new flyer for portland jam fest

good times with a pillow

last nights show was so much fun. thank you rex for coming up from portland and making everyone shake their asses. pillow fight fight was smoking and awesome as always to play with. shaman du hexen adam joined us on stage and added some beautiful touches to our music. this dude is our favorite mofo in town - always brings the good times. talbot tagora played a good set as well. their drummer is my favorite in town. hits the skins like no other teenager around. thanks all for coming out and for picking up our new releases.

even more shows

we are performing with du hexen hase on the 22nd of feb. at the rendezvous. show starts at 10. opening for tiny vipers. then the next night - the 23rd - at the lobo we are doing a collaborative set with blue sabbath black cheer. bunch of canadian noise dudes are also performing. this will be our last show for quite a while. brianvenom is moving to new york for a undisclosed amount of time. but don't worry - more venom is still in route.

portland flyer

Seattle peeps let us know if you want to ride down with us. Rumors of a big party afterwards.

new releases

for the gallery 1412 show on the 12th we will have our split cdr/zine with pillow fight fight for sale, as well as our new junky muscles cdr finished. pff are going out on tour and we will join them the following night in bellingham at chiribins. we will be opening and making love to our friends the russians.

then that following thursday the 14th we are playing the re-bar for the first "harsh" night. we are doing an all acoustic set for this - believe it.

description of bands posted by harsh dudes:


Plethora : Plethora is Stan Reed, (PsychForm Records, Broken Penis Orchestra, and Blue Sabbath Black Cheer). An absurd nihilistic surrealist sound project whose mission is to trick the brain into thinking it is on heavy drugs.

Ear Venom : Ear Venom is based in Seattle. They're active participants in the underground noise/ experimental scene, organizing and playing shows with needed regularity - more than witnesses, Ear Venom are a part of the backbone of the Seattle experimental music arts. As a performance duo, preferring to play mostly in caves and abandoned ship yards, these two individuals have been working closely together to express themselves as a singular sound event. The eyes play tricks on you as the hallucinatory effects of the venom gathers strength, what is two is one, one is two. As well, the sounds play tricks on you and the poisonous duality of their audio movements both savage and cleanse the mind. With vocal manipulation, repetition, homemade and altered/abused instruments, feedback, complaints from the neighbors, and other effects all used as a means to process their combined ephemeral emotions, Ear Venom stand as their name implies.- -William, BSBC.. Electric Heavyland

KJ Sawka "KJ Sawka has often been described as a human drum machine and with the current trends in our electronic evolution this artist may not be a surprise, but he is still quite an i nspiration. I recently saw him "live" in Seattle for the third time. I couldn't help but notice the amount of praise he receives at every show. Even a bouncer working at the Last Supper Club explained his enthusiasm and thanked Sawka for performing on a Thursday, for free at the downtown Seattle venue".

NAHA: "In her ten years behind the decks, NAHA has crafted her mixing style and technique which is as diverse as the genres she spins, including techno, breakbeats, digital hardcore, hip-hop, and jungle. She has found anamalgamation of these sounds in her specialty, breakcore. She has played all across the U.S., including Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Oklahoma, Florida, New York, New Mexico, Arizona, Washington D.C., and multiple cities in Canada. In Seattle she has held dozens of residencies, hosted on air and online radio shows and performed with bands Exorcismo and Black Pill Book. Her 3 hour weekly internet radio broadcast on Groovetech.com ran every week from December 1998 through 2003."

we will be playing another show on the 23rd of feb. - ill post more info later - but we will have our "doubt and indecision" cdr ready for sale that night.

ev

next dull knife and ear venom show

Just Hit the Streetz!!!!

We have a new split cdr release out with Boosatali live at Camp Nowhere 11.8.06

It is on Soccer Mom Ebonics. Edition of 100 copies. Recorded by Jim "sparkle girl" Evans.

We haven't even heard the thang but shit we are excited. Hit us up if you want a copy or buy one at one of our or shevaun's shows. Wall of Sound and Electric Heavyland will have them as well.

