News•May 13, 2013 6:22 PM ET•5,487 views

Arsonists Get All The Girls detail new album

Official press release: Santa Cruz, California's progressive experimental grind beach bums Arsonists Get All the Girls (AGATG) are pleased to announce the release of their fifth full-length album, Listen to the Color. Listen to the Color will be available this summer via Bandcamp.com (a name your price music downloading website). Listen to the Color is a 15-track collection of AGATG resurrecting their thrashy quirky roots. The album was recorded with Zack Ohren (Animosity, All Shall Parish). The album clocks in at approximately 30 minutes and features many guest vocals from Cameron Reed (former vocals/keyboardist AGATG), Rob Smith (Heavy Heavy Low Low/Downstaaiirs), Kevin McCaughey (Ion Dissonance), and Robby Bancroft (Five Characters In Search of an Exit). Vocalist Jared Monette has left the band on good terms to pursue a different career choice. Bassist Greg Howell comments on their vocalist change, "When Jared stepped down it felt natural to bring Remi back into the mix because we knew we wanted to continue with two vocalists to pursue a chaotic album." AGATG welcomed back former vocalist Remi Rodberg, he comments on his return, "It's on! Garin and the boys asked if I wanted to participate in the band again after about four years and I am ready. I am pumped to be back and jamming again and it makes our brother in the sky proud to see us taking this further than we ever thought." Guitarist and founding member Arthur Alvarez has also left AGATG, the band comments on his departure, "Over the past year Arthur and the rest of us weren't seeing eye to eye. Arthur stepping down was the only thing we could all agree on, it was mutual." Despite being a vocalist and guitarist down keyboardist and backing vocalist Sean Richmond complemented Rodberg's vocal style sharing half of all the vocals on the album. Richmond's unique piano interludes and 8-bit keyboard tones possess wacky dynamics bringing a funky Nintendo sound to the album. Richmond comments on the album, "This was a really fun album to write with all the boys. I have always been a big fan of Remi's voice on the first two Arsonists records and I was really stoked to work with him on all the lyrics and vocal patterns for this album." Guitarist Jaeson Bardoni also stepped up and wrote all of the guitar riffs on Listen to the Color. Bardoni comments on the new album, "With the band moral being so high the writing process was easy! Writing with great musicians such as Sean, Garin, Greg, and Remi has been nothing but fun, it was such an awesome process. It's amazing to have our longtime friend Remi back in the game with us adding his own influences and creative dynamics to our music once again. Whether you're a fan of our last few albums or our older music or even none of it at all, there is definitely something for all of you to enjoy on this album!" Drummer and founding member Garin Rosen comments on the band and album, "We might not be a full time touring band anymore, but this is something we love to do—friends writing music together. I strongly believe this album will go down as a classic AGATG record. It will be one of the most intense 30 minutes you will listen to..." Listen to the Color 01. Setting Course For Disaster 02. When I Was Your Age Pluto Was Still A Planet 03. Bottle City 04. MK-ULTRA: Psychotropic Puppets 05. MK-DELTA: Glorified Killers (feat. Cameron Reed former AGATG vocalist) 06. Disease Test The Best 07. Balloon Battle 08. Listen To The color (feat. Robby Bancroft of Five Characters In Search of an Exit) 09. Beast Fist 10. Bardonis Chonies 11. Play The Sheep 12. My Newest Vision (feat. Rob Smith of Heavy Heavy Low Low/Downstariis) 13. Ride The Wave (feat. Garin Rosen of AGATG) 14. Watchers (feat. Kevin McCaughey of Ion Dissonance) 15. Sunny places for shady people

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anonymous 5/13/2013 4:03:21 PM

2008 is stoked

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anonymous 5/13/2013 4:37:56 PM

is this that goofy band that had a giant spider on their album cover? YEAH, UM, NOT STOKED!

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anonymous 5/13/2013 5:06:53 PM

Being As An Ocean doesn't poop.

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anonymous 5/13/2013 5:19:50 PM

***DISCLAIMER*** THIS IS NOT A GRIND BAND. triple fcking fail on that write up. theres no keyboards/synths in grind. this is metalcore with a horse the band ripoff vibe. screamo version 4.0

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iwilladapt 5/13/2013 5:49:38 PM

anonymous1 hour ago is this that goofy band that had a giant spider on their album cover? YEAH, UM, NOT STOKED! No, the band you are thinking of is Dance Club Massacre. Idiot.

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iwilladapt 5/13/2013 5:52:47 PM

anonymous29 minutes ago ***DISCLAIMER*** THIS IS NOT A GRIND BAND. triple fcking fail on that write up. theres no keyboards/synths in grind. this is metalcore with a horse the band ripoff vibe. screamo version 4.0 Calm down, dipshit. By this logic, The Locust were not grind and HORSE the band were a Locust ripoff.

