We have a new Prometheus Burning song featured on the Pale Blue Dot compilation, which was just released today! All proceeds from Pale Blue Dot are going to benefit the people and animals of Japan who are currently dealing with the aftermath of the recent devastating Earthquake and Tsunami. Thousands were killed. Even more were left displaced. To top it off, they also have a nuclear meltdown to deal with. Read this article published just today about the brave senior citizens of Japan volunteering for what they are calling the “nuclear suicide corps” to try and help recover from this disaster which is still uncontrolled two months since the initial meltdown (CNN article).

Pale Blue Dot was organized by Shikhee of Android Lust, mastered by Japan resident Gregg Janman of Hermetech Mastering, and is available for preview and purchase from Bandcamp. The compilation is also available from Amazon and iTunes. See the track list and artist lineup below:

01. Collide ~ Crushed
02. Avi Ghosh ~ All That’s Left Of Us
03. Advent Dawn ~ A Portrait In Mind
04. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult ~ Death Threat
05. Mankind Is Obsolete ~ Picking at the Scab (Live mix by Sylvia Massy)
06. Abrasions ~ All Ashes
07. I, Parasite ~ White
08. Prometheus Burning ~ Invisible Enemy
09. Roughhausen ~ A Momentary Lapse
10. Android Lust ~ Man Descends
11. kAlte fArben ~ Braintrashed Love
12. R010R ~ Exogenesis
13. Anthony Baldino ~ Small Distances
14. Explosives For Her Majesty ~ Frayed

Donate to the Red Cross to help support Japan.
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Since our first official release “Influenza” in 2004, we have been receiving orders of our music from Japan. We have personally shipped more copies of our albums there than any other international country.  In 2008 we released “Retribution”, our collaboration album with Japanese Cyberpunk author and literary madman Kenji Siratori. In 2009 our friends in Osaka and fellow electro assassins Uterozzzaaa offered us a small tour in Japan which we sadly had to decline at that time. In 2010 Gregg Janman, a resident of Japan and engineer of Hermetech Studio, mastered our double disk release “Displacement Disorder”. It was also around this time when we received a lot of messages from fans and DJ’s in Japan like DJ SiSeN sending us their playlists or video clips of people going nuts to our music at events.

TL;DR – Japan has been extremely supportive of Prometheus Burning and we greatly appreciate it. Now we ask you, our listeners and friends, to help return the favor by supporting Japan in their time of tragedy and need.

Donate money to the Red Cross. Forward us your receipt email or send us a screenshot or whatever, showing us that you donated something, ANYTHING, and we will send you a code to download any one of our albums from Bandcamp for FREE.

This offer will stand starting now, March 15th, through March 29th… or possibly longer it people are taking advantage of it and continue to donate. We wish we could offer you more incentive, but that’s about all we can do right now beyond donating ourselves, which we did today after it was announced that Japan is now taking international assistance, and working with the Red Cross who just sent an initial $10 million to assist Earthquake and Tsunami survivors.

Read all about it and make your donation by clicking HERE.

- 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:

- Working on organizing a South / West Coast tour for early August! We will be traveling with other fellow Pittsburgh experimental electronic artists. In no particular order, the tentative band roster is:

Prometheus Burning (Crunch Pod, Hive, Thac0)
Xanopticon (Hymen, Zhark, Mutant Sniper)
8Cylinder (Mode of Proof, Rhinoplex)
Vasculator (Void Tactical Media, also member of ProBurn)

Nothing has been set in stone yet… we are still figuring out the logistics of it all, what cities and dates. If any promoters down South or West Coast are interested, please email us to talk about things further.

- Combated in the 6th annual Galactic Assdragon Classic laptop battle last night. Saw many friends and familiar faces from all over the place. Contestants came from Ohio, Detroit, and even as far as Chicago. We plan to continue working on the tracks we used in the battle to lay down on our next 12″ record. These tracks lean pretty far into the area of Dubstep. We wanted to experiment with mixing styles for the battle like we do every year, and this year focused on combining elements of Dubstep and Industrial. The end result was a very dark, heavy sound with much emphasis on complex basslines and sub frequencies… not “traditional” Dubstep by any means.

