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Salutations lovers and haters

Hopefully everybody is enjoying the summer! It’s a busy period for us this summer, we’re playing all over Belgium so if you feel like it come and hang with us. By the end of this month the vinyl release of “the pretense of normality” should be a fact. Thanks again to tom from reality records [...]

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Hey kiddos, A quick what’s up! The nice people at MAD hooked us up with some very cool shows this week in Germany. We’ll be playing with Madball, H2O, Walls of Jericho and Murphy’s Law. If you’re in the area come over and hang out with us! These are the dates: 16.06.2005 – Germany – [...]

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Aloha, After three very hectic weeks, the first part in promoting our new record is over and goddamn, it was amazing. Being on the road with clevelands finest for almost a week was definitely one of the coolest experiences in the history of this band. We therefore wish to thank the best dudes for the [...]

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Dear all We’re leaving on our tour with Ringworm tomorrow so we’re all pretty siked, and plain nervous as well. All the new merch is ready and looks good. New shirts, new hoodies and zip up sweaters and most importantly: girlies! Also, we may or may not be selling the new record, but it depends [...]

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As March is coming to an end, the release date of our record is coming closer. GSR will officially release the record on the 26th of May. Nevertheless, as promised, we will have some limited amount of cd’s for sale during the weeks prior to the release. We can also announce that we will do [...]

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07.03.2005 Dear All After two and a half months of hard work, we can officially say that The Pretense of Normality is finished. We easily could have worked another month on this record, but thank God there are deadlines and recordlabels that force you to finish it, because otherwise we for sure would have gone [...]

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Everybody, The official statement: Conspiracy Bookings is proud to announce a 5-day European Tour of Cleveland’s most vile and destructive hardcore metal band RINGWORM. Joining Ringworm on this short tour will be Belgium’s THE SETUP, who will be releasing their debut full length “The Pretense Of Normality” on GSR records in May. The more I [...]

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Yo! A few updates. The recordings are as good as finished, we hope to get the mix done this week. Just to make things difficult we decided to change the name of the album into “the pretense of normality”. Also by next week, we hope to have the complete layout done for the album. The [...]

first of all happy new year, may 2005 be a good year for all of you!

Right now we’re in the process of recording our first album. It has been hectic up to now. Andries’ amp broke down twice and we had some minor technical difficulties in the studio, but it all worked out and we’re pretty stoked about how it sounds! It’s gonna be brutal and heavy, just the way [...]