MUNICIPAL WASTE - sweet exclusive T-Shirt design, available in many sizes!

So we've toured with MUNICIPAL WASTE a lot over the past couple years and have BARONESS' John Baizley doing a series of T-Shirts for the label, so it's only natural that this pairing finally happened! Robotic Empire is proud to announce an exclusive, brand new T-Shirt design for Municipal Waste's neo-classic tune "The Thrashin' of The Christ" from their latest Hazardous Mutation album on Earache. Yes, they are obviously still an Earache band but it doesn't mean the band isn't making some seriously cool merch, and we're stoked to have this design available for you.

We made a shitload of sizes, Youth Medium all the way through Double Extra Large, so hopefully peoples of all sizes can finally get the Waste shirt they've longed for. The print on this turned out absolutely amazing, and measures 11.5" wide by 15.5" tall, so it's nice and BIG! A bigger version of the artwork itself can be seen by clicking here, but if you already know you want this bad motherfucker, it's $15 POSTAGE PAID (by us) in the USA, and you can click here for all available sizes, ordering info and more details! Thanks/peace!

Miami's CAPSULE touring February/March!!

Miami, FL's newest addition to the Robotic Empire roster, the trio known only as CAPSULE, will be hitting the road this week as a warm-up for the recording of their debut album for the label. This three week jaunt includes dates alongside PYRAMIDS (Slave Union), TOWERS (Shock Value) and many more. Expect the band to have a limited cassette-only release of their demo material plus three newly recorded songs as a little preview before their upcoming album. The dates are as follows:

2/24 - Jacksonville, FL @ The Pit - w/ Environmental Youth Crunch, Devices, Civilization
2/25 - St. Augustine, FL @ The Warehouse - w/ Environmental Youth Crunch, Devices, Civilization
2/26 - Orlando, FL @ The Island Oasis w/ Environmental Youth Crunch, Devices, Civilization
3/3 - Miami, FL @ Andrew's House of Obscure Torture - w/ Pyramids
3/4 - Tampa, FL @ Skatepark of Tampa - w/ Pyramids
3/5 - Gainesville, FL @ Wayward Council - w/ Pyramids, Devices, FIYA
3/6 - Tallahassee, FL @ Sorceress Fortress - w/ Pyramids, Towers, Peter & Craig
3/7 - Atlanta, GA @ Swayze's - w/ Pyramids, Blame Game
3/8 - Crossville, TN @ 1127 - w/ Pyramids, Sadville
3/9 - Louisville, KY @ Old Louisville Coffee House - w/ Pyramids, Equal and Ultra
3/10 - Columbus, OH @ The Legion of Doom - w/ Pyramids, Sweetwater
3/11 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Roboto Project - w/ Pyramids
3/12 - Brooklyn, NY @ The North Six - w/ In First Person, Dear Tonight
3/13 - Allston, MA @ Basement Show - w/ The Hueristic, Draw Blood, They and the Children
3/14 - Philadelphia, PA @ Be Happy House - w/ Towers, Peter & Craig
3/15 - Washington, DC @ WUMC Radio Station - w/ French Stewart, Chiefs
3/16 - Richmond, VA @ The Fortress of Solid Dudes (9 N. Blvd) - w/ Brainworms, Resonance, Wasted Time

Upon returning home, the band will enter Southern Noise studios (Torche, Shitstorm, etc) to record their as-yet-untilled debut album, but in the meantime more information and some newly-mastered MP3s from the cassette can be found on the band's Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/CapsuleFL

Two GRAILS limited LPs now available!!

Robotic Empire is proud, excited and honored to announce that the two full-length albums by Portland's instrumental prodigies GRAILS are now both available on vinyl from our record label. We made 1000 copies of each of these incredible albums, with 700 of each to be made available through stores come March 28th. In the meantime, we are now offering the limited colored vinyl of each LP directly from us for $12ppd (in the USA). These are both now available in our Online Store.

