This Friday we will be playing in Goes with Sons of a Wanted Man and Stark to celebrate the Night Mayor of Goes's birthday.
It will also be the 'official debut' of our new bass player Anton. Actually, he already filled in twice in the past but who is counting?

So, yeah, that is happening.

Mini tour of Scotland coming up!

Well, life got in the way for a while but we're back. Again.
In the meantime our sophomore LP 'Machine Nation' was released to rave reviews all around the world!
Well, part of the world anyway.

ECHOES AND DUST wrote:
"This is sludge with a different objective; sludge that is not content with simply battering the listener into submission, or drowning them in tar riffs. The myriad influences, songwriting depth and ear for battered melody speaks to something more."

LORDS OF METAL wrote:
"‘Machine nation’ has turned into an extremely varied album which will sees to it that Starve’s name will become better known. This album supported by Starve’s intense live performances, I can’t see any obstacles along the way."

Aardschok magazine liked it too!

The blog also needed a little change of appearance, so here it is, hope you like it.

Did a big update too - Added a music tab, updated discography, updated past shows, updated videos and changed the link to the store.

Ye olde store was not working anymore so now we are using Bandcamp for orders. It seems to work quite well.

Merry Christmas!

Check out our video for Empty (S)hell'- it's a homage to John Carpenter's 'They Live'!






This post was anti-dated to check if that works. And to see if anyone actually reads this shit apart from Mr Psycho.

That's right motherfuckers, we're back!
We've been busy working on our new record, making babies, working some more, traveling and rehearsing.
At the end of March we will be releasing our sophomore LP 'Machine Nation' through our newly resurrected Wrath of Time Records in collaboration with Badger Records​.

If everything goes according to plan, the LP will be ready on time for our shows with Dune and Trudger​ (flyers below).

Check out the video for the song 'Shady', which will be featured on 'Machine Nation':

Upcoming shows:

Our good friend Mr. Psycho (https://twitter.com/MisterPsycho) complained that we did not update our blog regularly enough. So here is an update.

We have two shows coming up:

15.08.2014 De Onderbroek, Nijmegen w/ Toner Low
03.10.2014 De Vorstin, Hilversum w/ Herder, Oathbreaker and Dresden/Leningrad

Also, one of our new songs is part of a Japanese compilation featuring, among others, the likes of Conan, Acid Deathtrip and Ides of Gemini.
We should hopefully have some copies of the cd and dvd for sale soon, if the postal gods are with us.

Check out the trailer here:

We have a short tour of Scotland and Leeds coming up in two weeks.
br> 12.03.2014 – Temple of Boom, Leeds (UK)
13.03.2014 – 13th Note Café, Glasgow (UK)
14.03.2014 – The Moorings Bar, Aberdeen (UK)
15.03.2014 – Dune Sex Dungeon, Edinburgh ( UK)


We are pretty excited to be going back again, so we will be bringing some new shirts for all you gobshites!

We have three more shows coming up.

01.03.2014 - Innocent, Hengelo w/ Acid Deathtrip, Reproach and a whole lot more
14.03.2014 - The Moorings Bar, Aberdeen
15.03.2014 - Dune Sex Dungeon, Edinburgh

More to follow soon!

In the meantime, listen to this beauty:

We have two shows coming up:

19.12.2013 Wilhelmina Pakhuis, Amsterdam w/ Fire Walk With us / Rob Klerkx & the Secret
28.12.2013 DBs, Utrecht w/ Komatsu / Monuments

First two Dutch gigs with our 'new' drummer Rob!

What is up gangster youths.

It has been a while since our last update, but we have been really busy writing new and re-writing new-ish songs.
Studio time is planned for the end of October, so be prepared to get your groove on.

After that, we will be heading back to the UK and Scotland to have a good time and maybe play some tunes.
First, we will be going down to the VOORHEES gig at Trillians in Newcastle on the 7th of November to receive a lesson in sonic violence. If we can still stand up unassisted after that, we have two gigs:

08.11.2013 – The Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh
09.11.2013 – Temple of Boom, Leeds

See you there.

It has been a while since our last update.

For those who missed it, we have a new drummer.
His name is Rob and right now we are working on 8-10 new songs to record for a new LP.
We will probably head to the studio somewhere in October.

In the meantime, hit us up if you want to book us.

And listen to Quicksand.

We had a great time in the UK. Thanks to everyone who booked our shows, gave us a place to sleep and banged their head to our music.

