News Archive

8th January 2004	Right well since the last update we’ve been in the studio and recorded, mixed and mastered the EP hence the lack of an update. We also didn’t manage to do any gigs before the end of the year as hoped but it has been worth putting them off to get the CD right. As promised it is both Heavy and Metal and is going to keep the working title of “Kill Everything… Then Kill It Again”. It should be on sale towards the end of Feb The final track listing is as follows (in no particular order, but probably in this one): A Scar to Mark the Day. Cut to Reality Within For the Suffering Body and Blood Welcome to My World We will be doing a lot more gigs in 2004 than we did in 2003 (that shouldn’t be hard – we only did 2 in 2003). We will also be writing some more songs (there are several in the pipeline) as well as putting some new and different covers in the set. We’ll also be keeping you informed on what’s happening.
16 October 2003	Just a quick update: Firstly to say thanks to everyone who came to the Bowl to see us in August. We had a great night despite PA problems throughout the day, which meant that things didn’t go as smoothly as they should have. CD is progressing slowly. Not in the studio yet (still writing) but we now have dates pencilled in at Danny Joyce’s studio for early November. At the moment we are still looking at someone we know in England to do the final mix for us. We may not bother with that if the initial mix we get straight from the studio is good enough. The CD will have 6 tracks. Four are definite at the moment: ‘A Scar to Mark the Day,’ ‘Within,’ ‘For the Suffering’ and ‘Welcome to My World’. We may also include ‘A Simple Plan,’ but we are putting the finishing touches to 2 more songs at the moment, which may end up better. These are called ‘Cut to Reality’, and ‘Body and Blood.’ Looking forward to getting them finished so we can get on and do some more gigs before the end of the year (hopefully at the Lion and Blindo’s).
4th August 2003	Right well the gig will soon be here and you can expect a night of diverse Heavy Metal. We now have confirmation that Jamal Brown (an 8 piece metal outfit from Jersey) and Mechanical Lobster (with their own brand of Industrial Goth Metal) plus a DJ will be supporting us. Other details of the gig are: Discharge Fanzine presents Soundstage 4 “Monsters on the Rock”. Sat 16th August 7.30pm at The Bowl all ages welcome ID on the bar. It will be £4 on the door.
6th July 2003	Just a quick news entry to keep you all up to date on how things are progressing here in Thousand Points of Hateland. We’ve got another gig for you lot. Yes its finally happened it was a close call as to whether the website update or the gig would happen first but the gig just scraped in. We are working together with the Discharge crowd for this one, so the provisional details are: Discharge Fanzine presents Soundstage 4 “Monsters on the Rock”. Sat 16th August 7.30pm at The Bowl all ages welcome. It will be £4 approx. There may be tickets in advance. Bands: Mechanical Lobster (TBC), Jamal Brown (Jsy) (TBC), Thousand Points of Hate Plus DJ So we’ll see you there. We haven’t gigged since March cos we’ve been writing songs with a view to getting a CD out in the next month or two. We’re all getting a bit restless and wanting to play again but we didn’t want to just throw the gear on stage and make a load of noise without proper organisation. It would suck and you lot wouldn’t want to watch us anymore. Eight songs completed so far (with brief descriptions so you know what we’re up to) are: To Mark the Day – heavy, shouty, thrashy thing Within – big plodder with a twist of old skool type metal Waste – slow and heavy followed by faster and heavy A Simple Plan – oooh, a bit of rapping. (Welcome to) My World – the most poppy one so far but still heavy with lots of riffs. For the Suffering – as the title suggests, a happy little toe tapper. Stare down the Demon - think Down, Corrosion of Conformity etc. I guess Worlds to Come – another heavy, dirty bluesy type thing Things are still being tweaked here and there: Simon and Paul are working out vocal parts, Gordie’s writing a couple of guitar solos, Nick’s working out where he can squeeze extra double bass drum beats in and we’re all trying to play louder, tighter and more offensively. We’re going to pick six of the tunes and record them. Don’t know where yet. It’s proving difficult to find a decent studio that can accommodate our particular style of metal. We’ve had an offer from a mate who’s in a fairly big name UK band to mix it, so it should hopefully sound something like we intend it to and will be worth buying. We won’t release it if it doesn’t sound as good as any album you’d buy in your local record shop. Anyway, don’t lose interest and forget about us. Like we said we are aiming to have the CD done and dusted in the next month or two and a better set than before. Keep checking back to the website to keep up to date. Kill everything…then kill it again. 1000 points of hate
9 April 2003	OK First things first. We apologise for our utter laziness in recent months: The website has been sadly neglected but that will change from now on - we promise! Yeah right. Anyway. latest news from the world of Hate: Since the last update you are probably aware that we did the Bowl gig with Thee Jenerators and a good night was had by all. Then another surprise: The Tavern must have had a memory lapse cos they let us play there again for the Vale Earth Fair. That gig was on March 22nd 2003. Check out the Press page for the review of that one (link on the sidebar of this page). Yet again thanks for your support - it was another successful night of utter racket. It was billed as an anti-war thing which was obviously not our idea. We like bombs and other things that explode (as long as they don't explode too near us). Mmmmm....flames. Since that gig we've been getting back into writing. There are six songs finished now, three of which we've played in the live set ('Waste', 'Within' and 'A Simple Plan'). One of the tunes written since the Tavern gig is 'For the suffering', and two others as yet untitled. We'll be picking the best 4 tracks and putting a CD together some time this summer. The CD has a working title of 'Kill Everything....Then Kill it Again' and should be about as subtle as a pube in your rice pudding. We've got a few options for studios/engineers etc. so we'll keep you posted on that. Next job on the list is to sort out the next gig. Anyone with any suggestions of venues/support bands etc. drop us a line via the email link on the 'BAND' page. Right, that's all for now. HEAVY FUCKIN METAL or DIE!!!!
