TORCHE Announces New Releases, Tour Dates

Miami, Florida's TORCHE are geared up for a busy year, with several new releases planned, heavy time on the road and the recording of their sophomore album. First and foremost, TORCHE will join ISIS and JESU for a February/March tour spanning most of the south-east and east coast. (see below for dates)

A special re-mixed version of TORCHE's acclaimed Self-Titled debut full-length will first be made available on this tour, as a deluxe gatefold vinyl LP. The entire album has been re-mixed from the ground up and now features an additional track originally recorded during the same session, but only recently receiving some seriously epic vocal treatment. The CD version of this will hit stores later this summer through Rock Action in Europe, and as a 2xCD in North America through Robotic Empire featuring both the new remixed version as disc 1 and the untreated original mix as disc 2.

Around the same time Robotic Empire will issue the long-delayed "In Return" EP, which was recently completed through Southern Noise Studios in Miami and mastered by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East in Boston. Originally planned to be a two-song 7", the six track EP will be issued as a 10"+CD... which is to say that the release will have both digital and analog formats available together. This was done to ensure that the intense artwork created by John Baizley will mainly be experienced in the large gatefold 10" format. A newly mastered song from this release has been posted online and can be heard on the band's Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/TORCHE

Following the tour with ISIS and JESU, the band will return to Miami to put the finishing touches on their sophomore album, which will be recorded by Kurt Ballou at Godcity in Boston during late May/early June. TORCHE will tour both to and from Boston around this time, playing with some seriously incredible groups on this jaunt. More details will be announced as they become available, but in the meantime be sure to catch them on tour if you want to preview some of the songs intended for this album:

2/23 - Tallahassee, FL @ OAF House - w/ Suspect + Space Manatee
2/25 - Little Rock, AK @ Downtown Music - w/ Rwake, Burned Up Bled Dry, Rider On A White Horse
2/26 - Oklahoma, OK @ The Conservatory - w/ Isis, Intronaut
2/27 - Fort Worth, TX @ Ridglea Theater - w/ Isis, Intronaut
2/28 - Austin, TX @ Emo's - w/ Isis, Intronaut
3/1 - Houston, TX @ Numbers - w/ Isis, Intronaut
3/2 - Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon - w/ Isis, Intronaut
3/3 - Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree Lounge - w/ Isis, Jesu
3/5 - Orlando, FL @ The Social - w/ Isis, Jesu
3/6 - Gainesville, FL @ Common Grounds - w/ Isis, Jesu
3/8 - Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club - w/ Isis, Jesu
3/9 - Charlotte, NC @ Tremont Music Hall - w/ Isis, Jesu
3/10 - Richmond, VA @ Alley Katz - w/ Isis, Jesu
3/11 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club - w/ Isis, Jesu
3/13 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts - w/ Isis, Jesu
3/14 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza - w/ Isis, Jesu
3/15 - New Britain, CT @ Alumni Hall (Central Connecticut State) - w/ Isis, Luminance
3/16 - Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East (downstairs) - w/ Isis, Blacktail
3/17 - Providence, RI @ Redrum - w/ Tides, Trap Them, Four Horse
3/18 - Baltimore, MD @ The Ottobar - w/ Compression, Wooly Mammoth
3/20 - Raleigh, NC @ King's Lounge - w/ Black Tusk, Tooth

Online Store Updates 02/04/07 (AS THE SUN SETS, Colored Vinyl, T-Shirts, etc.)

Howdy again folks! We've had a crazy amount of new stuff and restocks arrive in the past 2 weeks... including some super hard to find items, rare colored vinyl, new t-shirts, weird cassettes and more.


One of the more notable packages (er... multitude of packages) that arrived was the entire back-stock of CDs and LPs from the Rhode Island label City Of Hell and the bulk of back-stock CDs from Florida's now-defunct label Urchin. What this translates to is that Robotic Empire is now the only distributor with the old AS THE SUN SETS "Each Individual Voice" CDs and LPs, as well as the only distributor who has the ATSS/DAUGHTERS side-project CRIPPLER CROSS FACE and the highly under-distributed opus by heavy/stoner/madmen RAILSPLITTER. Long story short, we hunted down some crucial shit that's been generally unavailable for years, and literally nobody else has for sale.


Along with that, we got a pile of new t-shirts from the rad Cali-based Warlord Clothing, including some great officially-licensed designs by SPAZZ, AT THE GATES, EYEHATEGOD and more. More shirts for the label will be coming in the following weeks (along with an entirely new webstore AND website - finally), but for now here is the full list of the last 2 weeks new additions and restocks to the Robotic Empire Online Store:

