18th May 2009: Monday Mosh #2

18th May 2009: Monday Mosh #2
Thanks everyone for your awesome response to the first edition of the Monday Mosh last week. It’s really exciting to have a solid way to present the latest news to all our supporters.

Of course the big news this week is the imminent release of This Day Forth on Friday the 22nd. It has been a long time coming, but well and truly worth the wait. We’re hoping this new release will really excite thrash fans out there. I listen to a lot of thrash, and I feel this is one of the most old school and authentic thrash albums to come out of the Christian scene for a long time. We are very pleased with it. We can’t wait to start getting your feedback over the coming days and weeks. So don’t be a stranger and drop us a message.

We have recently taken advantage of myspace allowing 10 songs for streaming, and have added some more tracks. The songs uploaded represent good cross section of our material. If you’re not familiar with all our songs, head over to the myspace page at www.myspace.com/graveforsaken and have a listen. I’ve included tracks from all 3 albums and both EPs.

Yesterday we went to Fattdog Studio with the band to put down some new song ideas with Daniel Holmes, who has produced our last 2 albums. Even though This Day Forth is being released this week, the whole recording process started over a year ago, meaning we have quite a few new things we have been working on. We’re currently at the stage of consolidating riffs and putting together some arrangements. I imagine most bands would do the same thing as us, that is, have a cycle of new material in development all the time. Not to mention the fact that we absolutely love going to Fattdog and hanging out!

As well as working on ideas at Fattdog, Elias and I quite often demo our own ideas at our houses. I have North Wind Studio in my backroom. I have a Roland desk and a quadcore computer, so I am working on developing my own production skills. Since I got this setup up and running, Elias has inherited my old setup. That setup is what we used to record the original EP, as well as Harder To Hate from the first album. Between the two of us, we put a lot of ideas down. We are more than likely to make some of these available to the Mosher Crew as free downloads over the coming months.

Speaking of the Mosher Crew, I have just uploaded the video file for Mosher Crew Confidential Edition 1. Mosher Crew members can head over to the members area of our website www.graveforsaken.com and download the video. Currently I have it as a wmv file. If anyone can’t play the file, please email me at graveforsaken@graveforsaken.com and I can attempt to put it in a format that you can play. Remember that it is free to join the Mosher Crew. You just have to sign up at the Mosher Crew page and then you have access to the members area, as well as getting our monthly email newsletter and special offers on merch.

I have started posting this weekly blog on blogspot. It can be found at www.graveforsaken.blogspot.com for those who are interested. In fact, I’m doing my best to spread the blog as far and wide as possible. If you have any good ideas on where I can publish it I’d be happy to hear your feedback. The more people we can get reading the better obviously!

As promised, there will be an album or EP streaming each week. This week we are featuring the Horror And Sadness EP from 2007, so hang around at the website and have a listen. On the subject of the website, we are working on a lot of stuff behind the scenes to keep adding features. One of the next things will be a complete catalogue of lyrics, and the band bio isn’t far off either. We’re also thinking of resurrecting the editorials from the old website. Basically, we want to make the site a really interesting source of all things Grave Forsaken. A lot is happening, so please check back regularly.

Well people, that’s it for another week. Until the next mosh

ROCK ON
Vaughan and Grave Forsaken