Box the Compass “Run the Easting Down” LP

Here you have the XXV Anniversary pressing of Box the Compass - Run The Easting Down. First numbered pressing of 100.

Box the Compass were a diy melodic hXc punk band from San Francisco active from 1999-2002. The band was Akko, Chris, Jeremy, and Lamar (and sometimes Taka), all transplants to SF from the U.S. East Coast and Tokyo, Japan. Former members of early/mid 90’s punk, metal, and hXc bands, they set out to make heavy and melodic music with heavy lyrical themes.
The band booked and played 200 shows, until August 2002, when TheTiteOne, a 1977 Chevy tour van, burned to the ground. They reunited for one show in May of 2026 with long-time co-conspirators Endzweck at Bush Bash in Tokyo to celebrate the re-release of Run the Easting Down.

In 2022 while restoring/archiving the original Box the Compass - Run the Easting Down 2” tape reels, Jack Shirley of The Atomic Garden uncovered Chris’s missing vocals and the missing track Sample Poetic not included on the original release.