About this project
OKAY HERE'S THE DEAL. We were all set to press the new CD with this awesome package design by Kallisti:Design that included a die-cut, cardboard O-ring, when BAM. New record label. UNH.
As excited as we are about said new record label, they weren't super into my crazy and completely-nonsensical-from-a-cost-perspective packaging idea, but I'm going to be highly unsatisfied with the physical product if we don't have it. My solution? BRUTALLY MURDER YOU ALL. Once I realized that wouldn't actually solve anything, I settled on a Kickstarter project instead. This will also provide me a sweet opportunity to distribute the locals-only second half of the EP, featuring all the best of the San Francisco Bay Area's industrial music community.
Why are we doing this, you might ask? First of all, because the artwork with the O-ring looks fantastic, and it's done, and it would be a shame if people didn't get to see it. The era of the CD may be drawing to a close, but we still need good products to sell at shows (and as you probably know, merch sales at shows are a primary source of operating revenue for any band,) and for that to work we need to have the best-looking product possible. Plus, I want my artistic vision fulfilled and whathaveyou.
The specially packaged CDs will NOT be available through Metropolis, and we don't have an online store- in fact, the only way you'll be able to get them (at least initially) is either through this project or at one of our shows. And the bonus remixes are AWESOME, and I am serious.
Hugs and kisses,
Eric Gottesman
FAQ
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I was baking you a cake. I ran out of sugar so I had to use existential ennui instead.
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I was really full from all that ham, and I figured you'd be too worn out to talk after swallowing all those nickels.
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Get a rude and distressing public tweet to your Twitter profile, from Edgar at the @icebrigade account.
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Digital download of the exclusive Bay Area Remix Pack, featuring [Cynical_MASS], Slave Unit, Bloodwire, Overdrive Corporation, and NPMN.
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The Fancy Packaging part of the new EP (including the digital download,) sans the disc and the jewel case. Get this if you preordered from Metropolis or Artoffact or COP or something!
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Stitchmind sticker pack! Pack of four silksceened vinyl stickers and two kickass temporary tattoos with designs by Edgar G. Chillingston designer Stitchmind, good for outdoor and indoor use.
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The specially packaged edition of the new EP, including the digital download above! Autographed if you want.
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Everything above PLUS your choice of EGC tour shirt. Choose between the full color "Minivan" design or black and white "Iron Fist/QR Code".
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The I Liked You Before You Were Cool Pack, which includes a copy of the new EP with the fancy packaging and a phone call from Eric and fellow original Psyclon Nine member Josef Heresy in which we tell you about dumb shit that happened to us in Psyclon that we would never reveal in interviews. You can tell other people later, but they probably won't believe you.
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The Stitchmind Cockblock Pack. Includes a Stitchmind Cockblock plush doll, a Stitchmind logo T-Shirt, and a copy of the new EP in fancy packaging.
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The Yo Dawg I Heard You Like Everything, So We Put Everything By Everything Goes Cold in Your Everything Goes Cold Pack So Now You Can Listen To Everything by Everything Goes Cold While Everything Goes Cold Pack. Includes: The Prepare To Be Refrigerated EP (CD) / The Ice Brigade Membership Pack, including "vs. General Failure" (CD) and "Mechanicals, Vol. 1" (Digital access,) plus an exclusive full-color comic book by Stitchmind, a giant fridge magnet, an exclusive 1.25" pin, and a numbered membership card / The Tyrant Sun EP (CD) with special packaging and exclusive Bay Area Remixes
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An exclusive, limited edition, silk-screened print of Stitchmind artwork based on The Tyrant Sun! Print will be unframed at 14x18 in one color. Exclusive to this Kickstarter! THIS WILL BE SUPER AWESOME. We have to sell -at least five- of these to make the run. Artwork available soon.
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The new EP in fancy packaging, one other CD of your choice (vs. General Failure, Prepare To Be Refrigerated, See Colin Slash, DEATHKEY compilation,) and a custom mix CD detailing the history of American Coldwave music, compiled to your specifications and preferences and featuring rare and/or unreleased tracks from Eric's extensive (and in fact, nearly -complete-, and I am serious about that) collection of American Coldwave music. The notes will probably get pretty long. You want this, trust me.
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The Yo Dawg We Heard You Also Like T-Shirts and Other Bands Pack, which includes the regular Yo Dawg package (above) plus BOTH EGC tour shirts in any size AND a copy of the "Songs in the Key of Death" DEATHKEY compilation CD AND the See Colin Slash best-of "Fish In a Bag" CD.
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A copy of the new EP in fancy packaging, plus Eric will take you out to dinner at the best sushi place in the entire Bay Area, if not California, and rant at you about Industrial Music the entire time. You must be able to get to Alameda, California, for this.
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A copy of the new EP in fancy packaging, plus Mike Blodgett, EGC keyboardist/thereminist/producer, will produce and record your band's track at Electric Sparkyland Studios in Oakland. You must be able to actually get to Oakland, California, if you want to actually record. Includes up to 8 hours of recording and 8 hours of mixing.
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A copy of the new EP in fancy packaging, plus Everything Goes Cold remix your band! You must be able to provide uncompressed, 24-bit stems for your track.
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Stitchmind will make you an original framed art at a size of 9"x12" inches of whatever he feels like. He will make this after the pledge so the buyer can influence what he makes with some preferences, but hes not making and giant dong monster or anything.
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The Oh God You Must Be Some Kind of Crazy Stalker Pack. Includes the $100 Yo Dawg Pack, plus you and up to three friends can come sit in on an EGC rehearsal session. Tell us why we're terrible, complain about our setlist, and listen to us play the same 20 second section of "IGNORE" like fifty times in a row because James is convinced something sounds weird with it. Find out why we never play "Monsters of the Modern Age" live- and find it out the hard way. Show us how we're doing it wrong, and that you're a better musician than any of us. Also, you'll know where we rehearse, which will terrify us forever. You must be able to get to Oakland, California, to purchase this reward.
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Creeping at an unsettlingly slow pace out of that weird eggplant-shaped lamp you got for your mother last St. Patrick's Day comes Everything Goes Cold: Corporate America's answer to Yugoslavian "Cocoon" slashfic.
Industrial music's most dangerously chewy proliferator, Eric Gottesman, fronts the group. A founding member of Psyclon Nine, Gottesman is also an occasional instrumentalist for every backwoods jug band from Ayria to XP8 to Caustic. Joined by washtub bassist James Webb and future galactic president Mike Blodgett on the mouth harp, Everything Goes Cold will tear you a new one for letting the dog into the neighbor's yard last night. Why did you do that? He pulled up the entire flower bed, and now we're going to have to offer to pay for it or it'll be all awkward at the block party next week.
Six thousand years after their 2009 full-length, "vs. General Failure" (Bit Riot Records,) Everything Goes Cold returns in 2012 with an explosive new EP, "The Tyrant Sun." Featuring the powerful new single "The Iron Fist of Just Destruction," celebrity guest appearances, and remixes by Aesthetic Perfection, DJ? Acucrack, and more, The Tyrant Sun barrels further down the terrifying rabbit hole of supervillainy than a 14-year-old bald kid with dead parents, mind-control powers, and a destructo-beam powered by the tears of misbegotten children.
Lock down your appliances, put on your safety helmets, and get ready to taste a refreshing peppermint breeze as you await brutal decapitation at the hands of your new robotic refrigerator overlord. Or, you know, whatever's convenient for you.
