#heavyheavylowlow

[circletakingthesquare]

Fear before the march of flames

Fear before the march of flames, 2006, in Virginia taken by Alec Hartman on flickr

also omfg this concert's lineup is actually insane, it had the number 12 looks like you, heavyheavylowlow, in alcatraz 1962, and more actual crazy good lineup

also also the guy who uploaded these photos actually has some pretty cool vids of some pretty cool bands on yt so check it out: http://www.youtube.com/user/lanvids

[tinapermedherweave]

Man Someone was on some good good when they were writing

Mermaids with aids dressed like maids, Got me laid, I raged Stayed up all night at bars, had dinner with the sharks, Woke up with whiskey farts, I broke the mermaids hearts, Didn't bounce a single narc, and still I'd go again.

[forcefed]

“You would make the prettiest **** ******”

[goodyprostate]

Goodbye the drummer from heavyheavylowlow started following me on Instagram and 13 year old me is screaming

[icecreamheadachez]

maybe i missed two months...but does that really matter? here is how the last few months have gone:

-my energy drink addiction has been...well making itself known again in recent months. not every day like it used to be tho and i barely drink carbonated energy drinks anymore, just an occasional redbull and yerba mate!!! still drinking coffee almost everyday tho xD

-i still dont know if ive been using tumblr more, i think theres gaps in the timeline so its hard to say. looking back it was kinda funny that it was a resolution to use this website more, but it makes sense. i do love tumblr.

-i actively try to be nicer and kinder in my life but i think that a lot of the time i overlook it. and if i sat here and told u guys that i was the kindest person on earth it wouldnt really mean anything because 1. i have no proof, you'd just have to take my word for it. 2. i dont really know how often im making the effort to be kinder, i say please and thank u and try not to roll my eyes and talk back. so maybe that counts for something. 3. i dont have someone else's perspective, im sure that if i had someone observe me over the past five months and take notes on how my behavior has changed then i would have more insight.

-I HAVE BEEN DRINKING ENOUGH WATER!!! definitely not in the past week or so but i did literally just drink a cup of water so that will be changing!!! i've been bringing my water bottle to classes and that helps me a lot.

-i have been going to more shows as well but not very many local shows unfortunately D: i hate running into people i know but dont like...last month i went to 4 shows (waterparks,awakebutstillinbed,idkhowbtfm,blackveilbrides) i am so grateful i get to go to shows as often as i do, srsly. this month i have: awakebutstillinbed AND CAMPING IN ALASKA (i literally cannot believe it, like at all.) and the fall of troy with heavyheavylowlow and the number 12 looks like you xD im so excited!!! and lastly i postal service and death cab for cutie in oregon! my first time traveling out of state for a concert and im super excited :P

im gonna implement some new resolutions cuz its never too late to make change >_>

continue showing gratitude (idc if this sounds cheese...it rlly makes a difference especially to those who u show gratitude to)

keep writing. writewritewrite even ifl u think ur fingers are going to break. do not lose sight of writing.

boundaries. self explanatory.

(late) new-years resolutions

quit energy drinks

use tumblr more

be kinder to people

DRINK MORE WATER

go to more shows (more local shows, specifically)

[vinylexams]

Heavy Heavy Low Low - Courtside Seats to the Greatest Fuck of All Time⁠

⁠ @heavyheavylowlow38 #heavyheavylowlow #hhll #deathwish @deathwishinc⁠ ⁠ I’ve been lucky as hell recently to snag insider info on some killer reissues and this one is no exception. You all already know how much I love HHLL, especially Turtle Nipple…, and through serendipity I got connected with Robbie from the band a few months back. I got to hear about how they are coming back to life after some years focusing on other projects, growing up and growing out, and evolving as musicians and artists in the process. They’ve worked with Twelve Gauge Records to put Courtside Seats on vinyl for the very first time and after they announced it on their platforms and immediately sold it out, they’re pressing another batch that you and the HHLL lovers in your life can and should snag before that pressing sells out, too!⁠ ⁠ What’s even more exciting is that I got to pick Robbie’s brain in typical VE fashion and he’s indulged me with all sorts of info about what they’re up to, whether or not we can expect new music, and some feel-good stories about huffing air duster and ripping shit up in an old warehouse on the California coast. Here it is in its unedited glory, but first…head to the website to pre-order your copy and then head to Robbie’s Indiegogo campaign to learn more about his upcoming short firm that’s scored by Nick from Tera Melos! ⁠https://deathwishinc.com/products/heavy-heavy-low-low-courtside-seats https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/morning-deliveries-short-film#/

INTERVIEW

First and foremost, it’s been a minute since we’ve heard from Heavy Heavy Low Low and then out of nowhere you sprang back to life in 2019. What motivated you all to pick up this project again? I’m not sure what motivated it. We had always been trying to jumpstart the whole thing again for some time and I think that it might have been a case of everyone’s lives slowing down and examining that time with a weird reverence. I can only speak for myself. The boys are all in school or doing their own thing.

