Yeah, I have spent too much time on this band as well, and will not stop till we get on Ozzfest, and accomplishing the feat of going on international tours. First getting on MTV2 is a start, now the endorsements come rolling in, touring with bigger acts, our next album should be our best material out to date music wise, cant wait till we get the vocal department situated. This past tour taught us a lot of lessons, we should have started a street team in 2001 when our first album came out, that was the key factor that we never took the time to make a budget for. The promoters arent going to promote the show for you as diligent as a dedicated street team would. As a matter a fact, the first thing our label told us (Dan Fitzgerald/Prosthetic) was make a street team, the most important thing you can do. We learned everything the hard way unfortunately and maybe things could have been different if we did all the right things from the start. However, the anti religious artwork and lyrics may have not been the way to go to be the top priority band on Metal Blade Records.
Metal Blade is an independent label, they are going to baby us like Roadrunner, Epic, Warner, or Sony Records. Those are labels we hope to be on in the future when we do sense a strong popularity for our band, but as of now we see minimal promotion towards our records, we provide extra money of our own towards promotional materials, the label only helps you out a little bit and some bands hold their own very well due to their own popularity. How to gain that? mass touring or just paying for extra promotion web banners/front of magazine covers. To think that I got it all figured out right now, nah I dont but I couldnt have said all of this shit last year, so clearly we are still learning this business.
Seems every tour we have learned something new, but I think there is nothing more to learn as far as us setting up our own tours. We have the ample contacts now to secure good money for us with some good promoters. Everyone is anxious to see what the new stuff will sound like vocally, and you will all get to hear that, I assure you the music will include every skill you can think of. And if kids 2 step to that, thats their thing and I personally dont care, as long as someones moving. The riff on We Are All Dying, kids do that stuff to that song. Mosh, Lu Kang kick all you want, just stay the fuck away from my equipment hehe.
- Ok so we are working on a street team, and getting our merchandise selection going.
And Tattooed Sean its ok if you dont like our band anymore, ill still talk extreme metal with ya.