the official LP for "Harmageddon 2032" is being pushed back to TBA 2010. the official EP companion for "Harmageddon 2032" will be released December 15th online for free.  it will contain 4 tracks.  4 tracks will not be on the Harmageddon 2032 release. that's all the information i can give you for now.  legally...

though you probably are not seeing a comments section, i am going to say this though you probably won't read it for what little worth of time i have posted into this...

A few more successes so far.

while it's still known to me that it's only about 3 months away from a new release, i will not dictate if it's going to be an LP or an EP at this time.  my plan is set in motion.

seems the fire has been lit once again where it laid itself to rest, barely out, but barely visible enough to know that it still burned.  the flicker from the coals and ashes that remained in the area where i felt smothered in a sense of writers block...

good thing you have to read this blog to actually download!

copy the link and paste it unless it auto-links for you.  download, enjoy 12 mp3s and the lyrics in their entirety.

http://www.arcaneaddiction.com/free/the_occult_stories_for_2012_alpha.zip

gearing up for the omega edition has been hard but worth it so far.  i'm assuming December 1st or 8th at this point, but you'll know by then.

so now it's a quick break from filtering a lot of stuff on my myspace page here.

=== music updates: ===

the Omega Edition of "The Occult: Stories for 2012" should be complete by sometime in late September or early October, and will only be released as a Digital Download, artist-direct too.  none of that middle-man bullshit with iTunes or Amazon MP3 or anything.  and yes, the Omega Edition will sound 50x better than the Alpha Edition which you're hearing online on the player here (select songs).  You will know more about this as the time progresses.  I would in fact have a newsletter mailer, but, i don't honestly know where to start to acquire a free one that isn't convoluted with the utmost of crap to siphon information through.

soon as those few things occur, it'll be decent to actually keep people in tabs via email, which i would prefer rather than logging in a lot all over the place and having to attempt to update via blogs or bulletins.

so... the first release you'll see from this upcoming sessions deal... will replace one of the two songs that has received more than 40,000 plays.  but, that's up for you to find out.  if you keep tabs on it, you'll know.  2 songs only currently carry that weight.  at this point, consider those 2 songs the bigger singles from the album... time will tell, etc.

=== Commentaries: ===

based on some personal reflection over the course of the last 5.5 years as Arcane Addiction became an artform and broke out onto MySpace and started causing nightmares for the weak and gave strength and hope to those who knew what we were in store for in our future... i have decided to disable the viewing of comments on the page.  i literally skimmed through 12 pages of comments, and calculating it up was about 71% advertising other people's works.  now, i approve of promoting.  i honestly do.  but, when i worked on promoting the Alpha Edition release, did I see any payoff really?  no.  it wasn't about money.  it was the fact that even with little advertising, VERY FEW plays ever generated, until about a year and a half afterwards (now) when i realized, most were not from advertising/promoting the work.  when the work was available via iTunes and Amazon MP3 and other various digital distributors, the parent company who assisted in placing the work online had also failed to report many of the sales from iTunes, citing that i needed digital receipts for proof people bought.  i asked the audience widely a half dozen times.  nobody responded.  so, thanks to some of those who i did advertise to to check the work out, i'm out a grip of money, literally.  the few reports were penny clicks.

and because i tried, and the result showed "lack of interest" i decide my comments section will no longer show up on my page, no less, comments will be heavily moderated.  at least be a real person and try not to step on my back because i'm here and supposedly a support pillar for your career launch.  i approve that you are doing your art, no matter how shitty your guitarist might be or how amazing your vocalist and drummer are.  i already know on my own end i'm shitty with melodic vocals.  my voice does death metal better.  so what, right?  well... i cannot approve your comments for one reason anymore.  if you're going to be on my friend/fan list here, please don't just try and advertise and be like "we're stopping by, showing some love, but come check our tunes out, we're amazing!" and such.  i already know you have the talent, even if you're not in the right genre you'd best fit in with.  But i'm not going to read your comment and approve it unless you show me you're human enough to say "i really dig this track!" or "what was the recording process like for that song?"  it's kind of like asking questions, getting personal with the artist, before you fucking spam them.

think of it like being born and never having a real life, and when you finally do, you're extremely overwhelmed by the fact everybody's trying to get you into one group or clique and tell you it's the best thing ever.  and then you go insane with rage and kill people in those groups or cliques mentally and never associate yourself with them as people anymore because you realize how bullshit it was.   that's how it's kind of feeling.  like it's a one-way road, regardless of if i say hi or tell you that you should stay tuned.

maybe, all of this will become a concept story for an album and it would bash every single person on the planet no matter how hidden or public they are.  and all that crap.

