Can't thank our recording engineer Curtis Erdek, and our producer Andy Freeman enough. They both did remarkable jobs. Curtis gave us an environment where things ran like an well-oiled machine and we were able to do our tracking with a minimal of delays, technical issues, or anything distracting. He was a great coach and gave us the feedback we needed about whether or not something needed to be done again, done better, or not done quite like that at all..
And then Andy Freeman took this jellyfish of files and tracks and sonic fury and proceeded to beat it into something resembling a professional album release. He added keyboards, orchestration, backup vocals, filled in all the bare corners and plain walls. The end result is amazing, and it makes you appreciate what a team effort it truly is to create a music CD.
We had a couple of revisions with him and a couple of mix and masters, and the 2nd one he delivered really knocked our socks off - it is the one you'll be hearing June 18th. I think it's heavy as lead and bright as the sun!
At times like this you reflect back on where you've been and what you did to reach this point. Knowing that I'm finally going to have a CD release for the first time in my struggling-mostly music career is a pretty sweet feeling. Doesn't matter to me that it probably won't go platinum (wink)... the sheer amount of effort it took to will this thing into being was plenty of work, that holding in our hands will be reward enough.
Not tonight... but there's a champagne bottle in my future that I'll pop when we get these discs in our hands.
Until then, hug your children, kiss your loved ones, tell them you care, count your blessings, and try to give yourself some approval and love and a little pat on the back. Life's hard. You've earned it. Every day you fight on through is a good day, and you deserve to give yourself a little recognition for it.
"Inside The Mirror" is finally done. And now my thoughts will begin to turn to the sequel, to the band's 3rd studio album, that I very much want to start on this fall, and make it an annual effort.
I've already got 3 or 4 songs that I think are going to turn out really nice... and i know Keith's song backlog is kind of like Santa Claus' gift bag on his sleigh. There's always another one in there...
God Bless You,
Tim McDonald
Oblivion Myth
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New Oblivion Myth music heard on iHeart Radio June 11th!
This Saturday Night June 11th from Nashville on 105.9 The Rock on the radio show METAL WORKS with DJ Lonn David 9pm to 11pm CST, you can hear brand new Oblivion Myth music from the new album "Inside The Mirror" coming out June 18th which will be an album release show LIVE on stage at Main Street Music in Murfreesboro, TN, the entire 67 minute album performed live and on the web through the Oblivion Myth youtube channel! TUNE in to the radio show METAL WORKS on 105.9 The Rock in Nashville which is also Live on the web through the iHeart Radio Network! http://1059therock.iheart.com/onair/metal-works-56273/
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June 18th, Murfreesboro, TN
17 more days until show time! we've got some great bands opening the night for us in Murfreesboro, TN June 18th at Main Street Music Venue…..
https://www.facebook.com/events/2142789809193271
Check out the music of Medicine Mann & Threshing Floor!
https://www.reverbnation.com/medicinemann
https://www.reverbnation.com/threshingfloor
Oblivion Myth will be performing the entire 67 minute new album. Some songs you will recognize, some will be completely new to you. You can hear some of this new music on our ReverbNation profile...
https://www.reverbnation.com/oblivionmyth/song/26027581-beyond-this-home--inside-mirror
and radio interviews...
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/heavy-metal-mayhem
http://www.breakingmetal.com
See you soon!
Keith Smith
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Our journey to the new album release June 18th part 2 of 2
Can't thank our recording engineer Curtis Erdek, and our producer Andy Freeman enough. They both did remarkable jobs. Curtis gave us an environment where things ran like an well-oiled machine and we were able to do our tracking with a minimal of delays, technical issues, or anything distracting. He was a great coach and gave us the feedback we needed about whether or not something needed to be done again, done better, or not done quite like that at all..
And then Andy Freeman took this jellyfish of files and tracks and sonic fury and proceeded to beat it into something resembling a professional album release. He added keyboards, orchestration, backup vocals, filled in all the bare corners and plain walls. The end result is amazing, and it makes you appreciate what a team effort it truly is to create a music CD.
We had a couple of revisions with him and a couple of mix and masters, and the 2nd one he delivered really knocked our socks off - it is the one you'll be hearing June 18th. I think it's heavy as lead and bright as the sun!
At times like this you reflect back on where you've been and what you did to reach this point. Knowing that I'm finally going to have a CD release for the first time in my struggling-mostly music career is a pretty sweet feeling. Doesn't matter to me that it probably won't go platinum (wink)... the sheer amount of effort it took to will this thing into being was plenty of work, that holding in our hands will be reward enough.
Not tonight... but there's a champagne bottle in my future that I'll pop when we get these discs in our hands.
Until then, hug your children, kiss your loved ones, tell them you care, count your blessings, and try to give yourself some approval and love and a little pat on the back. Life's hard. You've earned it. Every day you fight on through is a good day, and you deserve to give yourself a little recognition for it.
"Inside The Mirror" is finally done. And now my thoughts will begin to turn to the sequel, to the band's 3rd studio album, that I very much want to start on this fall, and make it an annual effort.
