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We're really happy to release the second full lenght from french Noise / Metal band SOFY MAJOR on Solar Flare Records. Their new album IDOLIZE to be released as a 12" LP, CD Digipack & Limited Vinyl Boxset. PRE-ORDER SLF010 :: SOFY MAJOR - Idolize 12" LP + MP3 / CD Digipack / Apparel (out May 31st, pre-orders get a 10% discount) Listen to « Comment » PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM HERE Out of the bowels of the post-industrial badlands of Clermont-Ferrand, France comes SOFY MAJOR, a metallic noiserock trio highly motivated in intoxicating the listener with their energetic and off-kilter attack, than kick your liver in while your hangover is at its worst. In the Autumn of 2012 SOFY MAJOR transports to the Northeastern North American quadrant, bent on hammering out their new opus at renowned Brooklyn-based studio Translator Audio with producer Andrew Schneider (Unsane, Keelhaul, Cave In, etc.) as well as to embark on their first US tour. As luck would have it, they arrived in town at the same time Hurricane Sandy moved in. The loss is 100% -- the entire studio flooded beyond repair, and all equipment in the studio including the band’s gear left swimming. The trio bummed around the borough for a few days, hooking up with cohort and labelmate Dave Curran (Unsane, Pigs), who helped set up the sessions they crossed the globe to carry out. After 3 weeks of recording, the band embarks on their first US tour. A trip melting ultimate mysticism, stupidity, bad karma and shitty disaster B movies without any special effect. Vinyl Infos : :: 500 LPs in three different colors : - 150 Opaque w/ Haze (Bone & Bronze) - 150 A Side / B Side (Bone & Beer) - 200 Black vinyl :: Thick jacket covers :: Insert :: Download card :: Price : 11.90€ (pre-orders get 10% discount : 10,80€) + shipping Artwork by Gerald G. SOFY MAJOR : Bandcamp | Facebook | Website | Twitter | Web Store | Youtube SOLAR FLARE RECORDS : Website | Bandcamp | Facebook | Twitter | Web Store | Youtube | Soundcloud

Pro Crook music video taken from "Sleepwalk" by Watertank is now available : Pre-orders are still on : http://solarflarerds.bigcartel.com/product/watertank-sleepwalk-12-vinyl

We're glad to announce that metal & noise band WATERTANK just joined Solar Flare Records. Their next album SLEEPWALK to be released as a 12" LP with download card.. PRE-ORDER SLF009 :: WATERTANK - Sleepwalk 12" LP + MP3 card (out April 27th, pre-orders get a 10% discount) Listen to « Giant Heads » From doom vibes (Holy Tranquilizer, Where It All Begins) to 90's post hardcore influences (Off The Radar, Ants In Suits, Quicksand), including Christmas carols (Sharp Beaks Strike Back) and prog rock style rip-off (Six Days), the band doesn't seem to fit under any particular category, focused on keeping things straight to the point with a melodic twist. SLEEPWALK celebrates the 10th anniversary of french band Watertank and in the same time their debut album. Infos : :: 250 black LPs :: Thick jacket covers :: Price : 12.00€ (10.8€ avec remise de pré-commande) + shipping WATERTANK : Bandcamp | Facebook SOLAR FLARE RECORDS : Website | Bandcamp | Facebook | Twitter | Web Store | Youtube | Soundcloud

Good news, the 2nd press of this gem will arrive this mid-february : PREORDERS : http://solarflarerds.bigcartel.com/product/pigs-tba-12-vinyl-preorders We just launched special deals with VINYL PACKS : http://solarflarerds.bigcartel.com/product/vinyl-pack PIGS - You Ruin Everything 2nd press run is limited to 200 units and available in 3 different colos : - Black - Blue with red haze - Clear with brown haze

Records are now available (super limited run) and they look awesome ! 5€ + shipping on our webstore : http://sofymajor.bigcartel.com/product/7-vinyl-split-sofy-major-uncle-touchy'>ORDER HERE Copies are also available on http://www.nolistrecords.com/review/noel031/'>No List Records webstore for North America.

vinyl just arrived ! ORDER IT HERE (12€ + port) LISTEN TO ALBUM HERE AMERICAN HERITAGE - Sedentary is now available on vinyl through Solar Flare Records in two colors : - Black vinyl - Half / Half (Shit Brown / Yellow Piss)

The whole album is listenable here : http://solarflarerds...album/sedentary Pre-orders are still running here : http://solarflarerds...inyl-pre-orders