=== Conclusion: ===

HORSE the Band - Murder

some of you who do from time to time check into the blog to see what's going on, here's what is going on.  oh and plenty of good back-story too.

so after a long time of experimenting with ideas and not fully developing any of them, as well as including wasting my own time or having my time wasted by others, depends on which way you want to look at it, but most likely myself wasting my own time...

here are some updates!

i've got one song fully recorded instrumentally, an old classic from a previous injection of mountain dew and bull semen.  it was hard to dictate what should be in the sections, if sections should be shortened or extended like a helping hand, or if certain notation should be tweaked with to such a point while playing live that there will once again be no way to remember how the lead solo was played.  we're not talking fast solos like powerglove or dragonforce, or even megadeth.  we're talking a lead with a phaser and delay on it.  almost egyptian-influenced.  maybe more like queen of the damned, since at the time this song and 3 others were recorded with the most off ideas and methods, that movie was in fact on a lot.

it is known as "Failing Alone" and you will eventually get to hear it once i actually can write words to this song and execute it properly.

aside that, recently in the last 72 hours while working on a midi controller mostly that i actually have been trying to sell, i have come up with 2 demo ideas, 1 full song that was a leftover from "The Occult" recording sessions, with vast improvement and extra sectioning added to it to extend it, and already am coming up with a new idea which actually to me, scares me.  i was an 80's child in that i was born in it, but now it's coming to haunt me in the writing process, making it sound like a lot of sequencer stuff you'd hear in most artists' works back in the day plus the typical octave-divided dance groove.  don't fret none however, it's so far only going to be the intro to the song, unless i find a way to maliciously use it in a manner more crude than having 5 dimensions.

some older songs from "The Occult" will also probably surface eventually.  i've kind of gotten my energy back after the soul-suckers of life came along and drained me.

i primarily thought i had lost myself in a creative blizzard where there was nothing for hundreds of miles around me, and i believed it until earlier this summer when a local band had inquired with me about playing bass for them.  within 4 weeks, they showed professionalism and a sense of humor, they have shown great patience, and have been as dedicated to teaching me the parts as much as i have been dedicated to ensuring that i'm not being lazy regarding playing back their work on my part, made of bass guitar and synth bass.

though there is most likely at the moment no official announcement made, which i'm fine with, i can say that this band will go places with their sound and style, and their approach to intelligent craftsmanship of music and realistic approach to the lyrical content.  after hearing it and practicing/playing it, it felt right at home.  this is what i should've been a part of long ago this year.  people who actually have their materials ready to go and ready to learn, and as challenging as it all is, it's totally amazing to my ears.

to check them out, go to http://www.myspace.com/destinationoblivion

i've also been debating on how much i should really get to work on getting "The Occult" re-recorded and releasing it as the Omega Edition, and letting the Alpha Edition just kind of go out there online and fade to black.  the album is half-reality and half-concept, and it hit at home with a lot of things, to me at least, that impacted my life over the last 8 years of telling some of my life stories and offering a perspective on why we are not where we should be today.

aside that, really, i'm 2 full songs into "Harmageddon 2032" and 2 demo ideas are afloat with it as well.  all of it starts based on real audio or MIDI compositions.  i'm finding MIDI as helpful once again as it was when recording "The Occult" and i'm probably going to take it a few steps further and put it to more extensive use.  i won't lace the album entirely with MIDI, but most of the work itself is MIDI related in that it's composed and then later tweaked with appropriately to accomodate the feel of the song or to offset it so that it doesn't sound like a radio-friendly hit (which i don't ever want to see my shit on terrestrial radio ever).  that same ideology was the fuel for "The Occult" but of which it yet spawned a few songs that could be played on the radio if properly edited to be "radio-friendly" in itself.  and those that would know me well by now know that i am not one for censorship and still think the parents of their children under the age of 13 and 18 should be held responsible in what they try to shelter them from.  eventually, since you know, we're in the digital age, they're going to find access to it one way or another.

with such said, it's been a great pleasure to update you with what is going on, and after i get these two projects handled 100%, i'm going to take a small hiatus while dealing with D:O and my obligations to them, and when I'm ready to get back to working on my own materials again, it will intentionally be an instrumental album of sort, focusing primarily on the idea that it should be implemented in a video game or a various amount of video games that would exist on the market or do not exist yet.  my idea for this is because it would give me practice in scoring for tv or film or even itself VG if i ever got an offer to do such, which i'd die to have a chance to do one day while still being active in musical reference.