For those unfamiliar with this simply glorious group, we feel that they are one of instrumental music's most serene, fascinating and beautifully complex acts. Guitars, pianos, strings, drums and much more are utilized to merge somber melodies with building waves of emotion, all sans vocals. It's downright powerful stuff, and all done with unique songwriting, surprising twists and an overall haunting feeling that is hard to shake, even after multiple listens. We have posted an MP3 from each album in the following location: Click Here (and scroll down a bit)

Now to the grit of vinyl's limited nature: the limited color quantities. We ordered 200 of each album on colored vinyl, but they turned out a little different than we hoped. We requested a more "smokey" transition between black and the translucent color (green for The Burden of Hope and red for Redlight) but instead we got more of a "splatter" effect, which is still pretty killer (as you can see by the detailed photos below). The band got some copies, so we have 150 of each for our mailorder purposes. Most of our vinyl stuff doesn't stick around too long, so we're encouraging you to get on the ball with ordering this jam, as not only did the artwork translate beautifully to the large vinyl format, but this music is pretty much mandatory if you like progressive and/or interesting stuff. For your reference purposes, we licensed these beasts from Neurot Recordings, one of independent music's leading innovators responsible for such acts as Neurosis, Isis, Made Out Of Babies, Red Sparowes and many more,

These two limited vinyl releases are also the prelude to the upcoming split LP between Grails and Red Sparowes, but we will inform you of that's release when it comes closer to fruition. In the meantime, these two phenomenal full-lengths are now available for your listening/collecting pleasure directly from the Robotic Empire Online Store.



Thank you!

MAGRUDERGRIND / SHITSTORM - Split CD out now +massive distro updates

So this shit isn't available in stores until March 14th, but we just got our copies of the MAGRUDERGRIND / SHITSTORM split CD so we're unleashing the bastards ahead of time. Here's the awesome thing we wrote for stores and distros and whoever:

"This 24-track, 22-minute blasterpiece showcases two of the most ferocious newcomers to the grind/powerviolence scenes in many years. MAGRUDERGRIND bring the scathing, thrash/crossover influenced grinding mayhem while SHITSTORM terrorize with gruffer, speed/death metal-tinged destruction? together creating one of the most abrasive split albums ever conceived. With no direct mimicry, these two young trios manage to walk in the same shoes worn by grind greats like DISCORDANCE AXIS and PIG DESTROYER, both delivering absolutely pummeling performances with only the use of guitar, drum and voice. That's right, no bass players are needed for songs this short, fast and absolutely relentless... and no heavyness is compromised with each band's best recordings to date and a fantastic mastering job by West West Side. Top it all off with unbelievably sick artwork from BARONESS' John Baizley, and you've got a split undeniably destined for full-blown 'classic' status."

If that doesn't get you stoked, you better go listen to some MP3s from this split here or here or here and GET stoked! Vinyl won't be ready until the March 14th street date, and we're not doing pre-orders so please don't ask! Yes, there will be colored vinyl so if you want to be the first to know, sign up for our mailing list (it's at the bottom of our Online Store)

Already know you want this killer album? Click here to order it directly from our awesome Online Store. Want some other jams? Oh we got those too! Here's the latest (massive) updates with tons of new items and restocks:

