March 05, 2010 : DI on ROCKBAND!
You can now download the "Day Of Mourning" track for ROCKBAND on XBOX!!!
Download the song here:
http://www.rockband.com/songs/UGC_5001192
Check out the ROCKBAND drums here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VNtCInpPZM
Check out the ROCKBAND guitars here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3PPPey4RFg
Start shredding!
February 02, 2010 : France, Spain, Portugal dates announced!
Another dream came true! We are finally going to be touring all of France, Spain and Portugal in April! So stoked!
January 12, 2010 : Another new song up!
We just posted the new track "Diva Of Disgust" on our myspace! Go check it out! http://www.myspace.com/despisedicon
December 19, 2009 : DI on the next Brutal Assault Festival
We’re now also confirmed on next summer’s Brutal Assault Open Air Festival in Czech Republic with Cannibal Corpse, Children Of Bodom, Converge, Devourment, Dying Fetus, Origin and lots more!
http://brutalassault.cz/en/
December 17, 2009 : DI confirmed on Wacken Open Air and Summer Breeze
We’ve just been confirmed on 2 of Europe’s biggest metal festivals next summer: Wacken Open Air and Summer Breeze! Iron Maiden, Motley Crue and Cannibal Corpse will be playing Wacken while Sepultura, Necrophagist, Behemoth and Dying Fetus will part of Summer Breeze. Should be insane!
http://www.wacken.com/
http://www.summer-breeze.de/
December 15, 2009 : European tour with Parkway Drive and Winds Of Plague
We’ll be back in Europe in April and May with Parkway Drive and Winds Of Plague! It’ll be our first time touring all of Scandinavia! We’ll also be playing in Estonia, Latvia and Slovakia for the first time and will be part of the Groezrock Festival with Bad Religion and Pennywise. Get Stoked!
December 11, 2009 : Never Say Die USA Tour in January/February
We’ve played some of our favourite shows ever on the last two Never Say Die tours in Europe and are stoked to be part of its first annual US edition. We haven’t toured with Winds Of Plague in over 2 years already. It’ll be good to hang out and rock out with those dudes again! Can’t wait to be back in the US. See you guys soon!
December 02, 2009 : UK dates announced!
We’re going back to the UK in April with Parkway Drive, Winds Of Plague, The Warriors and 50 Lions!
October 10, 2009 : Canadian album launch shows in December!
“Day Of Mourning” has been out in stores for 2 weeks now. It actually made # 162 on the Billboard charts during its first week in the US, surpassing opening week sales of all 3 of our previous records combined. That makes us one of the only Quebec bands to ever make it on Billboard! We put so much time and effort into this record. Thank you all. Your support means the world to us.
After relentlessly touring the US and Europe from September 25th to November 21st, playing 52 shows in support of our new record in the fall, we’ll finally make our way back home and get ready for a few album launch shows in Canada. We’ll be teaming up with Cryptopsy, The Acacia Strain, Trapped Under Ice and Blind Witness during the first weekend of December. I can’t think of a better way to finish off the year!
Thursday December 3rd – Ottawa, ON @ Babylon
Friday December 4th – Toronto, ON @ Opera House
Saturday December 5th – Montreal, QC @ Medley
Sunday December 6th – Quebec City, QC @ Imperial
October 09, 2009 : Day Of Mourning Tour update from the road. Getting ready for the Never Say Die Tour.
The Day Of Mourning Tour is already halfway done. We hadn’t played in a lot of these cities in a while and it definitely felt great to be back, see a few familiar faces and rock the fuck out! Thanks to everyone that came out and supported the bands. We’ve gone through a lot on this tour so far: colds, bronchitis, fevers, van problems, snow storms on the road, blocked highways and 8 to 13 hour long drives almost every night. To top it all off, a tire blew up on Eric’s hand and broke his left index finger! He’s actually playing guitar with only 3 fingers every night and pulling it off! Despite all the bullshit, the shows have been awesome thanks to you guys and we’re looking forward to the rest of the tour!
Right after this, we’ll make a short stop in Montreal for 2 days and then fly over to Europe to headline the Never Say Die Tour and meet up with our homies in Oceano, Architects and ABRB. Only 3 weeks left before we go back to the Old Continent. Last year’s edition of NSD was so much fun and we’re excited to be part of the line-up again. Can’t wait!
September 22, 2009 : The time has come!
NEW ALBUM in stores NOW!
September 18, 2009 : Bonus song on Itunes! Free guitar strings on Indiemerch!
