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Modern Life Is War signs to Equal Vision, replace bassist

Contributed by kevin_hare. Posted by aubin on Friday, February 9, 2007 at 11:12 AM (EST)

Modern Life Is War have announced a new label, a lineup change, and plans for their next album.

The band parted ways with bass player Chris Honeck who amicably departed for personal reasons, but quickly filled the position with Tim Churchman (Spanish Bombs). The band has also announced their signing to Equal Vision and the split with Deathwish appears to also be amicable.

After their upcoming tour with Ambitions and The Geeks, the band will be headed home to begin writing their debut for EVR. The group has also chosen J.Robbins (Against Me!, Paint It Black) as producer. The band most recently released Witness and followed that album with a reissue of their debut, My Love, My Way.

Equal Vision Records (50 comments)

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Someone (February 9, 2007)

Great dudes.

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Someone (February 9, 2007)

Yeah, they got HEART

Someone (February 9, 2007)

unlike have heart who fucking suck. modern life is war is an amazing band.

Big_Guy (February 9, 2007)

and HONOR and STRENGTH and all the other hardcore stereotypes.

in reality, MLIW is probably the furthest from that stereotype, but I had to

Someone (February 9, 2007)

haha...oh wait, not funny

Archangel (February 9, 2007)

And INTEGRITY.

No seriously, this band is great.

maverick (scott) (February 9, 2007)

Who was it who told me the other month that MLIW weren't signing to EVR?

Man, between being right on this and MxPx, I'm having the Best Week Ever (tm).

-Scott

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Someone (February 9, 2007)

You know the Pizza Sub is the Sub of the Month at Penn Station, right?

-chris

Someone (February 9, 2007)

Of course he does, have you seen him?

Someone (February 9, 2007)

their bassist was boring anyway, he stood in place and rocked back and forth the whole show, everytime i saw them.
from what i can remember, everybody in spanish bombs went nuts when they played, so this should be an improvement.

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Someone (February 9, 2007)

i know! no roundhouse spin kicks or any other cliche things you expect bands to do. dork

Someone (February 9, 2007)

So you all figured out that the top albums you never heard of was fake and took it down real quick before you were exposed as the retards that you are, eh? Well...HA HA.

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SteveJonesTheRealBones (February 9, 2007)

what are you talking about, i own like 6 of those albums

- jones the bonesz

- stevejones8770@yahoo.com

Someone (February 9, 2007)

Who cares?

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spalmer (February 9, 2007)

usually you post that before it becomes obvious that people care.

elliot (February 9, 2007)

very psyched about this. they have about half the album written, and the couple songs i've heard are great.

Someone (February 9, 2007)

How is MLIW live? I'll be seeing them for the first time on the 23rd w/ Bane and Ambitions.

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Someone (February 9, 2007)

Really good. Get them to play their Black Flag cover.

Someone (February 9, 2007)

Which Black Flag song do they cover?

Someone (February 9, 2007)

nervous breakdown

Someone (February 9, 2007)

is it slow and boring with long intros like the rest of their music?

gregs (February 9, 2007)

They are outstanding

baseball (February 9, 2007)

pretty solid, and i'm not really much of a hardcore fan

Someone (February 9, 2007)

I saw them at their last appearance @ CBGBs with Strike Anywhere/Ignite/A Global Threat. Intense and one of my favorite shows ever.

Someone (February 9, 2007)

Saw them at CBGB's with Bane a few years back and was blown away. One of the best shows in punk rock and hardcore today

TheOneTrueBill (February 9, 2007)

Boring.

Someone (February 9, 2007)

the singer still reminds me of Tim from Rise Against

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Someone (February 9, 2007)

i agree

Someone (February 9, 2007)

I'm anxious to see if they can actually top Witness, which was superb.

-r3venge therapy

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Someone (February 9, 2007)

Witness was good, but I felt it had a few too many sort of...."buildup" tracks, that kept building tension and then just ended. Marshalltown and Young Man On A Spree are the two that immediately come to mind.

DEADRAMONES is still one of the best songs i've heard in recent years tho.

baseball (February 9, 2007)

DEADRAMONES is an intense song all around

baseball (February 9, 2007)

J. Robbins producing this, definitely worth noting

this should be good

Someone (February 9, 2007)

Preditable signing. For a good band luckily.

Someone (February 9, 2007)

ROCKER!! Make Jersey proud!

Someone (February 9, 2007)

mliw is war is the best band in hardcore. I will argue this for hours!

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Someone (February 9, 2007)

You clearly haven't listened to Discharge and Tragedy.

Someone (February 9, 2007)

Ev = suck

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Someone (February 9, 2007)

label sucks but is huge band is great but no one cares

LikeBats (February 9, 2007)

they're gonna lose touch with all their actual hardcore and DIY ethics and completely sell out because theyre gonna get big. just like comeback kid

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Someone (February 9, 2007)

How did Comeback Kid sellout? because they got popular? you're fucking dumb.

LikeBats (February 9, 2007)

any band that signs to the "new" victory automatically sells out. that label is trash

DiscoFucker (February 9, 2007)

Word, they got big, but are still sweet dudes and make good jams. I am quite looking forward to the new album.

Someone (February 9, 2007)

Comeback Kid started as a fucking christian band. No fucking DIY ethics anywhere to be found in the history of that band. Fuck them.
MLIW rules, however.

Someone (February 9, 2007)

they sold jesus out

LikeBats (February 9, 2007)

youre dumb as hell. they were DIY as fuck. when when i saw them YEARS ago, when douches like you never heard of them, they came around with their fucking self-packaged dmoes and spraypainted t-shirts. youre a fucking idiot. kill yourself you fucking waste.

Someone (February 9, 2007)

who gives a fuck, its still CHRISTIAN HARDCORE!.
FUCK THAT SHIT!

LikeBats (February 9, 2007)

theyre not even really christian hardcore. they dont sing about god, or church, or jeus. theyre just posi and there's nothing wrong with that.

elephantdwarf (February 9, 2007)

i heard they are all pretty much huge cokeheads... which i thought was pretty surprising. but its from a good source.

InaGreendase (brian) (February 9, 2007)

Man, the news about J. Robbins recording them is great. They'll have a whole new feel without being overproduced.

gregs (February 10, 2007)

Lifeline Records is doing the vinyl

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