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JULY
2008: ANOTHER GUEST APPEARANCE ANNOUNCED, CD UPDATE, OTHER NEWS
We are pleased to announce another
guest that will appear on our upcoming CD, THE GRAND
DECEPTION. The musician is none other than MERI
TADIC, known for her violin mastery in the Swiss folk metal band
ELUVEITIE. She has taken part in the sorrowful
track THY PALE EXISTENCE. This collaboration has
been a long time in coming and we couldn't be any happier that she's finally
able to take part.
As for the CD itself, we are still deep in the throes of the recording
process. As is the norm for RA, we've encountered many delays and technical
issues, but we're confident that samples of the material will make it to your
ears soon.
We hope you like the new site design. We couldn't have done it without some
killer artwork from Alexandra V. Bach at
RAVENDUSK DESIGNS that served as our foundation
for it. Once again a huge shout of thanks out to you Alex!
And lastly, anyone who is planning to attend any of
KAMELOT's European summer festival appearances will again be able to
meet up with our bassist SEAN TIBBETTS. If you
see him there bring warm greetings!
That's what we have for now!
SPRING 2008 - CD RECORDING PROGRESS, COVER ART, ETC...
We wanted to give everyone an
update on the happenings surrounding the ROYAL ANGUISH camp.
First and foremost, the recording process for our upcoming CD
The Grand Deception is moving forward
full steam. As many of your know, the original production of this CD saw
recording start last summer. Unfortunately the recordings were not coming
along as anticipated, so we made the decision to blow the whole thing up and
start from scratch once we had resolved the issues that had hindered the
original sessions.
After reassessing our processes and songwriting, we "restarted" the process
in December of 2007 with a new outlook, and we are happy to report that we
have a large portion of the process complete. We are deep into the guitar
and keyboard tracking and hope to have a few advance / rough versions up on
the web for all to hear in the not too distant future. We are much happier
with the path the CD has taken and we are very eager to get new tracks out
to the masses so that we can officially start the newest chapter of RA's
existence.
The CD currently is slated to have 11 songs (plus an opening). The song
titles are as follows:
DAWN OF THE
NEW AGE (intro),
ONLY THE WEAK SURVIVE,
PLEASE EDUCATE ME,
INTO THE WILDERNESS,
THY PALE EXISTENCE,
SULLEN EYES REVISITED,
BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS,
LOVELORN BETRAYAL,
DIRT AT YOUR FEET,
THE GRAND DECEPTION,
DEMON SEED,
KINDRED SPIRITS
We also are proud to announce
that MORPHIA's frontman
Jasper Pietersen will make a guest
appearance on the title track of our CD. Jasper's a great guy and we
couldn't be any happier finding a way to include him on this project. We
have multiple other guest appearances lined up, but we'll wait until we have
the tracking done and in hand before making those official announcements.
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