News and announcements from That Authoring Group

[--Tay--]

Powerman 5000 has been in play test for a while now... when are they gonna be released?

[Zemanator]

show me what you got is in PR and should be out soon. the others range from going into PR soon to we dont even have the stems yet...

[--Tay--]

Thank you, Zemanator.
Looking forward to purchasing all of them as they become available.

[Tykki-Teme]

About your Rishloo contest for PS3... Is the winner chosen the same way as with the 360 contest? As in randomly picked out of everyone who have logged a score on the leaderboards?

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

About your Rishloo contest for PS3... Is the winner chosen the same way as with the 360 contest? As in randomly picked out of everyone who have logged a score on the leaderboards?

This one is for the highest score and not random.

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

In case you guys missed the announcements in the big announcement thread :

We've heard your cries of too much metal growly yell music, and we're doing something to help bring in more of the...well...not metal into Rock Band Network.

So we're pleased to announce a long term relationship with Swedish label A West Side Fabrication.

http://www.westsidefabrication.se/bands/

While you might not be familiar with the bands on this label, you can't deny the quality of music these artists are producing.

We're confident that the music we're bringing from West Side will help to balance out the seeming nonstop onslaught of metal recently.

The first two tracks we're currently working on for the game are :

We are the Storm - Galileo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zAmLomUdQA

Oh My! - Twenty One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFk3AUDeQQk

There will be much more to come from West Side so stay tuned to future announcement threads for more details.

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We're working with metal act Strikken to bring four of their hard hitting tracks into Rock Band! (What you didn't think we were done with metal bands did you? :P )

You can find them here :

http://www.facebook.com/strikken?sk=app_2405167945

Hop on there and you can find more info on the band and listen to the songs we're going to be bringing to the game.

__________________________________________________ ___________________________________

We've heard the cries of too many guitarist and drum contests and we've listened!

This one is for the vocalists!

http://www.rockband.com/battles/oh-s...-battle-1/view

Winner will get a copy of Halcyon Way's Building the Tower CD!

__________________________________________________ ___________________________________

Did you guys say you wanted a contest? Boy have we got one for you!

Now this one is going to start exactly two weeks from today on Friday October 14th.

First the bad news :

To win this contest you'll have to prove your mettle on guitar in a TAG "Endless set list" featuring THIRTY of our songs in one play list!

Thirty songs you say? THIRTY?!? Yep 30. BUT the spoils that go to the victor will be well worth going through the set list.

First up :

You'll get a signed copy of Rishloo's "Feathergun" album, a signed Rishloo poster, a limited edition very RARE signed Halcyon Way poster, a copy of Halcyon Way's "Building the Tower" CD, CYNIC “Traced in Air”. THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN “Option Paralysis”, AND SEPTICFLESH “Communion" CDs!

What?

You say that's not enough? Ok how about an early pre release (meaning you'll have it before it even goes on sale to the public!) copy of Halcyon Way's newest CD Indoctrination!

WHAT? Still not enough?

Good god people....ok then how about a set of drum sticks for your rock band drum set, some drum tape, AND a cooler with an ipod dock!

Surely that's enough....No?!?! You want more?!?

Ok last thing. I mean it.

The winner of this contest will also receive one FENDER PRO GUITAR AND A MIDI ADAPTER FOR THE XBOX 360.

Yeah you read that right. That Pro guitar that everyone wants and no one can find because it's no longer in production? All you have to do is win this contest and it's yours.

Along with all that other stuff.


Oh and since you twisted our arm we'll throw in 3200 ms points to get your new pro guitar Rock Band collection started.

We told you we'd be announcing the contest to end all contests and we meant it.

Oh what's that? How do you win?

Well that's the easy part. You don't have to be first place, or tenth place, all you have to do is log in a score on the leader boards for this battle during the week it's up.

A winner will be picked at random from all the leader board scores.

So for you guys that don't think you're good enough to win a contest because there's better players out there, then this is THE contest for you.

We'll post details when the contest officially starts, but we thought everyone should start practicing their guitar on TAG songs to get ready!

__________________________________________________ ___________________________________

We're happy to announce that we'll be bringing a second song from Canadian super group The Trews!

