Pitiful Reign Sign to Punishment 18 Records

by **Josh_reign** on Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:33 pm

Taken directly from the press release that has just gone out ...

" Italian label Punishment 18 has announced their latest signing, young, up and coming UK thrashers Pitiful Reign. This announcement comes on the back of Pitiful Reign’s most successful year to date, and after their triumphant appearance at Bloodstock Open Air last year.

In a career that has spanned only 2 short years, founder band members Josh Callis –Smith, (vocals) Tom Small, (drums) Matt Walker, ( bass) and newcomers Nev Britton and Al Pashby (guitars) have gained a large following and a reputation for a great live show of “ beer fuelled thrash metal mayhem.”
They were voted 3rd best UK unsigned live act last year in a poll conducted by Terrorizer magazine.
Other highlights in the past year have been support slots with some of the UK and Europe’s premier bands, including 80s thrash metal icons Onslaught and Xentrix, Germany’s Reckless Tide, Panic Cell and Italy’s Warchild.

Label spokesperson Marita Mirabella said “I first saw Pitiful Reign at the Annihilator fans party at Christmas 2005. Even though Punishment 18 was still in its infancy, I knew then that we wanted to add Pitiful Reign to our roster. They were a revelation.”

Recording of the new album will begin in fall/winter 2007, with a likely release date being the beginning of 2008."

There will be a new interview with PR posted shortly on the British Metal site with lots more details.

Check it out !!

by **Josh_reign** on Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:34 pm

heres the interview

Clicky Clicky

by **Bangover** on Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:38 pm

Congrats, well done =D>

by **Michalik** on Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:41 pm

well done josh

by **Dian Wei** on Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:00 pm

Nice one, sex cancer all round!

by **amok** on Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:50 am

well done lads!

by **Holy Crap! Lions!** on Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:52 am

I'd rather have aids than listed to Pitiful Reign.

by **Holy Crap! Lions!** on Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:52 am

Good work guys, hope it goes well!

by **MartinC** on Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:10 am

Nice one, I always knew Pitiful Reign was destined for great things.

But remember: "With great powers comes great responsibility".

by **thrashduck** on Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:25 am

Good work, you deserve it.

by **MartinC** on Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:26 am

Dare youse to release an album called "Italy is gay".

by **jonny_boy34** on Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:28 am

MartinC wrote:Dare youse to release an album called "Italy is gay".

Yes, DOOOOO WHAT MUST BE DONE! (Imagine that in a retarded Emperor from Episode 3 voice)

Great news chaps, fucking well done indeed! You're better than Queensryche.

by **terrorizer** on Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:51 am

Nice one!

by **lyallthomas** on Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:06 pm

Cool. Make a better album than Evile. Not hard like.......

by **thrash metal maniac** on Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:36 pm

Well done chaps, it's been a while coming, but it's working out nicely!!

I look forward to hearing the album! :rockdevil: