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Saturday, July 26, 2008

Tour is going brilliantly. We are keeping a sporadic poor excuse for a journal over at http://tsn_official.livejournal.com. Because sales of New World have been so fast, we are taking down the order links from our sites. This means that the the limited edition EP will only be available for purchase at the remaining shows of our tour. In the unlikely event that any copies remain after the tour, we will let you know.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

THOUSHALTNOT - NEW EP AND TOUR

On July 16, ThouShaltNot, one of America's top goth bands, will be releasing a new EP, NEW WORLD, and will begin their first national tour in over three years!

Tour dates are as follows:

We'll be putting up more club info and links as soon as we can. As for the new EP, we're very proud to present six all-new tracks, ThouShaltNot's first official release since 2006's Land Dispute. The release is something of a return to the more electronic dance rhythms that brought ThouShaltNot to attention on albums like The White Beyond and The Holiness of Now. While there are still moments of the emotional rawness and guitar-driven complexity of Land Dispute on new recordings like "State Road 25" and "A Space Between," songs such as "New World" and the sublime "April, We Can Break Through If We Try" are nothing short of epic synthpop anthems. Also included on the release is ThouShaltNot's venerable cover of U2's "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?"



New World EP
1. New Year
2. April We Can Break Through If We Try
3. Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?
4. State Road 25
5. A Space Between
6. New World

New World is being given an EXTREMELY limited press run of 200 hand numbered and signed CDs, which will be sold exclusively through mail order and on ThouShaltNot's 2008 summer tour. We will not re-press it, and while a song or two from the release might find its way onto ThouShaltNot's upcoming full-length album, you will not hear most of these tracks anywhere else again.

We'll be revamping the site soon. In the meantime, stop by our MySpace page to hear some of the new material.

Monday, December 31, 2007

This is a last minute reminder to beg, borrow, or steal (but probably buy) tickets for our concert this Saturday with synthpop legends Information Society.

Saturday, January 5, 2008 in Philadelphia at The Trocadero Theatre

Metropolis Records artist Cesium 137 will be opening the show. If you are not familiar with Information Society, get to learning, kiddo. Their giant hits like "What's On Your Mind? (Pure Energy)," "Think," and "Peace and Love, Inc." helped to define the entire genre of synthpop. This is ThouShaltNot's first performance in over a year, and will feature several new, unreleased songs.

We've also been steadily working toward the completion of a new record. Songs written since the last update include "Search Party," "Fire," and "Sixty Times."

Monday, August 27, 2007

Thanks for bearing with us during this last year of near-silence. Rest assured, the band still exists and has been writing new material and working on the live show. That said, we have indeed been slowed down by some relocations on band members, but we are confident that when we get out to play more shows and when we release the new material we're crafting, it will have been worth the wait.

Some song titles at this point include:

We've also gotten around to recording our cover of "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses," which will hopefully find somewhere to go. In the meantime, we'll be making public our remix kit so that you can get your hands on manipulating, tweaking, and reinventing our music yourself. Until then, highest hopes.

Thursday, July 6, 2006

Response to Land Dispute has been wonderful. We'll post some reviews in the very near future, but in the meantime, thanks to all who came out to our concerts in Pittsburgh and Washington, DC. We've got two more shows lined up, the first of which is in just two days!

We are also lining up some Texas dates, so keep your eyes open.

In other news, our remix of Stromkern's "Reminders" is now out on the single of the same name. We gave their EBM song a jangly guitar-driven kick in the teeth and we think you'll like it.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Land Dispute is out today! Two and a half years went into making this album and we are confident that it has paid off. If your local record stores don't carry it, ask them to! In the meantime, you can order it at Isotank or at Amazon.com. We depend on record sales to keep the band going, and no matter what notions you may have of rockstar decadence, they are a myth when it comes to independent labels and acts like Dancing Ferret Discs and ThouShaltNot, so we very much appreciate your purchasing Land Dispute legitimately.

We're also revamping the web site slightly. Though it's still a work in progress, do please take a look around!

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Our fourth studio album, Land Dispute, will be released worldwide on May 23 through Dancing Ferret Discs. A dramatically more urgent offering than our previous records, Land Dispute is bold, honest, and immediate. The track listing is as follows:

For those of you looking for a taste of what our new music sounds like, our myspace page, this site's sound page, and Asleep By Dawn's Myspace site all have clips available. However, if you want to hear the music in person, we'll be playing a slew of shows across the continent this summer, our first concerts in nearly a year! The first two that we're announcing are:


We'll be announcing many more shows in the coming few weeks. If you would like for us to play in your city, drop us a line and we'll do what we can. If you are a promoter, all the better! In the meantime, we're also very excited to be part of another excellent project...

On July 18, Dancing Ferret Discs will "Where's Neil When You Need Him?", a fully authorized and official collaborative between Neil Gaiman (New York Times #1 Best-seller, top comic book writer of Sandman, award-winning screenplay author) and some very big name musicians. Neil Gaiman was involved in the project from the start and wrote the liner notes for the CD. Longtime collaborator Dave McKean handled all of the artwork, and My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way is writing the introduction. (Since we've been asked already, we should point out that Neil doesn't actually sing on the CD).

Like Neil's writing, the material on this disc is very diverse in both source material and musical styles. Naturally The Sandman series is well represented, but there are also songs about Stardust, Neverwhere, American Gods, Coraline, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, Mr. Punch, Wolves in the Walls, The Goldfish Pool, and Mirror Mask. All tracks are exclusive, not available anywhere else:

Finally, for those of you who just can't wait until May 23rd to hear and own some of the new material (and NO, we haven't forgotten those of you who pre-ordered the album last year!), we are offering the following CDs for just $5 apiece (+$1 each for shipping):

* The Projectionist EP (7 tracks including new and exclusive tracks, remixes, and live cuts)
* Dark Cabaret (comp. featuring "True Love" and songs by the Dresden Dolls, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, etc.)

and you can order Land Dispute from us for $10 (+$1 shipping), which is the best way to ensure that we actually eat. Just PayPal.com to this address (alexx@thoushalt.net) and I'll send the CDs off to you right away.

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