ATHOUSANDYEARSOFDARKNESS unleashed

here it is, ATHOUSANDYEARSOFDARKNESS.

12 tracks, 10 minutes of noise hell.

enjoy.

PURCHASE/STREAM/PIRATE from THEDOWNGOING.BANDCAMP.COM

DOWNLOAD from GRINDCORE KARAOKE

PIRATE (320KB mp3) from MEDIAFIRE


LISTEN right here:

or RICK ROLL YOUR E-PALS ON YOUTUBE

xo tdg

3 sleeps

just 3 more sleeps until ATHOUSANDYEARSOFDARKNESS is unleashed.

here's the ATYOD teaser video.

or go watch it over at YOUTUBE


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QLD: check.

2000+km round trip, well worth it.

big thanks to all our buds on the Sunshine Coast and in Brisbane, great shows and hazy times...

tdg moves the noise south to Sydney this Saturday for SLAUGHTERFEST


And in case you missed it, TRIPLE J'S THE RACKET played the track "slugs" off ATHOUSANDYEARSOFDARKNESS on the July 10 show, right before some Sunn O)))
That's some diversity right there.

ATYOD drops this Friday.
Get it. Worship noisegrind.



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TDG takes over DEAD AIR

Tune in to FBi's DEAD AIR with Dave Drayton tonight from 11pm.

thedowngoing is dropping in to spin some new tracks from ATHOUSANDYEARSOFDARKNESS, talk about our upcoming Australian and USA tours, and spit rhetoric about the unholy blastbeat.

Hit FBi up on 94.5fm or ditch the wireless and listen via the interweb here

Guaranteed to be the noisiest radio you will hear all week.

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more reviews for ATYOD

Hey there.

More reviews are dropping in for our latest ATHOUSANDYEARSOFDARKNESS.

Alex over at GRINDTODEATH.COM seems to have enjoyed it... "This 10 minute snapshot of hell makes their previous release look like a nursery rhyme, and that says a lot since i know of no other band on the planet that offered such a deconstructive hailstorm..."

While BLASTING DAYS seems to have been won over by ATYOD... "the damage done is still huge and awful and it's great! I think it's my favourite thedowngoing record yet..."


If you want to hear what all the fuss is about, head over to our BANDCAMP page and pre-order the Slimline CD. Shipping pre-orders from Monday, so not too long to wait, grindfiends.

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First Review of ATYOD

Yep.

First words about our new one "ATHOUSANDYEARSOFDARKNESS" have dropped in via Joe over at Perpetual Strife.

"the best part of thedowngoing is seeing how far they will spiral out of control... [tdg] straddles a horizon of experimentation and familiar grindcore tropes to create a sound that can't be cornered..."

Click through to the PERPETUAL STRIFE REVIEW to read more about our noise and links to Scum and DxAx

Boosh!

PS. July 20 "ATHOUSANDYEARSOFDARKNESS" will be released, put it in your grind-diary.

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19 seconds of new music + pre-orders for the new CD

I'm taking pre-orders now over at thedowngoing.bandcamp.com for the new slimline CD.

So if you want a physical copy, it's $5 + postage, and we'll be shipping it out from the 5th of July, so they'll be delivered well before release on July 20. Handmade limited edition of 100 so get in quick before we sell them all on tour.

And to celebrate, here's 19-seconds of new music from "ATHOUSANDYEARSOFDARKNESS"

+ art for grind gigs looks like this:

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NEW MUSIC & WINTER TOUR

yeah, it gets the all-caps treatment.

The poster pretty much sums it up, new music available from July 20th and playing shows in QLD, NSW, VIC & SA.

noise is coming.


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le interview

yep.

more words about noise, this time i'm chatting with Dennis from the awesome Blasting Days.

making classically trained musicians cry, pissing off napalm fans and talking shit about noise, grind and the holy blastbeat.

+ first info on our USA tour.

Click here to jump through time and space.


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complete noise oblivion

Hey there.

The stylish chaps of Perpetual Strife have posted up a review of our untitled EP (which is available over at Grindcore Karaoke, if you haven't already snagged a cop)

"the two man Aussie act hits a fine point between grindcore and complete noise oblivion..."

read more over at Perpetual Strife Music


cheers
mat/tdg

braindead

Hey there.

The cool people over at Braindead Zine have put together an article on aussie grind.

Features reviews of Headless Death, Warsore, thedowngoing, Beer Corpse & the Mung.

Check it out here.

"There's an overall ambience of fevered chaos, and songs are very stormy, envelopped in a sort of electronic mist..."


More news about digital storms to come in the next few weeks.

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productivity

tdg has been busy recording more nihilistic noise than you can poke a stick at.

We'll have some information regarding a 2012 tdg release soon.


And you should keep your eyes glued to the Monomaniac 7" Comp Series over at Blastbeat Productions, as we'll be contributing 3 tracks, a grand total of 60 seconds of hell, for this awesome compilation.

tdg will be in fine company, with contributions coming from Robocop, Cloud Rat, Sete Star Sept, Gripe, Dephosphorus, Conan, Wake and heaps heaps more.

And in May we'll be playing a few shows with our pals LAEIRS, and new 2-piece Vile Specimen as they make their way south from the Scumshine Coast to mess up NSW.

More news and gig announcements in the next few weeks.


Cheers

mat/tdg

tdg talk samples

hey there

The latest issue of glossy mag veri.live features our Pal Dave Drayton talking to thedowngoing and others about the use of samples in music.

Issue 6 also features stuff on Battles, Boris and Opeth and comes with a Mark of Cain/Don Fernando split 7"

Sydneysiders can pick it up at Red Eye Records or Mag Nation in Newtown. 

To see where you can grab a copy, click on through to veri.live

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tdg talks to grind&punishment

hey there.

So recently, grind aficionado Andrew from the legendary Grind & Punishment asked me some questions, i then answered said questions. And now he has written some more kind words about our horrible noise.

Check it all out here.


We got some big news coming up in the next few weeks regarding new material, but in the meantime we got a couple of gigs in Sydney town.

This weekend is the epic SOUNDDAVE grind vs. grind showdown

And for the crusts, MARCH 24th we hit up the Alleyway generator gig w/ Battle Pope & Michael Crafter


cheers
mat/

give praise

yep.

a limited number of shirts and EP minidiscs are now available through our buds at Give Praise.

so click through and check out everything available at GIVE PRAISE MAILORDER

oh, and SOUNDDAVE 25/02 is now only 20 clams. BARGAIN!

mat/tdg