Poison Idea is releasing Confuse & Conquer, their first new album since 2006’s Latest Will and Testament, out April 7, 2015 via Southern Lord Recordings.
Soaking up respect from generations of hardcore punks and dishing none out, the dastardly denizens of mid-paced punk shred are in trademark form on Confuse & Conquer. With longstanding members Jerry A (vocals), Eric “The Vegetable” Olsen (guitar) and Chris “Spider” Carey (bass) alloyed by the fresh faces of Nathan “Skinny” Richardson (drums) and Brandon Bentley (guitar), POISON IDEA’s brand new full-length proves itself both identifiable and rewarding to listeners who have encountered them at any point from their 1980 birth onwards. Inventive beyond its steadfast roots, yet altogether as blunt as a stagediver’s knee hurtling towards your face, Confuse & Conquer sees the band wasting not a single second on non-music activities, riding high on this wave of creativity. Their forceful hardcore pummel is underwritten with dark humor, rage, disdain, and moments of real melancholy well beyond the usual remit of the genre, but it’s to be expected of Portland’s nihilistic champions, proudly unaligned with any other sound out there. They were there at the beginning and they’ll be there at the end, and in the meantime they have a lot more punk rock left to produce.
Confuse & Conquer was recorded in their hometown by Joel Grind (Toxic Holocaust) and mastered by Brad Boatright (From Ashes Rise) at Audiosiege over the closing few months of 2014, and will see release via Southern Lord on the 7th of April on CD, LP and digital formats. Additionally, expanded reissues of seminal POISON IDEA titles War All The Time, Feel The Darkness and more are also in the works for the coming years.
Southern Lord Recordings owner Greg Anderson issued on the signing and upcoming album, “I’ve been a rabid POISON IDEA fiend ever since seeing them decimate the legendary Gorilla Gardens in Seattle in 1985. Having the opportunity to work with this legendary band all these years later is an inexplicable honor.”
Formed in 1980, POISON IDEA became a household name in the hardcore/punk scenes early in their career, and are known as one of the most notoriously in-your-face acts in the American musical underworld, with an enraged, high-energy live set even more rambunctious than the massive roster of singles, EPs, full-length studio and live releases and more, across a realm of labels including Pusmort, Alchemy, American Leather, Bitzcore, Tim/Kerr, Taang!, Farewell, TKO, Southern Lord, Candlelight, and their own Fatal Erection. They’ve been an incredibly influential act to major performers including Nirvana, Pantera, Napalm Death, Machine Head, Eyehategod, Emperor, Turbonegro and an endless list of others.
POISON IDEA Tour Dates:
Mar 11-14: The Loving Touch – Ferndale, MI @ Berserker Fest II
Apr 17: Schaubude – Kiel (DE)
Apr 18: 1000Fyrd – Aalborg (DE)
Apr 19: Hafenklang – Hamburg (DE)
Apr 20: Little Devil – Tilburg (NL)
Apr 21: Willemeen – Arnhem (NL)
Apr 22: TBA – Frankfurt (DE)
Apr 23: Chez Heinz – Hannover (DE)
Apr 24: Wild At Heart – Berlin (DE)
Apr 25: Luka – Lodz (PL)
Apr 27: Alte Malzerei – Regensburg (DE)
Apr 28: Exit Us – Prague (CZ)
Apr 29: Explosiv – Graz (AU)
Apr 30: Arena – Vienna (AU)
May 01: Unterhund – Ormoz (SL)
May 02: Kaleidos – Poviglio (IT)
May 03: Traffic Club – Rome (IT)
May 04: Border – Torino (IT)
May 05: Between – Bregenz (AT)
May 06: Ondulatoire – Paris (FR)
May 07: Borderline – London (UK)
May 08: The Doghouse – Nottingham (UK)
May 09: The Black Bull – Gateshead (UK)
May 10: Audio – Glasgow (UK)
May 12: Adam And Eve Pub – Birmingham (UK)
May 13: The Exchange – Bristol (UK)
May 14: The Owl Sanctuary – Norwich (UK)
May 15: Het Bos – Antwerp (BE)
May 16: MTC – Cologne (DE)
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