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Clinging To The Trees Of A Forest Fire Signs To Debello Recordings

posted May 11, 2008 at 12:07 AM by deathbringer.  (24 Comments)

Denver, Colorado grindcore/death metal band Clinging To The Trees Of A Forest Fire has signed to Debello Recordings. Look for an early summer release of their latest full-length album and Debello debut "Omega Drunk On The Blood Of Alpha." The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Dave Otero at Flatline Audio (Cephalic Carnage, etc).

Clinging To The Trees Of A Forest Fire will head out on their Summer tour from June 13th through July 3rd with another mini-tour from August 3rd - 7th. The tour dates are as follows:

Jun 13 2008 8:00P Ernie November W/Gaza,Deadspeak Cheyenne, Wyoming
Jun 14 2008 8:00P Haunted Kitchen Lawrence, Kansas
Jun 15 2008 8:00P TBA- Springfield, Illinois
Jun 16 2008 8:00P TBA- Chicago, Illinois
Jun 17 2008 8:00P Games n’ At W/ MENORRHAGIA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jun 18 2008 8:00P Cafe Nine W/Sea of Bones New Haven, Connecticut
Jun 19 2008 8:00P TBA Boston, Massachusetts
Jun 20 2008 8:00P TBA Providence, Rhode Island
Jun 21 2008 8:00P TBA Long Island, New York
Jun 22 2008 8:00P TBA ANYWHERE!, New Jersey
Jun 23 2008 8:00P TBA- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jun 24 2008 8:00P TBA Baltimore or D.C., Maryland
Jun 25 2008 8:00P TBA Richmond, Virginia
Jun 26 2008 8:00P TBA- ANYWHERE!, North Carolina
Jun 27 2008 8:00P TBA- Atlanta, Georgia
Jun 28 2008 8:00P TBA Atlanta, Georgia
Jun 29 2008 8:00P TBA Anywhere, Alabama
Jun 30 2008 8:00P TBA- Anywhere, Tennessee
Jul 1 2008 8:00P TBA Little Rock, Arkansas
Jul 2 2008 8:00P The Monolith W/TBA Anywhere, Oklahoma
Jul 3 2008 8:00P TBA W/Raptorkil!? Wichita, Kansas
Aug 3 2008 8:00P TBA- Salt Lake, Utah
Aug 4 2008 8:00P TBA- Oakland
Aug 5 2008 8:00P OFF driving, California
Aug 6 2008 8:00P TBA- Portland, Oregon
Aug 7 2008 8:00P TBA- Boise, Idaho

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24 Comments on "CTTTOAFF Signs To Debello Recordings"

Chupacabra_hunter's avatar

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1. Chupacabra_hunter writes:

these long a$$ band names are starting to get really f.ucking stupid.

# May 11, 2008 @ 11:06 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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2. Kalis_wrath writes:

^Much agreed!

# May 12, 2008 @ 12:03 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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3. hand bananna writes:

you are a f***ing bunch of idiots.

# May 18, 2008 @ 11:22 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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4. Terminator writes:

^ yet you can't spell banana!?!

acronym bands are becoming annoying. i never know which is worse, the band name or the music.

now playing: symphony x - set the world on fire

# May 19, 2008 @ 12:14 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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5. BrianSD writes:

^ha

# May 19, 2008 @ 12:41 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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6. SHREDDER13 writes:

^ I concur. Long band names are pathetic!...It's as if they do it on purpose just to see who gets the longest name. So damn lame.

# May 19, 2008 @ 12:55 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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7. cruor writes:

The only good band whose name is an acronym I can think of is DRI.

# May 19, 2008 @ 1:01 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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8. Kalis_wrath writes:

^DRI?

# May 19, 2008 @ 1:03 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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9. FUCK TARD writes:

Short Band names are gay and if you don't know who DRI is then that explains alot...

# May 21, 2008 @ 1:14 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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10. bbristowe writes:

Dietary Reference Intakes?

# May 21, 2008 @ 12:17 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
deathbringer's avatar

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11. deathbringer writes:

LOL. I had to think about it. There are a lot of subgenres and for someone who prefers particular ones, they may not who other well known bands in others, and given that they (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles) haven't done jack in a long time, it's no surprise.

# May 21, 2008 @ 2:15 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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12. Diamond Oz writes:

I think what Kali meant is what does DRI stand for? And now we know! Long band names are more annoying than watching Friends and equally as lame. As far as the music goes, I haven't heard every band with a stupidly long name so I can't slag them all off, this band included.

# May 21, 2008 @ 2:37 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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13. cruor writes:

Well I'm glad someone knows what/who DRI stands for/is.

