News : The Surrogate come to an end

Sad sad news, but Brisbane-based sludge/metal band The Surrogate have come to an end. The band will be playing 1 final confirmed show, and are hoping to still record their new songs for a small release. You can read all the details in the following comments from the band:

“For those of us who have followed our progress it’s no secret that we’ve had a hard time holding down a firm line-up for more than a year, with various members bailing out to travel the world or simply not working out. When the last line-up fell apart in early 2009, it was just Geno and myself left. Given that we were the dudes that started the band together, we decided that so long as it was us two, The Surrogate would be able to exist as such. However, after taking some time off over the holiday period, and with interstate album recording and having already been planned for 2010, Geno has decided that The Surrogate presents a level of commitment that he is no longer enthused by. As such, our riff machine is gone, and the band is done. No point in beating a dead horse.

BUT, we have at least one more show. We will be playing at Rosies next week on Australia Day Eve with our friends in A Secret Death and Marathon – it will probably be our last show so come along. With any luck we will be able to keep the guys together enough to get the six tracks that we had completed for our album recorded in Brisbane. The plan is to press a few copies of an ‘album’ and play one final proper show to launch this somewhere further down the track in 2010. Better make it to Rosies just in case though.

Massive thanks to everyone that has supported us over the years, you know who you are! Also big props to Niko, Nic and Joel for their efforts in the band, and to Josh and James for picking up the pieces earlier this year, anyone else that we jammed with or anyone else we forgot about… extra big props to Willows, Rosetta, Worms Of The Earth and May for sharing the road/releases with us!

However idle hands never rest, and Geno and myself have a new project going with some mates called Ironhide. Check us out in the top friends if you dig Converge/Misery Signals. Geno’s on guitar, I’m having a scream. I can’t imagine it being the most serious of touring/recording bands, but who knows what the future holds! With any luck I will be drumming out more thunderously epic post-metal tunes with a new bunch of dudes in the not-too-distant future.

Thanks,

Lochlan/The Surrogate
2007-2010”

www.myspace.com/thesurrogateaus