13 October 2002	Okay, we got it confirmed! The Jenerators are taking time outta their busy schedule to get even busier and have agreed to play as loud as they can for us. We're all getting keyed up for what should be another stonking evening and hope to see you all there.
5 October 2002	We've been banned from playing at the Tavern 'cos we were too loud!! However, undaunted, we decided to promote our own gig and metal will continue to be applied on the Island's young and impressionable audience at extreme volume. In keeping with our dedication to bring you the best metal at affordable prices (!!!) we're shelling out our hard earned greenbacks to launch a rock / metal club night at The Bowl on 9th November. The racket will kick off at around 8:oopm. All ages are welcome. There will be two bars so you'll need some ID if you're planning on getting hoovered! Manfromankle will instigate an audio barrage of rock / metal / alternative music action to get you warmed up. First band taking the reins will be suitably heavy, but we don't know who it is yet! We'll let you know when we've finished bullying someone into it. Advance tickets will be on sale shortly (£3 each) from No. 19 and Teleskill Discs, but they'll also be available on the door. Beware though, in some mad hair-brained scheme to try and make a profit, the tickets on the door will be a massive 50p more expensive. This is to help fund the alcohol consumption that will be had after the gig. We're sure this is gonna be a fuckin' good night, and if it goes down well (and doesn't cost us too much) we'll try and make this a much more regular event. Take our advice - get there early to maximise your metal and alcohol intake. Following the gig at the Fermain Tavern on 10th August 2002 Thanks to everyone who came to the Tavern on Saturday and supported our first gig. We've read some comments on Facelift's and Tardis Studio's website (see links page for details) and we're glad you seemed to buzz off it as much as we did. Facelift were great and we've been talking to them about doing something similar in the near future, maybe at the Bowl or another venue. Gav at the Tav will only let us play there on the Vale Earth Fair nights for some reason which means much too long a wait for our liking. So we'll probably have to go somewhere else unless one of you guys knows him well enough to bug him into submission. Just to whet your Metal appetites - wherever we play next it's going to be with a PA that isn't broke (hopefully with Barney driving it again cos he likes it loud) so the sound will be that much clearer and heavier. Anyway, thanks again, please email us using the newly added buttons and suggest venues or whatever else you want. Can't wait to do it again only more so. In case you didn't make it, this is what some people have said: ____________ "I loved the gig, 1000 Points Of Hate were brilliant. Not all the music was my thing - bit too loud for my little ears - but I could appreciate how well played it was, and every now and then I uncovered my ears and got a blast of darn good guitar solo (well accompanied by the air guitar from the lead singer!) Would like to hear you again to broaden my musical horizons." ____________ "At long, long, last . . . A totally professional band in Guernsey, I haven't been into metal for about 13 years now, but I think 'Thousand Points of Hate' have changed all that for me now." ____________ "How refreshing, to see ultra-tight musicians play an absolutely blinding set... I think this'll make ALL bands of ALL genres in Guernsey realise how much more they're gonna have to try to attain this level of professionalism!" ____________ "1000pointsofhate. where do i begin, fantastic sound, nice guitar solos, awesome drumming, really heavy bass and great vocals, that just about covers it, a fab set. i couldnt mosh, i was too taken actually listening to the music, best set i have heard for a long time. sooo heavy" ____________ "good to see some proper heavy metal back at the for front of Guernsey, there have been too many pop punk bands recently" ____________ ". . on the subject of the DH. if 1000points were to ever play there, then i think the place would fall down, or if not the pit would certainly destroy the place. and anyway, u could not fit all the kit inside the place." ____________ "1000 points, my god, fuckin great, sooo heavy, very metal!!!!."