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06-03-2008 A new album review from seaoftranquility.org has been added to the media section. Enjoy!
05-12-2008 Senate are stoked to announce the addition of new bassist Keith Gillam to the family. Keith is a killer musician, and a longtime friend to the band who has filled in for us on a couple of occasions in past years. We’ve been drooling over the prospect of having him on board for a number of years, and finally the timing is right for Keith to make this a permanent thing and we couldn’t be happier for us or for you fans!
05-05-2008 Senate are saddened to announce the recent passing of our guitarist Jay Hudson's father after a lengthy battle with illness. We want to extend to him and his family our sincerest condolences. Nothing in life is more important than family, and unfortunately we will have to cancel our May 8th show in Trois-Rivieres, QC and our May 18th show in Hamilton, ON to allow Hudson to take care of what he has to. This WILL NOT effect our June 6th date in Toronto with Kataklysm and Martyr, and we look forward to moving on and kicking some ass with you all at the Opera house! Once again we apologize to everyone who was hoping to see us at these dates and we hope to make it up to you sooner than later! Senate
03-04-2008 A new intervierw that Jay did with Tennesee's "The Metal Show" has been posted in the media section. Thanks again to Chris for making it happen.
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02-28-2008 Thanks to CDbaby our CD is available in over 2400 Independant store all over the world. If you prefer to get our CD in a local area store, then send us an email at senateinquires at senatemetal.com with the area where you're from and we'll let you know what stores in your area carry our CD. *Order only*
02-08-2008 Matt did an interview with Stephen Becker of Germany's metal/goth webzine Obliveon.de. For those of you who can't read German I've posted the english transcript in the media section. Direct interview link (German)
02-07-2008 Today special show on Senate - www.radioquartz.be 08.00 PM / 10.00 PM BELGIUM TIME ROCK YOUR BRAIN 20H / 21H Spéciale THE SYMPHONYX + SENATE Playlist 21H / 22H
THE CULT I ASSASSIN-BORN INTO THIS
02-04-2008 Matt's update made Blabbermouth.net, thought I'd just post it here incase anybody wanted to check it out and leave their comments. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=89970
02-01-2008 Happy 2008 To All!! Just wanted to give you guys an update on what's going on in the Senate camp...Pat returned from a 2 month run with Despised Icon filling in for Alex on the drums, and we managed to squeeze in a show with Beneath The Massacre a couple days afterwards. The main business however is that we've been writing and demo-ing tunes for our next record! We're nearly half a dozen tunes in, and we have lots more ideas that just need to be arranged and recorded and I would say that things are progressing very well. As far as the tunes go they are all quite different from each other, and quite different from the Scenekill record. Some are longer and more technical, a couple are shorter and more aggressive and a couple ideas are coming out very melodic, so it looks like its gonna be a much more diverse and interesting outing this time. Some of the new titles are: Everyone's a Christian On Their Deathbed We're aiming to do some in studio preproduction in late March/Early April so you'll get a chance to hear some new ideas around then. Senate
Also a show review of our gig with Beneath The Massacre has appeared in Exclaim! Magazine, it's been added to the media section, You might have noticed the new layout of our website, a special thanks goes to Jm... GrimM... for the artwork. The dude is super talented and anybody looking for some cool album art should throw a message his way! www.myspace.com/jefreymikalgrimm
01-24-2008 Check us out on Belgium's Skyrock Radio! SHOW N°179 24/01/2008 20H / 22H www.radioquartz.beROCK YOUR BRAIN
12-23-2007 Due to broadcasting problems, on The Wolf's Den. Wolf was not able to broadcast last week, however being the cool guys he is. He's made us band of the week this week as well to make up for last weeks technical problems. So check the info below for shows times and info. Thanks again to Wolf and Fearless Radio for choosing us this week!
12-18-2007 Senate has been chose as band of the week on the Wolf's Den. (Chicago) One song on our CD will be played every hour on the show for the week. Then on Thursday night at midnight, they have a segment of the show called THE MIDNIGHT ALBUM. That's when they play the whole damn CD for the world to hear. 12-16-2007 Facebook now offers band profiles something along the lines of myspace. I set one up and you can check it out here. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6582178628 The songs will have to wait a few days for approval but if you're on Facebook, add us and it'll be another we can keep people updated on Senate happenings.
12-07-2007
12-01-2007 That's right, issue #108 of BraveWords & Bloody Knuckles is out and they put our album "The Great Northern Scenekill" as #3 in the top 10 demo/indie releases of 2007!
