In September 2024, the bands 1st LP, “In Darkness There Is No Choice” was released on Rise Above Records. Containing a photo booklet and also liner notes by Pete Lyons, the record was remastered and cut direct to analogue from the original 1983 stereo masters.
On 1 January 2017, a new track, “Black”, was released exclusively on YouTube. In August 2017, Antisect signed to Rise Above Records and announced the worldwide release date of the LP The Rising of the Lights .
In November 2016, Pete Lyons was the keynote speaker at the 3rd annual Punk Scholars Network Symposium at the University of Northampton.
In April 2016, the band announced the departures of Chris Caps and Laurence Windle and the re-arrival of John Bryson. The new line-up performed a semi secret show in Umea, Sweden in May 2016.
After Lyons’ recovery the second half of 2014 saw the band appear at Ieperfest Hardcore Festival in Belgium and return to Sweden to headline Stockholms Manglet Festival. In November they played their first shows in Russia before returning to the UK to continue recording sessions for the long overdue second…
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The next line-up change came with the announcement of Tim Andrews departure in July 2013. Tim’s farewell appearance was at the Roadburn rock festival in Tilburg , Netherlands, in April 2013. This show marked the debut of a new visual side to the band in the form of politically charged…
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The band’s first US tour followed in May and June 2012 taking in venues on both the west and east coasts including a tumultuous appearance at Austins Chaos in Tejas festival (the organiser of which had played an initial part in the bands reunion). A handful of European dates were…
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In May 2011, after a 24-year hiatus the band announced its reformation and gave details of its first show which was to be at the Puntala-Rock Festival in Finland. The line up was a mixture of previous members including founders Pete Lyons and Pete Boyce alongside Laurence Windle and Tim…
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Tour dates for the UK, Europe and US were announced for late 2011 and spring 2012 and in December 2011 the band returned to the studio to record a new 10-inch single, containing the previously unreleased 1982 track “4 Minutes Past Midnight” and a re-recorded version of 1985’s “Out From…
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The band went through numerous line up changes, and as a three piece of Lyons, Bryson and Paluskiewicz, had recorded most of the material for a second album (provisionally entitled Welcome to the New Dark Ages ), but it was never completed. Darker and heavier than their debut, some tracks…
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