Circus of Dead Squirrels

[VoivodBG]

THE EPIC MANGLED TAIL

 

CIRCUS OF DEAD SQUIRRELS

Circus of Dead Squirrels (CODS) at times has been called "silly" and "offensive". The truth of the matter is this: If you can't laugh at the mess we've all made, then you better damn well be doing something productive to fix it instead of constantly criticizing others. As a society, we have been given the bait by the ones who control us. We have been fed with the Hollywood gossip, the health and beauty products, the weight loss programs, the anti-depression medication, the infomercials, the feel-good sitcoms, the religious salvation, the gender and racial stereotypes... the list could go on and on. The mainstream music, with pointless, robotic and cliche lyrics strategically designed to sell to the brainwashed masses, continues to pour in millions of dollars a year. CODS are not a part of this "popular culture". CODS are artists seeking and exposing the truth while discovering a much needed humor buried within it along the way.

 

BEGINNINGS

CODS was created by Pancho Ripchord (Matt Foran), Ninja Turtle Liberace (Daniel Raphael), and Von Boc (John Beeler) in 2001. The trio began working together in a high school ska/metal band called Toilet Duck in 1999. After realizing that many of the band members were not serious musicians, they decided to turn to keyboards and programming to compensate for their losses. This decision would ultimately lead to the birth of CODS. They spent months together programming songs. Although they never completely lost some punk/ska elements, they began to slowly incorporate more of an industrial style into their music. The members were huge fans of the industrial scene and credit Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM, Ministry, Front Line Assembly, and Skinny Puppy as some of their biggest influences. The band attempted to perform live, still using the name Toilet Duck, (which later would be changed to Dead Duck Flush, The Baby Jesus Abortion?, and Squirrelbait before finally becoming CODS) but had no luck. The search for solid musicians was still a major problem. The band released two demos under the name Toilet Duck.

 

INDOOR RECESS

In 2003, they decided that it was time to finally release a full length album independently under their own ForaNatioN Records. They changed their name to Circus of Dead Squirrels (which seemed to describe their music quite well) and started recording Indoor Recess with engineer Mark Alan Miller (Out Out, Metropolis Records) at the Slaughterhouse Recording Studio (then in Hadley, MA now in West Hampton, MA). The album was released in 2004 and the reaction was astounding. "8-Bit Piece of Shit" became an instant underground hit. Shortly after the release of the album, Ripchord and NTL parted ways with Von Boc and various new members were added for live performance of the record. Many changes occurred in the line-up but CODS continued to perform. Their fan base was rapidly increasing and finally Ripchord and NTL knew that their effort through all of the previous years was truly worth it. They decided to release a remix album of Indoor Recess entitled Outdoor Recess in 2005. The album featured remixes by Out Out, VeinCage, Intricate Unit, Tragedie Ann, and more.

 

POPULARITY INCREASES, A SOLID LINE-UP IS FORMED

More and more people were discovering the music of CODS, including many people involved in the music industry. They were offered multiple record contracts from other indie labels but nothing seemed to be the right option for the band. Circus of Dead Squirrels was becoming a major force in the industrial metal world. With this came a line-up of what for a long period of time seemed like the right musicians. The line-up was: Ripchord on vocals, NTL on keys/guitar, Von Boc returned to play bass, Omega (Craig Douglas) on drums, and Mr. Furious (Dennis Boehm) on keys. The new members even started to get involved with the creation of music. Together they began writing their next record.

 

THE POP CULTURE MASSACRE AND THE END OF THE WORLD SING-A-LONG SONGBOOK !

CODS returned to the studio in 2006 again with engineer Mark Alan Miller to record The Pop Culture Massacre... and the results were phenomenal. CODS even hired professional illustrator Travis Falligant (ibtrav.com) to do the album's artwork (which is certainly memorable to anyone who sees it). The album brutally attacked various characters from McDonald's, Sesame Street, and a good majority of the characters you'll find on any food product (just to name a few). The album was released in 2007 once again on ForaNatioN Records and was another underground hit.

 

CIRCUS OF DEAD SQUIRRELS TODAY

Shortly after the release of "The Pop Culture Massacre..." Mr. Furious left the band on good terms. His involvement with school was continuously an issue with his involvement with the band. A few weeks later Von Boc once again parted ways. But the others remained and became stronger. Tuberculosis Jones (Matt Nodland), who was a previous member, came in to fill the open bass position. Today CODS finally consists of the right devoted musicians. They are currently planning and booking tours and working on material for their next record, Operation Satan.

 

http://www.circusofdeadsquirrels.com

 

CiRcUs oF DEaD SQUiRrELs - Indoor Recess (2004)

 

1. 8-Bit Piece of Shit

2. Plastic Messiah

3. Heaven Can't Help Us

4. Sea Monkey Kill

5. Bendable Jesus

6. Force-Feed

7. Death Saves the Derelict

8. A Selfish Prayer

9. An Open Door...

10. Rubber Ducky Fucker

 

http://ifolder.ru/6940130

 

 

Circus of Dead Squirrels - The Pop Culture Massacre And The End Of The World [2007]

 

Band: Circus of Dead Squirrels

Album: The Pop Culture Massacre and the End of the World

Year: 2007

Country: United States of America

Genre: Industrial / Circus Metal

Length: 45:3 5Min

Filesize: 41.11 MB

 

Tracklist:

- Disclaimer

- Overpopulation Annihilation

- The Happy Meal-Worm

- Losing Touch

- President Pinocchio

- Under The Big Top

- Prizefighter

- Elmo's Last Laugh

- Hell's Kitchen!