- We have been making much progress in the studio with the Four Pi Movement project. The first (and possibly only) release is coming together slowly but surely. Expect to see a very limited but unique package in the near future, containing these recording sessions and some other hand made art and creations conceptualized for this release. A new recording was added to the myspace page entitled “Without Reason or Justification”.

- We recorded some vocals with Jim, aka DJ Hiem of the band Rein[Forced] for the Industrial Cancer Benefit compilation he is putting together. After months of work and changing things around, we are finally happy with our song and submitted the final version to him last week. Other artists that have submitted their songs so far are: 16 Volt, Alter Der Ruine, Molecule Party, Hype Factor, Everything Goes Cold, Interface, Assemblage 23, SD6, Backandtotheleft, System Syn, Caustic, XuberX, Jordan Decay, The Dark Clan, Encoder, Obscenity Trial, Boxed Warning, and a few more that I can’t remember off the top of my head. Plus there are still a bunch more who have not finished just yet, but will be complete in time to meet the deadline. We are damn proud to contribute to this compilation, as well as to the cause, which is to raise money to help fight cancer, which all the proceeds will be going to… like how a REAL fundraiser compilation with a REAL purpose should do.

Also this compilation is not only raising money for the cause, it is also already raising awareness. The local media has been picking up on Jim and what he is doing, and recently did a report and interview of him. Check it out: http://kdka.com/video/?id=58023@kdka.dayport.com

Our Power Electronics side-project Four Pi Movement is now online.

We also have our first confirmed performance approaching in August with Graveyards (Wolf Eyes side-project).

http://www.myspace.com/fourpimovement

Fuck it all.

So the IT AIN’T DEAD YET 2009 tour has come to a close. From the bands to the promoters, from the people giving us crash pads to the awesome fans that came out to the shows, everyone is back to their collective daily grind. It was truly an amazing couple of weeks. I think it is safe to say all of us in the bands involved have brought back a lot with us… new thoughts, ideas, and affirmations. I don’t think any of us are quite the same person we were as when we hit the road 18 days ago. Like any “trip”, we have returned from it with new experiences, knowledge, and wisdom. Our eyes are open a little bit wider.

To try and summarize everything that unfolded during this tour would be entirely too time consuming. So many ups and downs, moments made of awesome and epic win, moments of near disaster and fail. A cyclone of every conceivable human emotion. Even the weather changes we experienced while on the road were of every type of extreme, from the freak but devastating blizzard in Madison, to the debilitating fog on the way to Salem, from the blinding rainstorms in the Mountains of West Virginia, to the scorching hot sun in Atlanta that gave half of my body and neck mild sunburn while driving. It’s as if we experienced an entire years worth of seasonal shifts all condensed into a fleeting two week period. There is simply too much we could write about. Attempting to do so would transform this blog entry into a small novel, with every show, every city, deserving its own chapter in the story of our lives.

To try and properly thank everyone who helped us along our journey or helped shape the experience would also be a daunting task. But I will try my best. If I accidentally leave anyone deserving of gratitude off this list or misspell some names, I apologize. Please know that we are all extremely grateful for everything everyone bestowed upon us during this tour, and that we met quite a few new people, so forgive me if my brain is not all there right now.

We would like to express a metric fuck ton of thanks to:

Matt of Caustic for taking on the mind boggling task of being manager of this three ring circus sideshow of freaks. You conducted the chaos like a true maestro and made the magic happen man. Infinite thanks to you good sir. Also thanks for being gentle in bed as it was my first time, and for drinking all the band beer every night, preventing me from getting a DUI or wrecking my car.

Brian and Katja of The Gothsicles for letting us use your badass projector and screen, your DI box, and for assisting with our visuals and stage theatrics. And also for being awesome night after night and forcing us try to keep up with your level 99 energy levels even when we felt exhausted as shit. Maxed power is maxed out.

