The storm has gathered.

I can’t help but let it get to me.

I’m nervous with anticipation of the oncoming chaos.

I hope the storm clouds never clear.  A sky of endless grey, of pending doom.

Let it wash away all those set to ‘ride it out’.

Leave us with a blank canvas, a world to be moulded with our hands.

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Hi dweebs,

So we’re officially announcing the release date for our new record “Supporting Caste”. It’s March 10th, 2009. We’re so excited about it that we even made a professional (-esque) press release for it! Look:

PROPAGANDHI – SUPPORTING CASTE

RELEASE DATE: MARCH 10TH 2009

Propagandhi are proud pleased delighted required to announce the release of their new album, Supporting Caste.

Recorded at the band’s own Illegal Combatant Studios and the world-renowned Blasting Room in Ft. Collins Colorado, Supporting Caste is the fifth full length release from Winnipeg’s Propagandhi.

Crafted in collaboration with Bill Stevenson (Black Flag, Descendents, Zeke, 7 Seconds), this 12 song collection of boundless power and depth is a 50 000 watt forward-thinking tip-of-the-hat to the giants — Voivod, Rush, SNFU, Sacrifice, Razor, Guilt Parade – that have gone before them.

Legendary and unrepentant residents of humankind’s ideological peanut-gallery, Propagandhi does not disappoint with Supporting Caste, launching crude rockets into the heart of the prevailing order with meditations that range in focus from the humane slaughter and consumption of non-vegans in an elaborate 18-course banquet (with wine pairings) to the apparent confusion of turning on the TV to watch a simple hockey game and having to wonder whether or not the Nazi’s actually lost the war after all.

Supporting Caste: 12 new laments, reveries and extrapolations from 4 visibly-aging prairie skids who still cannot believe that of all the gin joints in all the galaxies in all the universes, they had to be born on this one.

Supporting Caste will be released on March 10th, 2009 on G7 Welcoming Committee/Smallman Records.

SUPPORTING CASTE TRACK LISTING
Night Letters
Supporting Caste
Tertium Non Datur
Dear Coach’s Corner
This is Your Life
Human(e) Meat (The Flensing of Sandor Katz)
Potemkin City Limits
The Funeral Procession
Without Love
Incalculable Effects
The Banger’s Embrace
Last Will and Testament

A pic of the artwork – albeit small.

Let the riding of nuts continue!

In the past year there have been two elections that seem to have caused a lot of controversy, stirred up passion among the general public and caught the imaginations of many people.

People were left wanting change, they had hope that things would be better, that their vote counted.

I must admit I was caught up in this same hysteria.  A black man was voted in as President of the most powerful country in the world, the same country that denied his race so many rights not all that long ago.

Yes this is a great leap for society, but will it bring the change that was promised?  Will the power behind the scenes not continue to flourish as normal?  Those with vested interested, will their coffers not continue to swell at the expense of the general public?

This is all just a false front.

You may think I’m crazy, but this isn’t a conspiracy, this ‘democracy’ we hold so dear, is nothing more than a place for big business to thrive.  C.E.Os and world leaders are in each others pockets.  Doesn’t anyone find anything wrong with this?  The people we trust to shape the world are the one’s who have vested interests in the very things that are destroying it.

I just hope I live to see the day when ‘change’ is something more than a catch phrase for the same old crooks under a different disguise.

Yeah, you can vote however the fuck you want, but power still calls all the shots.  And believe it or not, even if (real) democracy broke loose, power could/would just “make the economy scream” until we vote responsibly

My life may very well reach it’s pinnacle on Feb 21st, if not Feb 22nd.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, there may be very little point to us being friends any longer.

P is for perfection.

Terror that chases away relief.

A howling wolf that scares off sleep.

Waiting, hoping for that spark to light a fire.

A fire that will take us over.

Consuming us, driving us.

A fleeting hope, this tiny spark that we crave.