Top 10 of 2009

Ok, the first time I posted this, it didn't work. So here we go again. Here's a list of records I enjoyed the most this year.

1) Drudkh - Microcosmos
2) Cobalt - Gin
3) Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
4) Morrissey - Years Of Refusal
5) Heartsounds - Until We Surrender
6) Magrudergrind - s/t
7) Wodensthrone - Loss
8) Asphyx - Death The Brutal Way
9) Absu - s/t
10) Destroyer 666 - Defiance

So there's the list. Check out some of that stuff if you haven't. It's pretty good.

January 15th

Here's one of our January shows. Be there.

News - 12/3/2009

Some news to relay. Thanks for being patient with us as we gather our collective thoughts in preparation for 2010.

New Album
- We are currently in the writing process and we are becoming extremely excited about this new record. We have about 9 songs ready to go, some of which will be played next year, maybe even starting in January. We'll probably be recording sometime early to mid next year. Song titles and album name will be decided upon later, so we'll announce that once it's set.

- We are currently in talks with doing a split cassette tape with our friends in The Dolemite Project. This would be an extremely limited tape, probably 100 copies.

- We'll also have a new 7" out next year, after our record, which will also contain new songs. Will it be a split? We're not quite sure at this point.

Touring/Shows
- As you know, we are playing SXSW (South By Southwest) We are currently unsure of when/where we'll be playing. But given this opportunity to play, this means we'll be doing about a week tour around it. We'll have a routing soon, so please get in contact if you can help out.

- We currently have 2 shows just about ready to go in January
January 15th - The Blvd Cafe in Boyle Heights w/Landmine Marathon and The Network + more.
January 16th - TBA - Riverside w/Landmine Marathon

Merch
- We're working on new merch for the new year. I realize a lot of our stuff is old and crappy, but hey, we have to get rid of it. So please, if you can, spend a little bit of cash to clear us out of this bullshit and we'll get some new stuff up there as soon as possible.

That about brings us up to speed. There's a lot going on but without a new record, we're kind of at a hault. We'll have more details on everything in the coming months and we'll be sure to let you know asap.

Thanks again,
The Funeral Pyre

Webshop / Mailorders

Hey everyone,
So, some of you have been e-mailing us about where your order is. That's all fine and dandy, and we're happy to help you. But there are sometimes a few issues.

- I understand that instant gratification is a big thing for people, but please bare with us, we run this mailorder on our own and try to get everything out as quickly as possible. Our merch is not next to us at all times of the day and we all don't have time to mail orders out every single day. So please understand that it may take a couple of weeks! If we're on tour, it'll take even longer. We apologize, but that's just how it is.

- Sometimes, you'll order a shirt, that we may be out of stock on, but because it's hard to keep up to date with all stock inventory (becuase we play so many shows and the stock levels are always bouncing around) we could be out of your size even though you ordered it. We try our absolute hardest to stay on top of this, but hey, it happens. So, with that being said, CHECK YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS THAT YOU USED TO PAY VIA PAYPAL WITH. We'll always e-mail you back about your order is there is a problem. A LOT OF YOU DON'T WRITE BACK BECAUSE YOU DON'T CHECK YOUR JUNK FOLDER.
So check that out, make sure you're in contact with us, rather than posting comments like "where's my order assholes. it's been 3 weeks." Cause in all honesty, we'll tell you to fuck off! We don't like being treated like shitheads, so don't do it!

- Remember, this is DIY shit we're talking about. We're not professionals, we're not a full time band that makes money. We're a band, that practices in a garage. Just like you. So be respectful and supportive and we'll be the same way. Believe me, we can be fucking ASSHOLES if you want us to!

Thanks again for helping us out and supporting. Just understand where we're coming from!

The Funeral Pyre

The powers that be.

After a year hiatus, we are welcoming back Justin Garcia to the line up. During that time, Justin had issues beyond our control that he had to tend to. Now, that the issues have been resolved, he could no longer resist the urge to join the army of Satan. So welcome him back, into your cold black hearts. He'll be apart of our new record which we are going to be finishing up.

In other news, we'll be playing some shows coming up. Some in LA and some in La Habra. So keep up to date on the shows. They'll most definitely be an exciting time.

Until then.

The Funeral Pyre

2009, ending already.

So we've been home for a week, I'm just now getting around to doing this blog to wrap everything up. This was by far one of the best tours we've done. Everything ran smoothly (for the most part) and we didn't kill each other. Well, maybe one time 2 of us tried to kill each other but hey, it happens. Anyway, we finally got back over to the east coast, played some awesome shows and had a great time. There are a lot of you to thank, so I'm going to do this as quickly as possible! If I forgot your name, I'm really sorry. So here's the wrap up.

Thanks:landmine marathon, my son my executioner, andy in alabama, withered, clinging to the trees of a forest fire, broadslab, andrew va house shows, sourvein, corporeal, scott lee, nick at money shot, fred for showing us "the teachings of john", luis and liz/tones of death, borealis and alex, stephen @ init records, justin and too much distortion promotion, joe book of black earth, samothrace, the helm and immiserate, arkham (sp?), josh & idekay, early graves, tc at the cretin hop, elitist, and anyone who came out to see us. We hope we didn't disappoint.

Now that we've got that out of our system, we have some other news.
We're going to be finishing up the writing for our new record. We try and stay as busy as possible. We'll probably have a preproduction track up sometime later this year. So keep checking back for that. We're also going to put up a new shirt on the webshop. We're running super low on a lot of the shirts, so get what you can as most of those will never be reprinted again.

That about does it. When we have more info on the new record, we'll post it.

Until then,
The Funeral Pyre

it's been a month

since the last update. so we'll get going on this. the tour is almost happening. we've been booking this thing for a long time and still some of the shows aren't coming through, but we have more shows booked than not, so it's a go!

we're going to try to get a new shirt design done before the tour, so hopefully we'll have it. sorry the update is lagging so much, there just isn't too much to report.

oh! except that we'll have our new split with Landmine Marathon VERY VERY VERY SOON!
so be sure to pick that up.

Listen to Cult Of Luna's "The Eternal Kingdom"
shits great.

TFP