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Greetings you silly Sealers...
First off we'd like to wish everyone a VERY Happy New Year. We hope 2009 will be all you hope it will be!
We have some news to report...
We are sad to announce that Seventh Seal will be parting ways with our lead guitarist Joe Begly. Yes yes...we know. It's not easy news to take. I know bands always say the usual cliche of "we're still on really good terms" but....well...we're still on really good terms. Being in a band this day and age can be a VERY difficult road to follow. You pretty much have to be in a band, be very close to someone in a band, or be related to someone in a band to fully understand this. It's not a job that is easy to turn into a lasting career you can support yourself or your family off of. For those of you that don't know, Joe has been with his beautiful wife Crystal for over 9 years, quite a long time. Joe is focused on building their life together and spending much more time with one another. We love Joe (and Crystal) to death and we are very happy for them. Truer words have never been spoken! :)
With that said we have some other news we would like to announce.
We have decided to take an extended hiatus for at least the rest of 2009. We will be playing the 4 shows we already have booked for the year and that is it. SO if you want to catch this lineup of the band one last time pick one of these shows and check it out. Joe is kind enough to commit to finishing out these shows for us and we owe him many thanks for doing so. That would make the very last show with Joe June 20th at the June Jam Festival in Houston Delaware. Everyone come out and show your support! It won't only be the last show with Joe, but the last Seventh Seal show for quite some time.
Taking a break was a mutual decision the rest of Seventh Seal came to following the news of Joes departure. Some of our newer friends/fans might not know it, but Seventh Seal has been around in some way shape or form for over 8 years! That's a long time to do something with no break. The last couple years have been the most intense of all with many highs and many lows. 2008 pretty much drained us all physically, financially, and emotionally. We did 2 tours, played musical chairs with no less then 4 drummers, faced huge legal problems, spent every penny we had, released a new album nationally, had a huge push on major FM stations, narrowly missed out on no less then 3 HUGE opportunities for the band...it's been a crazy ride! We are all tired and ready to recharge our batteries.
We can ASSURE you we will be back in 2010. We have made many many mistakes over the course of our music careers that we have paid attention to and learned a great deal from. We are all very excited at the idea of relaunching the band with a clean slate and a renewed sense of purpose. We will still be writing heavily, we've set a goal of coming back out with no less then 20 brand new songs ready and recorded. Other then that the rest of Seventh Seal will be spending time relaxing a bit and working on some other fun stuff. Josh will be doing some crazy graphic design work, Nate and Justin, who now live together (hawt!!), will be working on recording and producing bands. They're also working on a new "studio" band that will be releasing new music very soon. And last but not least, Chris, who we didn't even get a chance to introduce (sorry Chris hahaha), will no doubt spend most of 2009 being chased around the school by Mr. Belding and trying to avoid beatings from A.C. Slater.
Oh yes and we ARE looking for a new Lead Guitar player....if you think you have what it takes, then learn at least 3 of our songs COMPLETE with all the lead guitar parts and send us a link to a video of you playing them. We WILL NOT be holding any live auditions for another guitarist. If, from your videos, we can tell you have what it takes to play all of Joes parts, we will then take the next step of getting together and meeting with you. PLEASE DO NOT MESSAGE US ASKING TO AUDITION ANY OTHER WAY!!! :) It's 2009 man, everyone has access to youtube :) We are trying to avoid wasting our time as well as yours. If you aren't available to tour, can't afford to split a monthly van payment and 1/5th of ALL purchases the band makes, sing strong on key backup vocals, and have a ridiculously amazing live rig PLEASE save yourself the time and skip trying out. We don't want to sound negative, we're very much looking forward to finding the next piece of Seventh Seals' puzzle, but we have to set some minimum guidelines to save us all a lot of time.
See you all soon!
Seventh Seal
8:08 PM
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