108 Signs With DEATHWISH RECORDS
January 13, 2007Legendary punk band 108 has inked a deal with Deathwish Records. The group will enter Godcity studios in Salem, Massachusetts in February with producer Kurt Ballou (CONVERGE) to begin recording its new album, due later in the year. Plans also exist for the band to play shows throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan and South America in 2007.
108 has meant a lot of things to a lot of people over the past 14 years, but the initial announcement of the band's arrival on the punk scene in the fall of 1992 remains the most apt description of its guiding spirit. In the four years following its formation, 108 constantly toured the U.S. and Europe, releasing three extremely popular studio LPs, an EP, a live LP, and various songs on different compilations. When the guitar player decided to intensify his studies in Hinduism in 1996, 108 disbanded.
Fast forward to the summer of 2005 when 108 was asked to play a set at festival. In preparation for this event, the group holed up in a practice studio during the week of the show and found that there was still a natural spark between them and that their old songs had taken on a new life. Two days prior to the show, the festival was cancelled. Within 24 hours, however, two shows were put together in Philadelphia. It was at these shows that the excitement of the crowds fueled the energy the band felt in reuniting and prompted the arrangement of a seven-show tour, on the East and West Coasts, in the spring of 2006.
The passion and energy they felt earlier was further nurtured when playing these next seven shows, which confirmed 108's desire to continue playing and composing again. Over the summer, the band saw the release of "Creation. Sustenance. Destruction.", a 36-song discography on Equal Vision Records documenting their original output of music, followed by four more shows across the U.S. and a quick 10-day, 10-show tour of Europe covering six countries. During this period, they began writing new music, and it became clear that the best was yet to come.
108 is:
Robert Fish/Rasaraja - Vocals
Vic Dicara - Guitar/Vocals
Trivikrama Dasa - Bass
Tom Hogan - Drums
For more information, visit www.weare108.com.
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