LAST MINUTE SHOW ADDED...

WE ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE WILL BE SHARING THE STAGE WITH THE ALMIGHTY TORCHE IN SEPT ON THE 26TH we know this is sort of last minute, but we hope to see all of your faces there to support torche on their way through Phoenix, WE DO HAVE PRESALE TICKETS and we WOULD suggest getting your hands on some as soon as possible, supplies are limited, and they will be cheaper from us than on the night of the show.. if interested, CONTACT: hellasmounds@hotmail.com with subject line "TORCHE TICKETS"
first come first serve, more news soon, hope to see you all there..

ANOTHER QUICK UPDATE (8/26/2010)

Make you sure your at our show tonight w/ Junius and ORBS, we still have some pre-sale tickets left for this if you are interested and would like to purchase some please contact us at hellasmounds@hotmail.com with subject line "JUNIUS TICKETS" and we will contact you back promptly.. lots of other stuff in the works too, so stay tuned look for another update before the weeks end, thanks for you support everyone!

QUICK UPDATE (7/22/2010)

We are making our last preperations for our show in LOS ANGELES w/ Rosetta, City of Ships and more.. we are looking forward to getting out on the road, even if it is just to see friends in L.A. we will have new t-shirts and plenty of NEW HEAVEN/NEW EARTH and EMPIRES splits with us as well...for those of you who have been asking! We are playing w/ a bill full of great bands tomorrow so make sure to come out! IT IS ONLY 5 BUCKS!!!! till then see you all soon!

IT'S BEEN AWHILE...

It's been awhile since our last post...
We have been very busy this year, 2 tours, SXSW, and lots of other shows...so here is some updates thus far from where we left of last in March....with SXSW. Our trip was alot of fun.. we hit the road with our friends in Nanda Devi, Toad, and Ryan from Earsplitters, some of the Earsplitters staff had already flown out to Texas and were awaiting our arrivals. When we got to Austin we were given a very warm welcome and spent some time with our buddies in Empires, Beast In the Field, and Lost Coves as well as Mark from SAW HER GHOST, it was great finanlly meeting him and the rest of the SHG crew. cause they have been friends of ours for so long now.. it almost felt like we had already been close for years now, cause we have all know each other for so long, and have been working together.. just never met face to face. We also had the privilege of seeing the dudes from Battlefields, and ADAI. while hanging out with them at their show at Plush in downtown Austin, We ended the evening seeing Torche play at Beerland while some of us went over to see Rocky Erikson play, all in all it was a very crazy, but totally enjoyable trip and Austin was very good to us... special thanks goes out to Brian for keeping us all well inebriated and putting all of us up with a place to rest our heads all weekend, not that there was much sleep going on.

(pictured below US, NANDA DEVI, TOAD, & some of the EARSPLITTERS co-op )
So, now back in Az, we have done a few local shows with some great bands/friends KERRETA, RED SPAROWES, CASPIAN, and we have a few more dates to add to the list before summer's end. so here is the low down...

First things first, we will be playing a few select dates this summer locally in Arizona, and a few in Ca, two of these dates will be with ROSETTA and CITY OF SHIPS as they make way out to the west coast. The dates w/ ROSETTA and a few others have been posted on our myspace, so go check them out and we hope to see you there! The plan after these few dates this summer will be to come back and start writing our next release.. I say "plan" because we have been planning on do it for a couple of months now but with all the shows and touring we haven't had any time to focus on new material, we have some songs in the works, but we would like to be able to focus more on them, and that is the plan for the end of summer and beginning of fall. We have already started the process of moving into a house in Phoenix w/ our friends in BODIES (emma's side project) where we will write and start to lay down some rough demos of the new material.

Another exciting bit of news is that we would like to welcome back guitarist Josh Griffith, to the family..(josh played on all of the tracks on NEW HEAVEN/NEW EARTH and had a big hand in writing them.) He has returned from his brief absence and we are excited to have him back. We would also like to take this moment thank our friend Joe Boning from Tintype for filling in for the last couple of months.

There is a lot more to talk about but, a lot of things are still being ironed-out all we can say now is there should be another release from us before end of the year and maybe even more.. we should have the details real soon, We know all of you have been asking... so please be patient with us, and as always thank you for all of your love and support.

HERE WE COME SXSW!!!!

So, it has been a busy year so far, in January we had an amazing tour w/ The Coma Recovery, and March is going to be one of our most crazy months yet...and it is now here. As you know our new record is out and we are about to invade the southwest yet again with friends Nanda Devi, and TOAD as well as The Easplitters Crew. With everything finishing out in Austin, Tx. with 2 showcases at SXSW! The first is one is at the metropolis apts with a huge lineup of great bands w/ everyone from BATTLEFIELDS, JUNIUS and CITY OF SHIPS, to EAST OF THE WALL, and ADAI, the 2nd is for SAW HER GHOST RECORDS at a record store called trailer space located right off from downtown Austin w/ labelmates BEAST IN THE FIELD, and EMPIRES.

