Emmure & Endwell: War of the words
"I don't know if they are just fucking dumb or naive but how the fuck do you show up to..."
"First off, we want to apologize to everyone who was planning on
coming out and seeing us on the Mosh Lives tour but unfortunately as of
yesterday (Tuesday, May 27th) we have been kicked off of the tour
because of a T-Shirt. Yep that's right. Apparently some people can't
take a joke. We were stoked for this tour and looking forward to seeing
a lot of old friends and playing some fun shows. Without getting into
all the details well leave it at this; some of our good friends recieve
an email from a certain Tyrant telling them that if we weren't removed
from the tour immediately that they would have hell to pay and the
outcome was us being asked to leave the tour. We basically drove 30
hours straight to meet up with the tour in Texas and now 2 days later
were driving 20 hours back home. It was a good waste of a few hundred
dollars in gas.
"Needless to say were beyond bummed... either
way you guys should still go out and upport the Mosh Lives tour. There
are some great bands and it's a great show everynight. We want to thank
Recon, After The Burial, Ligeia, Emmure and On Broken Wings for being
cool dudes and hopefully well get back out there with a few of you
again at some point.
"All in all this is just another bump in
the road and were not gonna let it slow us down. Our new EP (Revenge Is
A Healthy Motive) came out today on Itunes and through our online
store. We're heading up to Canada in 2 weeks with our pals in Means and
then right after that we head out on a full U.S. tour with Stray From
The Path and The Ghost Inside starting in California in July. Can't
hold us down... if any hardcore bands are reading this and wanna go on
tour hit us up! We're gonna be doin' our full-length at the end of the
summer and we're not looking to be home... ever!
"You can see the shirt on our blogspot."
Emmure fired back with this...
"Let me first start by saying we as a band have been friends with
these guys for a while so this is in no way partial to one side or
another. Some of you may have noticed that Endwell has been removed
from The Mosh Lives Tour. I'd just like to clear up a few things and
set the record straight.
"This is a respctable tour with
respectable bands and band members. This is our tour and us as Emmure
must make sure that this tour is not hindered by immaturity since we
are responoble for 6 bands 36 people and all their actions.
"Endwell
has been surrounded and plauged with bad decision making since day one.
As youll recall they were kicked off a bayside tour as well for lack of
any morality, respect, or loyalty to the people that were helping them
and were supposed to be friends with.
"They are quick to talk
shit but what they won't tell you is that when they first got signed to
victory they were pumped they loved it they wouldn't even help us out
and get on a show when we needed it because they said they weren't a
local band anymore and they couldnt just do that. Victory put them in a
Hollywood recording studio for over a month which excessivly exceeded
their budget and time. They were provided with one of the top directors
for their music video and put in every major music magazine... You
would think they would be thankful.
"After their record bombed
to put it gently they started getting pissy and blaming everyone
underneath the sun except for themselves which seems to be the trend of
that band. And all but 2 members quit.
"Before this tour started
we started hearing how they were talking shit about us and our record
which we confronted them about and they confessed and with a good heart
and them being our supposed friends we let it slide and kept them on he
tour. The very first day they show up they have a shirt they are
selling that is blatantly a slap in the face to victory records and us.
"I
don't know if they are just fucking dumb or naive but how the fuck do
you show up to a victory records band headlining tour with that type of
shot and think its funny? And expect for it to be ok and get away with
it?
"Despite what they say they dug their own grave and did this
to themselves noone is the bad guy in this except them despite their
best efforts to tarnish the face of victory records their true colors
really shine through on this one and its just a new low in a bands
carreer that doesnt need to get any lower
"Don't shit where you sleep or your gonna wake up in shit."
AND the response from Endwell....
"So we tried to keep this as impersonal as possible due to the fact
that Emmure were at one time good friends of ours. But apparently that
is no longer the case.
a) When we signed to Victory we were
actually on tour with Emmure, and yes of course we were beyond excited
to be signed as any band would be. From day ONE we pushed Emmure to the
Victory staff as much as we could. Giving staff members CD's and shirts
and hyping them up... because that's what friends do. When we were told
we were going into
the studio in 4 weeks we handed Emmure a fully
booked US tour w/ Farewell To Freeway that our old bass player had
booked himself (due to the fact that we had recording obligations).
Every chance we got we would try to help get their name out there,
whether it mean wearing their shirts in promos or talking about them in
interviews at one point we were even considered 'brother-bands.'
b)
In response to Emmure's statements about our Hollywood recording
budget: we didn't get a say in the matter, the studio time was booked
and the director was chosen for us. Bottom line... we were immediately
disgusted by the budget and the outcome and because of that we made it
a point to record our next release on a much smaller budget. In fact it
was 1/40th of the Victory budget! We started recording it with no
labels in mind and we had our friends Bryan Goldsman and Aram Abgharian
record and mix it for us. We figured we could do things right and be
able to help out some up and coming engineer/producers/friends, and
we're very happy with the outcome. Once we recorded it we decided to
work with a smaller label that has integrity and passion for music and
even a some compassion for human beings as well.
c) As for shit
talking, I think Emmure did enough of that in their statement which
began "Let me first start by saying we as a band have been friends with
these guys for a while so this is in no way partial to one side or
another" and then proceeded to bash us for 5 paragraphs. I think it's
obvious that someone was influencing their words.
We don't have
to sit here and 'tarnish' anything. Facts speak for themselves I think
it's apparent whose true colors are shining through in this situation.
There's nothing else to say. This whole situation sucks. When we left
the tour it was all hugs and friendly goodbyes the best way to put it
is in the words of John Joseph, "musicians are just assholes waiting to
happen."
I love a good e-war.
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