the latest... February 5 2002!
De Rigueurmortis debuted in the National ARIA chart at #24 one week after it's release. That same week the album debuted at #3 on the Alternative ARIA chart. Speaking on JJJ, Humphrey B. Flaubert predicted that the following week his album would plummet out of the top 40 like a stone. Unfortunately, he was correct.
De Rigueurmortis did however remain on the Alternative chart for a number of weeks, berfore finally dropping out in early December.

The radio-only single If You're Not Famous At Fourteen, You're Finished enjoyed a lengthy stay on JJJ's Net50, debuted at number #34 and making it into the top 20 a few weeks later.

The Current single is Honk If You Love Fred Durst. Click here to read the press release. TISM are fairly sure there will be another single lifted from the album this year, and that a national tour will occur in the coming months.

October 23 2001
Release day is fast approaching! Look for the album in a 2cd cover featuring the "connoisseur's edition" artwork which slips in front of the regular cover, not unlike Machiavelli. The album is packed with secret diatribes from Ron, special guests, and an intermission. With similarities to both Truckin' Songs and Dogma, it's almost like every past TISM album chucked into a blender. Or as Humphrey would have it, "Ibiza, after the yobs have turned up and started fights."

you can go here for the official lyrics to the album.. but unofficially, you'll also hear snippets from Fielding At Long On, Ex Malcolm X, and You're A Long Way From Home, among others..

October 16 2001
More artwork has been revealed on this very site and it's looking very swanky indeed. TISM, in true epic form, have squeezed in extra bits all over their new album, completely defying the revealed tracklist of 14 new songs. They've achieved the "sprawling narrative of [earlier TISM album] Hot Dogma" which Humphrey alluded to some months ago. You can click here to get the band's track by track guide to De RigueurMortis.

If you're at a store trying to order the album, quote TISM007 on Festival Mushroom.

October 2001
De RigueurMortis artwork revealed.. if you haven't seen it yet, click on the news section to see a sneak preview of the album artwork. The Connoisseur's Edition, as is now cemented in stone, includes the 43 minute rock opera as mentioned below.

Also rumours of Ricky Ponting being a future b-side sprung up on the TISM mailing list.. we'll keep you informed.

September 2001
De RigueurMortis features, among other things, a string section, a children's school choir, sampled speech from Britney Spears, and a spoken word peice featuring Derryn Hinch. It's now confirmed that 2 Pot Screama will be the limited bonus disc. the complete tracklisting is as follows:

If You're Not Famous At Fourteen, You're Finished
Five Yards
Ten Points For A Razor Scooter
Thou Shalt Not Britney Spear
Would The Last Person To Leave Please Turn Out The Enlightenment?
Schoolies Week
Come Back DJ, You're Record Is Scratched
Boot Party
Channel Turd
Fatboy Slim Dusty
Honk If You Love Fred Durst
X-Treme Sports Can Kiss My Arse
Fourteen Years In Rowville
BFW

Apparently there's an intermission in there somewhere, too. Some of the other songs recorded include Tennis Dad, You Can't Out Drink Ricky Ponting, and It Ain't No Good Without The Money Shot. Fatboy Slim Dusty was originally known as Techno Is Crap, BFW was Big Fucking Woopie, and Five Yards was You're Only Five Yards From A Fuckwit.

You can read the press release for De RigueurMortis in the articles section.

August 2001
TISM's new album DeRigueurMortis is released on October 29th 2001, on FestivalMushroom Records. TISM signed to the label official on August 16th. There are plans to include a 46minute bonus disc with initial copies. The first single has still not been named, but will be a radio-only release. TISM have revealed their new logo - but claim this is not the album's artwork.

July 2001
TISM have completed 'extra bits' and minor adjustments to the new album. It's now officially 'in the can.' They are also rushing to complete their opus b-side, 2 Pot Screama. TISM hope it will be the most stupidly ambitious b-side in the history of popular music. The band revealed on JJJ that they've done a song for the album called 14 Years In Roville.

June 2001
TISM completed mixing on June 6th, at Sing Sing South (formerly Platinum Studios) with Paul McKercher, who has worked with shitloads of good Aussie rock bands. This will be followed by a week of post production at Sing Sing Richmond, with Spiderbait producer Phil McKellor. Interestingly, TISM have also worked with Henri Grawe, an engineer who does a lot of musical scores, and worked on ABC's Seachange series! He's described the record as "TISM's Sergeant Pepper's" - his pay was docked accordingly. Further tracks have been recorded with John Lindrea, possibly for b-sides etc.

January/February 2001
TISM have decided to hold out for a more established Aussie producer - a lot of whom are keen to work on TISM projects, for some strange reason. Anyway, this means that mixing hasn't taken place yet, but instead the band wrote 8 new songs, two of which are considered good enough to be singles! Seems that TISM have demoed somewhere around 40 songs since wanker.com.. not that we've heard any.

December 2000
Mixing is going to continue into January, probably with some young-new-up-and-coming-next-big-thing-whizz-bang Aussie producer. Yep, that means no album or single yet. "We have of course made dirty rotten liars of ourselves", say TISM, "but maybe we'll look back on this as 'the recession we had to have' or something." Incidentely, TISM concede that they are "quite clearly a pack of cunts." TISM HQ have also revealed that one of the new tracks is being reviewed by legal people, and will most likely not be released, a-la Russia. Humphrey has described the album's sound as "the Venga Boys driving over a cliff", and stated that the band may well toss off a couple of extra new tracks in the new year. Mixing will continue into January with TISM considering a number of producers - maybe they include blokes like Lachlan Magoo and Lawrrence Maddy? We'll let you know.

Nobember 2000
TISM say they are a edging towards a selection for lead single, with lyrics, not music, the current sticking point...

October 2000
The basic recording for TISM's new album was done between August and October 12th, 2000 in Carnegie, Victoria. It has taken TISM 3 attempts to come up with a bunch of songs they feel are good enough to warrant professional recording of. Rough mixing of the current 16 tracks was completed by late October of 2000.

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