Official GLACIER Webpage--Because reading shit is better than clicking on shit
This page exists solely for the dissemination of pertinent information pertaining to GLACIER, a band from Green Bay, WI. I like big, frozen crushing sheets of ice, too, but I can't really help you here. This page is one big block of text because I'm not interested in wasting a lot of time on this webpage and I this is the first one I've ever done. You know how long it took me to find this closeup of a glacier for the background photo? If you don't like it why don't YOU do it for us, sucker? Now zip it and read...
THE STORY:
We are three guys from Green Bay, Wisconsin. We started in November 2001. We have now been told by three separate unbiased sources (i.e. people we don't really know) that we sound like Damaged/My War-era Black Flag. We think this is both awesome and stupid. We don't wear nylon jogging shorts on stage. We are having fun playing music that doesn't sound totally derivative of any other particular band. We are heavy and rocking and thrashing and crushing and crawling and negative--ohhhh, so negative (see TRUCKING TIPS at bottom of page). We are really nice people who are making really un-nice music. Thanks.
6/6/02
NEWS:
We have been asked to be on a Replacements tribute comp. We have been asked to be on a tv show theme song benefit comp. We have been asked to be on a Wisconsin comp. We have not recorded any songs for any of these comps, mostly because we have no definitive proof that any of them technically exist.
UPCOMING SHOWS--We like playing shows because we're pretty good at it. If you have a show you would like us to play on, please email us about it.
Saturday June 15th--Glacier House, Green Bay 6pm(?)
It's Tony's birthday bash, also featuring HOLY SHIT, BAY PARK SQUARES and others TBA.
Sunday June 23rd--Eagle's Club, Green Bay 6pm
With: YESTERDAY'S KIDS, CHERRY VALENCE, MYSTERY GIRLS, DEATH & TAXES and JAGUAR (we're playing second).
Friday June 28th--Punk Mahal, Milwaukee 7pm
With: THE NEPTUNAS, IFIHADAHIFI and THE SQUISH (we're playing first)
Friday July 19th--From The Ground Up, Wisconsin Rapids 7pm
With: MOTORCYCLE PROM DATES and LITTLE PINK ELEPHANTS (we're playing second)
Saturday July 27th--Somthing To Do, Shawano 7pm
With:LEG HOUNDS and STRONG COME ONS (we're playing first)
STUFF FOR SALE:
Dude, seriously...we have the original classic "Crawling, Crushing" four-song demo tape for TWO DOLLARS (THREE DOLLARS BY MAIL). It's great--everyone (we've sold a couple dozen copies) who's heard it has liked it except this one chick, but she's got no taste anyway. If you want a copy, why don't you email us? And of course you'll be wanting something to wear while rocking out so luckily for you we've got Glacier shirts--t-shirts AND wifebeaters! Something like nine colors of shirts in M/L/XL and white wifebeaters. The huge silkscreen on the front is of an engraving done for Samuel Coleridge Taylor's "Rime Of The Ancient Mariner" featuring the ship entering the walls of ice with the albatross overhead and the setting sun behind--if you don't think this rules completely then please make a suggestion as to how it could be improved and I'll certainly reply to tell you how you're wrong. Shirts are TEN DOLLARS and wifebeaters are EIGHT DOLLARS and you should definitely email us for specific color combo and size info because we've got lots and lots of shirts, okay? BTW, orange with blue ink is my personal fave. Groovy.
TRUCKING TIP OF THE DAY: This afternoon I spent 20 minutes trying to pull my truck out of a driveway on a very narrow street in Chicago because some motherfucker decided to park where there wasn't a parking space. With the help of TWO guys directing me I made it out with literally an INCH to spare. Did I mention the 20 VEHICLES waiting to get by while I blocked traffic the whole time? ATTENTION ALL MOTHERFUCKERS (this means YOU): Had there not been any witnesses around, I would've torn up the back end of your clean, beautiful car with my ugly, dirty trailer because I hate you and I have a job to do--we both got lucky today, but you'll probably never know it because I didn't have time to stop and leave a love letter on your windshield. Respect trucks or pay the price. Other than that bit of unpleasantness, we look forward to rocking you soon. Thanks.
Overlooked Metal Masterpieces--In the greater scheme of things, every douchebag on the street knows about Slayer, Sabbath and Priest--but what about the rest? Here are several faves of mine that have stood the test of time and still kick my ass after 15 years!
- VIOLENCE--"Eternal Nightmare" 1987 First album featuring future Machine Head ax-slinger Robb Flynn, this is a mid-80's thrash metal blueprint--shredding speedburner dual guitars, great production, interesting lyrics and a unique vocalist made this stand far above the rest of the Slay-tallica clones that surfaced after '86. They only released an EP and another, weaker album then disappeared by 1990, but this testament to their immediate abilities remains white-hot.
- VOIVOD--"Dimension Hatross" 1987 Somewhere between the raw noise of their first two albums and the atmospheric prog of their last two lays the perfect point where they expanded their sound without losing the ripping metal base of their roots. Very atypical guitar lines (for metal) should actually make this appeal to a wide variety of folks, but make no mistake, this IS a metal album and a classic one, at that.
- CELTIC FROST--"Morbid Tales" 1984 Straight outta Switzerland came this wicked trio to pick up the mantle of over-the-top (or under-the-bottom) distorto-sludge metal mayhem just when Venom was dropping it. Built for power, not speed, this album slowed it down to a brutal head-crushing crawl when everyone else was speeding it up
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Email: rebelsound@prodigy.net
