Severed Fifth

Thanks to the excellent work of Cory K, I am pleased to show off a bunch of Severed Fifth website buttons that Cory has been slaving over for the last day or so. These buttons are all available in a bunch of standard banner and button sizes, which should make it simple to add them to your website.

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DOWNLOAD: 120×90

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Go and add them, and be sure to post a link to your website here so we can take a look at it.

I am pleased to announce the availability of the second Sneak Peek!

This sneak peek is some of the music behind the track Dollar Plague – a song written about the over-commercialisation of religion. It is a pretty upbeat, thrashy song, one that will be fun to get people moshing to when I take Severed Fifth out on the road. Go and check out the sneak peak here.

One of the key decisions I have needed to make for Severed Fifth is which license I wanted to use for my music. There are a variety of license options available, too many in fact, but the key considerations in my mind were in securing the freedoms I deem valuable for my listeners while also ensuring opportunities for being successful commercially so I can fund Severed Fifth. Throughout the license selection process I was cognisant to get this balance right – in an already limited set of commercial options for free culture artists, I did not want to further limit my options if I didn’t need to.

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I am pleased to announce the first sneak peak from the forthcoming debut Severed Fifth album, Denied By Reign. The sneak peek is of the beginning of the song The Lake and shows the kind of style and direction of the music. These sneak peeks do not represent the final mix of the music, but they will give you a taster of what is to come.

Go and listen to it here.

Hello from sunny Turkey! I just wanted to provide an update on some of the artwork that has been in the works for Severed Fifth. Firstly, I would like unveil the official Severed Fifth Seal:

This was created by the legendary Michael Evans, who has worked on the Severed Fifth website. Expect to see the seal in a variety of different places, on t-shirts, stickers and other merch.

I also thought it would be nice to have a few wallpapers with some art on it. Each of these is in 1280×800 – when I get some time I will make them available in a range of sizes:

I would love to see some more wallpapers be produced. I will be getting some source imagery online soon so you can create some Severed Fifth art.

Time for a quick update on the recording.

Things have been hectic around here to say the least. The last few weeks have been pretty busy outside Severed Fifth, but I have been working hard on getting the remaining instruments recorded. After finishing up a bunch of small overdubs on the guitars, I started work on the bass.

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