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July 19th at Deep Cuts, the mighty Eye For An Eye make their return to Boston Hardcore with Ancient Domains, Wire Lines, and our latest disappointments Deprogrammer Cult. This show doubles as the record release for "Tactics for Manipulation" (pre-order on Bandcamp now; link in bio).
A conversation with a close friend who also loves The Austerity Program.
"Violence of one degree or another is common to all anecdotal accounts of deprogramming."
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Packing up promo copies of our 2024 releases. If you run a site or zine and are interested in writing a review, don't hesitate to reach out. Particularly if you nerd out over physical vinyl records as these are the two best packages we've ever put together.
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Knock Over City - The Campaign LP (CDR-13)
Deprogrammer Cult - Tactics for Manipulation LP (CDR-14)
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Stay disappointed.
Deprogrammer Cult - Tactics for Manipulation LP is available for pre-order with the first single "ContrĂ´le Milieu" streaming everywhere now. The full record drops July 19th. Order on Bandcamp (link in bio).
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DEPROGRAMMER CULT - TACTICS FOR MANIPULATION LP (CDR-14). Harkening back to the sounds of the pioneers of early 2000s noisey metalcore, the Massachusetts quintet unleashes their debut LP balancing equal parts anger, anxiety, frustration, and existential dread in a vicious cycle of distortion and feedback, compressed into 8 tracks of seething and sludgy metallic hardcore. Track 2, "ContrĂ´le Milieu," is streaming everywhere now, showcasing the band's mid-tempo rage, beating the listener down and casting aspersions on what they knew to be true about living. "I don't think so. Living life on the edge. Living traps your brain. It's all a lie." Watch the lyric video on YouTube now (link in comments).
FFO: Cursed, Botch, Deadguy, Unsane, Tragedy
"Tactics for Manipulation" is pressed on transparent jungle swirl vinyl packaged in a full color gatefold jacket with insert. A limited edition deluxe package includes a CDR pog set with 10 mini record pogs of each prior vinyl release and a slammer featuring the enigmatic Deprogrammer Cult symbol. Stack up CDR's past and slam them into oblivion. Limited to 25. The full record drops July 19th. Pre-order on Bandcamp now (link in comments).
Deprogrammer Cult - Tactics for Manipulation. Recorded and engineered by Alex Allinson at The Bridge Sound and Stage. Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege. Artwork and layout by Brian Vocal Terror. Pressed and printed by Gotta Groove. Released by Constant Disappointment Records.
"Violence of one degree or another is common to all anecdotal accounts of deprogramming."
Live video courtesy of WishYouWereHere_YT and photos by Left Hand Path Media.
The full and complete Campaign is here! The final Dungeon Module -- DM 1312 -- is now available for your streaming pleasure, and along with it, The Campaign is officially out! This series of EPs and collected LP showcase Knock Over City at their most diverse, from the southern rock riffing of opener "Empty Lair" (DM 420) to the alt pop rock of "Señorita Lechmere" (DM 69) and the raging hardcore anthem "Muffins for Marvin" (DM 1312). Stream the EPs everywhere, order your copy of the LP on Bandcamp, watch the music video on YouTube, or see the band play the record front to back LIVE tomorrow at Thirsty First in Lowell, MA.
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Thank you to everyone involved in writing, recording, mixing, mastering, designing, pressing, printing, and supporting this record. On behalf of CDR and KOC: "Hey bud, I'm proud of you. It was hard, but you did it."
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Knock Over City is Nunzio DiBenedetto (), Joseph Campbell (), Richard Surette (), and Johnny Jimenez (). Recorded by Alex Allinson () at The Bridge Sound and Stage (). Mastered by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East (). Artwork by Tom Lowell (). Layout by me. Pressed and printed by Gotta Groove Records ().
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Maximum volume yields maximum results.
Friday, June 14th: Knock Over City - The Campaign LP drops in full.
Saturday, June 15th: Record release show at Thirsty First with Slow Quit, Duck Island, Crowfeeder, and Knock Over City playing The Campaign in full.
Stay disappointed.
Knock Over City - The Campaign LP officially drops next Friday, June 14th. We greatly appreciate all the kind words about the pre-orders that have been received thus far. Wanna grab a copy? Either order on Bandcamp now or see the band play the entire record live on June 15th at Thirsty First in Lowell, MA. Stay disappointed.
