Necktie Suicide
Contents
Members
- Erik Carlson (drums)
- Steven Smedshammer (Guitars,Vocals)
- Andrew Hansen (Bass,Vocals)
- Nathan Pehler(Guitar)
- A.J Anderson (Vocals)
Ex Members
- Jared Norris
- Justin Norris
- Luke Bodighimer
Highlights
- They went out to california to record a 5 song EP. Ryan Sellars recorded and produced it at DML Studios in Escondido, CA under the supervision of Don Lithgow. It was mastered at Rare Form Mastering by Greg Rierson in Minneapolis, MN.
- Played last show at Ralph's with Green Fog Vigilante and Strong Like Bear
- Gearing up to record at Grey Barn Studios in Detroit Lakes
Shows
- Have played with such acts as 36 Crazyfists American Head Charge, Dope, Internal Bleeding, Dog Fashion Disco, Sinai Beach, Into Eternity, Six Feet Under, Premonitions of War, The Brain Chiggers, Vampire Moose, Misery Index, Through the Disipline, Jucifer, Twisted Method, Dead to Fall, 12 tribes,Marytr AD and Fight Paris.
01/27/2006 - All Star Bowl Necktie Suicide Green Fog VIgilante Descry Strong Like Bear War On Earth
02/10/2006 - All Star Bowl Happy Birthday A.J Show Strong Like Bear Necktie Suicide Me and You Crew 5 Star Fracture The Wrong Men Descry
02/24/2006 The Depot Norfolk,NE The Lifeless Design w/ Realitys Flaw, Necktie Suicide
03/02/2006 - Playmakers Pavillion IAC Benefit Show w/ Diversion Scene, Sleeping in Gethsemane, Necktie Suicide, Me and You Crew, and Midnight Suit
03/03/2006 The Hexagon Bar Minneapolis, MN MENENDEZ STRONG LIKE BEAR DEATH TO OUR ENEMIES NECKTIE SUICIDE
03/10/2006 The American Legion Fargp, ND 58102,US Helvete Fest 2 Cephallic Carnage Anal Blast Demoicon Necktie Suicide Green Fog Vigilante Strong Like Bear Descry Viper Strike Vindictus Menendez Unregistered Sex Offender Denied By Christ King Of The Dead
03/17/2006 moorhead, MN 56560,US - 5 nostalia blindlystaringupwards war on earth descry necktie suicide citadel
04/08/2006 The All Star Bowl moorhead, ND 56560,US - TBA Necktie Suicide Me and You Crew Greenhand Descry
04/14/2006 Battle Of The Hamms 4 @ The VFW Fargo Necktie Wins Battle of Hamms
04/16/2006 All Star Bowl moorhead mn Despised Icon Yakuza Necktie Suicide War On Earth
04/20/2006 Ricks Bar fargo, ND Necktie Suicide and Seventh Seal
05/13/2006 The All Star Bowl moorhead, MN 56560,US Dog fashion disco Vampire Mooose tub ring look what i did the jonbenet necktie suicide green fog vigilante
05/19/2006 Memory Lanes Minneapolis, MN Necktie Suicide Menendez Empires
06/05/2006 All Star Bowl moorhead, MN 56560,US - 7 The Mentors Anal Blast Truculence Citadal 5 Star Fracture Wreck Of Nerves
06/23/2006 The Aquarium Fargo, ND Strong Like Bear CD Release Party!!!!! Strong Like Bear Necktie Suicide Descry its a celebration Bitches!!!