Hope and Ruin is being authored now and should hit play testing in a few weeks!
Here's the music video for Hope and Ruin for those not familiar :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwcac7sqOnQ

__________________________________________________ ___________________________________

We're working with AFM records to bring Eden's Curse to Rock Band Network.

Eden's Curse : No Holy Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWSxIEa2_pw

DREAM THEATER vocalist JAMES LABRIE duets with EDEN'S CURSE frontman MICHAEL EDEN on this epic Melodic Metal anthem "NO HOLY MAN". This is the first track from the groups forthcoming third studio album "TRINITY"

__________________________________________________ __________________________________

We are bringing six tracks from Prog band Anubis Gate as well.

Check them out here on their song Waking Hour :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_zR3Xn5ga8

__________________________________________________ __________________________________

Just so our PS3 Rock Band brethren doesn't feel left out I bring a contest just for you!

http://www.rockband.com/battles/rishloo-battle/view

Rishloo guitar battle! Winner gets a poster and the Feathergun CD, both signed by the band!

__________________________________________________ __________________________________

Here's a look at a song from Tag's own Oklahoma Caddy Shack :

Attack Attack!'s Attack Attacking Attack! Attack! 2x Bass Pedal version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZJSdgLjGVI

__________________________________________________ __________________________________

This is The Infinite Descent by Melodic Progressive/Avant-Garde Death Metal band Spires.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KIPt6HoZpI

__________________________________________________ __________________________________

We're happy as pigs in slop to announce that we're partnering up with Facedown Records to bring a multitude of their artists into the game!

You can check out Facedown's stable here :
http://facedownrecords.com/family/

First up will be "Heart of a Child" from A Plea For Purging. This song is off their upcoming album release "The Life and Death of A Plea For Purging" which will be hitting stores on November the 8th!

You can put in your pre-order here if you so desire :
http://facedown.merchnow.com/products/preorders

The song is actually so new that it hasn't even been released in any form yet, so we don't have any audio or video for you to check out.

However you can check out the band's facebook page here to get a feel for their sound
http://www.facebook.com/apleaforpurg...p_178091127385

We'll have more artists and news from Facedown in the very near future so be on the look out for it!

[atalkingfish]

In case you guys missed the announcements in the big announcement thread :

We've heard your cries of too much metal growly yell music, and we're doing something to help bring in more of the...well...not metal into Rock Band Network.

So we're pleased to announce a long term relationship with Swedish label A West Side Fabrication.

http://www.westsidefabrication.se/bands/

While you might not be familiar with the bands on this label, you can't deny the quality of music these artists are producing.

We're confident that the music we're bringing from West Side will help to balance out the seeming nonstop onslaught of metal recently.

The first two tracks we're currently working on for the game are :

We are the Storm - Galileo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zAmLomUdQA

Oh My! - Twenty One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFk3AUDeQQk

There will be much more to come from West Side so stay tuned to future announcement threads for more details.

__________________________________________________ _________________________________

We're working with metal act Strikken to bring four of their hard hitting tracks into Rock Band! (What you didn't think we were done with metal bands did you? :P )

You can find them here :

http://www.facebook.com/strikken?sk=app_2405167945

Hop on there and you can find more info on the band and listen to the songs we're going to be bringing to the game.

__________________________________________________ ___________________________________

We've heard the cries of too many guitarist and drum contests and we've listened!

This one is for the vocalists!

http://www.rockband.com/battles/oh-s...-battle-1/view

Winner will get a copy of Halcyon Way's Building the Tower CD!

__________________________________________________ ___________________________________

Did you guys say you wanted a contest? Boy have we got one for you!

Now this one is going to start exactly two weeks from today on Friday October 14th.

First the bad news :

To win this contest you'll have to prove your mettle on guitar in a TAG "Endless set list" featuring THIRTY of our songs in one play list!

Thirty songs you say? THIRTY?!? Yep 30. BUT the spoils that go to the victor will be well worth going through the set list.

First up :

You'll get a signed copy of Rishloo's "Feathergun" album, a signed Rishloo poster, a limited edition very RARE signed Halcyon Way poster, a copy of Halcyon Way's "Building the Tower" CD, CYNIC “Traced in Air”. THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN “Option Paralysis”, AND SEPTICFLESH “Communion" CDs!

