We’re leaving for tour in a couple weeks and are planning on having two new shirt designs with us, meaning you’ll be able to purchase snazzy things that you can use to clothe yourself, or clean up oil spills, or whatever you like. We have seven designs, though, and can’t decide on which ones we should use. At first, the solution seemed obvious: skip the whole thing; too much to figure out. But then we thought, let’s put it to a vote!

So, please look at the seven designs below and pick which two you like best. If you don’t like any  of them, go find some other website to be a jerk on, you big jerk.

Please select carefully as I can’t think of a more important vote you will cast all year.

Thank you!

-Nate

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The Nominees!

“Tiger”

“Girl”

“Bike”

“Watch Man”

“Snow Crest”

“Retro Rockers”

“Breaking Banner”

First, in 2005, there was Banner-Pilot.com

It was a pretty lousy website, but it did the trick. The message board proved to be awesome. It soon became nothing but spam bots talking to each other. Literally. Check out an archive.

Soon enough something called MySpace came along. “Finally, we can add blinking lights and glitter and glitches to our website!” we, along with thousands (millions?) of other bands thought. Actually, as awful as Myspace is — it is just a pile of garbage at this point — it was pretty slick at first. An easy way to post songs… people could communicate with you directly (“OMG FREE iPOD MINI CLICK HERE TAKE SURVEY!” and so on), you could post upcoming shows…. and with that, Banner-Pilot.com had no reason to exist and died of neglect, before finally getting an awesome facelift under new ownership. “What you need, when you need it”…. at least they kept our slogan.

Myspace worked OK for awhile, say, 2005-2009 (damn, that’s actually a pretty long time!) but its inner core of crap become more and more apparent over the years. So, since that time we have (like most bands nowadays) had a mixture of different sites: Facebook (for short updates that disappear one week later), Twitter (I think Twitter is awesome but it’s obviously limited), Bandcamp (for tunes), Tumblr (for longer posts), Storenvy (to sell shit), and probably more I’m forgetting. Some of those, particularly Bandcamp and Twitter, are really really awesome sites. But it still feels kind of disjointed. Thus: BannerPilot.net. A way to centralize some of this shit. That’s the slogan of this website!

-Nate

Originally Posted 8/17/09 on Myspace

Current mood:indescribable (awesome Myspace emoticon unavailable)

Heyo,

Fat just posted a new track from Collapser called “Skeleton Key” that you can download – also the preorder for the record is up at their site!  If you want color vinyl move quickly.  The record is coming out in two weeks, stoked for people to hear it!

Here are the lyrics to Skeleton Key:

Half asleep with the sun coming up out east. We’re driving down Garfield Ave when you said a strange and significant thing: I can remember the words “this was, a beautiful night, it won’t ever happen this way again.” No my dear, nothing much grows around here. We carry our roots with us, a couple of weeds, pulled up. Misguided girl you’ll be the heroine of my book. The plot is the course we took, the setting can’t be no where else in the world. And the story opens up with you, your broken dreams and cheap perfume.  You’re on a city bus, the rain it falls.  Your makeup bleeds, the wind it howls.  I stumble on from Uptown bars – I guess that’s all I’ve got so far, but at the end, I don’t know how, you save me and you save yourself. It ends so soon, the night and the fading moon. I put my hand inside yours. The city looks strange and significant. Know these streets, the place where I’ll live and die. Resigned to that fact but I’m hoping it happens this way again. Fall asleep to the radio. Try to keep what I got from you. Hard to do in these dreary days.

Tour dates to the fest soon – if you’re in Mpls come out to the record release show at the Entry 9/4 or in Chicago 9/5!

Nick

Originally Posted 7/29/09 on Myspace

Current mood: stoked (awesome Myspace emoticon unavailable)

Phil from Latterman/Iron Chic said he could not understand what the fuck I was saying in this tune and wanted to know if it was postive or negative, so here are the lyrics and you can be the judge - it was inspired by a night we played an insanely fun show in a vacant house in Greenwood SC circa 2006 with Latterman, OWTH and Lemuria:

The boards, they bounce up and down in an abandoned house. Amps exploding, and our ears bleed red – but we yell out every note. In the kitchen you tell me ‘bout the evils of the world. Swallow hard on every truth that’s been fermenting in your throat. Know that’s it’s my luck I’m leaving, I met you once when I was dreaming. I’m waiting for a spark to reignite. Lie to me, I love believing. Take the mundane, look for meaning in everything, you’re everything tonight. On the lawn outside Gabe shoots bottle rockets through the night, lighting up the summer sky. Catch fire, I’m burning up with you. Something in the air makes me wonder why the hell I’d care about tomorrow when it’s all right here – the wine the hope and you. So I hit the road; wheeled the van off of the grass and drove. Miles slipped in between of you and me, it’s what I always do. And in the morning all that fills me is regret.  I know I’ve traded winning hands for losing bets. The moment’s gone.

In other news we’re working on tour plans around the Fest and then something cross-continental in early 2010.  Also I think another tune off Collapser will be posted in a couple weeks.  Cool!

L8R,

Nick

(originally from 7/30/08 on our Typepad blog)

Quick update to let you know we’re still working on that song.

-Nate

(originally from 7/30/08 on our Typepad blog)

Trying to write a song right now on a computer. Isn’t that interesting? Remember when Billy Shakespeare said “to double vocals or not to double vocals”? That’s the question right now.

Well, tune in next time for another riveting installment

-Nate

Originally posted 1/5/06 on Myspace

Fuck yeah. We are totally ruling the “Doom/Stoner Metal” chart on Audiri.com.

Check it out:

http://www.audiri.com/music/Metal/Doom-Stoner_Metal

7 songs in the top 20! All of you other Doom/Stoner bands better watch the fuck out cuz we’re going to get even more stoned and, uh, more…. doom-y.

-Nate