a list of the burn at the moment, including demo phase* titles and outside work+:

The Promised Land
Death Mutation*
The Alpha*
Breaking The Brigade+
2032*
Failing Alone

Studio Update:

http://twitter.com/arcaneaddiction

a few months have gone by in posting random things... you may be rewarded for paying attention via twitter.  It may contain things meant to be released on myspace or even via facebook for that matter.  who knows.  it might not even be released on my website at the time.  it might be a physical thing.

i say i dare you to follow me on twitter.

come august 2009 (or by it for a lack of other statement), you will see an overhaul on my myspace page here.

after a brief amount of time studying a few things and talking with a few friends of mine, i've come to a conclusion.  it won't be shared here at this moment.

all i will say:

come august 2009, you will see an overhaul on this page.

come august 2009, you will hear new materials that have developed lately.

come august 2009, you will hate me or side with me.

come august 2009... you might wish you were me...

until then, that is all.

i've come quite a bit in depth with ideas, but at the moment, they're to me, not showing any sort of relevance to "now" vs. back about 2 or 3 years ago, it would've been relevant actually.

so with this, i found a few new fun sounds and toys to mess with, and i'm going to develop something that is not going to be pretty or easy to hear.  a lot of this is going to as well stem from really really deep personal matters.  if it offends you, tough luck.  i gotta write, and get a lot more shit off my chest than perceptual concepts of the reality we're living in right now and how we're being fucked with.

as well, the sound... well... if you heard "The Occult: Stories for 2012 [Alpha Edition]" by any given chance (which you will have heard pieces of if you streamed my work on here), the sound is going to depart from the "genre" in a sense of whatever you'd call it, but maintain whatever it is you might want to hear.

well... simply put... don't expect anything grand or miniscule with this project.  i've finally found the calling that needs to be done right now, and how i convey it, well, if you find an appreciation for it, that's awesome.  i'm not expecting you to at this point.

my life is a plague and all that there is to me is sickness that i cannot cure, but i can treat it how i see fit.  this is the perception going into this now, and i plan to abuse the fuck out of it quite honestly, because i'm not really going anywhere at this point.  i'm not going down or up.  so, might as well roil in this cage a bit more, and revisit some shit.

So I've listened to this album back to back a few times and took a few notes.

The current edition released in 2008 that you've heard on here or maybe have bought, is lacking in a lot of areas quality-wise... this to me translates to "could be better mixed".

With that said... anyone who has bought the copy from 2008 will receive the Omega Edition later this year.  I know who has purchased a copy.

The Omega Edition track listing is as follows, and will be available within the next couple months:

01. Domestic Disturbance
02. Shut
03. Atrium
04. The Future We Left Behind
05. Apologue
06. Malice
07. The Death Cradle
08. Immolation
09. Deity
10. The Occult
11. Virgo Rising
12. Desolation
13. The Aftermath
14. My Arid Mistake
15. This Is Forever

13-15 were not on any recording releases, but at one point or another have been heard most likely.

this is just news for you to soak for now.

you will see the massive improvements/results soon.  i will even package the old recordings for free and give you the ability to know what i'm talking about after hearing the remastered product.

To commemorate more than 5 years of Arcane Addiction existing as an underground artist, I will be collecting a few things, putting it together, and packaging it for you to have.

The method however, I will debate upon...  and it will be made available as soon as it is time.

I'll make sure to make links available in the future on the myspace page just so you can see for yourself.

Until then, today is day 1 of studio recording, and it begins as soon as I wake up after I sleep.

it's almost time... and already 2 songs are completed, that's right... not "demo'd" but completed.  strange how gearing up gets you to effectively do things the right way and strange how the results are a much better sounding mix and song entirely than you'd probably have had the first time around.

so, i will plan on keeping you informed via audio blogs about whatever may be necessary at the time, as well as text updates via the news feed at the official website.

Codename Prophecies is prepare for launch...

start telling your friends now, because it's what i ask of you only at this point.  you are not obligated to anything later, but i want you to be obligated to me right now, just, to tell your friends, to come to my music page, check it out, if they like it, they can get the entire album in very high MP3 quality format plus extras, from the paypal button not-so-cleverly built onto the page via Cascading Stress Sheet.

and by next weekend, look for "Never Give", the first song fully mixed for the album, as well as requested by a survey during last month.

godspeed to your future