For anyone that wants a complete 10 song set of original fornever holiday songs from the last decade:
-You can find "estrellita" as a free download from Silber Records' White Silber compilation here: http://www.silbermedia.com/downloads
-The 8-song EP ornaments, compiling fornever holiday singles from 2001-2008, is available in mp3 or on CD (check out the store page on this site).

Happy holidays and see you next year! -Josh

10/31/11: New remix of "don't expect you to understand" out today on Industrial Wasteland Volume 2! Download it for free here:
http://www.industrialwasteland.info
Happy Halloween!

10/13/11: All 3 premature burial reissues are now available. All three have been remastered from the original multitrack recordings, including a new 10th anniversary edition of ritual with 3 previously unreleased bonus tracks. Get them on CD now for only $3 each at the Autumnal Release store on kunaki here:
http://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=117102
Or buy them in mp3 from amazon.com
Also, be sure to check out the new premature burial website at www.autumnalrelease.com/prematureburial to hear tracks from the albums and get more info.

10/4/11: 10th anniversary edition of the second (and most popular) album by Josh's former solo side project, premature burial, out today! Ritual has been remastered and sourced from the original multitrack recordings with 3 previously unreleased bonus tracks and is available on CD now at the budget price of $3! Amazon mp3 and clips coming soon. The other two premature burial albums have also been remastered (with the same tracklistings as the 2003 reissues) and are due out as budget reissues next week. Here are the details. Click the cover image or link to order!

http://Kunaki.com/Sales.asp?PID=PX00ZW10LK

1. invocation
2. ac
3. hymn of the damned
4. the witching hour
5. in the shadows
6. sacrifice
7. ceremony
8. rebirth
9. hell is coming
10. remnants
11. monolith

Track 9 is an unreleased track from 2002 originally intended for a compilation, and tracks 10 and 11 are 2003 recordings originally intended for premature burial's abandoned 4th album, nightfall.

9/26/11: Josh has a new short story, "The Dresser", in the newly released Big Book of New Short Horror from Pill Hill Press. Grab it in hardcover or paperback from Barnes and Noble or Amazon or get it digitally in Kindle or Nook format.

8/19/11: ((echo)) is now available from amazon mp3, too. http://www.amazon.com/echo/dp/B005HKV18I

8/16/11: ((echo)) is out now! For a limited time, get the CD version for only $3.99! Links to buy are on the store page or here below the tracklisting.

1. undone
2. plastic is forever
3. stairs
4. hide and seek
5. illusions of grandeur
6. turn into arms
7. something new
8. winding road
9. stalker
10. don't expect you to understand
11. square is a rectangle
12. the point of being pointless

Buy ((echo)):
CD: http://kunaki.com/sales.asp?PID=PX00TR0AGV (or http://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=117102 for multiple CDs)
mp3: http://www.nimbitmusic.com/fornever.1 (amazon mp3 coming soon)

7/22/11: A few questions answered...

Q: What's the word on ((echo))?

A: Well, I finally broke down and got a playstation 3, and the album's suffered. Just kidding. It's still in progress. I was in the studio today and yesterday working on a new track and another that needed a chorus. The initial idea was to release it as 3 or 4 separate EPs over the course of the year (which was set back by a drumming wrist injury at the end of last year...and then all of the work finishing and releasing the Black Wedding album this spring), but then things started cohering, and now it's looking like ((echo)) is going to be released as a full-length album. Still shooting for late summer (September maybe?). Seven songs are finished and mixed, and probably the same amount are in-progress. Some didn't work quite as intended in the studio and are going through a bit of retooling/remixing as sometimes happens. A few others are still being written. Aiming for 10-12 songs for the album (befitting its post-punk vibe) with the "misfits" possibly being released elsewhere.

Q: What are you listening to right now?

A: Haha...I'm a bit of a music junkie. Currently listening to the new Handsome Furs album, the 15 song deluxe version of Zeitgeist by Smashing Pumpkins I picked up on clearance for 49 cents at Best Buy, the last 2 New Order albums, Austra, The Knife, The Sounds, Blood Pressure by The Kills, The Japanese Popstars, Holy Ghost, the newest albums by Glasvegas and Cut Copy, The Joy Formidable, Cold Cave, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, the Editors b-sides/rarities collection that came out earlier this year... Recently dug out some favorites from last year, too, and have been listening to Wolf Parade and The National.

Q: How do you write songs?

A: It varies. Sometimes something will pop into my head while I'm in the shower or driving...a melody, a lyric, whatever...and I'll rush to get it down before it escapes. I often find myself walking around stores bobbing my head or tapping along to my own internal soundtrack. It's usually the translation from my head to the studio that takes all the time/effort...and sometimes botches things up. Other times, I'll sit around jamming on guitar. Sometimes, I write on this old $200 Casio keyboard I got back the 90s. Songs can start with anything from a bass riff to a drum part to a guitar melody to a keyboard melody to a vocal bit and usually sort of snowball from there, often turning into something entirely different by the end once other instruments come into play. Or stop dead if I come back to them and they don't really work or just don't go anywhere (as witnessed by the probably hundreds of little demos and riffs floating around my computer).

So there you have it... -Josh

6/25/11: A preview of the upcoming new CD, an instrumental track called "square is a rectangle", is on the main page of the site and floating around the official youtube channel. Have been in the studio mixing some of the finished tracks over the last week. More info to come... -Josh

5/12/11: Another Black Wedding release this week! "Control (stripped mix)" is featured on the Industrial Wasteland: Volume 1 compilation, out today as a free download. Check it out here:
www.industrialwasteland.info

And back on topic... Since the Black Wedding release, I've been back in the studio going over finished material, in-progress recordings, and demos for the upcoming fornever release(s). More info to come... -Josh

5/10/11: Black Wedding's debut album is out today on CD and in mp3! Black Wedding is a collaboration between fornever's Joshua Heinrich (all instruments and vocals) and music journalist/editor Julie Johnson (lyrics). Get the album here:
CD: http://kunaki.com/Sales.asp?PID=PX00ZG9MIM
mp3: http://www.nimbitmusic.com/blackwedding

Buy multiple Black Wedding and fornever CDs here:
http://Kunaki.com/MSales.asp?PublisherId=117102

Amazon mp3 coming soon...

5/7/11: The debut full-length album from Josh's side project, Black Wedding, is out on CD May 10th, but you can get the mp3 version a few days early exclusively from nimbit:
www.nimbitmusic.com/blackwedding

For more information, check out the official Black Wedding site at www.autumnalrelease.com/blackwedding

5/4/11: Look for the debut full-length album from Josh's side project, Black Wedding, later this month! Work is still underway on the upcoming fornever releases. More info to come... -Josh

3/15/11: The debut EP by Black Wedding, Josh's side project with music journalist/editor Julie Johnson, is out today on Autumnal Release Records! Pick up your copy here:
CD: kunaki.com/Sales.asp?PID=PX00OHRTSQ
mp3: www.nimbitmusic.com/blackwedding

Visit Black Wedding's official site at www.autumnalrelease.com/blackwedding and keep an eye out for their self-titled album later this spring!

2/20/11: Welcome to the new site! Things are still under construction, so look out for loose beams and broken glass.
On the horizon:
-new fornever EP, ((echo)) 1
-new EP and album by side-project Black Wedding

Also be sure to check out Josh's new short story, "The Basement", in the Winter 2011 print edition of Golden Visions magazine (out now).