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Studio Update
7/25/2010
Jim Brown came out again this weekend and finished up all of his vocal tracks. The main work he did was on the song "Glory", a roaring football anthem for which he laid down 15 tracks' worth of vocals. Through the rest of the weekend, I finished things up on the song adding another 10 tracks or so of vocals to give it a very large sound. We're rounding the corner for the home stretch but we also added a bit more work for ourselves. We made an executive decision to take the song "Sketches" off of the current CD, opting instead for three shorter songs that would give the CD more overall balance. The three new songs all feature lyrics written by Jim Brown (his first for King's Row) and feature a few more ecclectic styles. "Anchor" is a straight ahead rocker with a Badlands type sound. "Love Denied" is a blues-rock song with King's X style vocals. "Take Me" is a heavier song styled after Sevendust but with very melodic vocals and orchestra type keyboards. Hopefully, the result will be a CD that has a better balance of styles because we were noticing many of the songs were long and progressive. We write songs in many different styles and would rather have our CDs show all of those facets rather than just a few.
As for the future, I'm hard at work on backing vocals and Chris will begin his lead guitar the next time we get together. We're going to try to pick a song each time we get together and finish all of the parts for that one song. That probably puts us on track for Christmas time to be finished, but as long as it's right! We're already discussing cover ideas so a photo shoot will be in the works very soon! I'll let you know when I find out more! - Dale
Studio Update
7/2/2010
It feels like we're in the home stretch! Jim Brown came out last weekend and finished vocals on all but one of the songs. I also threw in a few background vocal parts and I think things are going to thicken up pretty nicely. He's going to come back in a couple of weeks hopefully to finish up the last of his parts. Then it will just be a few keyboard parts and all of the lead guitar! Even though it doesn't sound like much, it will probably be Sept/Oct before we're completely finished (and I think that is an incredibly hopeful estimate).
Studio Update
5/26/2010
Still working on bass and keyboards. Jim recently finished bass on "Choose Your Weapon" and the as-yet-untitled-instrumental and started working on a bass solo that will be featured in "Test of Faith". I've been working on keyboards using a combination of a keyboard and the guitar synthesizer. The hardest part is finding the right sound for everything. As soon as bass and keyboards are done, Chris will start working on lead guitar parts and I will get to work on backing vocals. So, everything is coming along nicely but at the usual King's Row snail's pace.
In other musical ventures, I've personally been pretty enmeshed in listening to new music. I've recently discovered the bands Taking Dawn and Mutiny Within, both of which are heavy bands with a good mixture of aggressive and melodic vocals. I've been enjoying the new Spock's Beard CD whose influence will show up all over future projects. I also recently purchased new live albums from Extreme and Mr. Big both of which are not only excellent but a good blast from the past. All of this has led me to start writing some new music on the side that I'm very excited about but that will all have to happen at another time.
In the mean time, if you're checking out the site (and you're not one of us in the band), sign the guestbook to let us know you've been here!
Dale
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It's been over almost a couple of years since we've had a website but we're back in business! We are hard at work on a new CD, tentatively titled "Unbroken". It features 9 songs and looks to clock in close to 80 minutes. Building on the production and songwriting of "Transition", we hope to make it sound bigger and the songs are definitely more progressive and heavy. It will still be diverse so there will hopefully be something for everyone on it. Currently, we have completed drums, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, and most of the bass and vocals. We're working on keyboards right now and Jim Brown is coming out this week to do a few more vocals. We're working at our usual snail's pace but we're getting there!
Dale
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