11-28-2007
11-20-2007 For the people who prefer digital downloading, our entire album is now available for purchase on iTunes as well as BuyMusic.com
11-13-2007 For those of you who want to order merch and have it before/for Christmas, Canada Post has posted "suggested mailing dates", packages should be mailed by for them to arrive on time. So for us to get your packages out in time. We should receive your order the below listed dates.
11-12-2007 Our album is now available through CDBaby.net http://cdbaby.com/cd/senatethrash as well as being featured starting tomorrow (Nov 13, 2007) in two areas of their website.
11-05-2007
10-12-2007 A new review from Invisibleoranges.com has been added to the media section. Review by Cosmo Lee.
10-14-2007 A few things to talk about, first off we just finished a quick three day run with London Ontario's "Thine Eyes Bleed." We'd like to thank, Jeff, all the promoters and of course Thine Eyes Bleed for being very cool with us and we had good times! Cheers!! Also our drummer Patrice will be on tour with Despised Icon for the rest of this year starting October 19th in Buffalo NY. So if you're in the area, go check them out and say to hi to Pat. They're a killer band and any show they play will be worth checking out. I've added a new review to the media section, done by Jared Powers of themetalunion.com and a some new pictures taken by Fred Laroche at the Quebec City show with Thine Eyes Bleed. You can check them out at www.capitaledumetal.com or here. In the mean time we will continue to write new songs and work on getting ourselves a tour for early 2008. See you all in the new year! Cheers! *Senate*
11-03-2007 This Wednesday night/Thursday morning, make sure to tune in to Black Flame Radio on CHRY! Also Colin dropped off a few copies of "The Great Northern Scenekill", to Sonic Boom Music. So if you're in the Bloor / Bathhurst area and want a copy of the album. Run over and snag yourself a copy! *UPDATE* A review from metal-archives.com has been added to the media section.
09-23-2007 That's right kids, our album is now available through Relapse Records distro!
09-18-2007 Check out the new review of the "Great Northern Scenekill" from Germany's Metal/Goth webzine www.obliveon.de.
August, 24 2007 For all the people in the St. Catharines area, who want our CD but don't want to order online, can now get it at Beat Goes On (111 Fourth Ave). All the details are in the Merchandise section.
August 23, 2007 Due to excessive amount of spam, I've changed up the email addresses. I'm sure they'll be filling our inbox's with spam in no time. Until then, they go as follows: *Senate*
August 22, 2007 We're back up and running, sorry for the delay! For everyone who wants a free Senate T-shirt and CD. The guys at www.metallinks.nl are hosting a contest. Just click the contest link at the top of the page. Also, a review and interview with our singer Matt is also up. I've also placed the review and interview in our media section as well. On a final check out ZSentient's newest metal webcast, one of our songs "Victorious Hatred" is being featured on it as we speak. Cheers! *Senate* August 8, 2007 Just as quick update, letting people know that our good friends at CDN records, have us as a featured artist on their newly redesigned website, as well as on their news letter. If you want good reliable shipping with great prices. Make sure to check them out. I've ordered from them personally and I was really impressed with their speedy shipping!
August 4, 2007 I found a Senate Wikipedia article last night. I'm not sure who wrote it but it's an interesting read. Also in the next few weeks, we're going to have some cool new to announce. stay tuned! Cheers! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_(Band) Jay
July 25, 2007 Two new videos have been added to the media section, one of us performing in Trois Rivieres Quebec when we opened for Krisiun and Belphegor and the second is up playing at SCENE 2007, last Sunday. Thanks goes to VBM productions for the SCENE video.
July 24, 2007 Hey all- just a quick update on what's been going on in the Senate camp. Matt welcomed a new addition to the family as he became a proud papa to Mikaia Kane in March, so the boys took 4 months off, other than a show or two here and there. But time waits for noone, and writing has commenced for the follow-up to "The Great Northern Scenekill". After a lengthy (and Painful $$$!!) upgrade of Matt's computer, songwriting has been going very well...the new tunes are faster, nastier and more technical and we'll leave it at that for now.Senate will be heading up to Quebec in September to do some pre-pro with renowned producer/engineer Yannick St Amand (Despised Icon, Martyr) and you can all look forward to some new tunage by Hallowe'en. Also, it looks like we'll have a slew of new tour dates to announce in the coming weeks, so keep your eyes peeled! See you all soon, *Senate*
July 21, 2007 The newly redesigned CDN records website is now online. Everyone check them out, great prices and Canadian run! We're also a featured as product on the front pageas well. Thanks to Cory and Craig for the feature and the banner spot. Cheers!
