anyone heard any updates about the next cobtv? the album is only a little more than a month away and honestly unless there's going to be some HUGEE promo campaign it seems pretty lackluster to me. i'm not the bands manager, i'm not involved in them in any way shape or form but i think i can safely say so far the choices they've been making in terms of promotion haven't been great for the majority.
i get the whole withholding everything until close and releasing it all but honestly these days fans and regular music listeners want to be really close to the band and really appreciate direct contact and lots of info. you can overdo it obviously (my band's cd has been delayed but we gave so much info and kept in contact so much that our buzz actually died a tiny bit except our hardcore fans stick with us no matter what) but what's going on now is really underwhelming.
from things not having real dates, to ideas for info being thrown out and not really coming to fruition, to having heard almost no samples of the album except the single, to no cobtv yet; honestly overall it just seems like if they are going to unleash everything at once or even keep it silent a lot of people out there don't check the bands info constantly and will miss out and the superfans will be too filled with info to really get excited.
this was kinda a joonas post since it had no real info and was just my opinion and such but i just kinda felt like i wanted to say something. by now if there had just been small samples, more cob tv episodes, at least more info every couple of weeks it could suck in more mainstream fans and get more info into the media to give hype and buzz for the album but it seems like it ends up just being cob-super fans freaking the fuck out about nothing and everything else stagnating. not everyone has time to check blabbermouth.net every second so if its going to be a media storm before the album then it will definitely miss a lot of people.
either way i'm still pumped as shit and i can't say my way of doing it is 100% better than theirs with no doubt but it just doesn't make sense and so far a lot of the things leading up to it have really let people down. i have no doubts the album will be great as the band constantly progresses and does what they want making the most organic music to them without a lot of fear of backlash, but whoever is in charge of marketing realllyyy dropped the ball (especially with the importance of this cd's release; with a producer like matt hyde, the single the way it is, all the hype and building up to this point, to end up not getting as much of an explosion in sales and new fans due to withholding info as a form of marketing would be a gigantic shame and i really hope it doesn't affect the band in terms of exponential growth as it seems like it will).
