Hey guys, Max here. Wildfires is a done deal. Adam Harris, Jeremy Randazzo, and Mike Boyne are gonna be killing it together in the near future under a different name, which is sure to be a promising lineup. Keep an eye out for those dudes! Additionally to those 3, I'd like to thank everyone who has ever been a part of Wildfires in any way: Jon Romein, John Stephens, Dayton Castleman, Grant LeBlanc, Dave Graeff, Tyler Harper. Also: all the dudes in Moose and every band we've ever played with, Judd Kennedy and everyone at Sadie's Niteclub, Ashley Trahan, Broken Art Recordings, Sleazy Lee for bringing us to Mississippi that one time, Justin @ 1126 (R.I.P.), everyone who's floors we've slept on, the Rouse's management team for dealing with our hectic scheduling, Matt @ Siberia, and quite literally anyone who has ever thought of or spoken about this band in a positive light. Hopefully some of the things "said" throughout the lyrical content of our 15 released songs will serve as a document of a dark place, a developing mind, an intense feeling of estrangement and betrayal, and that some of you will be able to find comfort in knowing that we're all human. It's been a great run, Thanks.

Please welcome bassist Mike Boyne to the band. Mike is from Morgan City. He played Football in high school. Since then, Mr. Boyne has done time in such bands as Jupiter Death Brigade, Come & Conquer, and Touchless Automatic. He looks like a swamp viking. He smokes Kools. His first show will be after the Lizaveta show. Tyler Harper, we love you, and appreciate the time you put into the band. See you soon, buddy.

for those that weren't at the bisbano's show this past saturday, we played for the first time ever without a bassist. this was because we are going through a slight lineup change which was decided upon not long before the day of the show. instead of canceling we decided to just do our best as a three piece. we will start working in the low end side of the band within the next week. we will also be playing the stinking lizaveta show as the three piece lineup. all shows after this will include the new bassist, who is actually a swamp viking. this puts a temporary restraint on some of the writing we were planning on doing, but it shouldn't set us back too far. just wanted to let everyone know what's going on. we have no intentions of slowing down at any point in the foreseeable future. if anything, we plan on getting busier. see you all soon.

us with our new buds in capsule outside of the dragon's den in new orleans. 

great weekend with those guys!

MAY 2ND we'll be back in new orleans to play with FLOOR and mountain of wizard at Siberia. 

and then we'll be off to houston, TX on the 6th to play with DIXIE WITCH and 

VENOMOUS MAXIMUS. the day after we'll be stopping off to play with our pals in survive the musical and a band known as large marge! see you in those towns soon. 

just added a new orleans date opening for capsule as well as the mississippi date the day before. going to be lots of fun doing a weekend of shows with those dudes!

also, we've added a houston date at rudyard's with dixie witch and venomous maximus!

we'll be getting new shirts made soon, as in the next week or so. the front will have the skull/snake/inverted cross design on the front and our logo will be on the back. silverish ink on black shirts and black ink on white shirts.

we had a great time in new orleans last night. siberia is one of the coolest venues i've ever played at or gone to or gotten wasted in. benny hare is an old buddy, matt (owner) of tirefire is a straight up dude, daphne the bartender was a fucking sweetheart to say the least, the dudes in LET THE NIGHT ROAR were super cool bros. we got to new orleans early and ate/drank at a fancy taco/rum place that brought out plates of food that looked more like art than anything else. after that we checked out a record shop and then headed over to siberia. we began drinking on the street before the venue was open. lots of cutting up, making jokes, taking pictures, etc. i, personally, woke up in ashley's car and had no idea how i got there, nor did i have any recollection of how the night ended, but that's just new orleans for you.

the best thing to come out of the trip....landing a spot opening for motherfuckin' FLOOR on may 2nd at siberia! super pumped about that. it's very exciting and rewarding to be playing with bands that we listen to on our own time, on a regular basis. hope things keep going at this rate!

on another note, we most likely won't be releasing the fear will rust EP in physical form now, or perhaps ever, yet it's there on our 'free album downloads' page, so eat it up. we've decided to focus more on writing a new album, perhaps more of a full length than the usual EP lengthed albums we've released. we have 3 new songs completely written, and 1 other one currently being worked on. lots of new influences coming out in the song writing, especially with the addition of adam. things are going great! see you all soon.

