News•September 15, 2006 12:47 PM ET•6,888 views

Black Market Activities signs The Network

Official press release: We are pleased to announce the addition of New Hampshire's The Network to the Black Market Activities roster. The group recorded their debut full-length, "This is Your Pig's Portrait" earlier this year with producer Jonny Fay of The Red Chord. The band also features Nate Johnson of Deadwater Drowning and Premonitions of War, who was actually in Deadwater with Fay back in the very begin of Black Market Activities. The disc also features guest vocal appearances by Backstabbers Incorporated's Ryan McKinney, Cannae's Adam DuLong and The Red Chord's Guy Kozowyk. Art duties for the album are being handled by Bob Peele (Suicide Note, The Dream is Dead) and the disc is tentatively scheduled to hit stores in January 2007. The Network's style is brutal, spastic and chaotic, but not necessarily in the sense of most of the spazzy, screaming, grindcore bands coming out as of late. Although their sound and style is unmistakably their own, they take heavy influence from the roots of the chaotic movement-- vintage, chaotic hardcore, if you will. You can hear more than a little of the impact of bands like Deadguy, Coalesce, Turmoil, Refused and Bloodlet directly in the group's sound. You can decide for yourself here.

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jshaft37 9/15/2006 9:50:19 AM

this albums has more guest vocals than a lil' john CD

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gozer 9/15/2006 9:54:47 AM

The Network is a side project band of Green Day that has @ albums out already. anyways (playing with them on oct 29th)

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fuckmusic34 9/15/2006 10:08:28 AM

new stuff better not suck...

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mickeyoneill 9/15/2006 11:13:28 AM

definitely thought his was the wierd green day project.

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truthsayer 9/15/2006 11:18:26 AM

Nate Johnson's vocals are br00tal. Looking forward to this.

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ikillinmydreams 9/15/2006 11:23:58 AM

good shit...knew about this for a while

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xduderx 9/15/2006 11:35:28 AM

too bad nates on bass

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LazioRoma 9/15/2006 12:13:08 PM

Good dudes. Apparently, they're ambitious as hell based on their tour routing/plans.

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likeatonabricks 9/15/2006 12:46:42 PM

good stuff, hope the signing actually does shit for them

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snails 9/15/2006 1:34:08 PM

break up already buttmunchers

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deadwithfear 9/15/2006 1:37:19 PM

this better be good

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ztip13 9/15/2006 2:20:11 PM

good shit. good dudes.

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observethemoon 9/15/2006 2:36:42 PM

this is actually pretty damn cool.

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Linus 9/15/2006 4:55:59 PM

good band. glad they got signed to BMA

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picturesofme 9/15/2006 5:54:47 PM

I really actually like this. I'm genuinely surprised to be looking forward to this

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imalright 9/15/2006 5:56:20 PM

One last thing to add, there are a couple of other bands called the network, we know ... WE DON'T CARE! WE ARE THE_NETWORK!

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taintcore 9/15/2006 7:15:24 PM

The creditials make this sound amazing. Bob Peele's work with Suicide Note was unparalleled.

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thedrone 9/17/2006 11:12:53 PM

Then, on September 11, 2001, the consequences of U.S. foreign policies were made abundantly clear to all of us, ..haha thats funny i guess they never heard of jihad or islamo holy wars?

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CLAWHAMMER 9/18/2006 3:50:33 AM

Looking forward to touring with these guys. Its going to be grumpy.

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girls_who_run 9/18/2006 7:03:24 AM

you guys are playing the same place every night. the TBA club.

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