Hi all,
I know it's been a while. I'm not dead. I've just had a really insane year. My last live performance as Gridcrawler was just over a year ago. It did not go terribly well. I was swamped by technical glitches all night and ended up having to cut my set short. It was a really humbling experience. In fact, the only saving grace was that there were only about six or seven people in the place when I played. Haha. I decided that night that I needed to step up my game a bit. For the last year, I've been learning as much as I can about production techniques and composition, and basically trying to elevate the level of what I'm doing. I'm currently in the process of mixing and mastering the long-delayed Gridcrawler record. The learning curve associated with that has been pretty painful, but I'm getting it done. Look for new music SOON! reverbnation.com/gridcrawler
Around the same time, I decided to shelve that weird, acoustic Eula Mae record I did, Centaur Songs. As it was, the production was just too damn lo-fi (even by my standards) and my guitar playing was pretty horrendous. I have considered maybe re-recording some of it with decent equipment and an extra guitar player, because I'm really proud of some of the songs on there, but for now, that project is pretty much dead in the water.
Anyway, the real reason for this blog entry, is that I recently received an email from Wallace Jones, the lead singer for the legendary Society's Burden. They were a great metal band from the area who were active in the 90's. They have been disbanded for a number of years, but all the members of SB are still good friends of mine. I spent many drunken evenings going to see them play in some of the craziest little dives in the state. Those were great times and it's awesome to hear any new music from those guys. Wallace sent me an MP3 of a new Society's Burden song that he put together called "The Crucifix." You can download that for FREE from Mediafire at this link:
Society's Burden - The Crucifix Enjoy!!!
As always, thanks for checking in and be on the lookout for new music from Subvert From Within Records in the coming weeks. 2014 is gonna be a better year. I can already feel it!
Y'er pal,
Jabbo
