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Æthereal News and Thoughts

Hej alla-

I'm still working on White Room, which had some really nice surprises that happened while recording it vocally. I pushed out a version of it last night that's a little too jumpy, a little too short and the pieces are a little too fast. That's fucking annoying. But that means that I have successfully demoed every single song on the record and am going to be heading into the mixing and editing stage before producing what will be my very first full-length record ever.

Historically, this is pretty cool. It's been 6 years since I left Dumah. The situation then was weird and I've regretted it consistently since I did it. I always wished I could get that whole thing to do over again, but I never could. Since then I've kicked song ideas around, kicked band names around (Af, which was my name in Dumah, Triumphant Call: a power metal band that never took off, Serpentine--I even have a logo for this one but it never stuck, Fanum--lots o' Werewolf at that time, I think, and there were others), but nothing ever stuck.

Two years ago I began kicking another new concept around: Æthereal. This was a lot more my style and I quickly came up with a concept that I wanted to use as the basis for my writing. At that point the record was to be called "Metamorphisis" and it was about a horrible transformation that a guy went through. Due to some money, school and equipment issues Æthereal never formed as a real band, but the concept continued to swell in me.

I finally made it to Sweden, where metal apparently flows from the ground like oil, and I've been nothing but inspired upon getting my guitar here. I began slowly at first, working on some side projects and other music that I'd had kicking around until the time was right and I began really pumping out the Æthereal material. About a month later, I've demoed 10 songs and I'm in the editing process right now. There will hopefully be final mixes available by the end of next week and a copy in the mail to the good folks at Black Goat Records who will be producing my first full length--a concept record at that.

I've always wanted to produce a concept album but I never thought it would be my first record. Many of the finest albums ever produced, in my opinion, are concept albums. Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Pink Floyd - The Wall, Opeth - Ghost Reveries, Symphony X - V, Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth--the list is expansive and ever-growing and fucking amazing. I hope that people can someday look at Premonitions and see it in the same kind of light.

I'm fucking excited. Finally, after all of this time I've got a piece that's really pulling together and I couldn't be happier. I feel that this material is strong, raw and bold--while having a progressive edge to it that makes it interesting to listen to and helps me express the emotion of the concept. We're coming up on an unequivocal success, even if this record sells 5 copies. I hope it produces more and I hope that I can get picked up by a label that will help me really produce the record that is etched onto the wall here.

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