October Blood 2004 Freakshow and Counterculture Festival

The NJC will be headlining the upcoming October Blood freakshow at Walker’s Club in their hometown of Saskatoon, Sk. The evening will feature a live make-up, body painting and “gore” show courtesy Mastermind Makeup Artistry Academy. Rites of Passage tattoo will also be there with a display - manned by none other than Graemme “Bloodclot” Burke, an original NJC member circa 1996-1997. Other acts will perform, including might guitar crushers Adolyne fronted by the Swarm. Come costumed, come painted.

Be there - be there early - plan ahead. This event will be THE deathrock summit of 2004....Saturday October 23rd at Walker’s. More details to come.

Dark Canada Documentary DVD & NJC Video

The New Jacobin Club will appear in a film/documentary in summer 2005 entitled “Dark Canada”. It is a documentary of “dark culture” across Canada featuring the music, fashions, clubs and people populating the evil Canadian underbelly of pop culture. While the film will be shown at theatres catering to alternative cinema, the DVD release will hopefully see widespread distribution across Canada. The band was interviewed on a sunny afternoon at the foot of the old Victoria bridge in Saskatoon, and the taping attracted a the attention of many curious and cautious pedestrians walking through the park.

If all goes well, the DVD should also feature a studio-synched music video for “City of Thieves.” While many independent groups in Canada (especially the ones that dress up like roadkill) have no outlet to showcase music videos, this documentary has been the excuse the NJC have been looking for to produce a quick albeit quality video for a track of their recent “Retake the Throne” album.

More info at www.darkcanada.com

Fall/Winter Television Appearance

At the May 21st concert at Walker’s, Saskatoon, the SCN camera crew was set up to capture the NJC live and chat with the band. This live feature & interview is intended to air sometime in the 2004-2005 season of Entertainment West, a music program that follows bands and concerts around Western Canada. A week before the NJC taping, the SCN crew did Metallica as well. NJC was informed that the intent is to air the Metallica and NJC footage in the same episode.

NJC Radioplay Update & Canadian Women in Metal

New Jacobin Club has been tearing it up on Canadian airwaves this summer, here are a few more stations and specialty programs to check out:

NJC has been heard recently on the CKCU (Ottawa) darkwave/goth/punk specialty program “The Alcove” (The Alcove)

NJC’s own Lady Arkham has attracted attention resulting in the band’s inclusion in a special CKDU 97.5 fm “Heavy Metal Halifax” episode showcasing women in metal. (Heavy Metal Halifax)

Also check out online NJC radio supporter ARKHAM RADIO

The vast majority of stations and DJ’s have been spinning “Chamber Door” as it has been marketed to stations as one of three priority tracks to give airplay. The other two “singles” are “Angel” and “Retake the Throne” In addition to this, “Chamber Door” has been officially solicited to some 35 U.S. hard rock specialty stations via American promotion agency as of July. More news of this as we hear of developments.

Call your local community/college station and DEMAND NJC ON YOUR LOCAL AIRWAVES!!

Any NJC fans or specialty program DJ’s who feel they can help promote the band in other urban areas w/community radio, please contact us so we can make you a part of our promotion team.

NJC Radio Charts - Update

“Retake the Throne” has begun to get ample air time on community & college radio across Canada. To this date, the NJC’s latest full-length effort has charted in Saskatoon, Halifax and Kamloops in addition to creeping into the national college radio top 100 chart last October. The title track from the album also got national exposure when it was featured on CBC radio before Christmas on a program showcasing unusual Western Canadian independent acts.

CFCR Saskatoon, SK
(AUG-03)
New Jacobin Club - “Retake the Throne” at number 22

CFCR Saskatoon, SK
(SEP-03)
New Jacobin Club - “Retake the Throne” at number 25

EARSHOT National Canadian Campus Radio Chart top 100
(OCT-03)
New Jacobin Club - “Retake the Throne” at number 95

CKDU Halifax, NS
(NOV-03)
New Jacobin Club - “Retake the Throne” at number 28

CFBX Kamloops, BC
(JAN-04)
Top 10 Loud/Metal Albums

1) Various Artists – MTV2 Headbangers Ball (Roadrunner)
2) Sevendust – Seasons (TVT)
3) Hatebreed – The Rise of Brutality (Universal)
4) Serpent Obscene – Devestation (Black Lodge)
5) New Jacobin Club* - Retake the Throne (Manticore)
6) Iron Maiden – Dance of Death (Sanctuary)
7) Throwdown – Haymaker (Trustkill)
8) The Crown – Possessed 13 (Metal Blade)
9) Drawn and Quartered – Extermination Revelry (Moribund)
10) Unexpect* - We, Invaders (Galy)

The NJC’s self-titled 2001 album also did well in the past, getting good airtime in Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton, and even charting in Lethbridge and Ottawa.

