what's YOUR band up to?

[Hagard]

The rest of the band are off on holiday with there wives and I'm left looking for an artist to do some art work for the cover of demo, "Dweller on the Threshold"

[troyvod]

a couple more rehearsals before we go in to record our 4th record. i'm the only guitarist this time around so should be a little different.

[Dylan Thomas]

Yeah dude, that's really, really good.  Honestly, I was expecting another super slow generic doom/sludge type thing based on your description, and was pleasantly surprised at how forward thinking and original sounding this material is.  Really, really good....

[liquidsmoke]

We've been gigging every month since December, 3 this month and 2 planned for June. We've only set up one of these shows, all of the rest have been invites. Crazy! Probably taking next month off to record a 3 song ep although if we get an invite we'll probably accept it.

[Danny G]

Finalizing artwork for long-overdue Ocean of Stars EP.

Now to move it to my lady's computer to transfer from RGB to CMYK (my computer has the Time Bandits font but only Photoshop Elements, hers has full Photoshop but the font is $20-30 to put it on her computer).

Hoping the process goes smoothly and I don't have to redesign the whole damn thing on her computer

[Danny G]

Also the Bleu Edmondson Band continues to get more and more musically interesting/challenging.

Hired as bassist back in November, was moved to 2nd guitar in January.

Was already ecstatic about that, finally playing guitar full time *and* making bass player money. Even tho I'm technically the rhythm player I was more than happy with this arrangement.

Now I'm working more with the other guitar player to branch out. Dividing up the solos and doing parts that compliment each other, little Allman Bros type licks etc. The other guy is more than capable of handling himself, but mixing it up adds to the dynamic range of the band as a whole.

Plus, the added benefit of my guitar rig being dialed in for Ocean of Stars and Thunderosa gigs (can't set it up at home to fuck with)

Bring it on! Already feels great to branch out more in this music as a player.

[frobbert]

Yes! We're going into the studio to record shit! 

[everdrone]

this is now the third incarnation of my band...

first incarnation = without warning members quit and left after 1.5 months just when it was time for them to help pay the rent

second incarnation = a few jam sessions and then fizzled out due to jacked up schedules

third incarnation = got a drummer and bassist that say they are committed.  I am stopping renting that room, I need to go in on renting a room with others.  We are looking at a bigger room in a different location.  I have been doing double duty as a the only singer and only guitarist so far; need to get a committed singer really.  WOuld like another professional type heavy rock guitarist.

[mortlock]

this is now the third incarnation of my band...

first incarnation = without warning members quit and left after 1.5 months just when it was time for them to help pay the rent

second incarnation = a few jam sessions and then fizzled out due to jacked up schedules

third incarnation = got a drummer and bassist that say they are committed.  I am stopping renting that room, I need to go in on renting a room with others.  We are looking at a bigger room in a different location.  I have been doing double duty as a the only singer and only guitarist so far; need to get a committed singer really.  WOuld like another professional type heavy rock guitarist.

if you can handle the vocal duties as well as guitar..do it. its one less person to deal with and you are covering the two key front positions..you get the luxury of dictating where the music goes for the most part..

[eyeprod]

Playing monday night as a duo opening for Hedersleben and St. James & the Apostles. Our third member is probably not able to play out any longer due to a weird thing with his wife that I can't quite understand. I could elaborate, but it's late. We've got another gig on friday. It would be much better if he was present for these gigs, but we'll do alright. Short sets, minimal gear, no problem.

[everdrone]

this is now the third incarnation of my band...

first incarnation = without warning members quit and left after 1.5 months just when it was time for them to help pay the rent

second incarnation = a few jam sessions and then fizzled out due to jacked up schedules

third incarnation = got a drummer and bassist that say they are committed.  I am stopping renting that room, I need to go in on renting a room with others.  We are looking at a bigger room in a different location.  I have been doing double duty as a the only singer and only guitarist so far; need to get a committed singer really.  WOuld like another professional type heavy rock guitarist.

if you can handle the vocal duties as well as guitar..do it. its one less person to deal with and you are covering the two key front positions..you get the luxury of dictating where the music goes for the most part..

thanks brutha, this new crop of musicians were all flakes!  good thing I have stopped renting that room at the end of the month.  I need to work on my vocal chops at home, that sounds like a great plan!!!

[Danny G]

Ocean of Stars EP sent to printer today. Should be ready by end of week. Yay! Bout fucking time.

Now we can so some real booking as we have a physical copy of music, like a real band \m/,

[Chest Rockwell]

I don't think I've mentioned my band around here before, but we just finished our record and it's free on Bandcamp right now.

The goal was to really push the band into the fringes of heavy music with absurd tempos, tuning, song length, and an over the top live presentation. I'm expecting that only a fairly small percentage of people are going to actually dig it, but the hope is that the few who might, will like it a lot.

Feel free to give it a listen. It's really pretty goddamned heavy.

https://matriarchdoom.bandcamp.com/releases

NICE! If I was to be horrid I could only say that there are aspects I've heard before, obvz, but that bouncing, lolloping riff makes it. the sound, tone, intent and everything is great! you could fit in on any of the bigger euro fests immediately. great work.

[RacerX]

Yeah.

I also just gave Jake's Matriarch stuff a listen—absolutely monstrous!!

Dense & expansive as a big hit of black hash smoke.

[Danny G]

Boom!

[everdrone]

cool artwork!

Jakes stuff is always killer but that is just some well produced heavy stuff!  I would like to know more about the production on that one, great tunes.

[Jake]

Hey, thanks for the kind words fellas.

The recording itself was done fairly ghetto and came in right at the allotted budget of $0. I mic'ed the drums up the best I could w/ three SM57s going into a shitball '70s Peavey powered PA head into Channel 1 of my cheap-o USB interface. Channel 2 was for a decent condenser mic which was placed on the kick. The bass/vox/guitars were overdubbed over the next month or so in Cubase. My friend Zak was able to pull those tracks into Logic Pro and polish them turds into an actual semi-listenable demo.





*It's worth noting that a great deal of legal Colorado "freedom flower" was combusted at every stage for maximum heavy metal superpowers.

[Lumpy]

Great job. And amazing sound for a low-budget recording.

Can you/do you guys play those songs live?

[everdrone]

cool brutha, sounds great

[everdrone]

so I quit renting that studio last month.  without having to figure out all the last minute flakey logistics of cat herding I am able to work daily harder on my singing and guitar  

I am saving up for an electronic drumset for the apartment, since I miss playing that tho

[nyarlathotep]

Since you already have a set (unless that went away), you might want to look into putting mesh drumheads on it. Really close feel to actual drums, but a little bouncier. It does mean that you'd need triggers and so on to record with it, however, and you'd still need to get electronic cymbals, but it's a lot cheaper than getting the mesh-head triggers. Those fuckers are like $300 each.

We just finished an arduous t-shirt creation process. Since time is short these days, we decided to commission a design, but we still ended up spending a ton of time nitpicking colors and logo layout with the band. I'm not sure we actually saved any time at all in the end.



Album art for our next EP is finished up too:


Haven't much luck getting early coverage of it...  I guess that's fair since it's a pretty short EP and we're not exactly big time.

[Danny G]

Whoah. Nice!

[chlorpromazine]

I'm diggin' that Ocean of Stars and Matriarch stuff. Keep it coming guys.

[Danny G]

Thanks man, good to see you round these parts as well \m/,

[everdrone]

cool art! ya there are some amazing musicians on this forum for sure.  I have the drumset still but I think doing that would be too loud for my quiet apartment, but what a great idea though