I am happy to finally announce that after an extremely long wait… our split 7” with One x Choice is available for pre-order from Seventh Dagger!
Seventh Dagger have been putting out incredible records for a number of years now from amazing bands such as Earth Crisis, xTyrantx, The World We Knew, Awaken Demons and xRepresentx just to name a few.
I got to know Danny Sober from Seventh Dagger over a year ago when he got in touch about sponsoring myself and Nick from Saving Grace with awesome straight edge clothing.
We had known about xSDx for years and were honored to find out that Danny was a fan of the band and wanted to work with us.
We had planned for quite some time to record an Earth Crisis cover and release it digitally and when I mentioned the idea of potentially getting Seventh Dagger involved with it to Danny he immediately said “let’s do a 7”.
We had always wanted to do a vinyl release with the band, so of course we said yes.
Danny is the ultimate example of a straight edge hardcore lifer, who dedicates all of his time and finances into promoting the message of hardcore and the straightedge by supporting important bands, putting out incredible records and releasing an awesome line of Straight Edge clothing season after season and year after year.
Earth Crisis to me has always been more than ‘just a band’.
They are THE reason why I am straightedge, the driving force behind myself and most of my friends making decisions to adopt vegan and vegetarian lifestyles years back and also a massive influence on Saving Grace as a band.
To find out that Karl and the dudes from EC were stoked with this release and are into my band and the idea of touring together one day made me feel like a little kid to say the absolute least!
In my opinon, Earth Crisis always have been and always will be the most important band in hardcore… bar none.
This new 7” contains two previously unreleased track plus an Earth Crisis cover from each band with One x Choice covering the old school track ‘No Allegiance’ from 1992’s All Out War and with Saving Grace we covered ‘End Begins’ from Breed The Killers.
One of our original tracks ‘Declaration’ features our good friend and long time road dog Drug Free Mike and the music video for that song can be viewed here.
The artwork for the 7” was handled by the legendary Dave Quiggle and perfectly represents everything that this release is about.
A huge thanks to Danny and Seventh Dagger, Earth Crisis, the boys in One x Choice and everyone who supports our bands and this release as well as the Facedown Records family for being so supportive and letting us do something so cool!
This release is a limited pressing of 200 Gold, 200 Red and 100 Red and Gold swirl vinyl.
There are some awesome pre-order deals online now with some new tee shirt options, make sure to order yours now before they all sell out (unlike Earth Crisis).
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