July 20, 2007 Just a heads up to everyone coming to see us at S.C.E.N.E this Sunday our set time was changed to 5:20 - 6:00 PM. Sorry for the last minute change, but we just found out ourselves! Jay *Senate*
July 6, 2007 The set times and venue locations have been announced for S.C.E.N.E 2007, we'll be playing the downstairs of The Red Hot Chili Pepper (1 St Paul Street, St. Catharines - MAP) from 4:00 to 4:40. Check out the show section for all the details.
July 5, 2007 Our album will now be available at Rotate This! in Toronto!
June 11, 2007
June 04, 2007 Erik Thomas from Digitalmetal.com has done a review of "The Great Northern Scenekill, i've also added it to the media section. Also the poster for the July 28th, "Toronto Metal United" showcase has been added to the shows page. Our CD can be now purchased at the St. Catharines location of The Beat Goes On
May 24, 2007
May 21 , 2007 Senate is proud to announce that Steven Scharf, of Steven Scharf Entertainment is now the exclusive licensee for Senate. Steven Scharf oversees the film and television division for Carlin America Publishing. Steven is looking into the placement of our music in mediums such as, T.V, Movies and Video Games to name a few. We're looking forward to working with Steven and Steven Scharf Entertainment in the future! Steven Scharf is also representing Senate's producer Julius "Juice" Butty. Any inquiries about the use of our music should be directed to Steven Scharf Entertainment at: Cheers! *Senate*
April 18, 2007 As some of you might, or might not have noticed. We now have a new logo, which was designed by Tim Boughton of Dissonance Studios. If you like to have Tim do some work for you or if you just want to check out other projects he's done. You can check out his website at: Thanks again to Tim for his hard work and professionalism!
April 17, 2007 *Update* I added a text version of the Unrestrained! article to the media section!
April 16, 2007 Just a quick heads up, there's an interview with us in this months issue of UNRESTRAINED! magazine. Run to your local magazine shop and grab a copy! I'll be adding a text transcript and scan of the actual article in the next day or two.
April 04, 2007 Senate has been featured as Band Of The Month for April at Fearshop.com . They have a wide variety of Metal / Horror merchandise and much more. Stop by and check them out! Thanks to Miguel and all the cool people at Fear shop for choosing us as this month's winner. Also, we just wanted you to know that on tonights episode of Dirt Talk Radio they will be featuring a cut from our album "The Great Northern Scenekill"
March 24, 2007 A toy sculptor (based out of Daly City, Califonia) who goes by Jay222, liked our music so much he contacted us and asked if he could make us a toy, and of course we said yes! Here are a few pics of the toy taken on the day it arrived. Thanks so much to Jay222, you can check out pics of his other creations on his myspace.
March 20, 2007 For all the people in the St. Catharines area, who want our CD but don't want to order online, can now get it at CDPlus in the Fairview Mall. All the details are in the Merchandise section.
March 15, 2007 I added a new album review taken from View Magazine. Check it out in the media section. Jay
March 13, 2007 I'll be appearing on Mike Lazaris' radio show "Hard Beyond Driven" (CKRG 89.9FM in Toronto) this coming Monday night. I will be doing a call in interview, some our songs will be played plus there's a whole night of metal! The show airs 8-11pm (Eastern). I'll on around 9pm. You can tune on the net at: www.hardbeyonddriven.com - www.ckrgfm.com You can listen with online streaming live at:
Give a listen and show your support for local metal! Jay
March 9th, 2007 A bit of cool of news to announce, our album is now available through Century Media Distro. Make sure you snag a copy while doing some shopping at Century Media Records. Century Media Distro
March 6th, 2007 For those of you who want to purchase our album and live in the Hamilton area. We now have copies of "The Great Northern Scenekill" for sale at:
Feburary 8th, 2007 Hey everyone, we're proud to say we've been accepted into the Metal Showcase for Canadian Music Week 2007 presented by: Location: 1305 Dundas Street West (Toronto, Ontario) 1:00 Anvil Admission - $10 passes / wristband accepted I also wanted to add, we toped Hamilton's 101.5 CIOI music charts number #1 this week.
