Green Carnation has split up

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Fucking gaysuckass.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

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The most recent lineup of Norway's GREEN CARNATION has officially split up. The group's statement on the matter reads as follows:

"Although releasing the amazing concert DVD 'A Night Under The Dam' earlier this year, the band felt drained of energy after the miserable organized USA tour put together by The End Records and their booking agent. The End Records, being one of the main supporters of the band the last years, bringing hope back to GREEN CARNATION's view on the music business, left the band with broken promises, huge debts, theft of license money and a poor organized tour draining the band for energy. The band doesn't blame The End Records for all of its problems, but they made a bad situation worse by first giving the tour a green light when the conditions for the tour were doomed from the beginning and then later withdraw license money, merchandise money, merchandise and not paying the band or its sound engineer, leaving the band in debts. All of which could have been avoided by cancelling the tour before it started. The End Records lost money on the tour as well, so why it wasn't cancelled when the contracts for the tour were offered to the label, is a unanswered question.

"The deal for the tour was that GREEN CARNATION would cover the flights to and from the USA, while the rest of the tour would be covered by The End Records and tour income. But in the end, the band covered the flights, their own fee, the fee of the sound engineer, some of the gas and hotel expenses during the tour, and paid for CDs that were sold during the tour. On top of that The End Records withdrew the license money from the last album, took all the merch money and the CDs to cover their own losses. What The End Records had to gain from sending the band across the world, driving across the continent of America twice, just to come to a town where the local promoter haven't been seen around for the last four months, or arrive at clubs that don't even know you are coming, to clubs where the local promoter put up another show because the booking agent never replied to their booking confirmation so instead they went ahead and booked other tours on the same date.

"In the end, it made the band members avoid live situations, tours and business partners. The band members felt they had little or nothing to give anymore, and I don't blame them. I saw where we were heading and it wasn't where we wanted to be at, so instead of ending up with a mediocre album, we decided to call it quits after the most spectacular release we have produced so far, 'A Night Under the Dam' on DVD.

"[GREEN CARNATION leader] Tchort will continue writing music under the name GREEN CARNATION, but probably will never play live again with the band."

Watch GREEN CARNATION performing "Transparent Me" (taken from the "A Night Under The Dam" DVD:
 
The only chance I had to see Green Carnation live was the very first Metal Camp, and the weather was so bad that they had to turn around and go home.

At least there will still be cds, I guess.
 
Their last few albums sucked, so no big deal.

Better if they did it before they released those shitpiles and then we could remember them as cult classics instead of nickelback wannabes.
 
I was pissed until I saw that Tchort will continue writing songs.
They'll probably end up reforming, just as a recording band with the occasional live show.

I remember Tchort saying that there will be a couple of more chapters to Light Of Day,Day Of Darkness. I hope this won't result in a decline in quality
 
...and the rebuttal:

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The End Records has released a statement to BLABBERMOUTH.NET in response to claims by Norway's GREEN CARNATION that The End "left the band with broken promises, huge debts, theft of license money and a poor organized tour draining the band for energy,"

According to a press release issued yesterday (August 22) by GREEN CARNATION, The End Records — with whom GREEN CARNATION signed a licensing agreement for the North American territory — "made a bad situation worse by first giving the [GREEN CARNATION North American] tour a green light when the conditions for the tour were doomed from the beginning and then later withdraw license money, merchandise money, merchandise and not paying the band or its sound engineer, leaving the band in debts. All of which could have been avoided by cancelling the tour before it started. The End Records lost money on the tour as well, so why it wasn't cancelled when the contracts for the tour were offered to the label, is a unanswered question."

The band added in the press release, "The deal for the tour was that GREEN CARNATION would cover the flights to and from the USA, while the rest of the tour would be covered by The End Records and tour income. But in the end, the band covered the flights, their own fee, the fee of the sound engineer, some of the gas and hotel expenses during the tour, and paid for CDs that were sold during the tour. On top of that The End Records withdrew the license money from the last album, took all the merch money and the CDs to cover their own losses. What The End Records had to gain from sending the band across the world, driving across the continent of America twice, just to come to a town where the local promoter haven't been seen around for the last four months, or arrive at clubs that don't even know you are coming, to clubs where the local promoter put up another show because the booking agent never replied to their booking confirmation so instead they went ahead and booked other tours on the same date."

In a statement issued earlier today, The End Records said, "[We] got [GREEN CARNATION] a van for the tour (drove it 2,500 miles from Salt Lake City to New York), hired a tour manager, rented a backline, pressed them merch for the tour and paid to have their gear flown in from Norway and back — plus gave them cash throughout the tour. The band kept all the money from their shows and merch sales. The End also helped the band get a tour grant from the Norwegian government which covered all their flights and a lot more. Also the licensing fee was paid to him [GREEN CARNATION leader Tchort] five months before the tour ever happened. [We] don't understand why he made such an announcement especially a year and a half after the tour."

Tchort has announced that he will continue writing music under the name GREEN CARNATION but "probably will never play live again with the band."
 
I'm very disappointed about this but at least Tchort will continue to release GC stuff in the future. I saw the band perform in Seattle during that tour in question and they sounded great but only 20-30 people were there. LODDOD, A Blessing in Disguise and Acoustic Verses are all fantastic records.
 
20-30 people showed up for a Green Carnation show?

Is Seattle full of retards or something? What about the Nevermore shows? Oh yeah, there were MORE PEOPLE FROM THE NEVERBOARD THAN SEATTLE at the last show.

Fuckin' hippies.

You can bet your ass that if Avenged Sevenfold played, people would be camping out a week in advance to see those walking poster children for abortion. *Sigh*, there's no accounting for taste, I suppose.