The newest episode of South Park is focused directly on the people who buy the shitty tabloid magazines, watch E! with reverence, believe all the paparazzi crap and obsess about the fantastic lives of hollywood stars yet choose to attack and tear down the stressful lives of other stars. People really enjoy the Britney circus. It seems like fun to rake at her until she finally does something drastic that ends up hospitalizing her or killing her. It's sad that her potential death WILL sell magazines for a looooong time. The question is: Do we WANT to leave her alone or do we NEED to watch her get worse?

The South park episode is brilliant. Highly Recommended.

Out of the depths I run
Into terror and apathy
You've become dead to me

Vision of conflict
Come closer
Revolve with me around the sun

Arson in serenity
Tolerance/blasphemy

This is the new madness
Reckless abandon pounding on the door

Patterns you do not understand
You have not seen the place I come from
Childlike assumptions amuse
Live the words of beasts

Fingers wrap around
Cold to the touch
Inviting
Loosen the grip when it's buried/destroyed

Well, it's about 2 weeks until the "official" release date and there's torrents popping up all over the net of our new album "An Offering". Just a guess, as we haven't tried downloading any, but judging by the dates some of these started coming out, a good portion of them are fake. This is why we decided to A) Not charge shipping from our Innersurge.com store ($10 per CD) and B) Charge 0.75 per mp3, undercutting the digital stores. Motivation to support an original band and save yourself a fat worm on your computer.

Try them out though, some may work...it's just that the more people who actually support what we're doing the higher the chance there will be another one. The CD is also selling in advance partially because of the "leak", or, supposed leak.

AN OFFERING - JAN 26

Once again, those of you who are buying early are finding something extra in the package....that's our thanks to you.

I S

Thanks for visiting our website and blog. We're very thankful to everyone who's bought the album so far or sent us their kind words and feedback. With artists like Josh Grobin and Avril Lavigne in our faces on a daily basis, it's nice to feed off a few scraps, words from real people who have an understanding of what we do and appreciate it. It's all in the acknowledgements, folks.

We hope you like the new site...the priority for us was to make sure there was a lot more content and we could make www.innersurge.com a destination rather than a support for our other pages. This blog will be updated frequently with opinion, background on the songs, news and rants so keep checking. Any suggestions are welcome...join the forum too. Let us know what books you're reading, things you're learning about, music you're into, anything you'd like to pass along. It's all word of mouth on the underground.

Mainly, we hope you enjoy the new album, "An Offering", an album we worked very hard on, and as a result are very proud of. We've said a lot more on this album and we've accomplished a lot more musically. This album says all we wanted to say, all we could say in 63 minutes. It's uncensored, truly, and that is becoming a very rare thing. It's not background music, and a lot of people won't have the attention span to dig in. For those who do, we hope you get something out of it and do something with it.

As for the tracks and the subject matter, this was a cathartic and upsetting project to tackle. Sometimes those can be the most rewarding. We'll go over a few themes and leave the rest. Any questions, feel free to ask in the forum.
There's been some discussion (and there will be more) on the track "Interahamwe". This song is simply based on a first person perspective of the Interahamwe during the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. To us, it's not controversial, especially since the song depicts them accurately as vicious psychopaths. The song also touches on the fact that they were assisted in fleeing the country safely by the United States and France, and were then supported financially and militarily by the United States. Motives and numbers are not touched on. A sidenote, the thousands of machetes used in the genocide were imported from China, but you already knew that. History repeats itself, does it not? The info is documented in Martin Meredith's book "A History of Africa". The saddest thing about this song is you could replace the title these days with "Janjaweed". Maybe soon you will be able to replace that name. We would be happy in 10 or 20 years to say that this song is not current or relevant.

"Halliburton Piggies" is fairly self-explanatory. The reference to "Mrs. Cheney" was inspired by a portion of Ward Churchill's book "A Little Matter of Genocide", where he wrote that Lynne Cheney had refused in particular to speak to any documentary filmmaker who referred to the eradication of Native American's as a "genocide". Would "murder" be sufficient? Who knows.

Well, in a very different context from the song "Stimulus Response", we've decided to "stay the course". Thanks for listening.

I S