Kat, aka DJ Pleasure Kitten in Detroit for being so god damn awesome and letting us crash and trash your lovely house for two full days and nights. The time we all spent hanging with you and your roommates was definitely some of the most fun we had the entire tour. Your hospitality is very appreciated.

Dave and the entire Xuberx crew for letting us crash at their massive house and for showing us around DC for two days. The Museum of Crime & Punishment was most rad, as was getting to eat at Sunflower.

Peter Lee from Force of Nature for getting in the face of Frank the Douchebag in Salem and helping us get paid, as well as for letting us crash at your place. Your wife’s breakfast foods was a lifesaver.

JDavid and Andy Deane for letting us get some much needed rest and showers at both your houses in Virginia. Also for taking us to that breakfast joint and picking up the tab! I love me some vegetarian friendly tex mex style breakfast.

Will, aka DJ Dyztort and the rest of the QXT’s crew for bringing us out once again and being true professionals. The Jersey show was next level. Also for the bottles of Perrier!

Jim, Gary, and the rest of the Distortion Productions crew in Pittsburgh. The show was good times all around. Also thanks to the crew for the food catering and for helping with the gear loading/unloading.

Chris in Columbus for the hospitality. Your personal zoo of mutant and exotic animals was very rad.

Nathan in Atlanta for buying us all Sushi and getting me to try some new foods that I normally would avoid. It was delicious.

Matt, Randolph, and the rest of the Kinetic Noise crew in the Windy City for having us yet again and showing us the love. Chicago is starting to feel like our home away from, and we are actually giving serious thought to moving there in the near future. As always, you guys rock.

Kelly and her roommates in Atlanta for letting us sleep in your fancy, artistic, Clockwork Orange style house. The Medical room made me realize I had a fetish for things I never realized. Also for taking us to that crazy strip club after the show where we could witness 60 year old strippers crush cans of PBR with their tits. That was a supreme ending to the tour for us.

To all of the Promoters who threw caution to the wind to book our crazy asses.

To all of the Sound Guys we encountered who all did superb jobs… with the exception of the Richie Hawtin looking dude in Philly who knew less about sound engineering than any of us, as well as the the most unprepared unprofessional tool we have ever had the displeasure of working with. Other than him, each and every Sound Engineer we encountered was like a gift from the gods. I apologize for not remembering all of your names, but we will definitely remember all of your faces and the great work you did for us.

To the opening bands Defcon, Split Horizon, My Parasites, Xuberx, and The Dark Clan. All of you rocked it proper and it was a pleasure to share the stage with you guys and gals.

Last but most certainly not least, many, many thanks to everyone who felt like showing up. We know we can’t please everyone, and that some of our performances were better than others. But in every city we visited, no matter how big or small the crowd, we made plenty of new friends and fans by the end of the evening. So many of you had such nice things to say. So many of you showed your support in so many ways, from buying our CD’s and Merch, to giving us gifts and toys, to just hanging out afterward and taking a picture with us. We deeply appreciate all of it. This tour was entitled IT AIN’T DEAD YET not only as a spoof of the similar Skinny Puppy title, but because we indeed wanted to prove to the scene, as well as to ourselves, that the essence of Industrial is indeed not yet dead. Each and every one of you that come out to these shows are living proof of this. It is the audience that shapes the scene, and you were all one hell of an audience. We couldn’t ask for more. We have returned home, through all the ups and downs, ultimately inspired and eager to start working on our next album. As always, thank you for listening.

Nikki has been going through and organizing some of the many pictures and videos all of you have been linking to us. Please keep them coming! Here are a few galleries for your viewing pleasure thus far:

IADY2009 Gallery 1 – pics by Nikki

IADY2009 QXT’s Gallery 1 – pics by Zein

IADY2009 QXT’s Gallery 2 – pics by Mike

IADY2009 Charlottesville Gallery 1 – pics by Chad VanPelt