* As The Sun Sets - "Each Individual Voice" 12" (City Of Hell) - $10.00
* As The Sun Sets - "Each Individual Voice" CD (City Of Hell) - $8.00
* At The Gates - "Gardens Of Grief - Size: Small" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* At The Gates - "Gardens Of Grief - Size: Medium" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* At The Gates - "Gardens Of Grief - Size: Large" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* Aughra / Mosh Patrol - "Is There Anyone Else Outside" CD (Magic Bullet) - $8.00
* Back When - "We Sang As Ghosts - COLORED VINYL" 2x12" (Shock Value) - $14.00
* Baroness - "First" CDep (Hyperrealist) - $8.00
* Baroness - "Second" CDep (Hyperrealist) - $8.00
* Baroness - "Second - CLEAR COLORED VINYL" 12" (Hyperrealist) - $10.00
* Baroness - "Second - BLACK VINYL" 12" (Hyperrealist) - $10.00
* Bastard Noise - "Recycled Music" Cassette (RRRecords) - $5.00
* Brainworms - "Which Is Worse - CLEAR w/ SPLATTER COLORED VINYL" 12" (Rorschach) - $10.00
* Brainworms - "Which Is Worse - ORANGE COLORED VINYL" 12" (Rorschach) - $10.00
* Call Me Lightning - "The Trouble We re In" 12" (Forge Again) - $8.00
* Catalyst, The / Mass Movement Of The Moth - "Two Thousand And Six Six Six - GRAY COLORED VINYL" 12" (Electric Human Proj.) - $9.00
* Caught In The Fall - "Act IV - MAROON COLORED VINYL" 11" (Shock Value) - $8.00
* Charles Bronson - "Tough Guy - Size: Small" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* Charles Bronson - "Tough Guy - Size: Medium" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* Charles Bronson - "Tough Guy - Size: Large" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* Charles Bronson - "Tough Guy - Size: Extra Large" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $14.00
* Cream Abdul Babar / Teen Cthulhu - "Split" CD (Hyperrealist) - $8.00
* Cream Abdul Babar - "Excavation 1995-1998" 2xCD (Public Guilt) - $9.00
* Crestfallen - "Streaks of Terror" CD (Magic Bullet) - $8.00
* Crippler Cross Face - "Where Did We Put That Dead Horse" CDep (Urchin) - $7.00
* Dalek - "From Filthy Tongue Of Gods And Griots" 12" (Ipecac) - $9.00
* Death To Tyrants / Dogs Of Ire - "Split" 10" (Ethospine Noise) - $8.00
* Ed Gein - "Its A Shame - RED COLORED VINYL" 12" (Shock Value) - $9.00
* Eyehategod - "Classic Skull - Size: Small" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* Eyehategod - "Classic Skull - Size: Medium" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* Eyehategod - "Classic Skull - Size: Large" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* Flying Worker, The - "A Collection" 3" MiniCD (Electric Human Proj.) - $7.00
* Forensics / Textbook Traitors - "Split - CLEAR COLORED VINYL" 12" (Electric Human Proj.) - $9.00
* Forensics - "Things To Do When You Should Be Dead Anyway" CD (Magic Bullet) - $9.00
* Fucked Up - "Mix Tape 1 [Generations]" Cassette (Deranged) - $7.00
* Fucked Up - "Mix Tape 2" Cassette (Deranged) - $7.00
* Get Rad - "Say Fuck No To Rules, Man - BLUE/PINK COLORED VINYL" 12" (Hyperrealist) - $10.00
* Get Rad - "Say Fuck No To Rules, Man" CD (Hyperrealist) - $9.00
* Hewhocorrupts - "The Discographer" CD (Forge Again) - $9.00
* His Hero Is Gone - "Arson - Size: Small" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* His Hero Is Gone - "Arson - Size: Medium" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* His Hero Is Gone - "Arson - Size: Large" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* His Hero Is Gone - "Arson - Size: Extra Large" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $14.00
* Iron Lung - "Cold Storage" CD (Fuck Yoga) - $10.00 - Macedonian import!!
* Japanese Torture Comedy Hour - "Recycled Music" Cassette (RRRecords) - $5.00
* John Wiese - "Recycled Music" Cassette (RRRecords) - $5.00
* Joshua Fit For Battle - "To Bring Our Own End - WHITE/YELLOW COLORED VINYL" 12" (Shock Value) - $10.00
* Kayo Dot / Bloody Panda - "Split - MARBLE COLORED VINYL" 12" (Holy Roar) - $16.00
* La Quiete / Louise Cyphere - "Split" CD (Electric Human Proj.) - $8.00
* Memento Mori - "Discography" CD (Hyperrealist) - $9.00
* Merzbow - "Batztoutai / Loop Panic" 2xCD (RRRecords) - $9.00
* Merzbow - "Recycled Music" Cassette (RRRecords) - $5.00
* Meth And Goats - "Attack From Meth And Goats Mountain - GREEN/WHITE COLORED VINYL" 12" (Electric Human Proj.) - $9.00
* Meth And Goats - "Attack From Meth And Goats Mountain - LEMON/LIME COLORED VINYL" 12" (Electric Human Proj.) - $9.00
* Meth And Goats - "Attack From Meth And Goats Mountain - PINK COLORED VINYL" 12" (Electric Human Proj.) - $9.00
* Meth And Goats - "Attack From Meth And Goats Mountain" CD (Electric Human Proj.) - $8.00
* Nachtmystium - "Instinct: Decay - CLEAR COLORED VINYL" 12" (Profound Lore) - $12.00
* Neurosis - "Yin Yang - Size: Small" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* Neurosis - "Yin Yang - Size: Medium" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* Neurosis - "Yin Yang - Size: Large" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* Neurosis - "Yin Yang - Size: Extra Large" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $14.00
* Pageninetynine / Majority Rule - "Split" CD (Magic Bullet) - $9.00
* Railsplitter - "Sunday Morning At The Church Of The Head Crushing Riff" CD (Urchin) - $8.00
* Skullflower - "Obsidian Shaking Codex" CD-R (RRRecords) - $8.00
* Spazz - "Goat - Size: Small" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* Spazz - "Goat - Size: Medium" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* Spazz - "Goat - Size: Large" T-Shirt (Warlord) - $12.00
* Wolf Eyes - "Recycled Music" Cassette (RRRecords) - $5.00
* Wow, Owls! / Setup, The - "Split - MAROON COLORED VINYL" 7" (Perpetual Motion) - $5.00
* Wow, Owls! - "Pick Your Patterns" CD (Perpetual Motion) - $9.00

Also, we are nearly out of the ISIS - "In The Absence Of Truth" 2xLPs, as only a handful of the black vinyl copies remain. If you want one, now is the time to act as even our distributor has sold out of their copies.

Thanks for reading all of this, and expect big changes from us in the coming month or so! Peace!

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