We will be on the road playing a few show on the way there so be sure to check out the dates that have been posted which can be found on our MYPSPACE and try to make it out.

tour blog, 1- 6, 7, 8, - 2010

so after phoenix we headed to tucson, az for a great show with good friends Long Live the Smoking Gun. It was a great show and we had alot of fun other than the fact that we were running super late on our way there and at the end of the night our locks broke on our vehicle. After a call to AAA and a few hot drinks later we were back on the road on our way to new mexico. We drove all night and arrived there about 10am in the morning... and basically froze our asses off all day when we pulled into town greg was even wearing sandals.. we were not expecting this kind of cold, but I guess that is what we get for being from Az. Later on we met up with Coma for Dinner before our show at the launchpad. it was a great show and we made a lot of new friends including the good peeps from Distances... after that show we went out to Dustin from Comas house and drank, hung out and passed out...
crawling out of our sleeping bags the next morning to a banjo jam session in the living room of Dustin's house. After some more beer and food we were off to our last show of the tour in Santa Fe at the Santa Fe brewing Co. As we rolled up to the venue we were a little worried due to the fact that there were infants and children running around and well it looked more of like a family restaurant rather than a place to have a show..the promoter insured us we had nothing to worry about and feed us full of good pizza, and tons of beer to calm our nerves, and later on the crowd did become more of a "show-going crowd"and the show actually went amazing watching The Coma Recovery every night was mos def a plus as well. after the show the weather conditions were too ruff to drive home with a trailer so the people at the brewery gave us a full on tour and even more beer to take with us... once again this turned out to be an amazing night... we all said our goodbyes and posed for one more photo..then it was back it was back to burque to get some sleep and head out for home early next morning..

 (pictured above Us, The Coma Recovery, and My Dads)
We had an amazing time, and would like to thank all of our new and current friends.. for making this happen, my dads, the coma recovery, and EVERYONE from the earsplitters co-op in cali. we love you and see you all soon!

1-5-2010 (TOUR BLOG)

Vacation Vinyl was amazing, I think we may have cleaned out their stock of Colt45, between all of us, I think we pretty much drank our weight in beer. after the show we spent an hour packing out our trailer.......and then drove out to see Openhand play at Spaceland in Silverlake, Ca and we hung out even more with the Earsplitters crew and became sadder that we had to leave them. We drove all night.. well Joe did most of us slept. and we got back into our home Phoenix at about 6am in the morning with just about enough time to crawl into our beds and sleep before our show tonight at Revolver records in Downtown Phoenix. everyone was great at the show in phoenix tonight. Tonight was also the first night that we meet up with My Dads (from Portland) and we will be with them and Coma, for the rest of the tour tomorrow is Tucson see you there!

1-4-2010 (TOUR BLOG)

Waking up a little hungover we all headed out to L.A. again for our free instore at Vacation Vinyl. Seriously if you had seen this place you would understand a bit more how amazing it is.. every single good record you can think of is here and some ones that you may not have even know that existed, everyone is super nice and we can't be thankful enough to all the new friends we have made hanging out and drinking pretty much the entire stores supply of COLT 45 and hanging out with pete, from Vacation and the rest of the EARSPLITTERS crew was a great time. if you have the means to come down here and support what they are doing at VACATION you most certainly should. Being from Arizona and being able to visit places like this make us appreciate everything that everyone out here is doing even more. It seems like everytime we are out here we get an even deeper appeciation for this music and independent D.I.Y. culture, as well as everytime we are out here, people bend over backwards to treat us with the upmost kindeness.

1-3-2010 (TOUR BLOG)

last night was great in Pomona, thank you to everyone who came out and had kind words to say. today we are pulling into L.A. and are stoked to hang with old and new friends tonight will be our show at the Labcabin so be sure to make it out. Most defiantly colder than expected out here in cali.. On the stranger side of thing all of the hellas mounds and coma recovery camp visted a Scientology Museum down the street from Amoeba Records.. it was pretty creepy, infact a couple of us ducked out a bit early. other than that we are in good spirits and having a great time see you tonight!

NEW YEAR, NEW TOUR, NEW RECORD, (TOUR BLOG - 1/2/2010)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!, hope the holidays found you and yours well we have been super busy even through the holidays we have been non-stop. As you may already know we have an upcoming EP due out early 2010 called "NEW HEAVEN/NEW EARTH" we also set off today for about a week or so long tour with our buddies THE COMA RECOVERY, we are stoked to see friendly and new faces on the road and cannot wait to see you all We have new songs, and merch to share. and we are excited to play some new music for all of you too. We will be updateing this blog alot on tour and posting updates and what not on twitter and facebook as well so be sure to keep checking back... other than that see you all soon!