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Ok so tomorrow I leave for trucking school and I'm gonna be gone for the 6 weeks for training and then another 5 for on the job training. I'll be heading out to Salt Lake for my on the job training. :)
Salt Lake, huh? We ought to get together, give us the details. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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I'm heading that way in six weeks with my instructor, I work for CR England and if you guys wanna meet up I'm down but it'll have to wait till I get done with the school part. I don't know exactly what part I'm going to but I knows its at the CR England central whatever the hell it's called. But like I said as soon as they gimme my truck I'll be ready to hit a few shows.

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I'm heading that way in six weeks with my instructor' date=' I work for CR England and if you guys wanna meet up I'm down but it'll have to wait till I get done with the school part. I don't know exactly what part I'm going to but I knows its at the CR England central whatever the hell it's called. But like I said as soon as they gimme my truck I'll be ready to hit a few shows.[/quote'] I used to deliver copy paper to CR England, it's right by my office. Let us know when the time gets closer, if there aren't any shows, we could at least grab a beer or something. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Hell yea, alright man I'll let you know. I should have internet where I'm going but we will see. Their putting me up at some hotel but you can never tell if these things are any good until you see them in person so I'll see what happens. Either way when I head to Salt Lake I'll have internet at the truck stops so I'll at least be able to talk then.

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I have a "soft" song I just re-recorded for the album. I've always had a good bit of contemplative, mid-to-slow paced material on Black Harvest albums in the past, and I've been imagining this song going either in the middle or near the end of the album. I got it done yesterday and listened to it with the rest of the songs... and fuck me, it doesn't fit. It's one of my best songs and it doesn't have a place with the rest of the music. I used to be able to pull this kind of thing off. It sucks doubly because it's the song that got me talking with the label guy about putting out another album in the first place. I may have to make it a hidden track or something! Eh.

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I have a "soft" song I just re-recorded for the album. I've always had a good bit of contemplative, mid-to-slow paced material on Black Harvest albums in the past, and I've been imagining this song going either in the middle or near the end of the album. I got it done yesterday and listened to it with the rest of the songs... and fuck me, it doesn't fit. It's one of my best songs and it doesn't have a place with the rest of the music. I used to be able to pull this kind of thing off. It sucks doubly because it's the song that got me talking with the label guy about putting out another album in the first place. I may have to make it a hidden track or something! Eh.
You could just release it as a single, I've seen a lot of bands doing that lately.
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You could just release it as a single' date=' I've seen a lot of bands doing that lately.[/quote'] It's a good idea, but I don't think the label will have the money to release a separate single or EP. It's unfortunate because I have some other slower, more "goth" influenced material that would go nicely on a four or five song EP with this track. I'm also still interested in releasing a double-sided cd... I dunno. I imagine I'll end up recording a couple of these songs and putting them on as bonus tracks. I shouldn't complain! I'm pretty excited about getting it put out to begin with. My problem, just a personal thing, is that I like for the album to all be one piece and fit together as an entity. That's why the recording of "Father Alabaster" didn't make it on to the White Light Came Down album back in 2005... it didn't quite fit with the rest of the material. Looking back on it, I may have been a little too OCD about that, but I feel like even the best songs have to make sense in context. This album is overall faster, more complicated and angrier than my last CD; not what I had intended, but nobody ever complained about a metal band getting more aggressive, right?:D
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It's a good idea, but I don't think the label will have the money to release a separate single or EP. It's unfortunate because I have some other slower, more "goth" influenced material that would go nicely on a four or five song EP with this track. I'm also still interested in releasing a double-sided cd... I dunno. I imagine I'll end up recording a couple of these songs and putting them on as bonus tracks. I shouldn't complain! I'm pretty excited about getting it put out to begin with. My problem, just a personal thing, is that I like for the album to all be one piece and fit together as an entity. That's why the recording of "Father Alabaster" didn't make it on to the White Light Came Down album back in 2005... it didn't quite fit with the rest of the material. Looking back on it, I may have been a little too OCD about that, but I feel like even the best songs have to make sense in context. This album is overall faster, more complicated and angrier than my last CD; not what I had intended, but nobody ever complained about a metal band getting more aggressive, right?:D
I haven't heard of anyone complain about that sort of thing and personally I thinks it good but I am the type of person who prefers your death metal vox over the slower "softer" vox. And I honestly love it when one song is able to play right into the next, it makes seem like they artist put more time and effort into the album and plus is sounds fucking amazing, it's like the album is just one song and if the lyrics match it's like telling story through music. It's always nice to see musicians putting as much time and effort into their work.
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