Gary and David spent Sunday creating a darker cover of a Pink Floyd song that was already pretty dark, “Comfortably Numb.”

You can check it out HERE.

Enjoy.

“Comfortably Numb” was featured on the platinum-selling Pink Floyd album, The Wall, released in 1979.

David will be performing this song and several others live with Gary at his next show, so stay tunes for show dates.

Be sure to check Gary’s MySpace page for all kinds of new songs and concert dates.

Brainclaw spent Sunday with Gary Billings, recording a fantastic new song called “So I Surrender.”

It’s a powerful vocal and acoustic guitar song, and really showcases Gary’s voice at the top of its game.

He will most likely have it posted on his MySpace page very soon.

As always, it was a pleasure working again with such a consummate and passionate professional. Remember that Gary’s solo album called Grey Skies,is now available:

Track Listing:
1. At All
2. Stay
3. Reaping the Wreckage of My Past
4. Castles in the Sand
5.Your Life of Uncertainty
6. Hannah’s Lullaby

You can buy CDs or digital downloads from CDBaby HERE. You can also buy the CD from Isotank.com.

For more info, see Gary’s MySpace page.

The album is a departure from Gary’s work in Carfax Abbey, and his voice and guitar playing are at their peak.

This is a pure, unadulterated look into Gary’s complex soul, with no frosting or artifice. Please give it a listen, it will be well worth your time.

Tara and I had a fantastic time reuniting with Gary again in our own Studio Auroviral, where much of the Carfax Abbey back catalogue was written and recorded.

Sunday, Feb 15, 2009

Showtime:
1:30 PM

Where:
Crossroads Coffeehouse

6156 Ridge Avenue
Philadelphia
19128

Free All Ages Show!

Gary Billings and David Giuffre are two of the founding members of Philadelphia’s own CARFAX ABBEY.

They haven’t shared a stage in over eight years, and will be performing songs from Gary’s new album Grey Skies.

David will be playing synthesizer, backing up Gary and his acoustic guitar.

Gary’s new album, Grey Skies is available at the show.

There will be other guest performers at the show as well

Come and see a mellow and exciting stage reunion!

Just an interim update on the new Brainclaw album’s progress…

John Ruszin has been doing an insane job of adding guitar tracks to the completed songs on the new Brainclaw release. We’re nearing completion, and the tracks are sounding amazing.

The great thing about John is that he’s a musician’s guitar player. He can play waht needs to be played, and that is especially crucial on this recording. This is going to be a hard electro-industrial release, and his guitar fits the songs perfectly.

John knows exactly how to play, what to play and has a palette of sounds that integrate perfectly with Brainclaw’s electronics.

So please enjoy this surprise sample from the new album, the song “Matte Black Smile.”

Click HERE for a high resolution .mp3 file of the new song.

We will be gearing up for summer shows with John on board to tour the new release.

Thanks to all of you for your support and patience through the album composition process!

We here at the Brainclaw Enclave are terribly excited to announce an intense new collaboration with an old friend and bandmate:

John Ruszin, guitar virtuoso and head of the Collinwood 13 electro industrial project, has come on board, lending his precise and powerful axe-playing to the new Brainclaw CD, DECEPTOR.

As many Brainclaw fans know, David and John met when Philadelphia industrial rock act Carfax Abbey was created 12 years ago, where they composed a large portion of the music for Carfax’s early and middle years.

The new Brainclaw songs were already moving in a very hard direction, and the addition of John’s guitar tracks on many of the new songs will upgrade the recording with a serious amount of kick-ass.

John has also expressed interest in, and will be joining Brainclaw on tour this summer in support of the new album’s release.

We welcome John’s addition to the team, and look forward to deploying his particular brand of industrial mayhem in our future stage show!

Check out John’s solo work at his Collinwood 13 website.

Also stay tuned for super secret snippets of the nearly finished songs from the upcoming Brainclaw release, on LiveJournal, Facebook, MySpace and right here at the official Brainclaw Website.

The wonderful new album that we produced and recorded for Gary Billings, called Grey Skies, has been released and is now available for purchase and download.

Track Listing:
1. At All
2. Stay
3. Reaping the Wreckage of My Past
4. Castles in the Sand
5.Your Life of Uncertainty
6. Hannah’s Lullaby

You can buy CDs or digital downloads from CDBaby HERE. You can also buy the CD from Isotank.com.

For more info, see Gary’s MySpace page.

The album is a departure from Gary’s work in Carfax Abbey, and his voice and guitar playing are at their peak.

This is a pure, unadulterated look into Gary’s complex soul, with no frosting or artifice. Please give it a listen, it will be well worth your time.

Tara and I had a fantastic time reuniting with Gary again in our own Studio Auroviral, where much of the Carfax Abbey back catalogue was written and recorded.

It was like we never stopped… the same communication and creativity flowed freely again. It was a wonderful experience.

We had such a great time, who knows what the future might bring?

You did it!

You, our fans, did a stand-up job! Brainclaw has won a coveted spot in the Japanese promotional campaign for the new Diehard 4 movie with Bruce Willis!

Our collaborative song with Japanese cyberpunk author Kenji Siratori, called “Regenerator P.I.G.” will appear behind Japanese movie trailers for Diehard 4, starting later this week.

Kenji approached us with some of his spoken-word technopoetry in Japanese, and asked if we would compose a Brainclaw song to go with it, which we did with glee.

You will be able to see the trailer with the Brainclaw song at the Fox Japan website sometime this week.

You can visit Kenji’s MySpace site HERE. You can visit his official website HERE.

Thanks again to everyone who voted!

Domo Arigato Gozaimashita!

Well, it doesn’t get much cooler than this:

Brainclaw’s musical collaboration with Japanese Cyberpunk author Kenji Siratori, called “Regenerator P.I.G.” is up for possible use in the Japanese promotional campaign for the brand-new Diehard 4: Live Free or Die Hard movie!

You can view the trailer with the Brainclaw music HERE.

Brainclaw and Kenji Siratori fans can vote for this song on MySpace by clicking HERE.

You will be prompted to fill out a MySpace email. Do it like this:

In the Subject line put:
contest vote

In the Body of the email put:
http://www.myspace.com/kenjisiratori
Brainclaw & Kenji Siratori

Then hit “send.”

That’s it! Help make Brainclaw famous in Japan!