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Last Updated: 11/7/2009

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Friday, November 06, 2009 

 So to kick off the new bandcamp page I thought I would allow for both "Evil" and "Into Nothing" to be FREE downloads!  You pick the price you want to pay...if you want it free all you will have to do is key in your email so I can have you on that list there and inform you when there is new music available or if you are feeling generous you can name your price, whatever you want, whatever you think the song is worth to you and it goes through paypal or any credit card.  So say you want to download "Into Nothing" but you really want to show support for Shaolin Temple of BooM and you decide to pay....$5 for the song...that $5 goes a long way to paying for more music.  In a way this concept brings music back to being art.  What gives art it's value?  The value in my opinion is determined by how much you want it.  The other benefit of www.shaolintempleofboom.bandcamp.com is that you can CHOOSE what format you want the songs in, you can get it in a higher quality then even itunes as an mp3 or apple lossless or flac...the CHOICE is yours!

Here is the link for "Into Nothing" http://shaolintempleofboom.bandcamp.com/track/into-nothing and "Evil" http://shaolintempleofboom.bandcamp.com/track/evil

Unfortunately, I will never offer any of the new tracks for free (Unless sponsored) as I have to make a living haha! Hey we all gotta make money some how right? BUT I am offering "After the Fall" and "Relentless Fixation" for just 50 cents!  The minumum is 50 cents but you can name the price! Say you really love "After the Fall" and think that song is worth $100 dollars to you.... well.....SHAOLIN TEMPLE OF BOOM will love you for a million years if that were the case but say you wanted to give $100 for "After the Fall" because you know that whatever your pay for will help me create more music....then by all means....DO SO!  But if all you can afford is 50 cents that is fine too!  It's better then getting it free without a sponsor because people who do that are actually hurting Shaolin Temple of BooM's ability to create more music.  Remember SToB is independent, no record label, no management....the only people that care about Shaolin Temple of BooM is YOU GUYS.

Here is the link for "After the Fall" http://shaolintempleofboom.bandcamp.com/track/after-the-fall and here is "Relentless Fixation" http://shaolintempleofboom.bandcamp.com/track/relentless-fixation and of course here is "I would destroy" http://shaolintempleofboom.bandcamp.com/track/i-would-destroy-2

By the way in case you missed it here is the music video for "I would destroy" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GGX0yd6m24

Hope you guys are good!  And a new track should be premiering very soon.

-David

Friday, November 06, 2009 
There is no catch, this is a pure download and at a better quality you can find anywhere else! You can choose what format you want to download the song in AND you CAN CHOOSE HOW MUCH YOU WANT TO PAY! If you want to pay nothing THEN go right ahead and TAKE IT! Just leave your email and the SONG is YOURS! If you want to pay for it! Then decide what you think it's worth and use your paypal or credit card it's a better quality than any download site out there! THE CHOICE IS YOURS! Whatever you decide is good with me! GET YOUR INTO NOTHING HIGH QUALITY DOWNLOAD NOW!
Thursday, November 05, 2009 

Shaolin Temple of BooM | MySpace Video.. The choice is yours as to what you want to pay! Minimum is 50 cents, there are also FREE downloads of VERY HIGH QUALITY MP3s, apple lossless or flac among other formats you can choose from (A random series of events will be uploaded and available through www.shaolintempleofboom.bandcamp.com this SATURDAY! EVIL IS FREE! Just key in your email and it's yours! SO EASY!
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 
Help spread SHAOLIN TEMPLE OF BOOM on Lala if you have an account by all means let your friends on there know about SToB! THANKS

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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 
"A random series of events"
Words and Music by David Alvarez © 2009
(To be released this Saturday)

With heartless discourse we seek our own truth
Of you and me
That lies somewhere between the lines

Somehow you know we don't belong
But I don't care
They try and bring us down to our knees

When you try and let it go into the fire
All the things that they decieve
I don't need
When you try and let it go into the fire
All the things that they decieve
I don't need

A random series of events.

If nothing is what we are meant to be
You and me
And flesh and bone is all that we are

What good are rules if they bring us down
To the ground
There's more to this than we are told

When you try and let it go into the fire
All the things that they decieve
I don't need
When you try and let it go into the fire
All the things that they decieve
I don't need

A random series of events.


Purchase "After the Fall" on Amazon MP3 here!

"After the fall"
Words and Music by David Alvarez © 2009

When you came blazing the night away
You came in the dead of night
Your eyes like the sun
Now you've gone to find us another way
Outside of this cold and pain
Found by no one

Yea I don't know where to begin or how to explain
How the tv talks and the aeroplane
The big empty in our heads and in our hearts

After the fall
There's nothing at all
Their gonna take us for a ride
You can make them or break them all night
After the fall
There's nothing at all
Their gonna take us for a ride
You can make them or break them all night

A thousand days
I walked through this desert plane
Blinded without the rain
Your eyes like the sun

Watch it fall
Taking your breath away
Leading you to the day
All has come undone

Yea Fuck that Shit Motherfucker

I want to tell you something
Knock another brick off the wall

We make the lives we live yea
No explanations after the fall

After the fall
There's nothing at all
After the fall
There's nothing at all
Nothing at all
Nothing at all
Nothing at all

Purchase Relentless Fixation on Amazon MP3 here!