What?

You say that's not enough? Ok how about an early pre release (meaning you'll have it before it even goes on sale to the public!) copy of Halcyon Way's newest CD Indoctrination!

WHAT? Still not enough?

Good god people....ok then how about a set of drum sticks for your rock band drum set, some drum tape, AND a cooler with an ipod dock!

Surely that's enough....No?!?! You want more?!?

Ok last thing. I mean it.

The winner of this contest will also receive one FENDER PRO GUITAR AND A MIDI ADAPTER FOR THE XBOX 360.

Yeah you read that right. That Pro guitar that everyone wants and no one can find because it's no longer in production? All you have to do is win this contest and it's yours.

Along with all that other stuff.


Oh and since you twisted our arm we'll throw in 3200 ms points to get your new pro guitar Rock Band collection started.

We told you we'd be announcing the contest to end all contests and we meant it.

Oh what's that? How do you win?

Well that's the easy part. You don't have to be first place, or tenth place, all you have to do is log in a score on the leader boards for this battle during the week it's up.

A winner will be picked at random from all the leader board scores.

So for you guys that don't think you're good enough to win a contest because there's better players out there, then this is THE contest for you.

We'll post details when the contest officially starts, but we thought everyone should start practicing their guitar on TAG songs to get ready!

__________________________________________________ ___________________________________

We're happy to announce that we'll be bringing a second song from Canadian super group The Trews!

Hope and Ruin is being authored now and should hit play testing in a few weeks!
Here's the music video for Hope and Ruin for those not familiar :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwcac7sqOnQ

__________________________________________________ ___________________________________

We're working with AFM records to bring Eden's Curse to Rock Band Network.

Eden's Curse : No Holy Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWSxIEa2_pw

DREAM THEATER vocalist JAMES LABRIE duets with EDEN'S CURSE frontman MICHAEL EDEN on this epic Melodic Metal anthem "NO HOLY MAN". This is the first track from the groups forthcoming third studio album "TRINITY"

__________________________________________________ __________________________________

We are bringing six tracks from Prog band Anubis Gate as well.

Check them out here on their song Waking Hour :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_zR3Xn5ga8

__________________________________________________ __________________________________

Just so our PS3 Rock Band brethren doesn't feel left out I bring a contest just for you!

http://www.rockband.com/battles/rishloo-battle/view

Rishloo guitar battle! Winner gets a poster and the Feathergun CD, both signed by the band!

__________________________________________________ __________________________________

Here's a look at a song from Tag's own Oklahoma Caddy Shack :

Attack Attack!'s Attack Attacking Attack! Attack! 2x Bass Pedal version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZJSdgLjGVI

__________________________________________________ __________________________________

This is The Infinite Descent by Melodic Progressive/Avant-Garde Death Metal band Spires.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KIPt6HoZpI

__________________________________________________ __________________________________

We're happy as pigs in slop to announce that we're partnering up with Facedown Records to bring a multitude of their artists into the game!

You can check out Facedown's stable here :
http://facedownrecords.com/family/

First up will be "Heart of a Child" from A Plea For Purging. This song is off their upcoming album release "The Life and Death of A Plea For Purging" which will be hitting stores on November the 8th!

You can put in your pre-order here if you so desire :
http://facedown.merchnow.com/products/preorders

The song is actually so new that it hasn't even been released in any form yet, so we don't have any audio or video for you to check out.

However you can check out the band's facebook page here to get a feel for their sound
http://www.facebook.com/apleaforpurg...p_178091127385

We'll have more artists and news from Facedown in the very near future so be on the look out for it!

hey, that's cool.

[Pankrazzo]

I've won your Halcyon Way battle: http://www.rockband.com/battles/oh-s...-battle-1/view

Are you going to contact me via PM?

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

Yeah we were actually going to contact the winners today

Send me an email at nlarimer@gmail.com with your information and we'll get your prize packages out.

Thanks for playing and congratulations!

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

LLAMAJOBUDDY do the same and contact me via nlarimer@gmail.com and we'll get your prize out for winning the PS3 Rishloo contest!