a digital download from www.CDBaby.com on 10/10, as in ...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:02:00 GMT

The Whole Album here...The last one...not the new one...

Once again...This album is from 2007...It is not the new album that is being released on 10/10...That album is on the MAIN PAGEListen to Green On Silver now for free...17 tracks...Enjoy!...+hidden son...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:40:00 GMT

New Demo!


Posted by on Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:43:00 GMT

All six Memory Full demos so far (acoustic)


Posted by on Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:58:00 GMT

BATEE-"Possibilities (raw demo version)"

BATEE-"Possibilities (Raw Demo)" August 09, 2009
Posted by on Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:38:00 GMT

New demo from Memory Full..."I Didn't Tell You"...


Posted by on Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:04:00 GMT