See ya B/Animal Law

August Shows

02.08
Animal Law+ Special Guest
The Menthols
Sexual Freedom
Sseepage

Enemy
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60622
http://cranksatori.net/enemy/
http://www.myspace.com/enemychicago

Door: 8:00 PM
Show: 8:30 PM
Cost: $5.00 Suggested Donation
All Ages

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16.08

Peter J. Woods
Jason Soliday

The Shit Space
1049 N Paulina
Chicago, IL
(more details soon)

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22.08

Illusion of Safety
Jason Soliday
TV Pow
Mykel Boyd

Enemy
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 3rd Floor
Chicago, IL 60622
http://cranksatori.net/enemy/
http://www.myspace.com/enemychicago

Door: 8:00 PM
Show: 8:30 PM
Cost: $5.00 Suggested Donation
All Ages

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23.08

Xrin Arms
Animal Law
Disrobe

Ronny's
2101 N. California Ave.
(between Dickens Ave & Point St)
Chicago, Illinois 60647
http://www.myspace.com/ronnysbar

9:00 PM
Cost TBA
21+

Animal Law at Cobra Lounge 08.24.08

Thursday July 24

Cobra Lounge
235 N. Ashland Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60607
312.226.6300
http://www.myspace.com/cobralounge

Time: 10:00 PM
Cost: Free
21+
With:

Animal Law
http://www.myspace.com/animallaw

Rabid Rabbit (record release show)
http://www.myspace.com/rabidrabbitlives

Locrian (tour kick-off)
http://www.myspace.com/thelocrian

Photos: Animal Law - Plague Bringer @ Ronnies 07.05.08

here

Animal Law 07.05.08

From the Reader:
ANIMAL LAW Chicago’s latest entry in the avant-metal sweepstakes is a Cthulhu-oid monster of a supergroup: Blake Edwards, aka Vertonen; Jason Soliday of Behold! the Living Corpse; Gays in the Military vet Geoffrey Alan Guy; and former Flying Luttenbachers and Cheer-Accident mainstay Dylan Posa. They’ve been working on a full-length for a tentative fall release, and their chosen sound is roaring, cavernous, and ominous—like a set of Edgar Allan Poe-model bells being smacked about by Keiji Haino’s head mounted on an ax handle. Soliday’s baritone guitar and Edwards’s artfully violent percussion (which often involves large pieces of steel being brought into sudden contact) do much to give these heavy, heavy tracks their abandoned-factory feel. Plague Bringer headlines, Animal Law plays third, Big Knife goes second, and Al-Thawra opens.

Animal Law @ Summer Breeze

more photos here

Animal Law. Outside. During the day.

Photo by Lori
More on the way...

Animal Law - Cobra Lounge Photos

Mark has a slide show up of Melissa's photos from the Cobra Lounge show.

Gotta say, I think this was our best set so far. The recent changes we've made to some of our songs really seem to have pulled things together. Judging from the feedback we got from other folks, I'm not the only one who thinks so... looking forward to getting these songs recorded soon. Sound at the Cobra Lounge really helped too...Thanks Kenny!

Bongripper set was massive... thanks in no small part to the gigantic pile of amps behind them... these guys get better every time i see them. Looking forward to hearing the new record.

April/May 2008 Shows

APRIL

11 Craig Baldwin - I Love Presets @ Enemy

12 Lamont/Parker/Soliday/Solotroff - United Steel Workers Union - Pisspisspissmoanmoanmoan - Fought @ AV Aerie

23 Bongripper - Psilocin - Animal Law @ Cobra Lounge

25 Aaron Dilloway - Magas - Mark Solotroff - Jason Soliday @ Enemy

27 J.Soliday on Something Else/WLUW

MAY

3 Sic Alps - J. Soliday - Mykel Boyd @ Hotti Biscotti

16 Animal Law on Pure Hype/WHPK

17 Animal Law @ Summer Breeze

23 Hasegawa/Shiflet/Soliday - Goat - Mykel Boyd - Liminal @ Enemy

25 Astro - TVPow - Magic Missile - Peter J. Woods @ AV Aerie

26 Astro - TVPow - Magic Missile - Others TBA @ APop, St. Louis, MO

04.23.08 - Animal Law + Bongripper @ Cobra Lounge

just confirmed.
Wednesday April 23, 2008

Cobra Lounge
235 N. Ashland Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
60607-1401
312.226.6300
http://www.myspace.com/cobralounge

Time: 10:00 PM
21+

With:
Bongripper (tour kick-off)
http://www.myspace.com/bongripper
Psilocin
http://www.myspace.com/psilocinmetal
Animal Law
http://www.myspace.com/animallaw

Animal Law - 2nd Show on YouTube

Animal Law, Unlucky Atlas, Druids of Huge, and Plastic Boner Band @ Empty Bottle

Fine sets by all. In fact that may have been the best set I've ever seen from the Druids...