I imagine you’ve all been working on different projects since HHLL went on hiatus. Do you have anything that you or the rest of the band have worked on that you’d love us to know about? Danny has gotten pretty popular in the Kendama world. Chris is studying various forms of martial arts. Roo is endlessly going to school and currently scoring independent films. Chip is heavily involved in competitive fishing. I’ve been making short films when the situation and my wallet allow it. We’re all crazy excited about finally owning Courtside Seats on vinyl for the first time. Aside from bringing that album onto the vinyl medium, the pre-order page notes that there’s new artwork, too. What can we expect from that? When we made the CD we weren’t expecting to sell any really.. I did the art and Matthew printed them all at his job. Him and I folded every crease, glued the o-cards and vacuum sealed them all. I think it sold out almost completely at the record release show. We made the same amount of records as we did the original cd (500). The artwork for the original CD pressing was done on sketch paper without any comprehension of what could be done with drawn art and a scanner. Matthew was the computer wizard and back then, young and silly, it was all done on the cuff. The new art is a bit more modern and plays with mortality. Court-side Seats to The Greatest Fuck of All Time being a front seat view of a an ordinary, bumpy ride through life. I’m proud of it. What’s it like to bring back an album from the earliest parts of the band’s career? Do you still identify with the music? It is odd. It was a truly surreal time and place. We were out of our fucking minds. We recorded it in Mountain View, Ca in this giant warehouse that tapered into gutted office spaces. It was a weird white collar tomb on the outskirts of Silicon Valley right before the real tech boom. In the big part of the warehouse where we’d enter there were giant mounds of clothes meant to be donated to some third world country. We’d burrow tunnels in them and do huge dramatic flips from pike to pile. There was an aisle of outdated medical equipment waiting to be sent that we’d stalk through in the dark. It was a strangely magic place. Once you got through the warehouse you’d get to these office stations that had been fashioned into recording studios and that’s where we birthed this thing. We were so misguided. The amount of compressed air that we inhaled should have killed us. I contribute a significant drop in IQ to that shit. Smoking copious amounts of weed from gravity bongs. Recording with a hip hop producer, Deegan. Never a disagreement. It still feels like it was some strange purgatory of youth. I don’t miss it, but it was beautiful. Does this mean there’s hope of having Everything’s Watched, Everyone’s Watching on vinyl sometime, too? So, there was a guy who was very adamant about putting that record out on vinyl. We had a dialogue going for the better part of a year and apparently he had been in contact with Rhino Music and Warner, the two companies that hold the licensing to that album. He had received word that it’d cost an impressive amount of money, but he still wanted to shoulder it. Mind you, this dude didn’t have a label, he just wanted to put this thing out and apparently hadnt thought that all out. Time goes by, I’m waiting, not worrying one way or the other. One day I get a link from a friend, a Christian college website detailing that dude had been arrested for kidnapping and assault. Very sad situation. Dude seemed semi normal. Anyway, that was the last effort I’d seen put into that. I’d love to contribute new art to that release if any go-getter wants to try their luck. I’ve loved everything HHLL put out, but Turtle Nipple is in my top 10 list of favorite albums of all time. What was the writing the recording process for it like and how did the band feel about the new creative directions on it? EWEW was half previously recorded material re-recorded and half material written a year prior, kind of forced into a studio with producers we had no previous rapport with. Those producers/engineers were incredible human beings (RIP Tom Pfaffle! See you in the mindfog) but we were very young punk kids thrown into a foreign land where we had our agents visiting and there were platinum records on the wall and it was a total barrage of privilege and excess. It was beautiful, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t feel soul in that record. Turtle Nipple is a dense trip through time and the record I’m most proud of in our discography. I don’t remember how long we had to record it, I do remember that it was the only time we’d been given to experiment and layer our sensibilities in an environment that catered to them. Sam (Pura) was a perfect conduit to that vibe and time and space and it really came out just how it should have. I think about that album as a 70s exploitation directors filmography.. it veers violently from genre to genre and while most of the stories are fiction and far from personal testimony, theirs a peek into some shared insanity contained throughout. George Cosmatos wandering through a punk club on an edible. I think that that album is our bands true personality. Sam is a member of our band whether he’s playing with us or engineering for us. He gets us. I love the idea of an alternate reality where we had lasted a bit longer and did an album with Steve Albini. He’d probably hate us, but I love those ‘What If?’ Scenarios. I’ll ask the question EVERYONE has been asking so it’s on the record somewhere: Does this mean we can expect new material or a new album soon? Maybe even a tour? We have a new EP in the works. We have some of it recorded with Sam. We’ve posted a couple clips on Instagram. We’re incredibly busy and spread out in our personal lives. Chip in TX, Dan in FL, Roo in OR, Rob and Chris in CA. Adulthood is a bitter, pulpy drink! We are going to be playing again. We won’t be leaving the West Coast. We had our fill of middle America and the travel involved. We have talked to some of our buds from our early days of touring about playing alongside (opening for) them for a limited run in 2020. I think that qualifies as a tour. Also, if anyone wants to fly us to Europe to play a festival in 2020, we’d like that. It’ll be an interesting year. How does it feel to be welcomed back by so many adoring fans who still love your music and are hoping for more after a long hiatus? It’s incredibly humbling. I have heard from people throughout the years about how we had affected them and it was always just strange to me. I’m pretty self deprecating, so I just don’t understand how some shit I wrote could mean much to anyone. My mind is just a shotgun blast of panic. I guess all of ours are? I love my band mates and their talents, though. So I understand the sorta sirens draw to the greater extent. I think they only got to show themselves slightly, too. Weird existence. Give us a piece of band trivia you’ve never shared in an interview before! Gees. There is a step-in part to most 15 passenger vans. It is a black, hard plastic. It meets with where you close the sliding door. When we had no bottles to pee in, we would just piss in ‘the step’. This thing was a den of germicidal activity. Trash and piss I don’t think we ever truly cleaned that thing. What’s odd is that we so rarely got ill on tour. The Step kept us healthy on a steady diet of trash and piss and general scum. Finally, this isn’t a question but the hidden track on Turtle Nipple is a fucking masterpiece and I wanted you to know. Thank you! I think that may have been my idea to add some weird 70s funk into an old track of ours. I think it turned out cool, but I think it betrays our vibe on that album! I wish it’d have devolved into some weird, primitive Altered States shit.