- Nobody Quite Like Me

- Utopia Burning

 

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PBN2ONYB

 

Opicen bend, na trenutke podsecaju na industrial verziju Mr.Bungle pomesanog sa zestinom Fear Factory-a.

 

 

 

 

[forever*autumn]

cuh samo "Nobody quite like me", i dopade mi se. ali se nikad ne setih da pronadjem jos nesto od njih. hvala za link.

retko originalno ime za bend.

[darthmoog]

@ultimate

Jel za ove beshe nikola radio spot?

[VoivodBG]

cuh samo "Nobody quite like me", i dopade mi se. ali se nikad ne setih da pronadjem jos nesto od njih. hvala za link.

retko originalno ime za bend.

Nema na cemu.

Postoji i remix album, ali to nisam uspeo da nadjem, a i kapiram da ne mogu remixi da budu bolji od originala...

 

@ultimate

Jel za ove beshe nikola radio spot?

 

Jeste, za Losing Touch.

[oNe]

Preslusao sam par albuma, zanimljivo ali brzo dosadi.

[VoivodBG]

Pa oni i nisu bend za duze slusanje, vec u intervalima, malo prekines, pa se uzelis pa stalno tako.

 

[זאבים]

Skinuh owaj iz '07. Magnificant.

Bash kao shto rece.. Patton vs FF vs mozda MSI

 

[VoivodBG]

Zanimljivo je da su CODS bas ove godine svirali sa MSI.

Ko zna mozda padne neka saradnja CODS-ovom novom albumu sa njima.

[VoivodBG]

Circus of Dead Squirrels - Indoor Recess (2008)

 

ARTIST........: Circus of Dead Squirrels

TITLE.........: Indoor Recess

LABEL.........: ForaNation

URL...........:

GENRE.........: Industrial

QUALITY:......: 198 kbps avg/ 44100Hz / Joint Stereo

 

RIP DATE......: 2008-09-04

RELEASE DATE..: 2008-00-00

 

Tracklist:

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01. 8-Bit Piece of Shit 5:42

02. Plastic Messiah 3:35

03. Heaven Cant Help Us 5:10

04. Sea Monkey Kill! 3:54

05. Bendable Jesus 4:26

06. Force-Feed 4:39

07. Death Saves the Derelict 3:17

08. A Selfish Prayer 7:13

09. An Open Door... 1:36

10. Rubber Ducky Fucker 4:12

11. A Selfish Prayer (Dolly Fuck Mix) 4:22

12. Sea Monkey Kill! (Techno Monkey Massacre Remix) 4:34

13. Force-Feed (Orchestral Remix) 5:40

14. Bendable Jesus (Audioflesh Remix) 3:27

15. Rubber Ducky Fucker (Drown in Semen Remix) 4:01

16. 8-Bit Piece of Shit (Decompression Mix) 5:03

17. Heaven Cant Help Us (Out Out Sound System Take 6:51

Control)

 

Total77:42

 

Release Notes:

 

Rerelease of Indoor Recess with 7 additional remixes

 

http://rapidshare.com/files/142913177/Crcs_f_Dd_Sqrrls-ndr_Rcss-_Rss_-2008-PMS.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/142913411/Crcs_f_Dd_Sqrrls-ndr_Rcss-_Rss_-2008-PMS.part2.rar

[זאבים]

Fkida fe.

[זאבים]

Ovaj Indoor mi je mozhda chak i bolji od onog iz 2007.

 

[VoivodBG]

Ma kakvi Pop Culture Massacre ima opicenije tekstove a i bolja je muzika, ovo ti se samo sada cini tako jer su ga remasterizovali...

[זאבים]

Istina.

[זאבים]

Circus of Dead Squirrels
2003-2008

This is Matt Foran (aka Pancho Ripchord), vocalist of Circus of Dead Squirrels. I am writing to inform all of you that CODS has officially ended. This decision is beyond my control and it is not something I'm happy about. In fact, this is one of the saddest days of my life. CODS was not ready to die and I feel like we had so much more to offer. Unfortunately this does mean that we will not be releasing Operation Satan even though we had much of the material already written. Our official website will be closing this month but our myspace page will remain active. Our street team myspace page will also be closing. Please encourage others to still check out our music and purchase our merchandise, it would be greatly appreciated.


I want to say thank you to our devoted fans. I can not thank you enough for all of your support and for the simple fact that you believed in us. Meeting all of you throughout these past few years has been a wonderful experience. I thank you for your friendship, kindness, and encouragement. You will never be forgotten. I am sincerely sorry if this has let any of you down. Craig Douglas (Omega) and myself wanted nothing but to bring this band to the top. This decision was made by Dan Raphael (NTL) who for the past couple of years has not been devoted to this band in any way even though he wrote and programmed most of both albums.