-MB

RIP Whaus shows

tyler, jeremy, and i (max) found a cool pad to move into a month or so ago. our intentions were to practice as often as our jobs would allow and throw as many house shows as possible. everything seemed great for a while with the house shows. we didn't get to do too many of them, but the couple we had were great times, and we appreciate everyone who came out for showing our house such respect and courtesy.

we really try so hard to actively participate and give back to our small lafayette scene as much as possible. we've put together copious amounts of shows for out of town bands in need, and we were excited as possible to be opening our house to the scene for the all ages crowd, close friends, and anyone who wanted to take part. 

it always seems in this small town, that when we finally get to a point where we're making somewhat of a difference and generating some buzz, that someone has to shake their finger at us and make us kneel on rice in a corner for getting out of line. this is one of the many reasons we'll be relocating within less than a year. living in a place with no venues for heavier music, few decent/bigger acts passing through, and landlords that fall short of tolerating DIY house shows is just downright depressing, and our potential outside of the band as independent show bookers, promoters, house show operatives, and the like go without respect from the general "grown adult" population. 

it doesn't mean we're going to quit helping out everyone we can. the day we stop giving back to whatever scene we are a part of is the day we break up. which won't be any time in the near future. 

let's keep the scene love going, whether it's a teaspoon or a kilo. 

-MB

one of those exciting show announcements we were talking about...

not to mention march 21st at frankie's with tombs, wormrot, and more; april 2nd at siberia with suplecs; and june 20th at whaus with bone dance, former thieves, and twin cities. super pumped about all these awesome opportunities coming up. hope to see you guys at these shows!

so we got featured on stereokiller.com's artists of the week along with some other bands such as focusedxminds, despise you, and a389 recordings. pretty cool that we're starting to get some small, yet still rewarding tastes of recognition.

we've been talking about possibly not pressing fear will rust. "not" as in not right now. you can download it here for free, burn it for yourself, burn it for whoever else you feel needs to hear it, etc. we could definitely use the money we'd spend on pressing them on things like out of town shows and other such things.

we scored a show on april 2nd at siberia in nola with suplecs. bone dance and former thieves will be passing through and playing at our whaus in june. check the shows page. a few other bigger things in the works as well. more to come.

this show is going to be awesome. it's a great pleasure to play with a band that we're also fans of. 

before this show, make sure to catch us on monday, march 7th at 163 jomela in lafayette with many other bands for a lundi gras celebration. on tuesday, march 8th, mardi gras, we will be playing with a handful of other bands at the dust bowl in lafayette. on march 11th we'll be playing at bisbano's with change today, shark bait, and twin cities. march 21st is the TOMBS show. on the 25th and 26th we'll be in mississippi with mission vs madness, and to close out that weekend tour we'll be playing a big show at frankie's on sunday, march 27th. check the shows page for more dates.

aside from shows, we have been writing quite a bit of new material. besides our one new non-album song, we currently have 3 others in the works. we haven't spoken of a timeframe for the next recording, but it should be around summer or so, and will most likely lean towards a full length/lengthy EP. all of course is tentative and no plans have been made, but knowing us, it won't be long before we're back on the saddle, laying down the new songs.  

just a reminder that t-shirts will now be $5 at shows, we have only a handful of 'qualms' and 'within realms' left, and plenty of free stickers. if you want a shirt and both cd's, it's only $10. get at us, we're broke. 

the first show with adam went incredible. there were nothing but positive reactions from strangers and close friends all around the board. the new song sounded great and everyone including us seemed to be pretty pumped about it.

