Toxic Bears Album Launch

Toxic Bears throw a no-holds-barred party to unveil their new album Nine Meals. With strictly vinyl DJ sets by illustrious guests Two Dee & DNO (Decipher, Resin Dogs, Shin Ki Row). No one pays to get in.

The album was mastered by Jason Livermore (Propaghandi) at The Blasting Room in Colorado. Real review from one listener in Brazil: “Loved you band man, It's way more melodic and chilling than the other bands recommended here, another kind of hardcore sound, it rocks!”

Nine Meals finds the band delving into a world of romance and self-propelled doom, via an unlikely parade of modern tribes: aspirational phone hawkers (“Call Centre”), jail-bound provincial politicians (“Governance 101”), far-right survivalists (“Nine Meals From Anarchy”), New Age cultists (“Million-Dollar Cult”), opportunistic entrepreneurial scientists (“Experimental”), malevolent corporate mascots (“Killer Clown”), unravelling salarymen (“Stolen Shoe Sprawl”) and compulsive DIY landscapers (“Guerrilla Gardener”).

It is the first album to feature lead singer and guitarist Rapido Bear (Mark Limb), who was the band’s videographer on its fabled journey through some of Japan’s smallest and loudest live venues in 2015. Toxic Bears' adventures through underground music scenes in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya and Gifu featured in The Guardian: "No record label, no promotion, no merch, no reason to tour Japan".