I've already got 3 or 4 songs that I think are going to turn out really nice... and i know Keith's song backlog is kind of like Santa Claus' gift bag on his sleigh. There's always another one in there...
God Bless You,
Tim McDonald Oblivion Myth
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Can't wait brothers!
Our journey to the new album release June 18th part 1 of 2
Greetings Mythians, Mythologians, Mythbusters, Mythspankers, and other silly names for Oblivion Myth fans worldwide...
Today is a big day for the band. The long journey of making our 2nd studio album is finally ended. We have delivered our masters and artwork to the printers for CD production.
Soon after we'll iron out our digital distribution and sales online as well.
It's been over 9 months really - just like having a baby it seems. Some obstacles and some surprises along the way. Who knew quoting a Bible verse comes with copyright issues? Talk about money changers in the temple! Well, you roll with it. Some versions are more lenient than others, so you use that version, although that means maybe the poetry of the language that attracted you to a certain verse gets changed.
June 18 2016 is going to be our CD release party and for various reasons we have chosen Main Street club in Murfreesboro, TN, about 20 miles south of Nashville.
Main Street is a very large, nice, fun club to play at. It can hold more people than a lot of the clubs up in Nashville, and we are friendly with ownership and the booking agent there.
We do consider ourselves a Nashville band, but opportunity, timing, and such dictated that we have our CD release in the best venue available, and that was undeniably Main Street.
80-odd hours to record. 200-odd hours to mix and master. 9 months of working on weekends on the recordings, the CD art, the concept, endless discussions, brainstorming, and that is just the CD production part. We spent the whole summer prior taking these 11 new songs and recording them as demos, seeing what we had, so that we could go into the studio prepared to track them. it was wise and useful - we did no writing in the studio - the songs were ready to track when we walked in, and we knew what we wanted to do with them.
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we're on the air right now!
We're on the air!!! http://metalheadradio.ning.com
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in the 2nd hour, 6pm CST radio interview
ahhh they're playing our interview in the 2nd hour 6pm CST, stay tuned and rock out! http://metalheadradio.ning.com
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radio interview in 1 hour
in 1 hour the 1st Oblivion Myth radio interview of 2016! TUNE IN! http://metalheadradio.ning.com
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Radio Interview this Thursday March 24th at 5pm CST
Tune in this Thursday, March 24th, at 5pm CST to Breaking Metal Radio for the 1st in a long time radio interview with Oblivion Myth vocalist Tim McDonald and guitarist Keith Smith with DJ hosts Kyle Nidiffer and Kevin Newman with Breaking Metal. There are special surprises in the show, tune in and turn it up! http://metalheadradio.ning.com
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Happy New Album part 3 of 3
What's left? We haven't heard the final mixes yet. We haven't done our photo shoot yet. We haven't gotten a final cover art / CD booklet design, although we are working on it, and we haven't sent this to the printers to have physical CDs made. We need new tshirts. Looks like that will happen in February.
If all goes well, we release in March 2016. This has taken much longer than I expected, but we think it will be worth it. We want Andy to take all the time he needs to do the best job he can.
Hopefully March will begin our promotional campaign for this CD. We need to perform live, and we need to sell some merch to offset our production costs. All just realities of this business.
It's funny because to me, these songs are already a year old it seems, and I am already thinking about the next CD, the next batch of songs, and what comes after this. I hope that we'll make this an annual thing, and I hope we'll return to the studio this fall for our 3rd CD. I've already got several songs in mind, and so does Keith. We might just throw a ballad at you next time :)
God Bless You all in Jesus' name...
Tim McDonald Oblivion Myth
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i cant wait to hear it! i know how hard everyone hasw worked to make this project a success!!!
i cant wait to hear it! i know how hard everyone has worked to make this project a success!!!
Happy New Album part 2 of 3
For me, this is the fulfillment of an awful long career that's gone nowhere. But here I am still slugging it out trying to do something and find little ways to hop back on stage and do what I enjoy. It's surprisingly hard to do this. To be in a band. To keep the band together. To get a gig. To play the gig. Remarkably difficult to build it up and keep it going. It's really a "coalition of the willing" because there isn't really any money in playing music anymore, if there ever was, those days are gone for all but the 1% at the top of the industry. When you don't get paid much, or you can't pay much, then you are dealing with people who either want to do this for the love of music and art, or they don't. Finding good players like that isn't easy.
I know Keith particularly has been trying to get this 2nd album going for quite some time now, and I have had strong feelings of being sent to help get this done, I have some particular things I can contribute to the effort, and help push it over the top. Since we aren't a "signed" band with label support (whatever it is they actually do for you...) we are funding this out of our own pockets. Since we have actual jobs, recording has happened on weekends only. That's really why this CD has taken nearly half a year to be completed. I know Bob has been there much of the way with Keith and they are such cool guys, I feel inspired to help get this done, to be the X factor, to push it over the top and make it really happen. Obviously we are all doing work here, all contributing here, all paying out of our own pockets here, I can't take any more than my own slice of credit, but I definitely feel like I was sent to get this done and make it finally happen... the long-awaited 2nd CD for Oblivion Myth.
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