Chris Colohan (Burning Love, Cursed) has posted on his blog explaining the motivation for Left For Dead’s reunion, happening in January at the A389 Recordings Showcase.  Colohan also reveals the cover art for the band’s forthcoming discography, Devoid of Everything, being released via A389 Recordings in time for the show.

This is belated. By now it's been announced and already sold out, but I meant to put my two cents in and my computer died, so... Yes it's true - the Left For Dead show in Baltimore in January is on. I just wanted to explain for my own part, as someone that doesn't love reunion culture, especially seeing it apply to my generation of bands - why we're doing this. My rant about old burnouts  that haven't picked up a guitar since they turned 21 (or 19 up here), got wasted, gave in to the status quo and forgot all about hardcore, rehashing the one good thing they did by accident at 17 on the reunion circuit as if they gave a shit - that's for another day. I'll leave it at this - everything isn't necessary just because it's possible. Buyer, beware. 

On Burning Love tour this summer I saw Dom from A389 Recordings  in Baltimore. He just did a very loving job of the Countdown to Oblivion discography that the world wasn't asking for but that he's been persistent enough to get us to complete for years now. Dom was from up here before he moved down there, our bands used to play together and he was there for it all in real time. He asked me what it would take to do an LFD show for his last A389 bash in Baltimore, and my obvious answer was "John Waters".  

Omens and Portents: Strangely, just the day before in Richmond, the fine young men of Atlanta's Dead In The Dirt convinced me to sing Skin Graft with them (which they do better than we ever did) and doing it I realized that those songs and words are still front and centre in my mind. Negative as they were, these were songs about our very real frustrations and they continue to mean a lot to me. Also, for most of us we're not doing this again, because we haven't stopped yet to begin with. We've lost some friends physically and some mentally, along the way. There's been good and bad times between us all, and right now they're all so much black water under the Skyway Bridge, and we have no good reason not to. It's not for money, or lack of commitments and things going on with our other bands Burning Love and Pick Your Side). We had the chance to do something very redeeming and next-level with this, which is hopefully gonna work out as planned, and to play in good company with a bunch of bands that fed our fire back in the day.  We did this once before in 2004, as a fundraiser for a horror movie Jeff was trying to make (you can still get the LP of this show from Deranged).

It was amazing and surreal having that many people from so far and wide in a tavern off of Highway 5 (truly the middle of nowhere) to see a band that generally played to 30 cross-armed kids in the basement of a church, talked shit on God and the suburbs, threw and broke things, got banned and had to make a hasty exit. The 2004 show was a trip, and we definitely assumed that would be that. I had a run-in at my work with a college guy that told me "Man, I used to go to LFD shows when I was 16", and he was talking about Moe's in 2004. So fuck me, even the reunion show is already retro, never mind 1996.  A389 is doing an Left For Dead discography in connection to this show which was remixed from the original tapes and sounds so much better than any of us even thought possible (we recorded it in the basement of a Hamilton halfway house for $40 in 1996 and it shows). It's called Devoid of Everything. Here's the cover, fresh out of the oven:

Thanks to everyone that wrote about more shows, that's not really in the cards. There could be something else while we're already nailing this coffin shut,  but it won't be a string of shows or a tour. We never played outside Southern Ontario and never Stateside, so this one's for all the kids that never got to see firsthand how bad we sucked, for Dom, and most especially for an old friend that's not with us anymore.