I also want to thank Mark Alan Miller and Travis Falligant for the incredible contributions they made to this band. I look forward to working with you both again on other projects.


I feel that it is only fair to give our fans a detailed explanation for why this has happened. We joked numerous times that we were damned with “The Curse of CODS”.
So what makes a good thing end before it‘s time?

MONEY: We have dumped THOUSANDS of dollars of our own money into this band. We have yet to come even remotely close to breaking even. We are over $10,000 behind at this point. We are just not able to come up with even more to put out another record. We are not selling enough merch and even though we want to release one more album before the end, it is just not possible. We were hoping very much that someone would help us. We have contacted so many labels and have never had any success. You may be asking yourself, what about Misfortune Records? What a waste of time it has been even trying to talk to that guy.


BAND MEMBERS: Besides Craig and myself, CODS consisted of people who pretended to be devoted musicians for a little while. I lost respect for a lot of people. I lost my closest friends (so I thought) throughout this journey.


LACK OF SUPPORT: We have tried over and over again to book shows/tours with booking agents and other bands and have been shafted every time. Each and every time a sign of hope would arise it would eventually crumble to pieces. We were never able to get this thing out on the road.


MUSIC INDUSTRY: The music industry (at least the part of it we encountered) is full of egotistical, rude, and selfish lying pricks. I’m serious, some of the most miserable and worthless pieces of shit flock here. We met some great people too, but the vast majority are the kinds of people that can only be described as “cringing as fuck”.


Still, with all of these stated issues, Craig and myself would have kept going. We just don’t have the patience and energy to start this all over again without Dan. We gave him an ultimatum to either devote himself to this band or we would pack it up. The decision was very easy for him, he quickly ended the band and offered no apology to either Craig or myself. He never feels bad about anything, so even though he shattered all of our hard work we were not surprised that he showed no remorse. It’s amazing that for quite some time Dan and I shared the same dream. There was a time when he was passionate about CODS, unfortunately that part of him died a few years back. He has changed and I actually don’t ever care to speak to him again. I have absolutely no respect for him and we share nothing at all in common anymore. If there is one good thing coming out of this, it’s the relief I feel knowing that I will never have to deal with this guy ever again.


Most of the time, no matter who was in the band, we did not get along. Still, there were many great times. We had the chance to open for some of my favorite bands like KMFDM and Pig. We had great reactions to both of our albums. We had the opportunity to work with amazing people. I did not achieve what I set out for but I do not consider it a failure. I don’t feel that this is the proper way to end CODS and don’t be surprised if some time down the road I decide to put out another record. If I ever have the financial means to do so then I can promise you that I will. Right now, I am piss poor. I am not any different that many of you. I am not a rock star, I work a two shiity jobs and make just enough to pay the bills.


So I guess this is farewell, at least for now. Who knows what the future may bring. You will still hear from me now and then when I do some crazy merch sale. I will continue to try and tolerate all the industry bullshit and pursue Ventana.


Thank you all so very much.


Matt Foran

[VoivodBG]

e stvarno steta...

nadam se da ce barem uspeti da izdaju novi album...

[VoivodBG]

The Return of CODS

Body: As you know, Circus of Dead Squirrels announced it's death a few months ago and since then I've had lots of time to think and modify my original plans for this band. So I'm am honored to say to you today that CODS has returned and plans to release many more albums.

 

 

 

The band will be slightly different in our goals and intentions. I have decided to strip away all the destructive bullshit that ultimately made things miserable and stressful to the point of our break-up. What I mean by this is that I have decided to disconnect myself from the "industry" as much as possible. We do not have any plans for touring or signing with a record label. I want this to strictly be artistic and do not want this to become a business again. We will not be concerned with making this a career, instead it will strictly be a creative hobby for all those involved. The incredible relief I feel from deciding to not give a shit how popular we become has made me excited about this project once again. This is not to say that we will never tour or sign a deal if the right opportunity came around, it's just that we don't really care if it does. I personally believe that the vast majority of the music industry is extremely fake and tends to change once truly original and artistic people into marketable clones. And realistically that is the only way you can earn a living in music in these modern times and I would rather have a career elsewhere than to feel like a sellout every morning. All I ask from you is that you continue to purchase our albums so we can afford to keep putting out more.

 

 

 

As far as other CODS members are concerned, Craig (Omega) and Matt (TJ) have signed up to still be involved and the door is open to most of the other previous members. I apologize for the things I said about Dan (NTL). I did not understand why he made the decision he did at the time but now I get it. Financially, it was impossible for people like Dan, Matt, and John (Von Boc) to continue to seriously devote themselves to the band.

 

 

 

Craig has begun work on new material and I will be beginning to write very soon myself. Look forward to an even more fucked up CODS than ever before.

 

Thanks for standing by, CODS LIVES!!!!

 

Ripchord (Matt Foran)