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Knock Over City pre-orders are off. Thank you all for your support. See you at the record release show, 6/15, at Thirsty First with Slow Quit, Duck Island, Crowfeeder and Knock Over City performing THE CAMPAIGN in its entirety. Stay disappointed.
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Final touches to the LP with these hype stickers. Get hyped. Stay disappointed.
Putting together Knock Over City LPs and still in awe of the art by Tom Lowell. Also really proud of the TSR parody logo plastered all over. Record release show announced for June 15th at Thirsty First with Slow Quit, Duck Island (members of Stoploss), and Crowfeeder before KOC plays The Campaign in full. Stay disappointed.
Looking for recommendations on venues for reviews, features, good places to advertise, etc., any websites, YouTube channels, or zines, with a preference towards physical printing and/or outlets that review physical releases. Putting together some promo packages of this year's releases and choice back catalog. Hit the comments with your suggestions.
All remaining parts of Knock Over City - The Campaign LP are in. This is without a doubt the most ambitious package we've put together yet, with a full color gatefold jacket, 3 inserts, and a custom D20 (of which there is only 1 left!). Pressed onto ma*****na green vinyl, containing all 4 dungeon module digital EPs (the 4th will be released when the record drops), sequenced for a singular campaign experience, limited to 200 copies. Pre-order is open now, which includes a deluxe package that features the "it's rad, dude." EP 7", dropping June 14th, 2024. Record release show on June 15th to be announced soon. Just look at that gloriously printed artwork from Tom Lowell! Stay disappointed.
Teaser for the gimmick packaged with our next release (CDR-14). Coming soon. Stay disappointed.
Yesterday was a great first day of the Knock Over City pre-order for their forthcoming LP, The Campaign! We continue into the weekend first with a hearty thank you to all who have ordered so far.
Now for the update: there are less than 20 sorrow guy dice left, so if you haven't pre-ordered yet, don't sleep! Link in bio to pre-order on Bandcamp and watch the new music video for "Señorita Lechmere," capturing the band for the first time as a four-piece and in their natural state (i.e., Nunzio on the ground with his feet kicked up, Joey playing nvisible drums, Rick fixing a guitar, and Johnny programming beats).
HELL YEAH. GET RAD. STAY DISAPPOINTED.
Compiling Knock Over City's series of Dungeon Module EPs -- DM 420, DM 666, DM 69 (available now!), and DM 1312 (coming soon!) -- into a singular campaign! The Campaign LP (CDR-13) is available for pre-order now, shipping in June!
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Now, at long last, the four Dungeon Modules have been compiled on a 12” LP for the maximum campaign experience. 11 tracks of KOC at their most diverse, from the southern rock riffing of “Empty Lair” to the alt pop rock of “Señorita Lechmere” and the raging hardcore anthem “Muffins for Marvin.”
Pressed on ma*****na green vinyl in a full color gatefold jacket and three inserts, two of which feature character sheets with illustrations and stat blocks for The Count and Torchbear, two monsters from The Campaign mythos. The first 50 orders include a custom engraved CDR-branded 25mm D20 featuring sorrow guy! You can also pre-order a deluxe package that includes the “it's rad, dude.” EP (CDR-09) on 7” black vinyl which features the first appearance of both Torchbear and the Cosmic Turtle characters from The Campaign.
The full campaign drops June 14, 2024. Order now on Bandcamp! Watch the video for “Señorita Lechmere” (directed by Shoot the J Productions) on Bandcamp or YouTube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaU0tA84vCk
FFO: Seaweed, Hum, Helmet, Piebald, California X
Absolutely cannot believe this. F**k.
It's Bandcamp Friday. Pre-orders for our next two LPs should be going up sometime this month, but until then, pull something from the rest of our catalog. Stay disappointed. Link in bio.
Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3.
"She spoke Spanish with a Boston accent." The Campaign LP. Coming soon...
Friday night (3/15) is the final Bridge to Disappointment showcase at Deep Cuts in Medford featuring Billy, Psychic Weight, The Freqs, and Miracle Blood. Buy some records, merch, and get your ears blown out. Stay disappointed.
(last image courtesy of Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters from Eclipse Comics)
CDR-13 and 14 are set for release this year; both gatefold LPs, both colored vinyl, both insanely detailed artwork, both packaged with gimmicks. Some detail shots to whet your appetites. Pre-orders to launch...soon? Stay disappointed.
