Hey
all!
As some of you may have found out by now I do have a private page on Facebook
at THIS location.
There were a few inquiries re: my DVDs, WatchTower and Blotted
Science from Facebookers but since Facebook does not seem to allow
unlimited text in a single posting I thought I’d post the answers here.
The
DVD is coming along great - there will be 3 in total - but the whole
process is very involved, from DVD authoring to video editing, not to
mention having to relearn and rehearse parts. I’ve being rather involved
in audio for the past few decades, but this video stuff is a whole different
ballgame. I’m planning on having 3 clips up (one from each video) soon. There
is no release date as of now because I really have no idea when it'll be ready.
I’m pretty sure I’ll release them one at a time, but they’ll eventually be
available as a set. WatchTower's new CD will likely come out before any
of the DVDs.
Speaking of which, WatchTower is
my main focus right now and has been for the past several months. We are gonna
finish 'Mathematics' (and this time we mean it! ;-)). We have a time
outline of when things should be done, and so far we’re sticking to it. I'd
like to give you guys updates on weekly progress, song titles, musical
direction, etc. but the truth is we've talked about this CD too much already.
It's time to do something about it.
I don’t want to give out a tentative release date but I’ve
been quoted as saying that I refuse to play live again with WatchTower
until we have new material to play. Well, we have one gig scheduled
co-headlining the Keep It True Festival in Germany in April of
2010. So put all that together and that'll give you an indication of
what's up. And we do plan on doing more shows to coincide with the album.
Blotted Science II is something we all want to do but there is no time
table for another album. Alex is on the road with Cannibal Corpse so
writing together isn’t happening as often as it was for ‘Machinations’.
He has just a few weeks off here and there, then he's back on the road again.
When we started writing ‘Machinations’, he had 4, 5 months off, and
that's when we got the majority of the writing done. We have a concept in mind
(this time around we're scoring films for the whole CD) and a few bits and
pieces have been written, but that's it. If there's progress we'll let you
know.
So hang in there with me - I'm working as fast as I can.
Ron