Order our new CD now on itunes and get an exclusive bonus song!
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPreorder?id=330869975&s=143441
Order DI merch at http://www.indiemerchstore.com/despisedicon and get free Labella guitar strings!
And the Indiemerch and Imperial album + t-shirt pre-sale packages are almost sold out already! Thanks everyone
September 14, 2009 : New video posted!
We finally posted our new Day Of Mourning music video on our myspace page. Go check it out!
myspace.com/despisedicon
September 09, 2009 : New website, New twitter, New facebook
Check out our new website! Thanks to David Lubofsky for his work and precious talent. By the way, if you want to work with him, you can reach him here:
http://www.fourwardmg.com/
We also sold out and got a twitter account to keep you guys updated on everything.
http://www.twitter.com/despisedicon
And we finally got a facebook account of our own. Add the REAL despised icon facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/despisedicon
September 03, 2009 : Pics and a making of the Day Of Mourning video now online
We posted some killer pics of our upcoming video for the song "Day Of Mourning" here:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=4993180&albumId=2698427
Check out the making of the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICw9l6J6ix0
The video will premiere on our myspace page Monday September 14th!
September 02, 2009 : QC shows!
Surprise! We’re playing back home in Rimouski and Quebec City September 11th and 12th. Help us spread the word. Can’t Wait!
August 23, 2009 : Vote for our DVD, New video interviews
The Thrash And Burn Tour ends tomorrow. Thanks to everyone that came out to the shows and made this tour amazing for us and all the bands. We’ll see you guys in a couple of weeks on the Day Of Mourning Tour. More dates will be announced shortly!
Please take a few seconds and vote for the Montreal Assault DVD in this contest that’s going on back home. Would be much appreciated. You don’t have to vote for the other categories. Just go down to the DVD de l’annee / DVD of the Year and vote for us. Thanks!
http://www.gamiq2009.com/index.php/lets-vote
We did a couple of video interviews last week in Montreal with Musique Plus and Hard Times. Check them out:
http://hardtimes.ca/despisedicon09
http://www.musiqueplus.com/video/index.php?id=10068
August 06, 2009 : New tour, new song, new video & new myspace!
The Thrash and Burn tour is almost halfway done already. Thanks to everyone that came out so far. The shows are huge! We’ll be back on a US headlining run in the fall with our new record in hand. We’ll be sharing the stage with our homies in Through The Eyes Of The Dead, ABACABB and Molotov Solution. Haven’t played with any of those dudes since 2007 already. Can’t wait to meet up again and destroy a town near you! We’ll be playing a bunch of cities that were skipped on Thrash and Burn so come hang out. Dates should be announced soon!
Thanks to everyone that checked out our new song “MVP”. Your support and encouragement means a lot to us. We recently shot a video for the record’s title track “Day Of Mourning” with famed Montreal hip hop video producers Kartel Films. Expect to see cemetaries, fancy cars, 40 ozs, hot bitches and a double dose of brutality. Trust us, the video rules! We’ll post the new song along with pics and a “making of” the video soon!
Our new myspace layout is finally online. It has plenty of cool new features. We hope you like it. We’re also working on a new killer website and an album pre-sale package for indiemerchstore.com and imperial-clothing.com. We’ll let you know when all of that will be online. And for all you extreme drummers out there, we’re getting ready to launch alexgrind.com in a couple of weeks. The site will be packed with drum clips, pics and news from the beast known as Alex Pelletier.
July 08, 2009 : MEGA UPDATE - DI completes new record, announces album title, release date and upcoming tours!
We just got the final master a few days ago. The record is done and it sounds like a beast! “Day of Mourning” drops September 22nd worldwide on Century Media. We’ll post a new song and show you our vilest album cover soon.
In addition to our upcoming European summer festivals tour, we’ve just been announced on this year’s “Thrash and Burn” and “Never Say Die” tours. We’ll be sharing the stage with awesome bands and are finally going to play a few new tracks for you guys live. I can’t wait to be on tour!
May 05, 2009 : STUDIO REPORT - Episode 6: Guitar Solos (video now posted!)
Guitar solos are done! Check out this week's studio update to see the latest shred. This means we're finally done recording our new record! The whole thing is being mixed right now by Zeuss (Hatebreed, The Acacia Strain, Whitechapel) in Massachusetts and the rough mixes sound killer so far! Mastering will be done in about a week by Alan Douches (Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Nile). Get stoked guys!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wfn0bPzQKU