Big thanks to Ryan and the Bottle... And props to our sound man too (sorry man... blanking on your name at the moment...) for making us even heavier than usual. Nice to actually be able to hear the rest of the band for once!


Unlucky Atlas - photo: Blake Edwards


Animal Law - Photo: Mykel Boyd


Animal Law - Photo: Mykel Boyd


Animal Law - Photo: Mykel Boyd


Animal Law - Photo: Mykel Boyd


Animal Law - Photo: Mykel Boyd


Animal Law - Photo: Mykel Boyd


Grandpa Dylan rests up before the show... Photo: Blake Edwards

Animal Law : February 08

02.08.08 @AV Aerie


02.17.08 @ Empty Bottle Ver 1:


Ver 2:

February 08

Animal Law:
Feb 8 @ AV Aerie
Feb 17 @ Empty Bottle


I <3 presets:
Feb 19 @ Empty Bottle (tentative)
Feb 21 Conversations at the Edge @ Gene Siskel Film Center


Crank Satori:
Locrian "Plague Journal (Ruins of Morning)" CDr
A massive roaring wall of doom drone...
First Crank Satori release in 4 years. Mastering is finished,
goes to press this week.
New site & store up by the end of the month.


Maximum Magnetics:
New cassettes by Brent Gutzeit, Youth of the Beast, and Sexual Freedom.
New site & store up by the end of the month.


Enemy:
Feb 23: Chris Connelly
Feb 29: Justice Yeldham . Panicsville . Is . Miracle Worker

Photos from 01.08.08 Animal Law show

photos by Lori

More at Mark's Flickr page

Animal Law Tonight!

Churned up so much heavy shit into the air last night at practice that I woke up with black lung... Serious coughing jag today... good thing ya don't need lungs to play bass...

Looks like Mark is psyching himself up with some Discharge... Over here it's all Gallhammer and Coffins...

Got a mention on Gapers Block:
Of sharks, bongs, and deep fryers
"Must be something in the air...it's a weird one, isn't it? Like the skies are boiling or something. Who's ever heard of 60 degree weather at the start of January?! Like an omen, or a harbinger or something. Something's coming...

Yes, Mr. Narrator, something IS coming. Two somethings, in fact. On a random Tuesday (January 8), with a strangely tepid moisture in the air, you have your choice to two completely incredible concerting opportunities.

Over at Ronny's (2101 N. California), you can thrill to a world of punk/metal extremities, as four of Chicago's finest get your fist to pumpin'. From the furious crust/grind velocity of Al-Thawra to bleak punk noise from the Daily Void, to the bowel-loosening thunder of Bongripper and Animal Law, rest assured that no distortion pedal shall remain unstomped."

and of course, the details:

Tuesday January 8, 2008

Time: 9:00 PM
Cost: $6.00 (poster says $7.00, but it's $6.00)
21+

Ronny's
2101 N. California
Chicago, Illinois
60647
773.278.7170
http://www.myspace.com/ronnysbar

with:

Animal Law
http://www.myspace.com/animallaw

The Daily Void
http://www.myspace.com/dailyvoid

Al-Thawra
http://www.myspace.com/althawra

Bongripper
http://www.myspace.com/bongripper

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Animal Law
Animal Law is what happens when five guys who primarily operate within the experimental, noise, and avant-garde rock scenes (Geoff Guy of Sexual Freedom, ex-Gays in the Military; Blake Edwards of Vertonen, Crippled Insectual; Dylan Posa, ex-Cheer Accident, ex-The Flying Luttenbachers, ex-Bobby Conn; Jason Soliday of I Love Presets, Coeurl, Gunshop, Mora; and Mark Solotroff of BLOODYMINDED, The Fortieth Day, ex-Intrinsic Action), combine forces to play some form of laboriously slow, heavy metal dirge. While the band may cringe at the use of comparisons, references have already been made to (early) Swans, Khanate, Bauhaus, Harvey Milk, The Goslings, My Bloody Valentine, Flipper, Saccharine Trust, Einsturzende Neubauten, etc.

