- Things are progressing very well with “Displacement Disorder”.

- We uploaded a preview of the first three songs from the album to our Soundcloud and Myspace pages.

- The pressing plant has all of the artwork and approved it last week along with the liner notes and the MASSIVE “thank you” list.

- The master CD’s and copyright forms were sent via snail mail last Monday and should be in their hands any day now to get pressed.

- All 60 of the mini-collages are finished and just need laminated now.

- Working with Paul McCarroll to design the PDF file we will be including with the digital version of the album, containing extra artwork and images.

- Still on hiatus concerning live performances, but might be hitting the stage again in June.

- We are very happy to announce that Mom’s latest exams came back cancer free, with no signs of it returning. The operations were successful and no chemo has been needed so far. After the last 4 months, she has made amazing healing progress. In fact, even some of the benign tumors have shrunk and vanished. This has been an amazing load off of our minds, and things feel somewhat normal again at the house.

- Thank you once again to everyone who has been supporting the “Electronic Saviors” compilation, and keeping it #1 on the Metro charts.

- The Trash Audio Synth Meet 7 is happening this week in Chicago, and we will most likely be there with “THE BEAST” in tow. Looking forward to tweaking knobs, making noise, and showing off our Synths once again.

The last 9 months have been filled with drama, disappointment, and bullshit. Lots of real life issues that we tend to keep quiet about. Old friends dying. Family and housemates getting cancer. Job loss and major financial problems. Cars blowing up. Moving and recent threats of eviction. Personal mental handicaps. All kinds of fun shit.

Prometheus Burning has been impacted greatly by these external factors beyond our control. Devoting as much time, energy, and money to the band as we would like has not been possible for about the last year or so. The upcoming album, which we somehow managed to finish despite it all, was one of the few things that has kept us going. The feeling of accomplishment from creating something amidst all the bullshit that we feel expresses ourselves emotionally and artistically. The anticipation of releasing something we are proud of. It has been the one thing we felt that is “good” that has come out of the last year of shit. We also feel it is our most solid album to date and truly defines what is “Prometheus Burning”.

We appreciate the emails and concern some of you have expressed in regards to the recent changes made at Crunch Pod, asking how it will effect us and the new album. Unfortunately we do not have an immediate answer. Yes we will be staying with Crunch Pod. Yes the album will see the light of day. Exactly in what format(s) and when is now something we will have to reestablish with Crunch Pod. Chances our that the goal of a Spring time release are now unrealistic, but who knows? It may come to the point where you, our fans, friends, and listeners, will have the power to make this release happen or not. Acquiring additional funding to help finish paying off the mastering and artists involved through Kickstarter.com like means and donations may be a possible option in the very near future. We will keep you all posted as news and ideas develop.

We can definitely say that this will be the last new full length release from Prometheus Burning for a while though. We simply don’t have the time or patience to deal with “the scene” right now… taking punches from the internet haters and malicious critics who want to see us fail, haggling with half-assed promoters and swindlers, defending ourselves from paranoid little children with conspiracy theories, trying to keep up with the download wars between the pirates and the labels and distributors which are falling like flies… all of it just seems so petty right now when in contrast to the heavy real life shit we have going on. The real reasons behind the music… the art, the vision, the emotion, the magick… it is being sucked right out by this type of shit and leaving the already small scene a hollow shell of nostalgic yesterdays and hopeful “what if’s” for the future.

Live performances and full length albums will have to shift to the back burner for now until we get our real lives and priorities straight. We thank everyone who listens to our music and supports our artistic endeavors. We also want to thank the Crunch Pod folks for doing everything within their means to helps us achieve our goals. We will see some of you at our performance at the VNV Nation show this week. Our set will be short but very special and quite possibly our last show for a while.

Thank you so much Philly. The Digital Ferret show was a blast. It was great to see so many familiar faces, some from as far as New Jersey and NYC. It was equally great to see so many new faces and make some new friends. We experimented with a few new things during our performance, and it seemed to have been very well received. Many, many thank you’s to all who donated and bought merch. We can’t express how much we appreciate it. Also many thanks to Joe, Dean, Brandon, and the rest of the Digital Ferret crew for having us, and for all of your hospitality. We wish you much success with your future fourth Friday events. Last but certainly not least, thank you to DJ Constantine, Rise of Because, and Paul Romano for sharing your art, music, and vision. Everyone’s efforts made the evening a very inspiring and entertaining one, and the audience who filled the store and graced us with an open ear made it all worthwhile.

