Damn the Empire

Our 16 track debut album, “with trends like these…”, is finally out now!!!

We are finally playing another show! We are playing at the Arthouse for The Duvtons CD Launch featuring The Duvtons (duh), Damn the Empire (duh, again), Kill The Matador and Common Thread. It’s a couple nights before the Bad Religion shows here in Melbourne so come along and get your punk on to get ready [...]

So the album and all of its artwork is finished (finally), and we have sent it away for pressing.

We have nearly finished our 16 track debut album. The mix is final and will be sent off soon for mastering. Hoping for a release around the end of September. It has heaps of songs on it that haven’t been played at shows yet and of course there will be teaser tracks available in the usual locations once it has been mastered.

It’s been a while sine I updated this. Probably because no one really looks at it We do have some news, however. Damn the Empire are playing another show. This time at the Birmingham Hotel in Fitzroy on Saturday the 23rd of May. The full line up is in a tiny bit of flux, but [...]

For a band that was supposedly going to have to lie low in April while their drummer’s other band (The Omen) toured their awesome new album… we sure are playing a lot of shows!

Our next show will be Thursdsy March 19 at the Espy front bar with Sydney’s Run! Hide! and Melbourne’s Gun Runners, Ammadu and Bradford Bats. We are super excited to be playing with the mighty Gun Runners at last! Add the fact that the show is free entry and I expect everyone to come along. [...]

Not much notice, the night before Propagandhi, and a buncha bands I’ve never heard of… but we are playing a show at the Curtain Hotel in Carlton (29 Lygon St) this friday in support of Breast Cancer.

We are finally playing another show (our second, whoo hoo) on January 18th next year at The Tote.

The news may be slow, but we are working hard on getting together enough songs for a respectable set. At an average of a minute and a half each, that’s gonna take a few songs. It’s going great though, they are coming together quickly and we are looking forward to letting them loose early in [...]