We will be back playing shows in February. Also, in February we have a split coming out with our good friends Pillow Fight Fight. Man if you guys don't know Karl or Dustin you just should. Some of the nicest guys we have ever met. We still have copies of our release Acid Headband if any one would like one and we have two more cdr's coming out in early 2007. The first one out is entitled JUNKY MUSCLES and the second is DOUBT AND INDECISION. Until then...

squeaky shout out in the mercury for upcoming portland show

(Rotture, 315 SE 3rd) Two good-times dudes from Seattle, Ear Venom have been cultivating their psychedelic and experimental noise-fuckery, blasting Portland's eardrums every couple of months. Having much in common with local favorites Yellow Swans, Ear Venom twist and mangle processed guitar, tape loops, and sequencers through delay and various filters, leaving a thick grimy film crawling through your skin and blackening your cortex. Playing this night with DRUGS, who have transformed themselves into one of the noisiest and most crushing black metal bands in Portland. Recent addition to the band, Jared (SCARD)'s ferocious screams are quite terrifying and complement Bennett's gurgling groans and heavy bass drone. JAMES SQUEAKY

new venom

so we are playing our last show in seattle for a couple of months with walrus machine, boosatali, morta haze, drugs, & arachnid arcade. details: rendezvous - jewel box theater; december 2nd; 10 pm; 5 bones. brian is going out of town until late january but then we will be back playing shows in february.

we just finished up recording a ton of new music which will come out early 2007 on dragon's eye recordings, debacle records and o.o.o. recordings. our other band dull knife is playing a few shows in december and february so look out for those dates. we will have a cd-r out soon.

WE Are Retards

Splinter Squid aka ear venom du hexen drunk fest

i am slapping pizza because he is dirty

upcoming shows

we are playing with sixes, boostali and blue sabbath black cheer on the 8th of november. the show is at camp nowhere in the u-district. starts at 7 sharp. then on the 14th at the ss marie we are jamming with tylet potts, arachnid arcade and two touring bands which i never can never remember the names of. show starts at 8:30. we are recording a new album for dragons eye recordings this month. then we are doing a short crusade / tour with drugs at the beginning of december.

garek and i have another band starting up called dull knife. look out for our drones and gentle destruction. adam from du hexen hase and hopefully charlotte from arachnid arcade join us for this project. our first cdr comes out in january on emerald city debacle.

Check this Radio Station

http://therearemillions.com/
good music from good people in boise idaho, give it a listen. i have added it to the links also.

No Tomorrow Oct. 29th

new venom

photo of us playing garek's pad saturday the 14th. thanks erika for the pic and adam for sitting in with us. the show at the warped tour house went really well. dustin and karl from pillowfightfight played with us as bone witch. mattress and bird costumes ruled. one scary fun friday the 13th. looking forward to playing no tomorrow on the 29th with ovo.

also, brianvenom is sitting in with du hexen hase this sat. the 21st. opening for clmiax golden twins and suishou no fune (japanese psych). show starts around show time at the s.s. marie.

corpse paint, daggers, cloaks, and tombstones welcome, bad attitudes not.



THIS IS A METAL SHOW

Art Opening @ Wall of Sound

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Please join us Friday October 6, 2006 from 7:00 to 9:00pm to celebrate the opening of:

'An Eye for Ears'

A group show of LP and CD artwork and design.

Original paintings,drawings,sketches,mechanical art and finished results.

By the following artists:
Jim Blanchard
Jesy Fortino (Tiny Vipers)
Garek J Druss (Ear Venom)
Gust Burns
Climax Golden Twins
Jamie Potter (Bonus)
Sublime Frequencies
Gust Burns
John Hubbard
Scatological Liberation Front
Jesse Paul Miller
Kazutaka Nomura
Sparkle Girl

Light snacks and libations will be provided.

Dig It !

Show This Coming Tuesday OCT. 3rd.

check this show out, garek will be playing solo with a special new toy.. this is serious stuff.... the flyer says EXTREME

Wall of Sound Review

those dudes put up a nice review of Acid Headband. Thank you Jeffery & Michael!
it's on there website, check out our links

New Stuff

Acid Headband in now available at Electric Heavyland in Wallingford and Wall of Sound in Capital Hill. it is $8.00.
-added some new links, stuff that stokes us out.
-a lot of shows coming up in the beginning of October,
OCT 3rd.
Arachnid Arcade
Esteban
(a) Story of Rats (garek solo)
The Jewel Box Theatre... 8pm
OCT 8th.
(a) Story of Rats collaboration with a short film based on feedback
Northwest Film Forum...... 8pm
OCT 9th
Under Mts (pdx)
DRUGS (pdx)
Ear Venom
Arachnid Arcade
619 Western Ave 4th Floor.....9pm
OCT 15
Mattress
Bird Costumes
Red Squirrel
Warp Tour House...... 7pm