CKUL Lethbridge, AB
OCT-01
New Jacobin Club - “New Jacobin Club” at number 27

CKCU Ottawa, ON
FEB-02
New Jacobin Club - “New Jacobin Club” at number 17

Once Again... The Horde Speaks

The Horde recently spoke with another worthy mortal.
To view the results, check out the latest NJC interview at Ballbuster Hard Music

The New Album...at long last

In Saskatoon, all CD Plus locations carry NJC as well as The Vinyl Exchange on 2nd ave and Vinyl Diner on Broadway. Until better Canadian distribution is set up (if ever...), Retake the Throne can be ordered for 12.00 shipping included directly from the NJC (204-3837 Luther Place Saskatoon SK S7H 4B1). Orders from the U.S. and overseas can be better served by Sinbad Productions. Continental European distribution will be in the works.

Retake the Throne is 11 new studio recordings including a new version of Beltane Fire. Track listing is as follows:

Chamber Door
Pendulum Swing
Retake the Throne
Angel
Necromantic
Feeder of Sorrows
City of Thieves
Darkness Came to Stay
Sex & Warfare
Beltane Fire
The Strangler

Lead axeman Vlad is the featured vocalist on two of his own compositions -"Angel" & "The Strangler" - as well as a Horde piece, "Feeder of Sorrows." To get a taste, here's a lo-fi mp3 of opening track Chamber Door. Watch for lyrics to be posted on the site in the very near future...enough people asked, so we'll bend on it this time.

A special message to all those who would be NJC fans...

At the main menu page of this site, there was at one time a message above the e-mail button (that hovering ghost that says "spook mail"). This message also appears at our MP3.com page. It informs you that you will get FREE stuff in the mail from the NJC when you send us your street address. Well, in the world of internet & e-mail, very few people take this offer seriously.

To reward the faithful, EVERYONE ON OUR CURRENT MAILING LIST WILL RECEIVE A FREE COPY OF "RETAKE THE THRONE"!

Feeling left out? It may be too late to get the free disc, but not too late to sign up for future mail-outs (stickers, keychains, posters...).

E-mail your street address here:

U.S. Publicity & Distribution

The NJC has recently agreed to work with Sinbad Productions in the U.S. to distribute and promote the new album out this June. Hopefully you will be seeing an agressive ad campaign in both minor and major music magazines this fall. In addition, Ballbuster Hard Music will be distributing the album in the U.S. and pushing it to larger labels and distributors. The first NJC full-length will be available through Ballbuster this spring.

Now wouldn't it be fabulous if the Canadian Music Industry was a little less gutless so we could actually promote ourselves in our own goddamn country?

Skeleton Key - soundtrack update

The low-budget zombie/gore thriller SKELETON KEY (in the vein of Sam Raimi's
Evil Dead Series) is in the final editing stages down at Darkstone
Entertainment, Waynesboro, Va. The NJC has signed a lending-only agreement
for use of the instrumental track "Rats in the Walls" in the movie as well
as trailers and end credits should they so choose to use it. The recording
in question is a slightly different mix of the same song appearing on the
NJC self-titled full-length CD. In an e-mail from Darkston Entertainment
we were told the track is used in the background of a "zombie chase scene."

NJC speaks

A hefty interview with the The Horde, The Swarm and Lady Arkham conducted in January by Duff Daschuck of the threeohsix.org writers department can be read here in its entirety, complete with a brilliant background story of how he survived the ordeal.

The same interview, minus the photos, can also be seen at threeOHsix.org, the Saskatchewan/Prairie Province underground music central. Check this site out to get news on concerts and music discussion from all over the province.

NJC graciously acknowledges...

We would like to mention a few mortals worthy of note who made
our August dates possible and aided in our quest for domination:
Rob Wright at the Likwid Lounge (Edmonton), Mike Ash at the
Exchange (Regina), Bruce & Dane for doing a kick ass job of running
Freedomfest (North Battleford), Kevin at the Driving Force for
getting us on the road with a cheap van. All the bands we played
with (Dirtbred, Ripcordz, Field Day, DOA...) were all cool.
Except those guys whotold everyone to ditch the show for a house party elsewhere.
You guys can go die.

Special thanks to Bad News Suze for the incredible hospitality.
And meat. A big hunk of cold beef. Thanks.

At last! Accused double 7' tribute set to be released!

Word from Transparent Records is that they are back on their feet
and the double 7' set "Mechanized Death: A Tribute to the
Accused" WILL BE AVAILABLE THIS FALL! Canadian Accused & NJC fans can
order directly from Manticore Music here in Saskatoon as we have already
pre-ordered a bundle of this extremely cool, extremely limited set. One in
five will come with a flexi-disc of unreleased Accused tracks. All will
feature the twisted splatter-art of Jeff Gaither. The NJC appear with the
track "Judgement Day" from the Accused album "More Fun Than an Open Casket Funeral."
For more info go to Transparent Records.