Early Man - Self Titled EP
1. Fight
2. Death Is The Answer To My Prayers
3. The Undertaker Is Calling You
Released in April of 2005. Recorded in 2004 in one day on donated studio time in NYC. This was originally intended to be a demo for the purpose of getting the band more local shows. The demo quickly sold out at local NYC record stores and the band decided to release it as an EP through a friends label from Baltimore Maryland called Monitor Records. The demo featured the first recording of the song "Death Is The Answer To My Prayers". Mike says a last minute idea while recording the vocals for this demo version of the song gave the song it's identity. Conte says: "The song had no name but I had lyrics written almost as soon as the riffs came out. But late one night in my recording space while I was working on vocals for that song I wondered what it might sound like if I dragged the last line of the song to the very front as an intro, just the vocals. As soon as I heard that idea I knew I had something special".
Early Man - "Closing In"
1. Four Walls
2. War Eagle
3. Death Is The Answer
4. Feeding Frenzy
5. Thrill Of The Kill
6. Like A Goddamn Rat
7. Fistshaker
8. Evil Is
9. Brainsick
10. Contra
11. Raped And Pillaged
Released in October of 2005. After the success of the first demo/EP brought international attention to Early Man the band signed with Matador Records in NYC at the beginning of 2005. The music for "Closing In" was mainly recorded in February of 2005 by Scott Norton at Water Music in New Jersey. Adam's drum parts were laid down in 3 days and Mike spent another 2 weeks on guitars and bass lines. Conte then recorded the vocal tracks himself over the course of the next couple months in the bands practice space in Brooklyn NY. After a short break for a tour with Mastodon in the Spring of 2005 the record was mixed by John Agnello at Workbook studios in Brooklyn. The song "Death Is The Answer" was chosen as a single and the video for the song featuring an Early Man sponsored car in a crash up derby ran extensively on MTV's headbangers ball later in the year. Early Man did a U.S. headlining tour for "Closing In" in February of 2006 alongside Priestess and The Sword. Later tour mates that year would include 3 Inches of Blood and Venom.
Early Man - "Beware The Circling Fin"
1. Sinking The Blade
2. Coiled Like A Snake
3. Beware The Circling Fin
4. Suck Me Dry
Released October 2008. After a 3 year stint with various label and financial issues Mike Conte moved out of NYC and relocated to Los Angeles in early 2008. During 2007 the band had been working on new demo'd songs for the purpose of stirring new label interest since they had parted ways with Matador Records. Prior to separating with Matador the band recorded these songs simply as demos. They were recorded as live drums and 2 guitars, this being the first recording that guitarist Pete Macy was involved with. When the band signed a deal with The End records in 2008 these recordings were used as the basis for a new EP. The guitar tracks were re-recorded months after the original recording and the songs were mixed by Jack Endino in Seattle while Early Man was on tour in the Northwest.
Early Man - "Death Potion"
1. Death Potion2 . Brainwash at Birth
3. Someone Else's Nightmare
4. Nine Riders
5. Fight
6 . Unseen Tormentor
7. Through Chemtrails
8 . The Undertaker Is Calling You
9. Killdrone
10 . I Am the Child of Evil
11. By the Serpents Breath You Seethe
12. Six Mothers of the War God
Released July 2010. Death Potion was actually written and recorded in 2008. After a tour with Iced Earth in the fall of 2008 the band recorded with Jack Endino in Seattle in November. Vocals were recorded in Los Angeles in December and the record was mixed over 10 days in January 2009 prior to a tour with Toxic Holocaust and 3 Inches of Blood. "Death Potion" features new recordings of 2 songs that were on the first EP, "Fight" and "Undertaker".
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