TEAM RNS PRESENTS

TITLE: A Snow Capped Romance

LABEL: Roadrunner Records

RIPPER: Team RNS

192kbps - Hard Rock

0hr 38min total- 55.4mb

RELEASE DATE: 2004-03-16

RIP DATE: 2004-01-29

01 At The End Of August           3:58

02 The Heart And The Shape        3:10

05 Skin And Atmosphere            4:12

06 Song For The Fisherman         1:27

07 With Nothing Underneath        3:28

08 Destroy The Map                3:48

09 Installing The Catheter        3:51

10 Cure Eclipse                   3:32

retail w/ final mixes. case in point,

track 3 is mixed different than the

advance.  retails march 16th.

A Snow Capped Romance is a romance with

people, places and situations... a

romance with life itself for 36

Crazyfists' vocalist Brock Lindow. "The

last record (Bitterness The Star - 2002)

had more depressing subject matter. It

was about dwelling on bad relationships

and negative things. As we toured and

played these songs all the time, we

realized that we needed to write more

positive material. There will always be

things that depress everyone, but A

Snow Capped Romance is about getting

past that stuff and focusing on the good

things that have happened in your life,"

Alaskan born and bred, Lindow, Steve

Holt (guitar), Mick Whitney (bass) and

Thomas Noonan (drums) who now reside in

Portland, OR, immediately took to the

road following the release of

Bitterness The Star, touring the US

with the sonically varied likes of

Candiria (who became super '36' fans),

God Forbid, Chimaira, Diecast, Hotwire,

among others and embarked on the

European Road Rage tour with their

labelmates, Killswitch Engage and Five

Pointe O, and got their touring legs

firmly underneath them. After their

hectic tour cycle, the band took time

off to write new material. I started

writing templates for songs and laying

down ideas, says guitarist Steve Holt.

Musically, everything is more focused.

We all had ideas about what we wanted

to accomplish, where we wanted to go and

how we wanted the music to be. A conscious

effort to keep the album clean was in

effect as well. As Lindow explains "It

is much harder to find alternate ways

to express yourself, lyrically. Looking

back on the last record, the cursing

just didn't sound right to me. I tried to

avoid it this time."

Lindow expands on his lyrical

progression, saying, I didn't want to

write about the same things again,

because my life is so different from

when I wrote the Bitterness... record.

The epic Cure Eclipse is one of the

first songs the band wrote during the

'Snow Capped sessions and it set the

right tone. This song set the format for

the entire record, says Lindow. It

helped me get past situations I was in

prior to writing the record. There is even

a lyric that says, 'This year cure me'

and that's an overall theme. That said,

it was the feverish At The End Of

August, that became the earliest public

offering from the band, having been

featured on the MTV2's Headbangers Ball

soundtrack. It's one of my favorite

songs  it's about friendship. It's very

aggressive, and it's a great rock jam,

says Lindow making it perfect for the

compilation. Installing The Catheter is

a really inspirational tune. I talk to

myself when I write," says Lindow.

"The 'you' in the lyrics is 'me.'

Basically, I'm saying, 'Change my life'

rather than continually talking about

anything that keeps me down. While the

lyrical content may veer off into new

directions, Lindow's utterly distinct

vocal style, which falls somewhere between

System Of A Down's Serj Tankian and

Thursday's Geoff Rickly, remains

constant. Consequently, A Snow Capped

Romance is a more mature, focused album

that taps into a vein of emotionally

charged aggression in a signature '36'

fashion. This sophomore effort promises

to thrust the band to the forefront of

the "(scr)emo" / post-hardcore movement.

The right team had to come together to

make such a powerful album. A Snow

Capped Romance was produced by James

Wisner (Dashboard Confessional, Further

Seems Forever). '36' chose Wisner

specifically to achieve some natural

sounds - he is good with harmonies and

worked really well with Brock, says

Holt. The band then switched gears and

chose veteran Andy Sneap, arguably the

most notorious mixer in heavy music,

who has worked with Earth Crisis,

Killswitch Engage and Arch Enemy, among

others. The combination proved perfect

and brought out the best in this unique

Brock, Steve, Mick and Thomas also

assert that the album title is a tribute

to their home state, one most Americans

don't keep in the forefront of their

consciousness due to its physical

distance. The whole record is also

about the love we have for Alaska,

admits Lindow. We want to always remember

where we are from. It's good to be in

love with your surroundings. A Snow

Capped Romance is sure to start many a

fan's love-affair with the music of 36

Crazyfists and fans should know the love

is mutual. "We love touring and getting

out there to meet fans," says Lindow,

"look out for us on the road this time

around. It is going to be great!"