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anonymous 5/13/2013 6:37:07 PM

You're all gays for even arguing over this shit band. Die. Please. fcking lambgoat NEEERERRRRRRDDDDSDSSSSS

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anonymous 5/13/2013 7:08:51 PM

i'm excited for this. rob's song is gonna slay

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iwilladapt 5/13/2013 7:12:11 PM

anonymous31 minutes ago You're all gays for even arguing over this shit band. Die. Please. fcking lambgoat NEEERERRRRRRDDDDSDSSSSS More caps, idiot.

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anonymous 5/13/2013 9:56:07 PM

Guest vocal from people nobody gives a shit about. Is this a good time to make a Tim Lambesis joke?

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anonymous 5/13/2013 10:04:06 PM

"Calm down, dipshit. By this logic, The Locust were not grind and HORSE the band were a Locust ripoff" The Locust were a noisecore band, never grind. Im not sure what the fck you think grind is. Thank god your inevitably clueless. Here let me help you out USA Grind Brutal Truth, Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Phobia, Decrypt, Moistened Disciples, Vomit Spawn, rear c*nt, Insect Warfare, Discordance Axis, Misery Index, Cephlic Carnage The Locust dont suck, but they're not grind.

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anonymous 5/13/2013 10:33:38 PM

Lets all argue about genres some more, that always turns out well

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iwilladapt 5/13/2013 11:35:18 PM

"The Locust were a noisecore band, never grind." and "Thank god your inevitably clueless." are two of the funniest and dumbest statements I've read in a long time. Thank you for that.

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anonymous 5/14/2013 2:42:16 AM

^ keep on telling yourself they're a grind band, because sadly they're not. Maybe if you have no fcking clue as to what grind is, then yeah, they're definately a grind band.

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anonymous 5/14/2013 5:13:51 AM

^ keep masterbating to how much you "know" about grind since you probably are still a virgin

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anonymous 5/14/2013 5:32:07 AM

I'm just going to go ahead and classify all these different genres as 'metal' and make it easy on everybody.

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anonymous 5/14/2013 6:10:33 AM

all u bitches r postin' in a spiderman thread!

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anonymous 5/14/2013 6:28:55 AM

Grind is like the word insubordinate. It means whatever the boss wants. Im the boss. B. Ray Cyrus is grind.

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anonymous 5/14/2013 6:35:09 AM

Blood brothers, number 12 looks like you, dr. Acula, uh... The kinison. Theyre all stoked. Gay scene synth dance music is not grind. Kill yourselves.

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analcest 5/14/2013 6:59:28 AM

My dog gives the best head.

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anonymous 5/14/2013 7:36:01 AM

'iwilladapt' is the only person here other than me with a surplus of brain cells to rub together evidently. Everyone else either doesn't even know the fcking band being talked about having just apparently read a full article on them, or hated them to begin with which leads me to ask, why read the goddamn thing in the first place? AGATG ain't grind enough for you? Then go listen to Nasum and shut up.

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anonymous 5/14/2013 9:01:41 AM

I like turtles

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anonymous 5/14/2013 10:08:52 AM

Bring back Elysia. HeartthRob

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anonymous 5/14/2013 5:28:58 PM

"AGATG ain't grind enough for you?" no, there not grind at all. and yes Id prefer Nasum over 100% of these suck jerk bands that describe themselves into genre's they're clearly not part of.

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anonymous 5/15/2013 5:34:00 AM

The Mars Volta is grind.

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anonymous 5/15/2013 11:38:21 AM

"I strongly believe this album will go down as a classic AGATG record." hahahaha... as if any of their albums are classic. The classic part is that all the smart members left the band.

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anonymous 5/15/2013 11:41:11 AM

"USA Grind Brutal Truth, Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Phobia, Decrypt, Moistened Disciples, Vomit Spawn, rear c*nt, Insect Warfare, Discordance Axis, Misery Index, Cephlic Carnage" ^^^^ and the other bands on that grindcore website I was looking at (poser gay)

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anonymous 5/15/2013 10:45:33 PM

^^ lulz @ "misery index is grind"

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anonymous 5/16/2013 11:15:27 AM

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anonymous 5/20/2013 12:17:33 PM

If you have time to argue about genres on lambgoat, you are doing life wrong. Especially when it comes to grind. Danny Elfman is fcking grind.

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anonymous 5/24/2013 6:04:52 PM

I would really love to know who all these people bashing this band listen to. I found this on a link and didnt even know lambgoat was relevant after 2009

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