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Up next for us is a last minute gig in Kent Ohio (way back in 68), happening this Thursday as part of the Schizophrenia 4 pre-pre-party! See below for the updated lineup:

No Room for Talent and Room Killah Productions Presents

Schizophrenia 4 ” The PrePre Party - The Ohio Experience”

Eustachian
SF//Fathme, Death$ucker, Cock Rock

Prometheus Burning
Pittsburgh// Crunch Pod, Thac0

Split Horizon
Detroit// Void, From the Gut, No Room for Talent

Surachai
Chicago// Fathme

8cylinder
Pgh// Thaco, No Room for Talent

9mm vs Spacebeer
Mantua// Deathstep Crew/Ultimate Dudes Night Out

Dj Johnbender
Akron// Destroyer.net

Thursday Sept. 3rd
9pm
$3 donation at the door
Europe Gyro
Kent OH 44240

Hope to see you there, as well as at the main event unfolding in Detroit this Labor Day weekend.

- First of all, we’d like to say THANKS! to the people who have been purchasing/downloading our music from our Bandcamp site. With the proceeds we’ve made from Bandcamp during the last few weeks, we were able to get more T-Shirts pressed, as well as print a bunch of promo cards featuring some incredible artwork by Kallisti Design (the same folks who designed our poster for the IT AINT DEAD YET tour). The cards have artwork and info for Prometheus Burning on one side, Four Pi Movement on the other. As always, any money we make from our music goes right back into the music. Your support is much appreciated.

- In case you missed it, we have more T-Shirts and Girly Tanks in stock! All orders from last week and during the weekend have been mailed out as of this morning, so you should be receiving them soon. We are now out of the 2XL’s, and only have two XL’s left in stock. Check out the design and purchasing info here: http://www.prometheus-burning.com/?p=591

- We have a show coming up this week in Philly at Digital Ferret as part of their fourth Friday noise and art event series. This will be a rather noisy show from us this time around, and we will be experimenting with some newer material. View the flyer and event info here: http://www.prometheus-burning.com/?p=589

- We are doing a last minute gig in Kent Ohio next week on Thursday, September 3rd, at the Pre-Pre-Schizophrenia 4 event. Details will be posted soon.

- We were recently interviewed by Alex for Rivet Head Radio 90.5 WUSC FM in South Carolina. The interview aired on August 11th, and is now available as MP3 in two parts for your listening pleasure:

ProBurn-RivetHeadRadioInterview-Part1.mp3
ProBurn-RivetHeadRadioInterview-Part2.mp3

- Much progress is being made with our next 12inch record. If all continues to go well, we hope to have production finished by the end of September. The tentative title is “Displacement Disorder”. We think fans of our “Retribution” album will greatly enjoy the direction this current record is traveling.

Thank you for listening.

- Last month we mentioned a possible tour for August. This has been postponed. We had a few gigs already confirmed which we were very excited about, but we simply have not had enough time to organize an entire South/West Coast tour on such short notice. We are going to hold off until we can give ourselves and promoter’s proper time to prepare. We hope to do a stretch out West and down South sometime before the year is over… it’s just not going to happen as soon as August like we originally wanted!

- We are currently seeking gigs for one-off shows during the months of August, September, and October. This is not limited to just the East Coast or even the United States! For once our schedule is fairly open for the next 3 months and we are available for long distance and over seas shows. If you want to see us perform in your city and know of any promoters, spread the word. If any promoters reading this would be interested in booking us, please contact us at: prometheus.burning [at] gmail.com

- This week we confirmed two upcoming gigs that will be very extraordinary: Philly show at Digital Ferret in August, and a Fetish / Art Gallery related Pittsburgh show at The Rex in September. Details and flyers for both of these shows will be coming soon.

- Another batch of Plague called huMANity T-shirts and Girly Tanks are being printed this month! The design will be the same as featured on the shirts we were selling during the It Ain’t Dead Yet tour. We will have them in time for the Digital Ferret show.

- All of our albums are now digitally available (for cheap or free!) on our BandCamp site: prometheusburning.bandcamp.com. BandCamp is fairly new, and if you are unfamiliar with it, check it out! The site is currently free for us to host our music on, allow listeners to stream entire tracks, and offer multiple high quality digital formats. The best part is, if you buy our music there the proceeds go directly to us! No middlemen involved to nickel and dime us to death. No iTunes taking a cut or digital distributor fees or any of that shit. Out of all the options we’ve looked into over the years, this is by far the best for digital sales and interactions between fans and bands to show support and gratitude to each other… there is no telling how long it will last though. They may start changing things or charging fees, so get it while the getting is good.

- We are not available for shows during labor day weekend because we will be getting busy at little get together called Schizophrenia 4 along with a few friends and associates… you might have heard about it. No, we are not performing there this year. We are still trying to regain our sanity from last years. Just going to escape this Summer of broken dreams and step out into the void where nothing is true and everything is permitted: