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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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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Since I kicked off Severed Fifth, some of you have been wanting to hear some of my previous material from Seraphidian. Well, rather luckily, I recently discovered all of the original recordings from the Seraphidian releases, some of which I thought had been lost, so here is a page outlining a little bit of history and links to a bunch of songs.

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Well folks, here we are for another update. I was planning on getting some updates out every day, but its been an incredibly hectic few days recording and I just haven’t had time to sit down and write some of my thoughts down. I wanted to fill you in on the latest on the Denied By Reign recording sessions though.

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Well, the recording kicked off yesterday and I got started with the drums. Recording drums is always a time-consuming process, but I had done some prep for the drums already, and managed to get through pretty much half of the songs yesterday.

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I am pleased to announce some details of the debut Severed Fifth album and more details on the recording of the album.

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With the recording dates announced I wanted to write a little more about the kind of music I am going to be recording for the debut Severed Fifth album. Since the announcement of Severed Fifth, a bunch of people have been clamoring to get an idea of the kind of style that I am working on, and what will form the album. Hopefully this blog entry will give you a decent idea. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, it has been 24 hours since Severed Fifth was announced. Since then I have been surprised by the incredible support shown by a number of bloggers and commentators. I thought it would be nice to summarise our progress in the first day.

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So, finally, Severed Fifth is unwrapped. It has been something that has been kicking around my brain now for a few years and something that I really decided to start working on a few months back, shortly before LugRadio Live USA 2008. The first thing you should do to learn about the project is to head over and listen to or read the Announcement - it gives a pretty solid overview of the aims of the project. Read the rest of this entry »