#set on destroy

[stormshadow-nj]

STAINLESS STEALING & THE WAGE GAP: Shoot out the lights. Strike the fuse. Thieves! Thieves! I’m on to you. First of the month for those on corporate welfare. For the rest stress and fear, tired all these years. Short shifts, no benefits, no overtime, two jobs to make it. Wealth of a percentile rises exponentially while real wages fall for working families. Weeds in the wheat, silence all around. Dustbin to dust, trick trickle down. Mouths of the many vs. the hands of the few. Profit over people. What is life's value? What does it mean in terms of the everyday? Quality, time, and opportunity. Wealth of a percentile rises exponentially while real wages fall for working families. Weeds in the wheat, silence all around. Dustbin to dust, trick trickle down. The real war is for the mind. Class Cold War to keep us blind. Life shouldn't be so cheap. Never ever accept defeat.

'set on destroy' out now on vinyl w/ digital download card (or to just straight up download) on http://www.dongiovannirecords.com

https://stormshadow666777.bandcamp.com

Sue - vocals/gits Matty King - vocals/basspump Jamie - drums/vocals

Recorded/Mixed by Gibson at Upstart. Mastered by Max at Clearcut.

Lyrics/Artwork by Matty King.

copyright 2013.

[stormshadow-nj]

WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN?: Waging war to justify the means of waging war. Control and the cost but at what cost? Life! So where next to turn the screw? Who watches the watchmen? Open your eyes. Who watches the watchmen? Open my eyes.

'set on destroy' out now on vinyl w/ digital download card (or to just straight up download) on http://www.dongiovannirecords.com

https://stormshadow666777.bandcamp.com

Sue - vocals/gits Matty King - vocals/basspump Jamie - drums/vocals

Recorded/Mixed by Gibson at Upstart. Mastered by Max at Clearcut.

Lyrics/Artwork by Matty King.

copyright 2013.

[stormshadow-nj]

HOUDINI: I am the match. I am the moth. Burning flesh in the year of skin. All this pain, swallow it whole. I know. You know. Dead horizon reeks blue. The sun is a gasping fish. I am the match. I am the moth. Burning flesh in the year of skin. All this weight, falls down on me. I know. You know. But I can take all this weight because I have to.

'set on destroy' out now on vinyl w/ digital download card (or to just straight up download) on http://www.dongiovannirecords.com

https://stormshadow666777.bandcamp.com

Sue - vocals/gits Matty King - vocals/basspump Jamie - drums/vocals

Recorded/Mixed by Gibson at Upstart. Mastered by Max at Clearcut.

Lyrics/Artwork by Matty King.

copyright 2013.

[stormshadow-nj]

PHONE: A punch in the throat as the stomach drops. You know before you pick up this is when the bottom falls out. Pick up the fucking phone. Now everything is fucking wrong. It’ll never ever ever be the same. I’ll never forget your face that day. Forever burned in memory.

'set on destroy' out now on vinyl w/ digital download card (or to just straight up download) on http://www.dongiovannirecords.com

https://stormshadow666777.bandcamp.com

Sue - vocals/gits Matty King - vocals/basspump Jamie - drums/vocals

Recorded/Mixed by Gibson at Upstart. Mastered by Max at Clearcut.

Lyrics/Artwork by Matty King.

copyright 2013.

[stormshadow-nj]

BLACK POWER FOR HUMAN LIBERATION: Empower yourself. Help to empower others. We are all connected. Because no one is free until everyone is free. Because you're not free while others live in shackles. Compassion and responsibility are the only path to freedom and equality.

'set on destroy' out now on vinyl w/ digital download card (or to just straight up download) on http://www.dongiovannirecords.com

https://stormshadow666777.bandcamp.com

Sue - vocals/gits Matty King - vocals/basspump Jamie - drums/vocals

Recorded/Mixed by Gibson at Upstart. Mastered by Max at Clearcut.