No List Records final new release of 2012 is a split 7″ featuring two diverse approaches to the heavy : PREORDER NOEL31 UNCLE TOUCHY / SOFY MAJOR - Split Vinyl 7" | MP3 (out 14th November) Uncle Touchy side : 1. Endless Forms 2. Freedom of Choice (DEVO Cover) Sofy Major side : 1. The Almighty Magic Water 2. Bastion PREORDER THIS RECORD HERE First up is alumni Uncle Touchy, who grind out their sickest to date in “Endless Forms” and follow-up with a cover of DEVO’s title track to their third album, “Freedom of Choice”…hardcore rager! When Sofy Major told me of their plans to head into Translator Audio / Coextinction rds Studio, I knew I had to hook them up with an artist that would help show them the American country-side. Two weeks out with Uncle Touchy was quickly assembled and this tour 7″ emerged. These cats even hooked me up with Hugues of Puzzle Records to do the artwork…check him out here: http://www.puzzle-records.com/wordpress/?cat=15 “Bastion” was originally released as a cassette only bonus track from Sofy Major’s 2010 LP “Permission to Engage”. Vinyl infos : :: 500 7" vinyl available : - 500 black - 5 TPs :: Full color foldover jacket :: Price : 6$ + transport fees Artwork by Hugues Puzzzle ! Uncle Touchy : http://www.uncletouchy.com Sofy Major : http://www.sofymajor.com No List Records : http://www.nolistrecords.com | Contact us for shipment, wholesale and Press infos

We're glad to announce AMERICAN HERITAGE from Chicago / USA will release their third full lenght on vinyl through Solar Flare Rds. This is SLF008. PREORDER SLF008 AMERICAN HERITAGE - Sedentary 12" LP | MP3 (out 27th November Pre-orderers get a 10% discount.) STREAM THE WHOLE ALBUM HERE PREORDER THIS RECORD HERE « Sedentary », third album from Chicago Metal band, AMERICAN HERITAGE, is available for pre-order through french label SOLAR FLARE Records as a 12" LP. AMERICAN HERITAGE consists of Adam Norden (Guitar, Vocals), Scott Shellhamer (Guitar), Mike Duffy (Drums), Erik Bocek (Bass). This record also features Mastodon's Bill Kelliher, Black Cobra's Rafa Martinez, and Buried at Sea's / Minsk's Sanford Parker. Vinyl infos : :: 300 LPs are available in two different colors : - 200 Black - 100 Half / Half (Transparent Yellow & Brown) :: Thick jacket covers :: Price : 12.00 euros (10.8€ with pre-order discount) + transport fees Artwork by Chris Eichenseer. AMERICAN HERITAGE : Bandcamp | Facebook | Myspace | Twitter PRE-ORDER : HERE SOLAR FLARE RECORDS http://www.solarflarerds.com http://www.twitter.com/solarflarerds http://www.facebook.com/solarflarerds http://solarflarerds.bigcartel.com http://solarflarerds.bandcamp.com http://www.youtube.com/solarflarerds http://www.soundclou...m/solarflarerds SLF008 : American Heritage - Sedentary LP 12" out on 27.11.2012 SLF007 : Pigs - You Ruin Everything LP 12" sold out - to be repressed SLF006 : Membrane / Sofy Major - Split LP 12" SLF005 : Sofy Major - Permission to Engage 2xLP 12" sold out SLF004 : Sofy Major - 5 Years of Freaks CD SLF003 : Sofy Major - Maxi 12" sold out SLF002 : One Second Riot / Sofy Major - Split 10" SLF001 : Sofy Major - EP 12" sold out Ask us for shipment, wholesale and Press infos

THE RECORD IS OUT NOW AND AVAILABLE FOR ORDERING : http://solarflarerds.bigcartel.com (12" vinyl + DL card, three colors, 12€ + shipment) Two new tracks can be listened on Metalsucks and Radio Metal before being available for listening in its entirety : Pigs - DRAINED Pigs - MASHANTUCKET Pigs - GIVE IT can still be listened here HERE Some pictures : The bear throwing lightnings through his eyes and his ass, yeah !

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US and Canadian tape version of the album Permission to Engage from french Noise Hardcore band Sofy Major just arrived : Artwork by Gerald Jay, screenprinted by L'Orchidoclaste, solid red tape with insert. Released by Désordre Ordonné (Canada) and Keep it Together (USA). The tape features an unreleased track recorded by Andrew Schneider (Unsane, Keelhaul, Cave In) taken from the Permission to Engage studio sessions. LISTEN : BASTION Directly available through the band for Europe (4€ + postage) and labels for North America, limited to 130 copies : Europe : http://www.sofymajor.com | [email protected] USA : http://keepittogetherrecords.com Canada : http://www.loeildutigre.com/

We're glad to announce PIGS from NYC / USA will release their first full lenght through Solar Flare Rds. This is SLF007. When Unsane bassist Dave Curran started writing songs on guitar with drummer Jim Paradise (Player's Club, Freshkills, Hellno) the name they tossed out for their fledgling project was simple: PIGS. "We figured it was short enough that press and promoters couldn't fuck it up." Producer Andrew Schneider (Cave In, Converge, Made Out of Babies, Unsane, Keelhaul) was invited to fill-in on bass for a couple of shows and, much to their delight, has refused to leave. The sound ? PIGS sound like the last forty-five minutes of that interminable haul from Portland to San Francisco when both patience and air conditioning are long gone; like a petty, early-morning drunken argument in a gravel parking lot about the stupid, impossible math of how to divide forty-one dollars three ways; like when the left rear bearing on the van that's been squealing and then grinding for days finally gets hot enough to weld itself into the axle and the ancient Detroit Deathtrap grates to a final, shuddering halt. Pigs sound like three guys who have played countless shows in many bands for a couple of decades in several dozen countries and still can't leave it alone. Dave Curran : Guitar, Vocals Andrew Schneider : Bass, Vocals Jim Paradise : Drums are Pigs OUT : late March 2012 (pre-orders just began) ON : 300 black vinyl, 200 clear w/ red haze LISTEN : http://soundcloud.com/solarflarerds/pigs-give-it BUY : http://solarflarerds.bigcartel.com/ (note to the north-american people : the LP will be available directly through the band or on the Melvins / Unsane tour) LINKS : http://www.solarflarerds.com / http://www.pigsnyc.com

