RED FANG

Hot DAMN, Portland!!! Your commitment to partying is astounding. We wanna thank all of you so much for joining us in celebrating the release of Murder the Mountains - we couldn't have hoped for a better crew to rage with! And extra special big ups to Mongoloid Village , Lord Dying , and Drunk Ladies - great friends, great bands. We are hitting the road next week for some killer tours , so we won't see you for a while, hometownies. Thanks for the great send off - let's party in the fall when we get back!

It’s a pretty safe bet that most folks out there would think the toughest part of putting out a new record is the process of writing new songs, but those people would be wrong. Playing music is what these guys do, I don’t want to make it sound like they just go to the bathroom and drop out a new jam, clean up with a little T.P. and plop it down on to tape—there is a lot of blood, sweat and beers (Oh man, that's a record title right there) that go into every song. The problems start when you try to get four guys to agree on tracks, track listing (the order of the songs on the record), title and artwork. This is not because they fight each other (for the most part) but because no one will put their foot down, in fear of being the guy who came up with the name no one likes. The end result is much like a pack of monkeys trying to hump a football, it’s kind of awkward to watch and nothing comes of it. So being the team player I am I came up with a bunch of album titles for them. They al...