06/24/2006 St Joes Pub Rapid City, SD Juicifer (relapse records) Strong Like Bear Necktie Suicide
07/09/2006 All Star Bowl Moorhead, MN 36 Crazyfists Jacknife Autumn Offering Clifton Burn in Silence Arsonists Get all the Girls Trigger Point Necktie Suicide Descry
07/13/2006 All Star Bowl moorhead, MN The Lifeless Design Strong Like Bear Necktie Suicide Descry The Lebowski Suite
07/24/2006 All Star Bowl moorhead, MN Origin(relapse records) Necktie Suicide Citadel Denied By Christ Menendez
07/28/2006 The Aquarium above Dempsy's Fargo, ND The Aquarium above Dempsy's Broken Teeth Necktie Suicide
07/29/2006 All Star Bowl moorhead, 56560,US - 5 Her Seduction, Necktie Suicide 07/30/2006 Station 4 Minneapolis, 55460,US - TBA NYDM MN Chapter Launch Party
08/02/2006 The Nestor Fargo, ND Necktie Suicide
08/09/2006 The Nestor fargo, ND 58102,US - 4 necktie suicide
08/11/2006 All Star Bowl moorhead, MN 56560,US - 7 Look What I Did, Folly, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Human Abstarct, Necktie Suicide, Lucid
08/12/2006 MILLE LACS METAL MADNESS 2.5 Isle, MN SI6KS Cult of the Undead (St. Cloud, MN) Impaler Disfigure Myiasis Necktie Suicide (Fargo, ND) Solace in Ashes Less Than Nothing Jaundice (Duluth, MN) Expyre Sinis
08/15/2006 All Star Bowl moorhead, MN Mankind is Obsolete, Stong Like Bear, Necktie Suicide, Wicked Darling
08/23/2006 The Nestor Fargo, ND necktie suicide
08/26/2006 The Rock Omaha ,NE Omaha Metal Fest 3 20-bands all-day metal celebration festival PART 2 BAND LINEUP TBA
09/03/2006 06:30 PM - Dog Fashion Disco @ All Star Bowl
10/17/2006 08:00 PM - @ All Star Bowl / Micheal Graves (former lead singer of the Misfits)
10/18/2006 08:00 PM - VFW An Airbag Saved My Life, Necktie Suicide,Sleeping In Gethsemane, 5 Star Fracture, War on Earth
11/09/2006 09:00 PM - FM Seen Launch Party@The Nestor
11/12/2006 10:00 PM - The Aquarium w/ Necktie Suicide Swing By Seven A Message of Bullets
12/06/2006 08:00 PM - @VFW w/ Goatwhore and Cattle Decatpitation
12/15/2006 08:00 PM - college night concert/bowling series@ All Star Bowl w/SOP Descry and Nex
12/22/2006 07:00 PM - Rock N Roll Xmas 2006 @ All Star Bowl w/Necktie Suicide, Strong Like Bear, Me and You Crew, Menendez (mpls), Battlefields, Death To Our Enemies (mpls), Dude Bazooka, Too Fast For Frank
12/27/2006 07:30 PM - fargo vfw w/battlefields / necktie suicide / five star fracture / crimes of the conspiracy
01/20/2007 02:00 PM - Winter Carnival @ The Fargo Theater Music, art, and film headlined by P.O.S. and Haley Bonar plus local acts necktie suicide and others
Discography
- "A Marrige of Life and Loss" 2003 Self-released
- "Bearing Witness to the Fall of Rome" 2004 Self-released
External Links
Press
High Plains Reader 8.25.05 Metals a bitch; a stubborn, rigid creature that occasionally reproduces and spawns varying sub sects, but dangles the possibility for creative interpretation above its practitioners like its taunting a gorilla with a banana. Some artists have strong enough calf muscles to make the jump; the rest either say,"To hell with it!" and stay where they are during the duration of their career, or travel even lower downt he slope as if running from the big, bad originality goblin (cough...Slipknot...cough).
The Thing about Necktie Suicide is that they have legs like wallabies. "Bearing Witness to the Fall of Rome"--the bands debut EP--is a five-song operetta of men leaping through the air, and tearing apart an empire when they touch back down. A treatise on war, culture, and misinformation that ties it all together, "Rome" is like attending a dinner with a brain trust and watching the room explode into fisticuffs. Havoc isnt the point; its frustration that can no longer be kept quiet, and vitriol with a doctorate.
Its also wonderfully manic music. Everything comes in layers (the guitars alone on "Apologies Made Without Response" are stacked like skyscrapers), as if someone just relieved themselves all over Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound."
"Rome" cuts, changes, and ducks under the cover of night before you are sure of what you have just seen. Singer A.j Anderson delivers each song with the right amount of brutality as the remaning four members of this metal mob march through other great cuts like "Someone" and "Shotgun Divorce Settlement." Like Poison the Well without a Swedish production team, or Thursday finally becoming too pissed for emo to hold them any longer, Necktie Suicide is why you should never give up on heavy music, even when it seems like heavy music has given up on you.
Fargo Forum If you think a name like Necktie Suicide sounds harsh, listen to the Fargo group’s new EP, “Bearing Witness to the Fall of Rome.†The opener, “Apologies Made without a Response†features more screams than a slaughterhouse, while tracks like “Shiver†and “Blindfold†pound out hooks like a heavy-weight grudge match. The five-song CD isn’t for everyone, but in 25 minutes the quintet crunches out a polished bit of heavy metal. John Lamb Fargo Forum