We just got the LPs and they are awesome ! Orders (LP + CD insert) thorugh : [email protected] or http://sofymajor.bigcartel.com

Basement Apes Ind., Impure Muzik, Prototype Rds, Bigoût Rds & Ocinatas Ind present : SOFY MAJOR side : 1. Ruin it All (hd MP3) 2. Doomsayer & Friends 3. Some more Pills 4. Once was a Warrior (fan my flame and I'll still be one) MEMBRANE side : 1. Gruesome Tale (hd MP3) 2. Small Fires 3. Lifeless Down on the Floor SOFY MAJOR Recorded by Laurent Saussol at Studio Palissy in July 2011. Mixed by Andrew Schneider at Translator Audio. Mastered by Nick Zampiello and Rob Gonnella at New Alliance East. Once was a Warrior lyrics and growls by Xavier Theret. MEMBRANE Recorded, and mixed by Yann Morel, Sébastien Déscamps at Studio Cube in July 2011. Mastered by Nick Zampiello and Rob Gonnella at New Alliance East. http://www.cube-studio.com Artwork par Julien Paget. To be released as a 12" clear vinyl with CD. http://www.sofymajor.com | [email protected] http://www.myspace.com/membraneband | [email protected]

New album Permission to Engage from Sofy Major to be released as 2xSplatter LP and CD Digipack in November. A track here : Cobra Blanc. SOFY MAJOR (Heavy Rock // CLERMONT-FD) - Permission to Engage ..recorded by Laurent Saussol @ Studio Palissy ..mixed Andrew Schneider @ Translator Audio ..mastered Nick Zampiello & Rob Gonella @ New Alliance East ..artwork by Gerald Jay & Nicolas Deschamps http://www.sofymajor.com Permission to Engage, with no question mark. Because Sofy Major doesn’t ask for. With their debut album, the band from Clermont-Fd (FRA) authorize themselves to fire at will. Result is they break many walls between extreme musical styles, to resume in fifty minutes what others have been trying for years. But it was the least these three hard workers (and not rockers, unless maybe…) could do for their first full length: no way, after several releases and intensive touring over France and Europe, that the band stops a perpetual evolution guided by a DIY work and life ethic. Far beyond anything they’ve done before, Permission to Engage takes Sofy Major to a new step in the band’s career. Expect no-prisoners-shows and epic assaults on stage. And the charge is just getting started… Out through : Basement Apes Ind. : http://www.basementapesind.com/ Odio Sonoro : http://www.odiosonoro.com Prototype Rds : http://www.myspace.com/prototyperecords Bigoût Rds : http://bigoutrecords.free.fr Atropine Rds : http://atropinerec.free.fr Some Gigs : 06.10.10 : w/ L'Homme Puma @ Roham Kavezo, Budapest (Hg) 07.10.10 : w/ L'Homme Puma @ TBA - Szeged (Hg) 08.10.10 : w/ L'Homme Puma @ Pavilionul32 - Timisoara (Ro) 09.10.10 : w/ L'Homme Puma @ Kawiarnia Naukowa - Krakow (Pl) 10.10.10 : w/ L'Homme Puma @ Irish & Music Pub - Cluj Napoca (Ro) 11.10.10 : w/ L'Homme Puma @ Elephant - Bucharest (Ro) 12.10.10 : w/ L'Homme Puma @ The Box - Sofia (Bg) 13.10.10 : w/ L'Homme Puma @ Squat Rog - Ljubljana (Sl) 14.10.10 : w/ L'Homme Puma @ TBA , Rijeka (Hr) 15.10.10 : w/ L'Homme Puma @ Ekidna - San Martino (It) 16.10.10 : w/ L'Homme Puma @ Up & Down - Montpellier (Fr) 22.11.10 : w/ Shrinebuilder @ Epicerie Modern - Feyzin (Fr) 26.11.10 : @ TBA, Tours (Fr) 27.11.10 : w/ Marvin + Signal Carré + Howling Grizzly @ Poco Loco - Clermont-Ferrand (Fr) 01.12.10 : @ TBA, **Need Help - Basque Country (Sp) 02.12.10 : @ TBA, **Need Help - Basque Country / Asturias (Sp) 03.12.10 : @ TBA, **Need Help - Asturias / Galicia (Sp) 04.12.10 : @ TBA, **Need Help - Asturias / Basque Country or Portugal (Sp / Po)