If you have any pics, videos, reviews, complaints, whatever - get in touch!

In the meantime, listen to some HELMET.

The gods of thunder, wind, rain and polders have been kind to us today, our split 7" with Agathocles arrived!

The 7" features one song by Agathocles, two songs by Starve and is titled 'Hedwige'.
Actually, one of our songs is a cover of SIEGE's 'Starvation'.

Listen to our songs HERE:

http://starve.bandcamp.com/album/hedwige

Download 'em all, share 'em all, bang your head to 'em all.
We will be selling the physical goodies at our show in Arnhem tomorrow.

Our split with Agathocles will probably be released next week! Stay tuned for some tunes.

In other news, it seems like the STARVE England and Scotland tour is taking shape now. These are the dates we have so far:

04.04.13 The Bird's Nest, Deptford (UK)
05.04.13 The Old Rep, Ipswich (UK)
06.04.13 TBC - Need help! (UK)
07.04.13 TBC - Leeds(UK)
10.04.13 Bar Bloc, Glasgow (UK)
11.04.13 The Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh (UK)
12.04.13 The Moorings Bar, Aberdeen (UK)
13.04.13 TBC - Need help! (UK)

We still need some help finding a gig on Saturday the 6th of April (somewhere between Ispwich and Leeds) and on Saturday the 13th of April (somewhere between Aberdeen and Newcastle).
If you can help us out, or know anyone who can help us out, please get in touch through ilovestarve@gmail.com!

Our homeboys in Fire Walk With Us will be releasing their split with Izah next week. They asked us to bring down the house before they play, so that they can dance on the ruins of the venue.

SO COME AND BANG YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE WALL LIKE YOU NEVER DID BEFORE!

In other news, we recorded two earth-shattering songs for our upcoming split with Agathocles. Once mixing and mastering is done we'll post something online. Stay tuned for that.

- JJ

Things may seem a little quiet right now, but we have some things up our sleeve.

First of all, next weekend we will be recording two songs for an upcoming split with Belgian mincecore maniacs Agathocles. One new song, one cover song. More info on that coming soon.

Second, we are heading back to Scotland in April and this time we'll cruise through the rest of the UK too. If you want to book us, please get in touch. We still have some available dates.

Third, we will be playing with Hyperborean doom warriors CONAN and Dresden / Leningrad at the Winston Kingdom in Amsterdam in February.

That is all. Now put on one of these records:

We had a great time at the DUTCH DOOM DAYS. Good food too. Thanks to everyone who showed up early and watched our show. Our next show is at the Manifesto in Hoorn:

http://www.manifesto-hoorn.nl/2012/1011-metal-manifesto/ Come and bang your head against the stage like you never did before.

We have uploaded all three songs off our split with Terzij de Horde to our Bandcamp page, so check it out here:

http://starve.bandcamp.com/album/a-chosen-hollow

You can download these tracks for FREE or you can donate some money to us, whatever you feel like.

Our next show will be at the OCCII in Amsterdamned with Monotonos and Switchblade:

http://occii.org/?wtpage=event&id=1214&wt_month=10&wt_year=2012

That's all for now. We'll probably be recording some new tunes soon, so be ready for that.

- STARVE

Well, it seems miracles still happen. Our split 12" with Terzij de Horde has arrived. Finally.

Check out this pic of the clear or 'crystal meth' vinyl here. Sorry, no blue meth, the cook at the record plant isn't THAT good.

The record release show is Sunday the 16th of September at the ACU in Utrecht with Badger Records labelmates Terzij de Horde and Ortega, and the line-up is completed by the Hyperborean warriors of CONAN.

However, we can understand if you do not want to wait any longer for this gem so you can also pick up a copy at our Incubate festival show earlier that day (at the Little Devil, Tilburg) or... You can order a record directly from us!

Just drop us a line at ilovestarve@gmail.com and we'll sort you out.

- STARVE

Rumour has it that our split with Terzij de Horde will be arriving at the Badger Records field outpost today. Who knows, it might actually be true this time.

To celebrate this we have planned two shows in one day - the 16th of September. The first show will be at the Incubate festival and needless to say we are pretty stoked to be playing there:

After that we will be racing back to Utrecht to make an appearance at CRY ME A BADGER FEST at the ACU:

After the great time we had in Scotland we can only hope that these shows will be as cool...

- STARVE