Western Canada’s notorious and enduring shock rock ensemble, the New Jacobin Club is a septet of musicians frequently accompanied live by up to four performance artists (The Angry Teeth) who bring to the show an eye-popping array of disturbing visuals including stunts with broken glass, machetes, syringes, staple guns, torches, and the ever-popular flaming hula hoop. The NJC’s riffy and anthematic metal-edged gothic punk has been described as “somewhere between the realms of mid era Judas Priest and newer era Misfits” (Metal Maniacs) and has even received thumbs up from Canada’s independent music authority EXCLAIM!, calling the NJC style “fiery and imposing while still retaining a degree of intelligence and fore-thought.”

Formed in 1995 and seeing their first legitimate release through a small American label in 1998, the NJC have a total of 4 full length albums and 2 ep’s to their name. Their presence in the Canadian music scene as a respected musical entity solidified in an unexpected way in 2003 with their second full length album “Retake the Throne”. The title track became a college radio favourite and propelled the New Jacobin Club on to a dozen independent radio charts as well as the Earshot national community and campus radio top 100 in 2004. The NJC began to receive nods from international press and gained new fans in the U.S. and Europe.

2006 saw the release of “Wicked City” with a much better distribution deal that was finally able to put the New Jacobin Club into more music stores and catalogues. The success of album’s barbaric but catchy single and accompanying promo video, “Creeping Flesh,” further proved that the shocking stage personality of the band was an elaborate front behind which hid a great deal of wit, sarcasm, self-awareness and musicianship.

Only a 4 song ep of 80’s new wave and industrial cover songs in 2008 (“The Final Entertainment Show”) broke up the long wait for the monumental double disc cd/dvd project that was finally released in October 2010. Decadent orchestrations and schizophrenic theremin passages colour the 10 new tracks on “This Treason,” a concept album set in the final days of the reign of King Edward II. The accompanying dvd features an ambitious and elegant concept video as well as a complete concert from late 2009, documentary style interviews with the band and sideshow, and bonus footage going back over 10 years into the band’s past.

Having shared the stage with an incredible variety of big international acts such as KMFDM, Nashville Pussy, Groovie Ghoulies, Voltaire and Discover Channel’s Guinea Pig show, the New Jacobin Club and Angry Teeth Freakshow are veteran performers determined to feed their audiences the juicy red meat that has been missing in their entertainment diet all these years.