RBN Community Spotlight : October 2012

[TheDescent]

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Oh, yeah, Tonight Alive!

Cipher can't dislike that band!

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

Holy ****.

Questions:

Early Children of Bodom? Follow The Reaper, Hatebreeder, Hate Crew Deathroll?
First two Avenged Sevenfold albums, as in full albums?
Is this early In Flames, cause I thought that wasn't happening?

WOOOOOOO!!

We're starting with the songs that have appeared in that other music game from COB.

In Flames, anything pre-reroute to remain are a no go. The band lost a lot of the stems from those old tracks so they're just not happening.

Not full albums (well not at the moment) from Avenged, but I won't see you tonight pt 1 and Chapter 4 could be coming (hint).

[lvmathemagician]

Having worked on it, I agree. This "remix" sounds a bit too much like one of those "remixes" of an old song that those stupid hip-hop fanatics make on YouTube.

Despite the quality of the rerecord, I'm buying it.

[Arcanon]

Busted Up seems fantastic with that keys solo. Sounds fun on drums as well. I have to check the charts, but it seems a good artist.

Having looked over both parts, they're both going to be a blast to play. I'm mixing stems, and hopefully by next month's community thread we'll have one or two songs ready to show off.

[Dogmatic2020]

What bands from Sub Pop are you pursuing, or is the label totally back on board and everything is a possibility?

[HMXLachesis]

Okay here's the last announcement we've got for the day.

Since this is the year anniversary of the community Rock Band thread I thought in celebration we'd talk about what TAG is going to be doing for the NEXT year. So here's an advanced 'look' at what we'll be bringing to you later in 2013....

The return of Fearless Records
American Head Charge
Slightly Stoopid
Black Light Burns (Wes Borland)
Early Avenged Sevenfold (first two albums)
Sublime
Children of Bodom
The return of Subpop records
In Flames
Brendon Small/Dethklok

Dang. That's quite a list.

Personally, I'll get excited when you send me the consent forms*. The latter part of 2013 is a really long way away, and there's a lot of things that could change between now and then.

To be fair, TAG has pulled off some amazing things -- but I can't hold my breath for 12 months, no matter how much I like Sublime.


* Okay, I'm cheating a little here, since I have more than standard-user intel on what's coming up on the RBN! But still.

[RockBandRocker]

I don't normally follow the RBN due to it going down a path where the songs getting released weren't up my alley and/or the songs that I was looking forward to ended up getting mixed horribly or some other shennanigans went on with it, but I have to say, I'm impressed Noble.

The fact that you (and your team) can get the license to the original Sublime material when (for all intents and purposes) it looks like HMX couldn't is really damn impressive. It's also impressive that you didn't let HMX's rock-blocking you on "Unholy Confessions" stop you from pursuing the Avenged Sevenfold avenue that you had intended to work on before the block.

Overall, good job. From that line-up it looks like the RBN will gain some credibility by bringing songs to the game from bands that were once considered "HMX territory". Looks like I'm going to have to start paying attention to the RBN again.

[ManOfPopsicle]

For everyone getting excited about Sub Pop, keep in mind that the bigger bands tend to charge heavy licensing fees, so they're considerably less likely.

I'm not saying not to be excited, I'm just suggesting that you curb your enthusiasm.

[samjjones]

or what we'll be doing with Kickstarter if the roadblock ever gets unblocked on that avenue.

Is there *anything* that the community can do to help unblock whatever roadblock you're dealing with? Or completely out of everybody's hands?

I mean, we can try to organize petitions or send bags of peanuts or whatever to whatever labels we need to do make this happen (if it would help).

[ThatAuthoringGroup]

No it's unfortunately the logistics of how kickstarter works and how licensing works that's got us in the holding pattern right now. We're looking for a work around though!