# May 21, 2008 @ 7:38 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
Kalis_wrath's avatar

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14. Kalis_wrath writes:

Ahhh! It has been a long time since that band was heard from!
Diamond is right too.

# May 21, 2008 @ 8:30 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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15. Poopdic writes:

It is just a band name...get over it.

# May 22, 2008 @ 11:52 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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16. the elitist writes:

yeah, lets make sure to not listen to this band because their name is long. there is no way they are good because they have a long name. All bands should have cool names like Saosin, or Chiodos.

# May 24, 2008 @ 1:45 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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17. Cynic writes:

What people really mean is that it has long been a metal tradition to have metal band names, normally short. catchy one word names. -cue a billion examples of metal bands-

Now the reason people have an aversion to long names is because of trends in new music now, most obviously in Emo and Metalcore. Today's bands trying to bleed some sort of epiphanous, intellectual poetry in their band name (Through The Eyes of The Dead, As I Lay Dying, From A Second Story Window etc.)

Failing that they try the "sounds like a random bullsh** sentence but we want you to think we have some amazing story behind it" sort of name (The Number Twelve Looks Like You etc.). The problem here being Grindcore had that idea already so there's a bit of overlap and you can't judge a book by it's horrendously over-sized name.

In the end though, a long band name today says "f*** metal traditions" and "we're a trendy new band", both of which deserve a kick in the nuts from a band named Violator or Gama Bomb. This post is basically an eloquent version of post 1.

Now Playing: Violator - "United For Thrash"

# May 24, 2008 @ 8:43 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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18. cynic is a moron writes:

Thrash is for p***ies.

# Jun 9, 2008 @ 5:04 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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19. CrawfordTexasJingoJango writes:

I don't give a sh** what this says to metal traditions. It's tedious, and we, as possible fans, should be treated with a little more respect. These bands don't know us, what makes them think I'm even going to sit through a literal translation of their messy title, let alone an entire set? It's preposterous and it's ego in it's worst form. I don't know your band, but if you're grindcore, you're repetitive. I've heard Pig Destroyer, so therefore I've heard When Autums Decends On October Mist or f***ing Eight Dogs Play Basketball In March or f***ing Alphabet Soup Is Reminding Me Of You Right At This Moment.

I hope all these trendy f***ers die. Just because you own a book doesn't mean you should open it up and select a random sentence as your band name, you lazy pricks. You aren't cool because you saw an episode of the Twilight Zone. You're not cool because your band was so mediocre that you couldn't come up with an honest title for your band. You're not cool because you own a library card.

The only thing that might get you noticed is if you play decent music. Maybe they should start worrying about that.

I click on these ridiculous headlines with unintelligible acronyms because as soon as I see a band name like "SYTURETUSATFSGTYEOIGBWFUUIDSUWUGHTIM" I want two things:

1) To argue, of course

2) To see what that ridiculous sh** stands for.

I can't stand this sh**. Clinging To The Trees Of A Forest Fire? That doesn't even make any f***ing sense. I don't really give a sh** that Norma Jean is a christian venture, or whatever the sh** they are, all I know is I understand their band name, and I don't have to spend the first half of their albums deciphering the name of the band that made it.

# Jun 9, 2008 @ 9:48 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
coldiem's avatar

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20. coldiem writes:

"Eight Dogs Play Basketball In March", now there's a band's name. Kudos to you Crawford, that's a good one. :P

# Jun 9, 2008 @ 10:38 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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21. deathbringer writes:

"In the end though, a long band name today says "f*** metal traditions" and "we're a trendy new band" - Good summary Cynic. I kinda feel the same way about long song names. I don't even have time to site down with a CD's packaging these days, so no way in hell I will remember these sentence-long song names some bands use.

# Jun 9, 2008 @ 10:50 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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22. DeathInEye writes:

How dare they try to evolve and ask a listener to think?! Travesty! But no, in all honestly, a lot of these bands do suck...but I mention two who do not: Between the Buried and Me, and Behold! The Arctopus.

# Jun 9, 2008 @ 11:28 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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23. Terminator writes:

^ there are exceptions to the rule of course, but generally speaking acronym bands have given themselves a poor reputation because most of them arent worth the piss in their shoes.

great post by cynic and hilarious but true post by crawford.

now playing: blind guardian - beyond the ice

# Jun 9, 2008 @ 5:10 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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24. Cynic writes:

Eight Dogs Play Basketball In March! Lol!!

Since half of grindcore seems obsessed with esoteric, meaningless phrases I don't really mind the CTTTOAFF since, hell the music is probably just as spastic and meaningless as the name. But I can't stand the pseudo-intellectual sentences = name formula. Lol funny post crawford.

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