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The Ziz return in this bizarre sequel to Joshua S. Porter's sophomore novel Nevada. Several years after a discovery in the Mojave Desert that changed the world, things are better (or worse) than they've ever been. Join a group of subversive rebels, a few gay teenagers who have been kicked out of their homes, some white supremacists and a conflicted sociopath as their paths prepare to cross in a most unusual way.

An Edict of Worms is available now at joshdies.storenvy.com 

we made it back alive and in debt. had our identity stolen and had some moths fly out of our wallets. help us by snatching up a cool poster or making a donation.

we're on tour in Europe right now. things are going really well and we're excited about what Jesus is doing over here.

financially, things are a tad tight and we could use some help paying off expenses and coming home. we've reopened the web store with new items to help scare up some extra change. there are two new shirts and the first ever Showbread remix album.

or, if you like, you can donate funds directly.

REMEMBER, ITEMS ARE IN LIMITED SUPPLY AND NOTHING WILL SHIP UNTIL WE GET HOME IN TWO WEEKS.

we're leaving in a few hours for our first ever tour of europe. check out the dates and come get raw.

YOU CAN NOW PRE-ORDER THE NEW DIES ALBUM AND RECEIVE AN INSTANT DOWNLOAD OF THE ENTIRE RECORD: joshdies.com

showbread singer/songwriter Josh Dies breaks the 4-year silence on his solo career with Scalene, the follow-up to 2007′s Aesthetics Of Violence. It seems the trademark genre-shifting that has marked Dies day-job band Showbread has a spill-over effect into his solo efforts: The second Dies record does not sound like the first.

Dies has traded its Skinny Puppy and KMFDM influences in for a dose of New Order and Depeche Mode. The crunchy, industrial edge that was the centerpiece of the first Dies effort is now a sort of delightfully ugly stain on what seems to be an otherwise poppy, new wave sort of record.

Scalene might not sound quite like heavy machinery breaking, but it does answer an age old question: “What would it sound like if Phil Collins collaborated with Trent Reznor?” You might not have been asking that question, but you’ll still want to hear the answer.

THE NEW ALBUM WILL BE RELEASED DIGITALLY THROUGH iTUNES AND AMAZON MP3 AS WELL AS PHYSICALLY THROUGH JOSHDIES.COM ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18TH.

the first date of the Come&Live! "Arrows Are Deadly" tour is tomorrow at Cornerstone festival. Showbread will be playing wednesday evening at 9 p.m. on the anchor/Come&Live! stage.

from there we'll be traversing the countryside for 6 weeks with The Ember Days, White Collar Sideshow and Ascend The Hill, hitting lots of summer festivals and cities in-between. check the dates. this tour is going to be quite an experience.

stay updated daily via the band's twitter page as well as Garrett, Drew, Patrick and Josh.

WATCH THE NEW SHOWBREAD MUSIC VIDEO FOR "I NEVER LIKED ANYONE AND I'M AFRAID OF PEOPLE" NOW! CLICK HERE.

DOWNLOAD MULTI-TRACK FILES

we'll have more information about where to listen to remixes, release dates and the like as we go. for now, remix away!

We're auctioning some old uniforms and equipment in order to fund our upcoming free tour. check out our ebay page.

or click "support" above to donate!

WATCH THE NEW SHOWBREAD MUSIC VIDEO FOR "YOU'RE LIKE A TAXI" NOW! CLICK HERE.

You can now download Showbread's new album Who Can Know It? completely free of charge at comeandlive.com

If you would like to support the band financially you can purchase the record through Itunes and Amazon mp3 or by purchasing physical copies from Showbread's new online store.

with your help, we created this album with the intent to give it away as a free gift. we believe there is an important message of hope and truth within these songs. do us a favor, offer this free gift to anyone and everyone: tweet, post, blog and email this link to your friends, families and followers: showbread.net/freealbum or use the tiny link: http://tiny.cc/7sacd

Showbread harbors some strange tendencies when it comes to music and art. Hardcore punk, pop, alternative and industrial are only a few of the genres that make up the bizarre amalgamation that is Showbread’s self described “Raw Rock” sound. Stranger still is the way one genre devours another on each new Showbread record, jarring and dividing their fan base every time. On the band’s sixth album Who Can Know It?—which will be released as a free download through Comeandlive.com on November 16th, 2010—Showbread showcases their most grandiose stylistic shift like a badge, and rightfully so, it’s the best the band has ever sounded.

Earlier this year Showbread announced not only their departure from longtime home Tooth And Nail records (one of the largest independent record labels in the world) but also their intentions to partner with non-profit organization Come&Live! and offer their subsequent album and its supporting tour both as gifts; completely free of charge. Who would fund the album? The fans… and quickly; within one week of Showbread’s 90 day fundraiser the band had raised the entire album budget by offering special pre-order gifts to donors. Before the 90 days ended they had raised several times as much. With absolutely no mainstream popularity and no record label Showbread raised more money than most independent record labels can offer a band of their size to record an album. Times have certainly changed. Singer Josh Dies acknowledges the crumbling state of the music industry but insists the Showbread’s new model wasn’t in the same spirit as, say, Radiohead or Trent Reznor.

“Even considering the sorry state the industry is in, the move wasn’t about reinventing the wheel, it was about believing in a message of hope so sincerely that you’d much rather hand it out as a gift than charge someone for it.”

The message in question comes to full flower both sonically and lyrically on Who Can Know It?: the band’s most sincere and developed sounding effort to date. Teaming once again with long-time production collaborators Sylvia Massy (Prince, Tool, Johnny Cash) and Rich Veltrop (Phantom Planet, Slayer) familiar listeners have come to expect the unexpected, but will they expect a record this unexpected?

Those expecting traces of Showbread’s blistering Refused and Nine Inch Nails influences might be more than a little surprised to find the latest change finds the band sounding like a Raw Rock version of The Eagles and R.E.M. If those same listeners can recover from the initial shock they’ll go on to find the most expanded, earnest, heartbreaking and original music of Showbread’s career; piano driven ballads, haunting vocal melodies, simultaneously dark and uplifting lyrics, dense layers of instrumentation and a notable lack of power chords or screaming vocals. It seems that Raw Rock has developed to a completely unexpected full maturity; Raw Rock is all grown up.

Who Can Know It? will be released as a free download on Comeandlive.com and to traditional online media outlets on November 16th, 2010. Showbread will begin their first completely free tour in early 2011.

SHOWBREAD - WHO CAN KNOW IT? COMING 11/16/10
a track listing is now available here.

the new Showbread album coming this winter: "Who Can Know It?"

Issue #1 of The Porter Brothers comic book series "The Black Meat" is on sale now at Joshdies.com

if you hadn't noticed already, Showbread now has an official facebook page.

go do whatever it is you kids do on those social networking sites.