Severed Fifth

So…you have downloaded Nightmares By Design, you dig it, and you want to let the world know that you support Severed Fifth…and we now have another great way to spread the word! Thanks to artistic skills of resident bass supremo Ron Crockett, we now have a button that shows off that you own Nightmares By Design. It looks like this:

You can grab a bunch of different sizes below:

Download: 667×179 500×134 100×27 240×64

We recommend you link the button on your website to http://www.severedfifth.com/releases so others can download it to!

Rock on! \m/

Thanks to the sterling work of the bass-meister himself, Ron Crockett, we now have some awesome Nightmares by Design themed buttons and banners for you to adorn your websites with!

Check them out below, and each is available in multiple sizes. Also, be sure to post a link in the comments to your site with the button on so we can see it!

Street Team

If you are participating in helping to spread the good word of Severed Fifth, you are by definition part of the Severed Fifth Street Team and you should show this off to others! We recommend you link the following buttons to http://www.severedfifth.com/streetteam so others can join the team too!

Available Sizes: 667×179 500×134 240×64 100×27

I Paid Fairly

If you have used Severed Fifth Fair Pay or contributed to the Severed Fifth Recording Campaign, you should show off your contribution to the world by putting a banner or button on your website! We also recommend you link this button to http://www.severedfifth.com/pay so others can contribute too!

Available Sizes: 667×179 500×134 240×64 100×27

Some of you may have noticed the rather cool Severed Fifth Facebook Page and that on the main Severed Fifth website we have a little box with the latest posts, a link to join the page, and some pictures of who likes the page.

Well, we would love for Severed Fifth fans to trick up their own websites and add this box. You can do it as easily as adding the following code to your site:

Light color:

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?href=http%3A%2F%2F
www.facebook.com%2Fseveredfifth&amp;width=292&amp;colorscheme=light
&amp;connections=10&amp;stream=true&amp;header=true&amp;height=587"
scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:292px;
height:587px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>

Dark color:

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?href=http%3A%2F%2F
www.facebook.com%2Fseveredfifth&amp;width=292&amp;colorscheme=dark
&amp;connections=10&amp;stream=true&amp;header=true&amp;height=587"
scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:292px;
height:587px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>

Thanks in advance to everyone who adds the box!

A few quick updates going on in Severed Fifth land.

Firstly, thanks to the Linux Outlaws for interviewing me about Severed Fifth (and Ubuntu too) for their latest episode. Its a long interview and covers a lot of ground about the project as well spending a little time on some of the technical details around recording Denied By Reign. Thanks also to Fab from Linux Outlaws for being an active member of the Street Team.

Speaking of which, the legendary James Tait has been out and about in the UK putting up some Severed Fifth posters and speaking to potential Severed Fifth supporters on the street:

James wrote a really nice post describing his experience. One excerpt:

I managed over the last couple of days to take a deep breath, put my confidence issues behind me and talk to complete strangers! I got a couple of people in the Four Seasons centre in Mansfield (thanks dad for looking after the boys while I disappeared for a few minutes!) and a handful more in Mickleover Tesco today (thanks boys for behaving!).

I generally opened the conversation with a polite “Excuse me, do you have a minute? I’m going to make a snap judgement from your clothes/appearance that you’re into rock and/or metal. Have you heard of Severed Fifth?” I then went on to explain that you’d just released your debut album and a little information about the goals of the project, making sure that it clicked that it was totally legal to download and copy the music.

I was totally unprepared for all of this, but managed to play one couple a sample from my phone (Edge of Design), which seemed to go down well. The others I just pointed in the direction of the web site. I was so nervous I was shaking like a leaf, causing one girl to comment that she believed me “cos real salesmen don’t get that nervous!” Here’s hoping at least some of them follow it up — I doubt they’ll forget about the experience as it was all so surreal!

I was really psyched to see this post – not only in terms of the Street Team doing great work, but also James himself just throwing himself onto the street, despite being a touch nervous. Pretty darn cool.

In other news, more work has been going on with Frets On Fire, other Street Team happenings are happening, and I am working on a press kit. Why not come and join us in the Severed Fifth Street Team?

Thanks to Brady Merriweather who produced a Severed Fifth promo that went on YouTube:

Would be fun to kick off a bunch of FifthRolls on YouTube (a video that starts of as something different and kicks into Severed Fifth). Anyone want to produce some?