02/02/06 UPDATE:
* 86 Mentality - "Goin Nowhere Fast" CD (Grave Mistake) - $8.00
* Aborted - "Goremageddon" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Aborted - "The Archaic Abattoir" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Asschapel - "Fire and Destruction" CD (Crimes Against Hum) - $8.00
* At The Gates - "Gardens of Grief" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Balboa - "Manifeste Cannibale" CDep (Forge Again) - $6.00
* Bloodbath - "Nightmares Made Flesh" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Bloodbath - "Resurrection Through Carnage" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Burmese / Fistula - "Split" CD (Crucial Blast) - $8.00
* Caustic Christ - "Can't Relate" CD (Havoc) - $8.00
* Despised Icon - "Consumed By Your Poison" CD (Galy) - $10.00
* Despised Icon - "The Healing Process" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Direct Control - "You re Controlled" 12" (No Way) - $10.00
* Disfear - "Misanthropic Generation" 12" (Feral Ward) - $10.00
* Dim Mak - "Intercepting Fist" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Examination Of The... - "We Are The Architects Of Desire" CD (Forge Again) - $10.00
* Eyehategod - "10 Years of Abuse" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Eyehategod - "Confederacy of Ruined Lives" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Eyehategod - "Dopesick" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Eyehategod - "In The Name Of Suffering" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Eyehategod - "Southern Discomfort" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Eyehategod - "Take As Needed For Pain" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Facedowninshit - "Shit Bloody Shit" CD (Crimes Against Hum) - $8.00
* Fordirelifesake - "Breathing Is Only Half The Function" CD (Forge Again) - $8.00
* From Ashes Rise / Victims - "Split" CD (Havoc) - $8.00
* Genghis Tron - "Cloak of Love" CDep (Crucial Blast) - $7.00
* Gezoleen - "Black Spaces Between Stars" CD (Acerbic Noise) - $9.00
* God Forbid - "IV: Constitution of Treason" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Gorguts - "And Then Comes Lividity / Demo Anthology" CD (Galy) - $10.00
* Gorguts - "From Wisdom To Hate" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Gorguts - "Obscura" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Government Warning - "No Way Out" 7" (No Way) - $5.00
* Great Redneck Hope, The - "Behold The Fuck Thunder" CD (Thinker Thought) - $10.00
* Groinchurn - "Already Dead" 3" MiniCD (Crimes Against Hum) - $6.00
* Haunted, The - "rEVOLVEr" CD (Century Media) - $10.00
* Hewhocorrupts - "Ten Steps To Success" CD (625 Thrashcore) - $10.00
* Hewhocorrupts - "Ten Steps To Success" 12" (625 Thrashcore) - $8.00
* Infidel/Castro - "Bioentropic Damage Fractal" 2xCD (Crucial Blast) - $10.00
* Limpwrist - "The Official Discography" CD (Self Released) - $11.00
* Magrudergrind / Shitstorm - "Split" CD (Robotic Empire) - $10.00
* Misery - "Production Thru Destruction" CD (Crimes Against Hum) - $8.00
* Misery - "The Early Years" CD (Crimes Against Hum) - $8.00
* Nebula - "Atomic Ritual" CD (Liquor and Poker) - $8.00
* Nine Shocks Terror - "Zen and the Art of Beating Your Ass" CD (Havoc) - $8.00
* Riddle of Steel / Dakota Dakota - "Split" 7" (Forge Again) - $5.00
* Rune - "Self-Titled" CDep (Crucial Blast) - $6.00
* Set To Explode - "Self-Titled" 7" (Grave Mistake) - $5.00
* Skitsystem - "Enkel Resa Till Rannstenen" CD (Havoc) - $8.00
* Skitsystem - "Gra Varld, Svarta Tanakar" CD (Havoc) - $8.00
* Uranus - "To This Bearer Of Truth" CD (Feral Ward) - $12.00
* Various Artists - "Doom Capital - Maryland / DC Heavy Rock Underground" CD (Crucial Blast) - $8.00
* Various Artists - "Never Give In: A Tribute To Bad Brains" CD (Century Media) - $8.00
* Various Artists - "Not Without A Fight" 2xCD (Crucial Blast) - $10.00
* Various Artists - "Shadows Infinitum" CD-R (Crucial Blast) - $8.00
* Wasted Time - "Self-Titled" 7" (Grave Mistake) - $5.00
* Yakuza - "Way of the Dead" CD (Century Media) - $10.00

