Storm Under Control - Crimson Fields EP LAUNCHED TODAY

epictring

Hey everyone, here is my bands EP, it has finally been released to the public today

It will be available on iTunes and all those places as well as a nice physical copy (pm me if you want).

Please share your honest thoughts and opinions, positive compliments are also welcomed Wink

Our vocalist (Eden) is 17, I'm 17 as well, the drummer (Carl) is 20something and the bassist (Dylan) is 14
This album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Ashley from Loudmouth Studios (http://www.loudmouthstudios.co.za) and I think has helped every member in the band grow musically further than ever.

Just don't judge the "Puppet Strings" track, it's very old and something of the past :?

Storm Under Control - CRIMSON FIELDS

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21Fretter

Congrats, you must be proud of yourselves. How long have you guys been together?

P.S. Will give the album a stream now while doing some work.

epictring

21Fretter wrote: Congrats, you must be proud of yourselves. How long have you guys been together?

P.S. Will give the album a stream now while doing some work.

Thanks man
We've been together for about a year and a half now.. Not long I know but we had some funds from a few shows and decided to go full on with this release.

Let me know what you think ?

Warren

Sounds pretty good to me! I like the vocals rather a lot, and the playing is all pretty tight. ? You guys should be very proud!

PeachyDragon

Hmmm, good in general. Do you remember a Pretoria band called Little Oblivion? Your
vocalist sounds very similar. Your vocalist has a bit more oomf.

The cover art is gorgeous. Who did that?

Some minor advice: You have a vocalist who can sing without offending people's ears, great,
now all you need to make sure of is that your show live is about more than the music(provided
you sound almost like the recording live). I obviously haven't seen you guys, but make sure
your show top notch and you could do some cool stuff, probably once you
turn 18 if you get the right breaks etc.

Remember, it's a business (if you want to do it for more than the sheer pleasure of playing open mic night).
A business plan really helps for a band. ? Look at Not My Dog... they made some waves here, but they also
played the viper room in L.A. without being known there.

On that note, to make the choruses stand out a tad more, have you considered adding some vocal
harmonies and such in those areas? Or even guitar harmonies? Or even... synth. ? Okay, maybe not
synth. But just distinguish the choruses a bit? That's just my 10 cents. use it, don't use it.

epictring

PeachyDragon wrote: Hmmm, good in general. Do you remember a Pretoria band called Little Oblivion? Your
vocalist sounds very similar. Your vocalist has a bit more oomf.

The cover art is gorgeous. Who did that?

Some minor advice: You have a vocalist who can sing without offending people's ears, great,
now all you need to make sure of is that your show live is about more than the music(provided
you sound almost like the recording live). I obviously haven't seen you guys, but make sure
your show top notch and you could do some cool stuff, probably once you
turn 18 if you get the right breaks etc.

Remember, it's a business (if you want to do it for more than the sheer pleasure of playing open mic night).
A business plan really helps for a band. ? Look at Not My Dog... they made some waves here, but they also
played the viper room in L.A. without being known there.

On that note, to make the choruses stand out a tad more, have you considered adding some vocal
harmonies and such in those areas? Or even guitar harmonies? Or even... synth. ? Okay, maybe not
synth. But just distinguish the choruses a bit? That's just my 10 cents. use it, don't use it.

Concerning the artwork, it was done by a designer in the US called Steve Pierce. He did bands like Bless The Fall, Versus the Ocean, Amyst etc. (big names). He designed the front artwork, back as well as CD design based off a painting by our vocalist.

The painting the artwork was based off:

Anyway, coincidentally, we ARE going to implement Synth in the future of the band. I'd like that to get going as soon as possible, so while we look for a keyboardist I've actually started learning piano myself.

We played alongside Not My Dog at I think it was "Fracture Fest", excellent band and Hanno is extremely talented and recently started a band in New Z.
We try our best with the business and I think we're doing quite good, although I know there's always room for improvement. Especially our live performances aren't where I'd like them to be yet, we "sound" good, but we need to start bringing more to the table at shows, honestly I'm not sure how to improve other than to just play shows and learn along the way.

Anyone else wanna share something? ?

PeachyDragon

You might think this is super lame... but maybe think about checking
out the DVD's by Tom Jackson? All roads lead to the stage.
I have some of the DVD's but not the main set... too expensive.
I have a prelim version of that. Let me know what you think when you check
it out. It's not choreography as much as it is artist development and
stage planning.

IceCreamMan

I LIKE

vic

I like it...well done guys. I do however miss that deeper bass....would give the production a bit more body so to speak (but it could be my speakers that are not responding very well )
Congrats again !

epictring

IceCreamMan wrote: I LIKE

Vic wrote:
I like it...well done guys. I do however miss that deeper bass....would give the production a bit more body so to speak (but it could be my speakers that are not responding very well )
Congrats again !

Thanks guys! ?
But where is the critics? I want to be judged!