Third and final Bridge to Disappointment showcase series at Deep Cuts on Friday March 15th featuring Billy, Psychic Weight, The Freqs, and Miracl Blood. Flyer by .
February 17th is the second "Bridge to Disappointment" show, organzied by to showcase Constant Disappooiment Records + The Bridge Sound and Stage (bands on the label and/or that recorded at The Bridge) live at Deep Cuts in Medford. This time you get , , , and . Flyer designed by . Ticket link in bio. Stay disappointed.
CDR shirts, hoodies, beanies, records from the label and personal collection will be on hand at Deep Cuts this Saturday night for the first CDR + The Bridge showcase featuring Deprogrammer Cult (debur LP coming 2024), Knock Over City (new LP coming 2024), Stoploss (2020 LP still available), and Lesotho. Stay disappointed.
January 20th is the first of a series of shows to showcase a match made in hell: Constant Disappooiment Records + The Bridge Sound and Stage. Bands on the label and/or that recorded at The Bridge at Deep Cuts in Medford. This time you get , .lowell, , and CDR newcomers . Flyer designed by . Brain child and booking by . Ticket link in bio. Stay disappointed.
REGRET EVERYTHING. ETERNAL REJECTION. CONSTANT DISAPPOINTMENT.
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The December 2023 sale continues. After adding an item to your cart (ANY ITEM), include a note to say what you want for free (again: ANY ITEM).
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SORROW GUY WAILS ON AND ON AND ON AND ON.
Teeth Like Swords coming through with the Knock Over City PSA that will save your precious little ears. Grab one this Friday at Bone Up Brewing for this month's band hangout.
Our friends in making sure you know how to protect you ears. Go hang out with them at and pick one up while discussing the benefits of putting foam in your ears!
One of my favorite aspects of running a label is working on designing artwork, record packaging, and shirts. It’s definitely one of the more taxing parts of the process, but I’m very proud of the aesthetic of CDR and feel as though there is some cohesiveness to the music/art relationship for each release. As you can maybe tell, CDR has been pretty light on content and releases lately. So, to try and stay engaged, I’m going to make a series of posts dedicated to the design of each CDR and CDR-adjacent releases. We’re going to work backwards chronologically (approximately), starting with the latest release that isn’t CDR proper, but close enough.
Crowfeeder - Dirt. If you don’t already know, Crowfeeder is my band, and the Crowfeeder LP from 2017 was the first ever CDR release. Our most recent EP “Dirt” has not yet seen a physical release, but I did the design work for the art that accompanies the digital release, seen in the first image of this post. The cover depicts a warped image of a building, overlayed with textures made from very light text and linework, all in grayscale. The title is also grayscale, written in a typewriter font that is slightly decayed. The only other color present is perrywinkle that is used for the thin border and the CF logo. Let’s try and track the development of this cover.
To be blunt, we had absolutely no fu***ng idea what to do for the artwork on this release. The music writing, recording, and mixing process for this record came together pretty quickly, but as mastering was wrapping up we had to figure the art out as we wanted to release it within a month or two. The only real source I could draw from was the inspiration behind much of the song content: the life and crimes of Carl Panzram, an absolute bastard of a human being and serial killer.
Without wanting to hit the nail on the head too explicitly (e.g., a picture of Panzram), I started looking for other related media: pictures of his gravestone, the cell where he spent his final days, etc. The building shown on the cover is of the prison where he was kept during his final incarceration before being executed by hanging. The image itself wasn’t very high resolution, so I needed to treat it in some way that would allow it to be printable in larger formats (i.e., 12” LP jacket) if that were to happen, so I gave it a circular/spiral warp filter. I think this also adds some ambiguity as to what the image actually is, and actually kind of makes it look like the building is on fire or something. Kinda cool looking.
I’ve always struggled with adding texture to images, typically going with drier, flatter compositions, but the warped image itself just looked too clean for an EP called “Dirt,” so I first added in a very faint block of text that features the lyrics to the record repeated in order to fill the entire frame (this is actually the only instance of the lyrics being printed anywhere). The line drawings that were added came from an earlier draft of the art that used schematics of a gallows, which still read as diagrammatic in the image, which I like. Up to this point there was still no color, but I wanted some type of accent in there to sell more of a mood or tone to it. I started by going to some shades of purple pulled from the photos used in the No Flowers LP, which were too dark and brooding, so I just shifted the saturation and brightness of one shade of purple down until I hit perrywinkle, and it just seemed to work. We’re not a very bombastic band, so a color scheme that reads more somber and weak seemed fitting.