01/15/06 UPDATE:
* Ampere - "All Our Tomorrows End Today" 3" MiniCD (Ebullition) - $7.00
* An Albatross - "We Are The Lazer Viking" CD (Ace Fu) - $8.00
* As The Sun Sets - "7744" CD (Undecided) - $10.00
* Assistant, The - "Self-Titled" CD (Milligram) - $10.00
* Baroness - "First" CDep (Hyperrealist) - $7.00
* Bucket Full Of Teeth - "I, II, III" CD (Youth Attack) - $10.00
* Charles Bronson - "Complete Discocrappy" 2xCD (Youth Attack) - $12.00
* Converge - "Jane Doe" CD (Equal Vision) - $11.00
* Converge - "When Forever Comes Crashing (reissue)" CD (Equal Vision) - $11.00
* Converge - "You Fail Me" CD (Epitaph) - $12.00
* Crestfallen - "Self-Titled" 7" (Robotic Empire) - $5.00
* Cursed - "Two" CD (Goodfellow) - $10.00
* Cursive - "The Recluse / Art Is Hard Singles" 10" pic disc (Robotic Empire) - $8.00
* Das Oath - "Self-Titled" CD (Dim Mak) - $10.00
* Dead Meadow - "Feathers" CD (Matador) - $12.00
* Direct Control - "Nuclear Tomorrow EP" 7" (Sorry State) - $5.00
* Eel - "People People" CD (Records of the Damn) - $11.00
* Examination Of The... - "The Whitest Of Elephants" CD (Hawthorne Street) - $8.00
* Expectorated Sequence - "Hairbomb" CD (New Romance...) - $10.00
* Facedowninshit - "Passing Times" CD (Crimethinc) - $10.00
* Fall of Troy, The - "Doppleganger" CD (Equal Vision) - $11.00
* Flowers In The Attic - "Human" CDep (Reptilian) - $8.00
* Forensics - "Hogback Mountain Sessions Vol. 1" 12" (Tuned To You) - $8.00
* Hatebeak / Caninus - "Split" 7" (Reptilian) - $5.00
* Head Wound City - "Self-Titled" CDep (Three One G) - $7.00
* Hugs - "The Tarpit" 12" (Records of the Damn) - $8.00
* Isis - "Oceanic" CD (Ipecac) - $12.00
* Isis - "Panopticon" CD (Ipecac) - $12.00
* Jesu - "Self-Titled" CD (Hydra Head) - $12.00
* Karp - "Self-Titled" CD (K) - $10.00
* Kylesa - "To Walk A Middle Course" CD (Prosthetic) - $10.00
* Mannequin - "Warps Yr Head" CDep (Reptilian) - $8.00
* Mastodon - "Sick Leg" 7" pic disc (Reptilian) - $6.00
* Medic / Triac - "Split" 7" (Reptilian) - $5.00
* Minor Times, The - "Making Enemies" CD (Prosthetic) - $10.00
* Mummy The Peepshow - "School Girl Pop" CD (Records of the Damn) - $11.00
* Old Scratch Revival Singers - "Oh Didnt He Ramble" 12" (Records of the Damn) - $14.00
* Pageninetynine - "Singles" CD (Reptilian) - $10.00
* Pig Destroyer - "Painter Of Dead Girls" 12" (Robotic Empire) - $8.00
* Triac - "Dead House Dreaming" CD (Reptilian) - $10.00
* Various Artists - "Drum Machine Madness - 1-sided" 7" (Robotic Empire) - $5.00
* Various Artists - "Mutation (Ed Gein, Minor Times, etc)" CD (Robotic Empire) - $5.00
* YMCK - "Family Music" CD (Records of the Damn) - $11.00

As always, these prices are listed with POSTAGE PAID (by us) in the USA, so you'll be hard up to find a cheaper spot for most of the items we carry. We also have descriptions for everything on the site and MP3s for almost every item so hit up our Online Store for the sweet stuff. Thanks!