Guelph Show - The Shadow

Thanks to everyone for coming out to the first SOLD OUT To The Lions show. Guelph once again proved to be one of our favorite places to play time and time again. Hopefully we'll back again soon. Sorry we ran out of merch so fast but we'll have a bunch made up for our next show (Jan.26.06 - Toronto - Sneaky Dee's w/ Cancer Bats).

Guelph show this friday

We've got a show coming up this friday Dec. 16th in Guelph, ON at Shadow. It's all ages and licensed if you wanna get your booze on. This is our first show in about 2 months and our first "headlining show", hahahaha. So we'll see if Spark can pull off a 45 minute set. We've got a couple of new songs to try out, and Guelph was always one of our favorite places to play in the past so we're pretty stoked for this show. Just ignore the "for fans of grade" thing on the flyer... we don't make these things.

Tothelions.ca

Our new website was posted yesterday at tothelions.ca, so go take a look. It's a pretty basic site, since we haven't been around long and don't have much content yet. This blog is linked off the site and the demo mp3s will be permanently hosted there, and show dates and contact information, probably some photos and live video as soon as we can get some. If anybody has any show photos they can send us that would be awesome, you can just email me.
And leave comments here if you have any suggestions or find any problems with the site and I'll try and fix them with my limited web knowledge.

30

Hi I just realised I am approaching 30 on Dec. 21st this year. I just want to let everyone know that Hardcore and Metal has never been so vital to me as it is now. I need it to live and it completes my life along with my wife. I have never looked forward to turning an age more. I think me and my fellow 30 plus bandmates can attest, don't be afraid of age. We are like fine wine, only getting stronger and better.

peace see you all soon

All hail The Spazman

PS Burlington Rhinos now 0-12

Done... moving on.

Ok, we've had this demo recorded since September and for various reasons it wasn't finished until last week.We recorded it in our practice space with all our own gear, a firewire interface and Garageband running on a 12" Apple Powerbook. But the beauty of doing it yourself is you can take your time with it.

The process went like this:
Record it, mix it, burn a few copies for a show. Listen to it again, remix some songs, burn a few more copies for some shows. Listen to it some more, decide mastering would make it sound awesome, wait for mastering guy. Decide it still sucks, remix it again, master it yourself, burn some copies for ourselves and maybe just say enough is enough and make this the final version.

So, we're moving on. We've got three new songs finished already, and at least another three written and just need arranging and some lyrics. Sorry to anyone who got one of the earlier versions of these songs, you were our lab rats. But what the fuck are you complaining about it was free anyway you cheap bastards...

Here are the final versions mixed, remixed, remixed again and mastered. And you can download the individual songs or altogether as a handy zip file And if you're feeling really crafty there's a PDF file of the demo cover with lyrics.

To The Lions Demo.zip
Demo Cover

Ride the Apocalypse
Amnesia
Illumination of the Damned
Fallen
Chokehold
From Fear and Hate Sets Free

Strange ...

It has just been pointed out to me that there is a very bizarre connection with the Jones family.

As mentioned in my previous post, I took over the duties of singing for Rob and Gordie's band "The Evil Cheese" (which turns out they were actually called Downfall but that's not a funny name at all wtf) - the singer who I took over from - ALEX JONES

THEN

About 3 months into Enter the Dragon our bass player quit and after an exhausting search for a replacement we found him - NICK JONES

THEN

10 years later after over five years without playing in a band I finally get the call to start something up from none other than - MATT JONES!!!

AND NOW I JUST LOOKED AT MY WATCH AND IT'S FROZEN AT 12:00:00 HOLY SHIT!!!