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From Exile was essentially a studio project through 2009. Our newly finished effort, “Monolith”, has been met with praise from all parts of the world – truly a testament to the era in which we live and the capacity for an independent band to reach far and wide. Thanks to all of you who have stuck around and followed our progress. For a short list of reviews and coverage we have received, click here: fromexile.com/press/

With our record finally finished and available, we are preparing an epic From Exile live show for 2010.

But you knew that. Of course we are bringing this monster recording to life… But there are even bigger plans at work:

We are planning on releasing another recording, an EP, in the first half of 2010… More details to come, but I can divulge that it will be cover songs and it will be given away 100% for free on our website, http://www.fromexile.com . This mailing list will be the first place that the recording is exclusively available, along with behind the scenes studio footage.

Thank you all for your continued support; To quote one of the greatest rock singers of all time, “the show must go on!”

-Eric

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Monolith CD + T-Shirt $20:

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Shipping is included; Orders to be shipped November 27th.

And, you can, of course, listen to the record in full here:

Click here to purchase “Monolith” in mp3, FLAC, and a variety of other formats

Listen to the record in it’s entirety here;

Rock Band Network has released the software tools to enable independent musicians (scrubs like us) to code their own songs and make them available on the Rock Band Network. This is great news, and I am starting on putting the first From Exile song up as quickly as possible. I don’t even have an Xbox, but I’m sure someone does… right?

First up will be the title track of our upcoming release, Monolith.

Listen to it here (to warm up your chops):

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Then the fun stuff comes into play… After spending hours upon hours in a hot, steamy, dark room, huddled around a computer and countless other humming electro – toys with other stinky dudes who may or may not have bathed within the week (yourself included), agonizing and arguing over whether to use a dotted eighth note or sixlet feel to a 2nd bassline doesn’t really hold your attention the way it should. You lose focus. You forget that this recorded material is going to haunt you for a long time, for better or for worse… The hope is that it is a successful recording and will stick with you forever, but the fear is that, in the end, you won’t want it to.

Anyway, that’s why it is fun and important to change the pace and do something a little different once in a while. It lets the brain reset, and hopefully, if you are resourceful, you can still make something productive and unique out of it. In a couple weeks, when From Exile’s ‘Monolith’ is released, I’ll be getting into the gritty details of specific sounds on the record and where we were having fun.

Here’s an example; TOOL in the studio, annihilating a piano:

I loved this video because I had a similar run-in with a piano a couple years ago… It involved a pair of machetes and a bottle of whiskey, and although I do not have any video footage of this particular night (one, of many, that I probably should have been arrested), I did rip the ‘head off the dragon’, so to speak, and it resides at home with me to this day:

So, to my earlier point on recording experimentation, I had the opportunity to stop by my father’s shop and record some samples of buzz-saws and such for an as-of-yet-unnanounced project (TO BE RELEASED BY END OF YEAR!):

Here is some footage of us working with Eyal Levi on some experimental junk during the Monolith recording session (starts @ 1:38):

We were using key rings, a battlestation of delay pedals, and a glass pipe… bah, I guess I should stop there. I have a show tonight to prepare for!