we decided against getting the new EP mastered because it just costs more money, and it's stalling us from getting them printed, plus with the addition of adam and the fact that we've already begun writing the next album, there's really just no point to not get this puppy on the streets.

so, today, february 18th, FEAR WILL RUST is available for free download on our 'free album downloads' page, or you can download it and give us a buck or two if you're feeling generous here.
so basically, like we keep saying, the physical copies will be in soon. but at least you can download it and burn it now.

lots of shows coming up in march, check the 'shows' page. we thought we had lost our merch, but in fact, it was in a buddies truck from after a show. we have a good amount of shirts left. we will now be selling them for $5. we have a handful of the splits left. we will never print those again in that form, so get one if you'd like while you still can. we also have some copies of qualms as well. we'll give you both cd's and a shirt for $10. just come talk to one of us at a show.

love you all. hail satan.

Please welcome Adam Harris to Wildfires!

Wildfires is pumped as shit to announce the addition of Adam Harris to the band!  Adam has been coming to our shows for quite a while now. When we decided to trek onward as a trio, it wasn't because we felt that we couldn't make use of a second guitar player, it was more circumstantial, and all about finding the right man for the job with all the same goals and influences in mind. With that said, we enjoyed our time as a trio and the EP we recorded and are about to release (still saving money). We decided from the get go of the trio lineup that if we came across someone who we felt was a perfect fit for the band, there would be no question. After 2 proper "auditions", and much time spent together hanging out, having drinks, eating amazing food cooked by Adam's girlfriend, geeking out on mutual favorite bands, and sitting at his house riffing on combo amps, we decided that Adam is indeed the perfect fit that we've perhaps always needed.

Yesterday we ended up hanging out and jamming for 5 hours at Adam's storage shed. I don't think Wildfires has ever had a 5 hour jam/hang session, so needless to say, the chemistry, the ideas, the communication, it's all there. We all feel comfortable telling each other "why don't you play something else", and it's great to finally be able to say that.

We've written a brand new song titled, "Aftermath of The Sociopath" which spans more genre changes in one song than we have ever touched on, and although anyone would say this about their music, I honestly believe that this is the most unique and original material we've written thus far. We're super excited as to the future of the band, and to all relocate together in a year or a little more. Adam will start playing with us in March, and before too long we should have quite a few more new songs written. See you all soon!

-MB

revised/reworked album art for Fear Will Rust.

(right:front/left:back)

(inside)

New song written today. We haven't been practicing our set or writing as much as we'd like to recently due to work and other such things. Even with us all working together, it's still pretty exhausting sometimes to fit a practice or a writing session into a way that aligns with everyone's sleeping patters and such, but we seem to be getting back up to speed, and will only continue to keep doing so.

I hate to be the guy to throw around genres and whatnot, as most music these days, ours included, blurs the line between a few different ones, if anything. But there's definitely a lot of attention deficit disorder going into the transitions and whatnot, lots of jumps between different sounding influences... black, doom, sludge, mathematical core of the hard persuasion. But most importantly, as Jeremy and I are the two original dudes and have collectively done the majority of the song writing since our inception as a band, we have started to realize as we begin this new chapter and lineup, that we've done a good portion of not so much bland, but maybe more one dimensional song writing in the past. We're once again comfortable being 15 years old and playing heavily distorted aggressive music.

I know for me, these past couple years of getting back into the swing of said aggressive music has been quite a learning experience. I can't say that I've ever approached diving back into a form of music as head-on as I have this time around, nor have i ever felt so refreshed and intrigued. I think now that we're nearing 2 years deep with Wildfires, a time period that used to be the entire life span of our former bands, we're realizing how to take a hold of what we're doing and manipulate it to our specifications rather than just go along with wherever our hands end up on the fret board, snare drum, etc.

All fancy word placement aside, shit's getting real solid, peoples.
I look forward to the future of Wildfires with a giant boner.
-MB