[formerly-in-the-service]

Thank you John, Willie & Chris, Randy and Mark! Knocked it out the park once again! #lambofgod #heavymetal #heavyrock #resurrectionman #heavyheavylowlow #slaptotheface #shotgunfacelift # (at Encino) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB_Bo-cjKSt/?igshid=1rw5n33g2s0ik

[sirenrecords]

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[strawberry-coughx]

tag urself i'm the lead singer's seizure at the end

[platanosconlechera]

#shirtoftheday #heavyheavylowlow #mathcore #everythingswatchedeveryoneswatching #turtlenippleandthetoxicshock https://www.instagram.com/p/Brfsf9vAmlN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13q52l39iqwok

[oddfolkstx-blog]

Follow us on @spotify to check out our newest playlist, “oDD Time Favs,” a collection of songs that has both inspired us individually and as a band. This playlist runs the gamut on music, so see if you can guess which songs were picked by which member of your favorite Odd Folk. DONT FORGET: We’ve got tickets for @ascitiesburnofficial show on Monday, July 2nd for sale! Message us here, there, and anywhere on social media and we’ll make sure to get them to you. • • • #oddfolks #oddfolkstx #spotify #playlist #oddtimefavs #genres #rock #music #bands #jimmyeatworld #manchesterorchestra #ascitiesburn #frightenedrabbit #kevindevine #newfoundglory #pedrothelion #dearandtheheadlights #colourrevolt #deathcabforcutie #simpleplan #goodcharlotte #davidbazan #underoath #savestheday #mewithoutyou #rageagainstthemachine #haveheart #sayanything #titlefight #setyourgoals #julienbaker #violentsoho #powertrip #daggermouth #mae #mooseblood #sororitynoise #thehotelier #somos #ladispute #bornwithoutbones #heavyheavylowlow #thechariot #empireempireiwasalonelyestate #pianosbecometheteeth #tigersjaw #cloudnothings #modernbaseball #PUP #trophyscars #bayside #fireworks #kendricklamar #balanceandcomposure #weezer #johnmayer #punchbrothers #m83 #eagles #martinsexton #muse #paulmccartney #jamesblake #bernhoft #chetbaker #vulfpeck #kurtelling #REK #joshturner #zero7 #thewhitestboyalive #washedout

[itsjonathandavis]

Sooooo follow my soundcloud if you enjoy a sec of it

[eyegato]

•• PH∆S£ 3.O •• #phasethree #heavyheavylowlow

[harvey-bluntman]

feels like high school man

[marilyndevotchka-blog]

(I know, one of them does not quite belong ha)Remembering when I was 19 and only wore skinny jean and band tees. Went to at least one show a month. I saw HHLL at least 5 times. I miss getting kicked as I watch kids dance like angry ninjas .Awe... Memories. I will be driving around head banging and screaming emo lyrics for the next montb or so. #heavyheavylowlow #somegirls #sensesfail