2008 Wrap-up

With the year ending we felt it was completely relevant to let you all in on what was liked in the landmine camp... these lists are obviously not the end all, be all (except Grace's list!) and I am sure there were some things we overlooked, as it was a long year.

Matt
Trap Them- Seizures in Barren Praise
Burn After Reading
Trash Talk- S/T 12” and Live
The Game- LAX
Dark Throne- Dark Thrones and Black Flags
Longmont Potion Castle- volume 6
Vegan Pho in Portland
Misery Index- Traitors
Rotten Sound- Cycles
My Sarcasm

Ryan
Trap Them - Seizures In Barren Praise
Hail Of Bullets - Of Frost and War
Doktor Sleepless - Warren Ellis
Graf Orlock - Destination Time: Today
Batman - R.I.P. - Grant Morrison
Unleashed - Hammer Batallion
Misery Index - Traitors
Carcass - Live
Watain - Live
Saviours - Into Abaddon

Grace
top 10 assholes of 2008
10- travis barker
09- the chick that shot a bear and had sex on it
08- heath ledgers drug dealer
07- the state of ohio:

06- trig palin
05- cakesfarts.com
04- good old W.
03- chinese democracy
02- jesus
01- sarah palin

Mike
10 Rotten Sound- Cycles
9 Mogwai- The Hawk is Howling
8 Moss- Subtemplum
7 Syphilitic Vaginas- LP
6 Ghostlimb- Bearing and Distance
5 Trash Talk- S/T LP
4 Leviathan- Massive Conspiracy of All Life
3 Gauze- BINBOU YUSURI NO RIZUMU NI NOTTE
2 World Burns to Death- The Graveyard of Utopia
1 Carcass Live in LA

ROCKSOUND!

check out a Landmine Marathon feature in the latest issue of ROCKSOUND

REVOLVER!!!!!

Check us out in the Profiles to Watch section....

TOURZ

Our recent west coast tour was an awesome success almost every show was awesome and we had so many good friends new and old help us out!

So here is a little rundown of some of the good people we want to thank:

First and foremost Graf Orlock and Ghostlimb, Marmot Manor and AMOLTs at Johnny’Zs… amazing times! Jake, the Che Café, Cheap Art. Waco Fuck and Alex for taking some excellent photos. Pokez for making excellent food and offering such surly service, we would have it no other way. Cattle Decapitation, All at the Pink Mailbox, Worship, Arctic Choke and specifically Ryan, brother always goes beyond the call to make sure we are taken care of! Jason Spires and all at the Quarter Century Michael Jordan house, who once again made Oakland amazing Acts of Sedition Jason etc etc. Thanks to Anna for letting us take over her couches and floor! Everyone at the Eyeball in Reno, Reno kids are some of the best. Adam in Portland, a more than gracious host, we wish you could have followed us for the entire trip. Stacy Schrag for the photos, the company and just for being a great dude throughout the years! Jozy for treating us excellent as always, Transient for killing it so good. Medford, Ischemia and Gabe for the hospitality and the great time! Gilman, Yosef, Ryan and ALL of the staff for making it an awesome place and a raging good time. Trash Talk for owning it, Never Healed and Casey! Impaled dudes! Riverside kids, Brenton for making it happen, Bad Lovers and Rambo Knife for destroying. I'm sure we missed a few people and bands... so many rad folks!!

Most importantly thanks to everyone who came to our shows, supported, bought merch, headbanged, etc etc… you kids are amazing!!! We already miss the road and cannot wait to be back out there... EAST COAST USA... you are next!!!!!!!!

landmine @che cafe by alex miranda

Some press stuff:

Matt wrote a bit about the things he loves about Arizona here:
http://www.deafsparrow.com/Landmine-Marathon-Feature.htm

We were Metal Artist of the week here:
http://www.perfspot.com/music/reviews.asp?page=4

Cosmo is a great guy and a great writer, we are more than stoked to have him on our side!!!
http://invisibleoranges.com/2008/11/landmine-marathon-to-maim-west-coast.html

Seriously good stuff:
http://teethofthedivine.com/site/reviews/landmine-marathon-rusted-eyes-awake/

An awesome review from an awesome website:
http://www.metalsucks.net/2008/11/10/reviews-in-brief-excellent-new-releases-from-landmine-marathon-misery-index-and-bloodbath/

pick up the Jan 09 issue of Revolver!
more exciting stuff coming soon!

Tour looms upon us! We're doing a west coast tour starting this Friday and I'm beyond stoked. As you may know, our new album "Rusted Eyes Awake" was released on Tuesday and is already selling well. Please pick one up as soon as you can. We had our CD release show last Friday at the Big Fish Pub, which has now been dubbed the Big Fish Flub. If you were there, you most likely witnessed that some over zealous security guards and the sound man decided to attack and remove anyone even remotely moving during our set. Needless to say, we weren't going to stand for it. We stopped the set and proceeded to fend off the security guards even though they brandished weapons. They soon realized they were very, very out numbered and let us remove our gear from their horribly ran venue. Most were unable to purchase the new album due to the premature ending of the show and we assure you that you can easily obtain it from us, Level Plane, Relapse, and record stores around the valley (and the world for that matter). You can also still order the exclusive t shirt through Relapse as well. So, tour starts this week, the new Jackson catalog is online featuring interviews with Matt and I (http://jacksonguitars.com/artists/index.php?id=328), we may do some SW dates at the beginning of January, and we should have more awesome news to announce for the New Year! Ryan/LM