Germany's Red Tape Parade have joined European hardcore label Let It Burn and Fields of Hope Records.

The band explained their formation:

In 2006 i was pretty done with hardcore in a musical sense. More assholes then you can shake a stick at, more clichees that any self respecting punk could take. Punkrock – once a radical form of music that insprired us to escape our own boring lives and to pick up our instruments – now seemed to split up in several ridicolous sub–genres. Macho–jock–metal, self indulgent emo, ironic post–punk hippness and shitty overproduced corporate pop–punk–wolves–in–punk–sheep–clothes.

But then i recieved a package from Revelation Records that contained cds by Sinking Ships, Shook Ones and – most important – End Of A Year. I realized that i still wasn' t done playing loud, distored music filled with anger and post–teenage angst.

The debut album will be recorded and mixed in late March 2008 with Californian based producer Mike Drohman at out–o–space studios in Goettingen, Germany with the help of engineer Tom Spoetter. It is due out July 15, 2008.

At the same time the band will record songs for a split 7 inch with ex–Revelation Records–act End of a Year. The artwork for this 7 inch, which will be released in May 2008 by a yet to be announced label, will be done by no other than Mitch Clem.

You can check out some music on their myspace page.