Hi there Im Nate. I was a part of this forum a LONG time ago, glad to see it's still around! I'm probably a little older than most, I'm 38. I was in a punk band from 2003-2005 called Uprising from Detroit. Our biggest claim to "fame" was our split 7 inch with Contravene. I still cant believe that actually happened. Contravene was, hands down, our favorite band collectively. So it was awesome to be able to play with them and later do a record with them. We played with some really cool bands too like Kakistocracy, Schifosi, Witch Hunt, Deadfall, Bread & Water, Born/Dead, Thin The Herd, Phalanx, and a bunch more I cant think of. Locally we would play with Feast or Famine, Random Axe of Terror & I Accuse. We never really found a very big audience. In Detroit the big thing was d-beat and Disclose, and since Uprising took more influence from Mankind?, Anti-Product and Aus-Rotten in our early years and From Ashes Rise, Tragedy, Remains of The Day, etc in our later years - we were more of an outlier in the Detroit scene. We, unfortunately, never got to tour. I was also the host for a punk rock radio show called Adrenaline Radio. We got to interview some really rad people like Ian MacKaye, Ben Axiom, Toby Morse, Pat Thetic and Jason Navarro. I actually still work in radio at a public radio station in Detroit. After the band broke up I started making podcasts for video games and built a nice little career in radio and podcasting. I stopped collecting records as I was moving around post college, but when I finally settled back in Detroit, I broke the records out and my love of punk, hardcore, crust, etc was born-anew! A few months ago I found a box of Uprising stuff at my parents house including several boxes of the "As Long As There's A Profit To Be Made, There's No Telling Where The Killing Will End" EP and the stem tracks from our final 4 song session that was never actually released. So, I started a bandcamp (Uprising) and made the EPs available, and have been working on doing a real mix of our last 4 songs, which I'll eventually post on Bandcamp when I'm happy with them. Anyway, that's a little about me. Thanks for reading what I'm sure is an all too long and self indulgent post.
Hey, welcome back to the forum! I have listened to this split sooo many times! I'm a huge fan of Contravene, one of my favorite band of all times! Feel free to share the links on the forum!
