The Honor System "Demo Tape" Test Press 7" /15 OOP Autograph signed Rise Against

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The Honor System "Demo Tape" 7" Solidarity Recordings (US)

Record is NM, Jacket is EX!

Autographed by Tim McIIarth of Rise Against..  These are the only recordings he played on.

Out of Print!

Test Pressing Limited to /15 copies...  hand numbered 13/15 

Track Listing:

The Honor System is a punk rock band from Chicago, which formed after the breakup of The Broadways.

Formation and demo

The band initially consisted of former Broadways members Dan Hanaway (vocals, guitar) and Rob DePaola (drums), newly joined by Nolan McGuire (guitar) and Tim McIlrath (bass, vocals). Their first release in 1999 was a demo cassette comprising the songs "Fool's Good", "Single File" (the band's only song with main vocals by McIlrath) and "Facelift". This demo was reissued by Solidarity Recordings in 2010 on 7" vinyl record and as a digital download. In 2011, it was released on CD as part of Solidarity's compilation of the band's first few releases, Collection.

Single File and 100% Synthetic

Soon after, Chris Carr replaced McIlrath, who went on to form Rise Against. The band recorded and released their first full-length album Single File on Asian Man Records in 2000, featuring re-recordings of "Fool's Gold" and "Facelift" from the demo tape.

The band's second release, the six-song EP 100% Synthetic, was released on Double Zero Records in May 2001. Later that year, McGuire left and was replaced by Tyler Wiseman, formerly of Tuesday.

Self-titled EP and Rise and Run

After a couple of national tours, the band released a self-titled three-song EP (limited to 1000 copies) featuring the songs "Moving Day", "The Sound of Sinking" and "American Math", and showing a move toward a heavier sound, bolstered by the arrival of Wiseman. This was followed three months later by the band's second full-length recording, Rise and Run, which featured re-recordings of the EP's first 2 tracks.

Hiatus and subsequent releases

Shortly after Rise and Run's release, the band went on hiatus when DePaola left to look after his ailing mother. Not long after, Hanaway and Wiseman formed Whale|Horse with other Chicago-based musicians. An early incarnation of the band recorded some demos, before Carr returned on bass, joined by ex Sweep the Leg Johnny drummer Scott Anna on drums. The new line-up recorded and released a self-produced debut EP, Count the Electric Sheep, in 2006. Whale|Horse no longer appears to be active, but Hanaway and Carr have continued playing together: they formed the band Ratasucia, who released the debut album White Noise Pollution in 2011 and have played concerts.

In August 2008, Solidarity Recordings released Single File on vinyl for the first time, in two colours (limited to 400 and 100). In September, I Hate Punk Rock Records reissued Rise and Run in 3 colours and as a special edition featuring all 3 standard colours and 3 rare presses, limited to 5.

In April 2010, Solidarity Recordings reissued a remastered edition of the band's original 1999 demo tape, on three colours of 7" vinyl and digital download (Amazon MP3 and iTunes). In 2011, Demo Tape was additionally released on CD as part of the compilation Collection, which also contained the long-out-of-print Single File and 100% Synthetic.

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