The date for our CD Release show has been set! We’re playing Saturday March 10th at the Caravan Lounge in San Jose. The show is free so you have cash left over for drinks and buying a copy of our brand new CD. This will also be the debut show for Storming the Skies who will be opening up the night. We look forward to see you all there! Please feel free to share this flyer on all your social networks!

This album is a huge milestone for us as it marks the 10th year of Asyst being in existence. We can’t believe we’ve stuck around this long. We’ve had the pleasure of sharing the stage with a lot of great bay area bands over the years and we look forward to playing with many more. We’re in the process of planning our official CD release show in late January or early February and we will let you know as soon as those details are worked out. We can’t wait to play all of these songs live!

Let us know what you think of the album and don’t forget to “like” us on Facebook and “follow” us on Twitter!

The name of the new album is “Setting Sun“.

Check out the awesome artwork for the cover done by none other than Kiren Bagchee from kirenindigital.com (click for larger size)!

We are really looking forward to getting this album to you. It has been way to long. Don’t forget we are playing tomorrow night at the Pine St Bar & Grill in Livermore. Hope to see you there. Let us know what you think of the album name and artwork!

Pine St. Bar & Grill
875 Rincon Ave
Livermore, CA 94551

With Machuko and Outshined. Show starts at 9pm. Free. 21+

The Caravan Lounge
98 S Almaden Ave
San Jose, CA 95113

The Blue Lagoon
923 Pacific Ave
Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Show is 21+

We’ve been hard at work the past couple of months and wanted to give you a quick update of our progress.

New CD!

Hopefully you have been following along with the photos and updates we’ve posted on our web site, Facebook and Twitter but in case you didn’t know, all of the drum tracks are finished for the new CD and we’re currently working on tracking guitars and bass. Things are coming together nicely and we can’t wait to get it all done so we can share it with you. As of right now things are looking good for an end of year/early 2011 release. We will let you know as soon as we have an official date pinned down. We put together a little sneak preview video for you so head over to our website to check it out:

http://www.asysttheband.com

Update on Vic

We also wanted to give an update on our Bassist Vic regarding his medical progress.  If you read from our last newsletter, Vic had to have emergency surgery on his lower back which left him paralyzed from the waist down and was given a 50/50 chance of ever recovering.  In the four months since,  we’re happy to inform you that Vic has made a remarkable recovery so far in the wake of his medical scare.  He has regained a lot of feeling and strength in his lower abs and legs, and is now able to drive and walks with a cane!  Though he’s not out of the woods yet as far as recovery goes, his progress has been remarkable and he’s optimistic of a full recovery.

What is Old is New

Many people haven’t had a chance to hear our first EP/Album ‘Drifting Down’. We released it all the way back in 2004 and only made a few hundred copies. We’re happy to announce that it is now available on our site to listen to and purchase in digital format for only $5! You can also get ‘Destined to be Damned’ for $5 too! You can listen to the full tracks for both albums right from our site and buy them directly from us thanks to bandcamp.com. You have a choice of a bunch of audio formats from regular old mp3 to high quality uncompressed CD quality audio. In addition to the music we have spruced up the web site a little bit – explore it and let us know what you think. Expect a whole new experience to when the new album comes out!

Share, Share, Share

Please feel free to copy and share our music with your friends and fellow music lovers, that is really the best way to help spread the word on our music. Please forward this email to anyone you think would be interested and send them to our site so they can sign up for email updates too. Check out all the links below too to add us on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace too so we can keep in touch with you there too!

We expect a lot more updates for you over the next few months as the album nears completion and release. We can’t wait to get out and play some shows!

Talk to you soon,

Asyst

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Well it seems like these updates seem to be yearly now, since the last one we sent out was February last year. Sorry about that but we hope you have been able to stay connected with us via Facebook, Myspace or Twitter. That said, we haven’t been sitting idle. We’ve been playing plenty of shows and working on new material and even brought a new player into the fold. Recent times have brought on some challenges as well all of which we’ll cover in this update.

First, we’d like to officially welcome our new guitar player Tim Sankar. We could not have found a better fit for Asyst. He’s a great player, has a great attitude and work ethic and most of all, puts up with the rest of us. If you’ve been able to make it to the last several shows you’ve seen him in action. We put the new album on hold (more on that in a bit) to get him up to speed on our set list and to play some shows together and we are excited to be able to add that extra dimension to our sound.

Second, we wanted to let you know about our bass player Vic. As of late he was having some back issues that were bugging him, but he didn’t let that stop him from giving his all at every show. A few weeks ago the pain got worse until eventually he woke up in the middle of the night without feeling in his legs. He was rushed to Stanford where they told him he had two bulging discs in his spine and needed surgery immediately. Six hours of surgery later, he was in a hospital bed not knowing how much mobility he would have for the rest of his life.

Vic is a fighter though and it was within a day that he started getting feeling back in his legs. His progress has been amazing and after just a few weeks he is already mostly walking on his own. Though we cannot know how difficult all this is for our friend and brother to go through, we know how strong his will is and that will get him to a full recovery. Expect to see him rocking out on stage soon and please send your well wishes his way.

Due to Vic’s present condition we won’t be playing shows for a while and have decided instead to use this opportunity to get our album done. Starting this weekend, we will be locking ourselves away for weekends at a time to get a new CD out for you this year. We can’t believe it’s already been five years since our last CD! You can look forward to hearing a lot of the songs we have been playing over the last couple of years like Middleman, Withdrawn and Pulling Back. There will also be several that you have never heard as we are still finishing up a few new songs. Please be sure to follow us to get updates on the recording as it progresses. We’ll be sure to post photos and maybe some video teasers for ya!

Thanks again for all your support!

Asyst