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May. 16th Friday - Wake the dead
HOLY SHIT! It's been so long since this update, some of you might start to think we've thrown in the towel! No worries. We are currently in the studio writing a lot of new songs for an upcoming release. Expect some hard hitting shit this time. It's also been a while since we played our last show and since then it kinda stranded somewhere. So here's a big cry for help. We seriously want to play some nice shows again. If any of you could hook us up, just drop us a line and we'll be happy to send you a copy of our latest MCD. Thank you. On a side note; Be sure to pick up this bad ass book by John Joseph of the legendary Cro-Mags: The Evolution of a Cro-Mag. Packed with alot of 'Hard Times' but also funny as hell.Jan. 7th Monday - Happy New Year!
First things first. We like to wish you a great new year and hope you had a great holiday. So what's in store for this year? There are a lot of shows on our agenda and happy to anounce that there is a big show at The Stage in Arnhem coming up. We will be playing together with Kickback and For The Glory. That's the kind of show you just KNOW it's going to be hell-on-earth! Further details in the showlist! Futhermore, we've come a long way in our writing process. There are a bunch new songs ready, so eventually we'll hit the studio again for a split or maybe even a full-length. Since Joël is doing great as a merchguy for our brothers from New Morality, here's a little peptalk just to let you know our merch is still on sale. BUY OUR SHIT!Oct. 30th Tuesday - Classicsfest
It's been a while! We just wanted to give you a short notice an what's going on next weekend. If you haven't seen it sticking on a wall or lying on a merchtable, here's your chance to catch up! We're doing a Shockwave cover set on the upcoming Classicsfest in Eindhoven. Since we couldn't find a decent second singer, we put our money on Joël to do the second vocals. Laying a double weight on Thomas, we are nothing but confident about this show. We'll be there to do some serious damage!Sep. 21st Thursday - Shows
Monsters of Mosh was a blast, too bad if you missed out. Get even with us and show up upcoming weekend in Zwolle. Come represent us in the Eureka venue at around 19:30. For further details go check out the showlist. We also added the logo's and the banner on the contact page if you ever need it for websites and/or flyers. And last but not least, the shirts are in! So go order up!Aug. 26th Sunday - T-shirts
After months of debating, we’ve finally ordered some shirts for you to buy. The first pressings are a bit limited to a total of fifty of them. You’d better order fast! Sizes differ from small to large and half of them also in girlie. Unfornately we can’t take any pre-orders due to a small amount. We expect to have them in about three weeks. Here’s a preview of the shirt (click for a bigger size):
We hope you like it! Okay, aside from the shirts we made some flyers to let everyone know Checkmate made a new record. If you want to help promote us, take the time to send us an e-mail. We’d be happy to send you some flyers!
Jul. 19th Thursday - The Grand Move
Oh yeah, just so you know. Our new album The Grand Move is out! You'd probably guessed from the downloadable songs and our list of releases. Hell, you may already own it! Since there wasn't any release party for our new album, we thought it would be cool to just show off with it on our website. Here is a little banner you can put on your MySpace and/or website so you can support us a little.
It's a total DIY album, no record labels involved. We'd only like to thank Michiel Toenink again because he did our production for this one. Since it's DIY there won't be thousands of records available. So you better get your wallets ready for the next best thing or you might miss it. We will accept your orders through mail. Thanks!
p.s. Talking about MySpace, take a quick look at ours and add us as a friend. http://www.myspace.com/checkmatehardcore!
