Digital Warfare Records announces new album by seminal Seattle pre-grunge punk band the Derelicts. The album titled, Life of Strife, will be available as CD and LP on Friday, June 7th, 2019. The Derelicts deliver punk fueled with alcohol and hate reminiscent of the Dead Boys, G.B.H., Dwarves, Zeke, and the Supersuckers. According to the label “this is the Derelicts first release in 25 years. The band is a solid unit cranking out some of the best punk since the ’80s. This album has five new songs and a sprinkling of the best songs from past 7” releases. It is fierce and in your face.”
“The Derelicts were in exactly the right place at exactly the right time with exactly the wrong kind of music, for a town that was pregnant to the bursting point with what would become known as grunge music,” Tim Price of Gas Huffer points out. “But they would nevertheless become popular, as their generally straight ahead punk rock sound was big and ferocious, with cut-above songwriting. Their songs had hooks and singer Duane had an amazingly powerful voice.”
Empty Records adds “In the early Seattle grunge days when everyone was growing their hair and wearing love beads The Derelicts held their punk ground, drinking and rocking down the house. They coined the “punk fueled with alcohol and hate” rage that made way for The Supersuckers and The Fumes to carry on the tradition…Their live shows are legendary for their unpredictable inter-band violence on stage and driving rock force. They became the MRR reference point of late ’80s punk.”
“The title track is the epitome of the Derelicts’ attack: Dwarves-like octane, Poison Idea-like filth, and all the walloping that comes with genuine street punk” opines C.A. Coyle of Spokane, WA based weekly the Inlander. In the same article he quotes Mark Arm of Mudhoney who declares “I’ve been a fan of the Derelicts since the first time around.”
The band is Duane Lance Bodenhemier on vocals, Jason Freeman on bass and backing vocals, Neil Rogers on guitar and Donny Paycheck (Zeke co-founder and label founder) on drums and backing vocals. Life of Strife was produced by Jack Endino at Soundhouse in 2018. The fifteen tracks on the album are: 1. “Life Of Strife,” 2. “Wrong With This, 3. “Fight,” 4. “I Walk Alone,” 5. “Boxed In,” 6. “Makes Me Sick,” 7. “Mr. Fuckerman,” 8. “Save Your Lies,” 9. “You Loose,” 10. “Don’t Wanna Live,” 11. “Fuck You,” 12. “Why Does It Gurt,” 13. “Bleed Me Out,” 14. “Final Fall,” and 15 “Assholes Unite.” The band’s influences include Dead Boys, G.B.H., Dwarves, Zeke, Supersuckers, Mudhoney, Melvins, Nirvana, Sonics, Link Wray, The Stones, MC5, The Stooges, The Damned, Chuck Berry, The Saints.
Shows coming up:
June 7 2019 in store at Easy Street records, 4559 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98116, 7pm
June 8 2019 with Flipper and David Yow on vocals at El Corazon, 109 Eastlake Ave. East Seattle, WA 98109, 8:30pm
June 15 2019 with Poison Idea at Jazzbones 2803 6th Ave, Tacoma, WA 98406, 8:00pm
August 24 2019 with Die Nasty and Tough Times, at Clock-out Lounge 4864 Beacon Ave, Seattle, WA, 9pm
Visit the band online:
thederelicts.net
facebook.com/Derelictsseattle
instagram.com/the_derelictsseattle
ABOUT DIGITAL WARFARE RECORDS
Digital Warfare Records is based in the Pacific Northwest and was founded in 2010 by Donny Paycheck. Paycheck is known as founding member of the band Zeke as well as indie label Dead Teenager Records. Digital Warfare Records’ roster of releases includes The Cutthroat Brothers, The Hip Priests, the Zeke “Live and Uncensored” re-release, the Zeke picture disc, The Insurgence, Zeke’s “True Crime,” Antiseen “Live in Austin,” the Hookers “Horror Rises from the Tomb,” Zeke/Antiseen/Joe Buck Yourself, Prince Henry Stout self titled, The Hot things self titled and Hellbound for Glory “Blackstone.”
The label is distributed by MVD Distribution. Radio promotion by Stig Stench at Stench Radio.