The Daily Void
The Daily Void have been culled from the disbanded Functional Blackouts, who over the relatively short while they were performing, created a dense aura around themselves: playing house shows throughout the Mid-West and the like. With the demise of the FBs, Dr. Filth and cohorts sought to continue their legacy of disheveled punk with a slight evolution. The sound of DV is obviously in some way tied to the FBs, but not as fulfilling. It’s still punk and the music still attempts to relate a bleak future through each tune. There is a tangible difference. The same propulsion is present. The band is fast, sloppy and rugged but the sense of experimentation and lack of care is missing. Even their name points to a perception of life that may not result in maximum effort. Where as each FBs’ release moved forward in some way, adding a new layer of post-punk nihilism and noise, this initial release from the Daily Void seems like a step back to a more basic and primordial time. The music is still balls out punk, but doesn’t maintain the urgency that the Functional Blackouts were able to bring to the fore. Identification Code's 11 songs stem from the darkest corners of the human mind, turning it's feeble imagination against itself in a cacophony dread-inducing noise. In doing so, they also form the basis of one of the most exciting punk albums in years and one that's ridiculously difficult to explain in text. The Daily Void's sound can be best described as the ultimate balancing act. Every element of their being is teetering recklessly on the edge between polar opposites and as soon as you get an idea of which side a particular song will plummet into, the balance is readdressed by a violent swing to the other. Imagine, if you will, taking every Rudimentary Peni record ever released, pulling the best bits on each album and then condensing it into one LP and you start to get an idea of what this record sounds like: Absolutely fucking brilliant.

Al-Thawra
A powerful, multi-ethnic Chicago band that combines the crusty punk, grindcore, and hardcore styles of Assuck, Aus-Rotten, Crass, Doom, Discharge, Filth of Mankind, Gauze, Hellshock, Misery, Napalm Death, Nausea, etc., with the Arabic strains of Rachid Taha, Farid Al-Atrache, Munir Bashir, Abdel Halim Hafez, etc. The group also found inspiration in the cult industrial/experimental project, Muslimgauze, as a final touch. Al-Thawra and its members have already received international coverage in articles about taqwacore in such publications as Rolling Stone, The Guardian (U.K.), and Newsweek, for their participation in this emerging global scene.

Bongripper
The heaviest thing to hit Chicago since Oprah. Bongripper plays down-tuned jams so thick it's like trying to shit concrete. The combination of earth-shattering riffs and psychedelic atmospheres will remind you of the time that you dropped acid while listening to your old Black Sabbath records. You know, the time Miles Davis and Tommy Iommi have turned into goats and are sacrificing your soul to Luficer. Sounds something like that.

Animal Law @ Ronny's 01.08.08

Tuesday January 8th, 2008

Animal Law
Daily Void
Al-Thawra
Bongripper

9:00 PM
$7
21+

Ronny's
2101 N. California Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
www.myspace.com/ronnysbar

Discography

Soliday/Solotroff
2x5" cdr Whitechapel Records 2007

Animal Law
Grain
c20 Maximum Magnetics 2007

V/A [Jason Soliday]
TV Pow. Burned Bridges and Lost Loves
2xcd Bottrop-boy 2005

Jason Soliday
. . .sorry I couldn't fix your horse
3" cdr Kissy 2003

mora
mora +a
3" cdr Aesova 2003

Gutzeit/Soliday
gasmoney
cdr Gasmoney 2003

Coeurl
+the all crash drills
[reissue] cdr Crank Satori 2003

Coeurl
plays the switches
3" cdr CIP 2003

Coeurl
ugly is new pretty
3" cdr Crank Satori 2003

V/A [gunshop]
Masters of the Scene
cd Nihilist 2003

Coeurl
+the all crash drills
cdr Boxmedia 2002

mora
'Singer/Songwriter'
cdr Boxmedia 2002

gunshop
The Mechanics Always Have A Part Left Over
cdr Absurd 2002

Coeurl
m66/6mm
2xbiz cdr Crank Satori 2002

Coeurl
disintegrating slightly faster than expected
3” cdr Crank Satori 2001

mora
Live@Deadtech
3" cdr Crank Satori 2001

mora
mora
cdr Bake 2001

Tiny Hairs of Caterpillar Legs + Coeurl
Three Legs Made In Chile
3” cdr Crank Satori 2001

Coeurl/Vertonen
split 7" CIP 2001

V/A [Coeurl]
60" Somewhere, 60" Somewhere Else
2x3" cdr Throat 2002

gunshop
'/N0
cd CIP 2001

V/A [Coeurl]
Rewriting the Book
cd Elsie and Jack 2001

V/A [Coeurl]
Simmer - New Electronic Music From Chicago
cd Boxmedia 2001

V/A [Coeurl]
Bhreus Kormo
cd CIP 2000

mora-p
Orange
cdr Crank Satori 2000

gunshop
this helps radar, really
cdr Boxmedia 2000