"Relentless Fixation"
Words and Music by David Alvarez © 2009

Wake up to what's going on
A slave to paper without worth
Controlled by this society
Numbers made of you and me
What gives you the right to tell me what to do with my life?
What gives you the right to tell me what to do with my life?

When you wake up by the sun
I'll be lying there
We can find all the lost time
Letting go of yours and mine
No more travelling alone
Everywhere is our home
No reason to live in fear
Nothing will harm you when you're near

One day you and I'll be free
To do what we are meant to be
Society won't hold us down
Chains left broken and unbound
What gives you the right to tell me what to do with my life?
What gives you the right to tell me what to do with my life?

When you wake up by the sun
I'll be lying there
We can find all the lost time
Letting go of yours and mine
No more travelling alone
Everywhere is our home
No reason to live in fear
Nothing will harm you when you're near

When you wake up by the sun
I'll be lying there
We can find all the lost time
Letting go of yours and mine
No more travelling alone
Everywhere is our home
No reason to live in fear
Nothing will harm you when you're near




Wednesday, November 04, 2009 

I am a self taught musician, I taught myself to read and play music on the piano and along the way I picked up some rudimentary theory (or at least theory as I see it on it all) but I like the fact that I was never taught formally of music so I can break the rules in ways most musicians that know theory wouldn't.

The way I like to write music is for the music to contain symbology that reflects the lyrics and in "I would destroy" the lyrics contain water metaphors or being drowned in water as a metaphor to be more precise. In the process of writing the song I wanted to have that underwater murkiness present so in a G minor chord of the piano I added an electronic melody that contains an E flat and in the melody of the vocals I am singing a D flat note. All 3 elements combined create a cluster of notes by 3 seperate elements which in my mind simulates the auditory effect of being underwater (at least in my mind it does) and all this happens during the lyric where I sing "Drown you in their bed of rain" in the first verse.

That's why when Tim and I were discussing the premise for the video I wanted to have underwater scenes but I am glad that Tim added the reverse underwater scene at the end where I go back up for air, in the context of the song and video I thought that was the perfect touch...at any rate you can leave a comment of your thoughts for the song here on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GGX0yd6m24 please leave your thoughts there and not in this blog and while you are there SToB would love you forever if you rate the video as well....it helps promote the video and song and we need all the help from you we can get.

To purchase this song on iTunes click here Shaolin Temple of Boom - I Would Destroy - I Would Destroy on Amazon go here http://www.amazon.com/I-Would-Destroy/dp/B002TSMIL0

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 
Watch why I bash in a TV in this video, please rate and leave a comment here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GGX0yd6m24




Purchase this After the Fall on Amazon for just 89 cents! Here http://www.amazon.com/After-the-Fall/dp/B002UV8MIE and Relentless Fixation can be purchased here http://www.amazon.com/Relentless-Fixation/dp/B002UXM4VS
Tuesday, November 03, 2009 

Shaolin Temple of BooM | MySpace Video..
Download "After the Fall" for just 89 cents simply click that right arrow on the player for the page for each song or just click these links
http:​/​/​www.​amazon.​com/​After-​the-​Fall/​dp/​B002UV8MIE

After the Fall by shaolintempleofboom
I have a Relentless Fixation that you can BUY here for just 89 cents! http:​/​/​www.​amazon.​com/​Relentless-​Fixation/​dp/​B002UXM4VS

Click the down arrow on the right side of the player below to buy it for just 89 cents on AMAZON MP3! HELP SUPPORT INDEPENDENT MUSIC! Shaolin Temple of BooM is completely INDEPENDENT, NO MANAGEMENT, NO LABEL, no nothing just YOU and ME.

Sunday, November 01, 2009 
I have a Relentless Fixation that you can BUY here for just 89 cents! http://www.amazon.com/Relentless-Fixation/dp/B002UXM4VS Click the down arrow on the right side of the player below to buy it for just 89 cents on AMAZON MP3! HELP SUPPORT INDEPENDENT MUSIC! Shaolin Temple of BooM is completely INDEPENDENT, NO MANAGEMENT, NO LABEL, no nothing just YOU and ME. Relentless Fixation by shaolintempleofboom SToB will love you for ever if you repost this bulletin or blog and SPREAD THE FIXATION
Saturday, October 31, 2009 
Perfect tracks for tonight's HALLOWEEN party, I don't know about you but when I listen After the Fall it makes me want get up and dance and destroy everything in the room with a baseball bat! hahaha just kidding But yea if you need something for tonight's party download "After the Fall" for just 89 cents simply click that right arrow on the player for the page for each song or just click these links
http://www.amazon.com/After-the-Fall/dp/B002UV8MIE
After the Fall by shaolintempleofboom
NOW just released today is Relentless Fixation which is more on the melodic side but is just the anti societal discourse every good Halloween party should have as the lyrics deal with FREEDOM. Buy it on Amazon NOW! Click this link to purchase for just 89 cents!
http://www.amazon.com/Relentless-Fixation/dp/B002UXM4VS
Relentless Fixation by shaolintempleofboom Now for all you FiXT heads out there you can buy "After the Fall" on FiXT NOW! http://www.fixtstore.com/product/5922/Shaolin-Temple-of-BooM---After-the-Fall-%28MP3-Single%29 And ENJOY YOUR HALLOWEEN party with a BooM
-Shaolin Temple of BooM

Oh yea and please enjoy the new "I would destroy" video below!