Lyrics/Artwork by Matty King.

copyright 2013.

[stormshadow-nj]

FORTY OUNCES & THE KING OF SMOKE: The piano vibrates like thunder. It's only a sin if you hurt another. So let's stomp and holler and make a glorious sound because tomorrow there's still coal in the ground. Thick and thin, thick as thieves. Never disappear, always there. Greaser punks take no shit. We'll just live in this moment as we see fit. We laugh, fall down, get back up. "Oh, shit... yo baby wassup?" Thick and thin, thick as thieves. Never disappear, always there. Greaser forever, social never.

'set on destroy' out now on vinyl w/ digital download card (or to just straight up download) on http://www.dongiovannirecords.com

https://stormshadow666777.bandcamp.com

Sue - vocals/gits Matty King - vocals/basspump Jamie - drums/vocals

Recorded/Mixed by Gibson at Upstart. Mastered by Max at Clearcut.

Lyrics/Artwork by Matty King.

copyright 2013.

[stormshadow-nj]

interview: stereogum

yup. ‘forty ounces & the king of smoke’ is a live on stereogum - http://stereogum.com - and there’s also an interview w/ the dashing matty king done by the awesome liz pelly. thanks liz!

http://stereogum.com/1262931/stormshadow-forty-ounces-and-the-king-of-smoke-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/

more liz pelly can be found in these spots: https://twitter.com/lizpelly | http://lizpelly.com

[stormshadow-nj]

"words and music" - eddie & the cruisers

hey friends.

here's a cool description that music journalist liz pelly wrote about 'set on destroy' for the don gio site - http://dongiovannirecords.com/product/71-set-on-destroy. i like it. i like it lots.

"When Don Giovanni Records started in 2003, one major goal for the label was to foster a greater sense of awareness of bands from New Brunswick in an effort to get them heard and their music distributed beyond the local scene and area. Before that goal, or the label, even developed, co-founder Joe Steinhardt was dying to put out the first full length by Stormshadow, a short-lived New Brunswick punk band who provided a microcosmic look into much of what was, and has continued to be, so great about the New Brunswick, NJ punk scene. Previously available exclusively via a limited run of CD-Rs, which the band made to sell at their last show, Stormshadow’s Set On Destroy has finally been issued. The album's 16 tracks are mostly under 2 minutes each, all tight hardcore punk with scream-along melodies, dissonant riffs, and lyrics that mix the political with the personal. The record opens with "Switched On", a quick intro to the record's tendency to make unexpected turns from harsh hardcore screams to melodic pop-punk lines. "Watson Break" recalls the most vital aspects of sing-song anti-authoritarian folk-punk, while "Stainless Stealing & the Wage Gap" is an aggressive and honest discussion of economic injustice that could have been the soundtrack to the Occupy movement marches of fall 2011, asking "Profit over people, what is life's value?" then reminding that "the real war is for the mind" and concluding: "Life shouldn't be so cheap / never ever accept defeat." Like the other tracks presented here, though written and recorded over a decade ago, its energy feels just as pressing in 2013. Set On Destroy is angry and anthemic throughout, a distillation of what's always so empowering about this breed of explosive music."

thanks liz! very cool. liz actually just did an interview w/ sue for a larger piece on don gio that she's doing for the boston phoenix - http://thephoenix.com. we'll link that up when it comes out.

more liz pelly can be found in these spots: https://twitter.com/lizpelly | http://lizpelly.com

now here's a thing. liz has a twin sister jenn pelly who is also a music journalist. cool, right?

jenn pelly can be found in these spots: https://twitter.com/jennpelly |  http://jenniferpelly.com | http://jennpelly.tumblr.com

together the pelly twins have this blog - http://pellytwins.blogspot.com - and are putting out a zine called 'cryptophasia' in 2013. looking forward to getting my mitts on it. interesting young women to say the least. kudos ladies.