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Survived By Nearing Release

For nearly a year the subscribers to OBCT’s “Survived By” have gotten a track by track release delivered to them but now the final product is nearly at hand. With a handful of drum mixes still heading off to producer Nic Heidt’s studio the final renders of the 16+ track release will be OBCT’s next since 2009’s TOTAL CONTROL. Tracks are all available for free...

Jan 21st

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Track 10: Thieve On

Sometimes inspiration just strikes you and has you doing things you might not otherwise do. I was heading up to the studio to work on mixing down tracks for one of our latest works when the progression for “Thieve On” struck me, so I abandoned whatever i was doing and started up this ambitious title. I could hear this epic exchange of harmony and rhythm explode in my head as...

Mar 14th

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Track 9: Obamanation

I was doing something else, screwing around with guitar tones and pulling together some undoubtedly stupid, far-flug idea. I was also boy-sitting (I take care of a friends boys in my spare time) and Joshua was up with me in the studio, content enough bashing away on the drums and toying with the many knobs and buttons on my guitar processor. Out of nowhere I changed gears and played the now main...

Feb 18th

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"Reeling" from inhaling slowly...

The newest track for “Survived By” is called Reeling. I wrote this one in my head one day as I was sitting atop my throne contemplating my next great movement. Tapping my toes and hands and blathering out a bass line that sounded like something off of a scratched up George Clinton record. It seems some of my best stuff rattles around in my head for a while before I am able to get it...

Oct 22nd

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The OBCT Subscription Service!

The OBCT “Survived By” Subscription :: $5.00 Over the years we’ve put out several albums DIY; paid a boat loaf of money to press it, worked our asses off selling them locally at shows, and tried our damndest to move them via the internet via services like cdBaby. It’s a whole process, a cumbersome, labor intensive process that more often than not seemed like fools errand...

Oct 7th

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OBCT a'chirping away!

OBCT, we don’t want to be one of those annoying bands always bugging random mainstream consumers to listen to us, but god damn it, I’m sick and tired of not being heard beyond our little local scene. Things have gotten real good for us and it’s time to put away the bashful, put-upon, struggling artist pants and put on the like-it-or-leave-it, go-fuck-yourself, salesman pants. I...

Oct 7th

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The first track from =2obct. Joshua, Alahn’s...

Oct 3rd

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Sep 24th

Pophorse Podcasts :: OBCT Show #3

We took the interwebs Friday with a solidifying format and two fun guests who kept the zingers flowing and the dialogue as edutaintastic as ever. Geoff hosts along side “one fuck of a roundtable” Aeryn, Jenny, Booty, Dave, Nic & Kris and we explore a wide variety of deep dark secrets! Dave defends metal against the autrocitries of the 80’s, we take a look into the life of a...

Sep 19th

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Sep 17th

Pophorse Podcasts :: OBCT Show #2

Pophorse Podcasts :: OBCT Show #2 Geoff hosts a night with the gentlegoons of The Obese. Our guest Ether joins, Aeryn, Booty, Dave, Mikey and Jenny for a night of intense debate and heated discussion about the most pressing world events! We preview a soon to be released track and share some our favorite music we’re listening to! DOWNLOAD THE PODCAST HERE! LINKS: “Songs of the...

Sep 14th

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Help Alleviate the Anguish of CMAS

Does the mere thought of certain groups or one hit wonders leave you with feelings of revulsion or nausea? When you turn on your car radio are you overcome with the urge to put your head in a metal bucket and pound on it with a hammer until you black out or thrust sharpened pencils deep into your ears in hopes to rupture the eardrum and (with any luck) pierce your brain? If so, you may be one of...

Aug 24th

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PophorsePodcasts::OBCT

We took to airwaves (sort of) this Friday for one of the first OBCT podcasts! We were a little short staffed but we were joined by Reverend Revolution who gave us some great insights on religion as we counted down the top ten signs that you’re a fundamentalist Christian. Geoff, Dave, Jenny and The Reverend take a listen to a few OBCT songs, examine god, love and the devil as well as check...

Aug 23rd

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Aug 16th

OBCT :: "Survived By" :: SUBSCRIPTION PACK #1

“Golly gee, I like rock and roll but, I’d rather stick it to the man.” OBCT :: Survived By :: SUBSCRIPTION PACKAGE Level #1 How to get started: Step One: Go to obct.bandcamp.com and click on “Survived By” Step Two: Purchase the album for the one time $5.00 charge Step Tree: Wait for the confirmation e-mail Step Four: Respond to our email so we can get you the hook up Step...

Aug 10th

It's nearly here

Last night Booty and I went down to our producer Nic Heidt’s place to polish up the mixes on the first five tracks we are releasing for “Survived By,”. They turned out really great! Having a producer to help cut the crap and get the best sound is a wonderful thing, he’s got his ideas on how things should be, we have our slightly different, bass heavy, cluttered, take and...

Aug 6th

OBCT on The Clubhouse Show (sianet radio) →

Geoff and Booty dropped into the clubhouse show to yak it up proper with Topher, Mae and “Meat Beast” on a hot and sweaty Tuesday evening in June.

Jun 30th

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.:OBCT::Klunkerton:. 2010 Demo, Pophorse Records ...

Apr 20th

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"Survived By," Preview

For the better part of the decade we’ve taken to the studio to record our work, to package it and to deliver it to the public at large. Since 2003 we’ve had a record in production one way or another; we’re either writing, tracking instruments, sequencing drums and synths, recording vocals, rehearsing or just toying around with sound and we’ve got plenty to show for it. ...

Apr 13th

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Tripping the light fantastic, et al.

A little bit ago, I was reminiscing about a production of Medea I saw at the Jeune Lune with my high school English class on a field trip. Naturally, most of us were not of the mindset or maturity to be the usual audience members for a Greek tragedy, but we went just to get out of class. However, as the play got going, the giggling and chatter stopped cold. I sensed a profound change in the air...

Apr 9th

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Cover: I Could Have Lied

For Christmas 2009 I decided to put together a CD for my wife who is the #1 OBCT supporter, Jenny. I wanted to do something special for her that she’d never forget. One of her favorite songs is off of The Red Hot Chili Peppers album “Blood Sugar Sex Magic” called “I Could Have Lied” which is a acoustic guitar song with a real haunting melody to it. I decided...

Apr 8th

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Studio Update (4.8.10):

For many years we’ve struggled to get a drum sound that we could use in high quality recordings. We’d always relied on sequenced drums in the past for our records so having to record Mikey’s drums had become our biggest challenge as well as a source of frustration. We’d tried a whole host of options but nothing really gave us the sound we craved. In 2008 Tim Zilch came...

Apr 8th

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Sniff this.

AAAaaaahhh, Love that new website smell. It’s a mix of dust on a motherboard and stale beer wafting up from the studio computer. The smell of victory over HTML. It’s the smell of the impending shit-storm of posts, tracks, art projects, videos, and so much home cooked industrial punk rock that you will abandon all else and become one with THE OBESE! So take a listen through our...

Apr 8th

Jason's Burner DEMO

Snag this 2009 Demo of “Jason’s Burner”, it’s coming out this year in it’s full form, so download this and when the new one comes out tell us all the reasons you like the old one better…

Apr 8th