http://www.earshot-online.com/charts/cioi.cfm?intChartTypeID=6
Feburary 5th, 2007 Hey everyone, we've just returned from our first gig outside of Ontario, at Le Maquisart in Trois Rivières, Quebec, I have to say it went amazing! The crowds are crazy for metal in Quebec and we want to thank everyone who came out and thanks to Patrice, Jeff of Trois Rivieres Metal and Sam of Horifixion for putting us on the show! Thanks so much. Conisdering we're a band that was from out of the area, and the first band on we played to about 150 to 200 people and the crowd accepted us well. We'll be receiving photos and video footage soon. Which I'll post here shortly after. I still have alot of photos to post from the Martyr tour as well, just with us being away from home, eight out of the past 11 days it's been hard to find time to edit everything. I'll be posting the Toronto date sometime today. Jay *Senate*
February 1st, 2007 I just wanted to give everyone an update, I've been slowly but surely adding a bunch of new photos from the Martyr tour we just finished. The Peterborough date is up and next will be Toronto. Last night Sean Palmerston (Sonic Unyon / Goodfellow Records) stopped by and we did an interview for Unrestrained Magazine thanks goes to him and Adrian "The Energizer" Bromley for making it happen. Look for it in the March issue, I'll be posting it here when it's been published. This coming Friday we'll be packing up and heading down to Pat's home town of Trois Rivieres, Quebec to play with Brazilian death metal act Krisiun and Germany's brutal death/black band Belphegor. This is their North American debut and we're really excited to be doing this in Quebec. It'll be our first show out of Ontario and we're curious to see how the people of Quebec accept us. See you on the other side! Jay *Senate*
January 29th, 2007 Havoc In Ontario Post Mortem
January 25th, 2007 Well we kicked off the first date of our mini tour last night with Martyr in Oshawa and even though the turn out was smaller a good time was had and we enjoyed ripping it with all the bands that played last night Also Sean Palmerston of Sonic Unyon / Goodfellow records sent me a link to an article he wrote for View Magazine, about Martyr and their stop in Hamilton and he also mentions some good things about us at the end. Heres' a link to the article. http://www.viewmag.com/viewstory.php?storyid=4878 Cheers!
January 15th, 2007 Hey everyone a few updates here, first off thanks to Dennis and the guys at Metal-R.US we now have an official Senate forum moderated by the band and of course the guys at Metal-R.US. We appreciate the offer to do this and we hope this opens the band to a whole new fan base. Here's a link straight to the forum. http://www.metal-r.us/forums/senate/ Also I've added an un-releaed track to the player in the media section, it was never finished and is a rough mix with no mastering but we decided to let you guys hear it anyways. The track is called "Speak To Me In Binary". Hope you enjoy it! Lastly, I have serveral new photos that I'll be adding over the course of the week, so keep checking back. Cheers!
January 11th, 2007 Well we're back in 2007 with the release of our debut album "The Great Northern Scenekill", a new website design, as well as an official announcement of our new bass player Colin Lernell! He's worked really hard in the past 4 weeks, with school and a last minute trip to Trois Rivieres to rehearse with Patrice for our upcoming 5 day mini tour with Martyr and Camilla Rhodes (on certain dates). He did a fantastic job and we welcome him to the band! I'll be slowing adding more content to the site as I get it from the guys, don't be alarmed if things don't work quite properly. I'm still going to be tweaking over the next week or so. I felt the website was offline a little to long and wanted to get it back up and running! Enjoy and we'll see you at a show soon! Happy New Year! Jay *Senate*
November 19th, 2006 Just a quick update to announce that we now have merch for sale. You can purchase a shirt or hoodie through us by clicking the PayPal buy it now button in our merch section, or on our myspace. If you live local to us, we may be able to meet up with you somewhere. Thanks! T's are $15 (M, L, XL)
November 17th, 2006
Senate unveils the album cover for 'The Great Northern Scenekill' on the myspace. The album pre-sale will commence Nov 25th via the myspace and at www.senatemetal.com. The tentative release date for the record is Dec 17, 2006. 'The Great Northern Scenekill' was produced by Juice Butty (Alexisonfire) and mastered by Tue Madsen (The Haunted). This will be a limited edition version of the record completely designed and approved by the band, and once its gone people will have to wait till the official version which will hit stores at a later date. Merch will be available via the myspace and website this Monday and at The Underground show this Sat night in Hamilton, ON.
October 7th, 2006 FINALLY we are getting our shit organized regarding the release of our debut record 'THE GREAT NORTHERN SCENEKILL'. The record was recorded at Silo Studio with Producer Julius 'Juice' Butty (Alexison , Cancer Bats), nd Mastered by Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Kataklysm, Threat Signal). Album artwork is nearly complete and we are preparing to launch a website exclusive pre-sale of the record.
So stay tuned for the official announcement next week!
• September 5th, 2006 • Hey all, our masters arrived today all the way from Denmark today, due to the fact we enlisted the mastering skills of Tue Madsen (Kataklysm, Mnemic, The Haunted, Sick of it all) to do the album, and it sounds absolutely huge! Check out the songs on our myspace and leave your comments. www.myspace.com/senatemetal As soon as I get a copy of the album from Matt I'll upload a few of the songs here! |
