We just got some stuff in by Never Again. Never Again play fast classic hardcore/thrash with sweet breaks. If you are a fan of Ceremony , Xfilesx, Scholastic Deth, Trash Talk or any bands of that like, then you will love Never Again! We've got the 'Repulsed' tape, the 'No Sympathy' tape and the 'Pressure' 6-track 7". We've only got a couple of copies of each so get on it!

Recently Easy Hips did a video for their Christmas anthem 'This Turkey's Bezurkey' that appeared on Happy Holy Roar 3. Here it is!



To celebrate we have made the song available to purchase from our store for a limited time!

We are really happy to announce that we will be working with We'll Die Smiling, starting with a 4 track ep limited to 100 copies. The packaging will fucking kill obviously (preview it, courtesy of the band, here).

It will be officially out Monday 5th April, exactly one month from today. The band have put up the opening track from the ep, 'Interdisciplinary' up on their myspace page or you can download a free mp3 of it from us right now here!

To celebrate the news that Hang The Bastard will be recording their debut album for us in late May for a late summer/early autumn release, we went and got this awesome, exclusive shirt made!



Yep, it's Simon and Garfunkel! Pick it up here! We also have copies of their ep 'Raw Sorcery' in, and you can buy the cd and shirt together for just £12!

Please note i'm away in Australia from Wednesday, so any orders received after then will be sent out 5th March!

Just a quick little update. We've gone through our catalogue, sorted and added a few bits and pieces...

- Holy States 'Urges', from the sold out 7" with Pulled Apart By Horses is now available to download at 79p
- The Holy Roar half of the 'Holy Monsters!' split 10" is now available to download on an individual track basis. This is an exclusive song each from Holy State and Brontide. It's easily the best Brontide recording to date by a mile!
- We traded a handful of Throats cd colours with the band, so we now have a couple of the cd in GREEN available now....

Just hit up the Shop page!

The run,WALK! CD mini-album and t-shirt package is up now! £13 for the pair. Not bad, Not bad. Or if you just want the cd or the t-shirt then that's cool too!

Check out the shop page or the releases page to stream the entire release now, over a month before its release date.

Remember Emma Sailor who designed and printed Brontide shirts, almost every Holy State shirt to date, the run,WALK! shirt and more? Well this is the 'umbrella' label under which all the printing and designing takes place. Vino Sangre. It's fucking awesome.

Holy Roar backs Vino Sangre/Emma Sailor hard!

PLEASE NOTE - We only have one of each shirt and tote apart from the black print tote bags (we have 4 of them), so if you want it get in quick! Once gone, they are gone, these were made specifically for us.

Please welcome ANTARES. Easily the most technical UK heavy band I have heard for a long time! It was always going to be a ridiculous combination when you put together an ex-guitarist of Chronicles of Adam West and Calvin (aka the only person to ever fill in for Joe Nicholson on gutar in Rolo Tomassi).

4 songs, 16 minutes, mini-dvd style cases, 3" cd. Produced by the awesome Jason Sanderson.

You can buy their 3" cdep here now! There are only 100 copies ever, so this wont be around forever! You can also buy it digitally which will be around forever!

I guess its a bit of a belated Happy New Year from Holy Roar, as I went to Paris this week and got stuck there an additional 24 hours due to Eurostar cancellations. It wasnt all bad though, I got a free (really nice) hotel for the night and first class back the following morning! Below is a photo of the Catacombs i visited in Paris. Total brutality. All human bones. The most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. They go on for miles of tunnel.



So a bit of a round up/whats happening etc....

- Any orders placed (excluding Throats preorders) between dec 18th and now will go out on Monday 9th Jan.
- The Throats preorder is still running! Have you picked it up? Its not going to be around for long now!
- We are working on a bunch of merch for some of our bands, some cds/vinyl/shirts/bags from friends labels to sell via Holy Roar, a secret imminent release, the Guilty Parents cd, the Run, Walk! cd preorder, and loads more upcoming releases and stuffs!

Here are, in no order, my top 20 albums of 2009 (whats the point of doing it before the year has ended hey?) -

agoraphobic nosebleed - agorapocalypse
health - get colour
the chariot - wars and rumors of wars
maths - descent
king cannibal - let the night roar
MSTRKRFT - fist of god
kylesa - static tensions
iwrestledabearonce - its all happening
suicide silence - no time to bleed
fuck buttons - tarot sport
bloody panda - summon
weekend nachos - unforgivable
mew - no more stories.....
passion pit - manners
yeah yeah yeahs - its blitz
brutality will prevail - forgotten soul
gaza - he is never coming back
zombi - spirit animal
nile - those whom the gods detest
hudson mohawke - butter

Go check out the various packages now in the shop! Overall there is 2 colours of cd packaging available, 2 colours of vinyl available, a cd and 12" vinyl in a variety of combos! The shirt and hoodie are exclusive to this preorder only. This preorder end by release date (Feb 1st) at the latest so get on it...

Yoyoyoyoyoyoyoo!

So THIS FRIDAY is the last time we will be posting orders out until the first week of January. YOU WILL RECEIVE IN TIME FOR XMAS IF YOU ORDER BY FRIDAY LUNCHTIME. YES.

As i'm feeling nice, here is what to look out from us over the course of the next month or -

- THE NEW THROATS CD/LP PREORDER STARTING NEXT WEEK WITH LOADS OF SWEET PACKAGES
- A Brutality Will Prevail t-shirt designed by Bill from Throats
- A ridiculously brilliant Hang The Bastard t-shirt.
- A kind of new Maths shirt that will look amazing.
- A new Cutting Pink With Knives shirt (hopefully)
- The Guilty Parents cd
- Another secret release that will be revealed the day it goes on sale

...you know us, some of this may get delayed or end up not happening or something, but this is the aim!

As it's now december, we thought we would let you know what's going on/going down/coming up yadda yadda sleigh bells.

- We will close for the Xmas break on Friday 18th December. This will also be our last day of posting for the year. FRIDAY 18TH DECEMBER IS THE LAST DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS WE WILL POST STUFF THAT WILL GET TO YOU IN TIME TO BE A XMAS PRESENT OR WHATEVER.

- From today until the morning of 18th december, any order of £25 or more gets a FREE TOTE BAG. Any order of £50 or more gets a FREE TOTE BAG and A FREE HOLY ROAR SHIRT.

In other news -

- Throats preorders on their self-titled release should be going up at some point in the week before Christmas. Get excited on these! Cd packaging will be available in 3 colours - 100 orangeypink from us, 800 in grey from us/in shops etc and 100 green direct from the band at shows. Vinyl will be available from us in 2 tbc colours. One will be limited to 50, the other limited to 200. Finally there will be a preorder t-shirt and a preorder hoodie. There will be a variety of bundles too to save monies. Again - this will all make sense when it goes up! This will be released and orders will be dispatched in time for Feb 1st.

- There might be another secret release appearing before Christmas. It depends on how fast we move, i'm trying to get it done though and it will be ultra cool I promise! It's gonna happen soon anyway....

- The Guilty Parents ep will most likely make an appearance early January.