Sumerian Information Acquires The Exhausting Occasions & Exhausting Drive

Sumerian Information have apparently picked up satirical musical publication The Exhausting Occasions and and its sister web site, satirical online game information outlet Exhausting Drive. A press release was issued by Matt Saincome, CEO/Founding father of each of these ventures, on social media right this moment, December 14th. Saincome said of the acquisition:

“Excellent news! Exhausting Occasions and Exhausting Drive are actually owned by Sumerian Leisure, who need to make animated variations of our headlines, print variations of our magazines (!), and comedian guide collabs with our favourite bands/video games.

Our workforce will stay in place, however be joined by all of Sumerian’s infrastructure to try this stuff. After we launched this factor 10 years in the past we thought solely a small group of our buddies within the punk scene would get pleasure from it. It’s really wild that our content material has been loved by so many individuals, together with individuals who made music or video games which are so essential to us.

So thanks to everybody who has contributed jokes, shared a headline, and even simply took outing of their day to trace down the place I reside and threaten to kill me as a result of we revealed a joke you didn’t like. You’re all equally essential to me and I stay up for persevering with to have interaction on this very regular world of on-line content material for one more 100 years.”

Based by musician/promoter Ash Avildsen, Sumerian Information initially rose to prominence signing bands like The Faceless, Stick To Your Weapons, Born Of Osiris and extra. Since then each the roster of the label and the enterprise ventures of the Sumerian umbrella have diversified, launching the likes of Sumerian Movies & Sumerian Comics, whereas Avildsen has additionally indulged in different associated enterprise ventures as nicely.