And that’s that. I’m very happy with how this turned out, but it was a major struggle to make it happen. Previous ideas were very underbaked and just didn’t fit the feeling of the record. Some of those are featured in the images that accompany this post.
Hopefully I’ll actually do more of these posts. Listen to Crowfeeder - Dirt (streaming everywhere). Stay disappointed.
Images in this post:
1. Final cover art
2. Original prison photo
3. Panzram grave draft
4. Gallows schematics design draft
5. Black stickers on a clear polybag draft
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DEPROGRAMMER CULT - TACTICS FOR MANIPULATION LP (CDR-14). Harkening back to the sounds of the pioneers of early 2000s noisey metalcore, the Massachusetts quintet unleashes their debut LP balancing equal parts anger, anxiety, frustration, and existential dread in a vicious cycle of distortion and feedback, compressed into 8 tracks of seething and sludgy metallic hardcore. Track 2, "ContrĂ´le Milieu," is streaming everywhere now, showcasing the band's mid-tempo rage, beating the listener down and casting aspersions on what they knew to be true about living. "I don't think so. Living life on the edge. Living traps your brain. It's all a lie." Watch the lyric video on YouTube now (link in bio). FFO: Cursed, Botch, Deadguy, Unsane, Tragedy "Tactics for Manipulation" is pressed on transparent jungle swirl vinyl packaged in a full color gatefold jacket with insert. A limited edition deluxe package includes a CDR pog set with 10 mini record pogs of each prior vinyl release and a slammer featuring the enigmatic Deprogrammer Cult symbol. Stack up CDR's past and slam them into oblivion. Limited to 25. The full record drops July 19th. Pre-order on Bandcamp now (link in bio). Deprogrammer Cult - Tactics for Manipulation. Recorded and engineered by Alex Allinson at The Bridge Sound and Stage. Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege. Artwork and layout by Brian Vocal Terror. Pressed and printed by Gotta Groove. Released by Constant Disappointment Records. "Violence of one degree or another is common to all anecdotal accounts of deprogramming." Live video courtesy of WishYouWereHere_YT and photos by Left Hand Path Media.
DEPROGRAMMER CULT - TACTICS FOR MANIPULATION LP (CDR-14). Harkening back to the sounds of the pioneers of early 2000s noisey metalcore, the Massachusetts quintet unleashes their debut LP balancing equal parts anger, anxiety, frustration, and existential dread in a vicious cycle of distortion and feedback, compressed into 8 tracks of seething and sludgy metallic hardcore. Track 2, "ContrĂ´le Milieu," is streaming everywhere now, showcasing the band's mid-tempo rage, beating the listener down and casting aspersions on what they knew to be true about living. "I don't think so. Living life on the edge. Living traps your brain. It's all a lie." Watch the lyric video on YouTube now (link in comments). FFO: Cursed, Botch, Deadguy, Unsane, Tragedy "Tactics for Manipulation" is pressed on transparent jungle swirl vinyl packaged in a full color gatefold jacket with insert. A limited edition deluxe package includes a CDR pog set with 10 mini record pogs of each prior vinyl release and a slammer featuring the enigmatic Deprogrammer Cult symbol. Stack up CDR's past and slam them into oblivion. Limited to 25. The full record drops July 19th. Pre-order on Bandcamp now (link in comments). Deprogrammer Cult - Tactics for Manipulation. Recorded and engineered by Alex Allinson at The Bridge Sound and Stage. Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege. Artwork and layout by Brian Vocal Terror. Pressed and printed by Gotta Groove. Released by Constant Disappointment Records. "Violence of one degree or another is common to all anecdotal accounts of deprogramming." Live video courtesy of WishYouWereHere_YT and photos by Left Hand Path Media.
Live from Sammy's Patio, August 2021, "Empty Lair" is the opening track from Knock Over City's forthcoming LP, The Campaign. Pre-order now and don't miss out on the limited edition sorrow guy D20s available with the first 50 records.🎲
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