Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

[djciano]

Got any long sleeve shirts for sale?

Just the hoodies. We're down to 2 Large Zipup hoodies in both graphics, and potentially 1 XL and 1 3XL. The 3XL is the yellow/green lab graphic, but I'm not sure about the XL (not sure=both if it still remains unsold and what graphic it's got). I can check when I get home from work tonight.


To be clear, I'm not trying to sell them in this forum...I'm a supporting member, but I'm not trying to game the system or be that guy. I'm not gonna NOT sell them if any of y'all want one tho

 

[djciano]

Following. Let me know when/where the shirts will be available on-line

Dude they're going so fast it's been PayPal and honor system so far. We haven't had a chance to build the website yet, which would be a simple html transaction site to lend credibility and they're already over half gone

If we do another run, it'll be supported by a website and I'll announce it to make sure everything knows it legit.

The sale wasn't overwhelming or anything, but it was close!!

 

[rutrho]

still got a large? I love me some hoodies...

 

[djciano]

I'm almost positive we do unless my counterpart sold it already. I'm checking but it might be a minute before I hear back. I'll edit this response with the confirmation. My job is in distribution so not having immediate access to inventory stats drives me CRAZY.

 

[socialleper]

I don't play in a doom/stoner band anymore even though I still listen to the music.
My very-hard-to-categorize metal band is releasing these two songs today. I would appreciate it if you annoyed everyone around you by playing them at unbearable volumes.
I did the final mix and mastering myself.

 

[promdates]

So we made shirts first.

If you can get me a tank or a cutoff v-neck I'll 100% wear it for some gigs.

 

[Kriegs]

I don't play in a doom/stoner band anymore even though I still listen to the music.
My very-hard-to-categorize metal band is releasing these two songs today. I would appreciate it if you annoyed everyone around you by playing them at unbearable volumes.
I did the final mix and mastering myself.

Nice! 9th Street Malice makes me want to rage, stomp & windmill around the office. I'll spare my co-workers that, though

 

[lucas303]

I don't play in a doom/stoner band anymore even though I still listen to the music.
My very-hard-to-categorize metal band is releasing these two songs today. I would appreciate it if you annoyed everyone around you by playing them at unbearable volumes.
I did the final mix and mastering myself.

Didn't you post earlier mixes of this for comment? It sounds familiar. If it's the same stuff you posted previously, then this is definitely a noticeable improvement over your earlier mixes.

I'm digging it...perfect for getting me in the mood to buy Snapcase tickets when they go on sale today.

 

[djciano]

If you can get me a tank or a cutoff v-neck I'll 100% wear it for some gigs.

For 20 plus shipping, I'll personally cut off the sleeves myself. It'll look doomy as hell (read: like a right-handed child with a saw for a left hand tried to do it upside-down and blindfolded). Or, I leave the sleeves on and you do the cutoff...

 

[promdates]

For 20 plus shipping, I'll personally cut off the sleeves myself. It'll look doomy as hell (read: like a right-handed child with a saw for a left hand tried to do it upside-down and blindfolded). Or, I leave the sleeves on and you do the cutoff...

Maaaaaaan, really tempted for that look...

 

[socialleper]

Nice! 9th Street Malice makes me want to rage, stomp & windmill around the office. I'll spare my co-workers that, though

Don't.

 

[socialleper]

Didn't you post earlier mixes of this for comment? It sounds familiar. If it's the same stuff you posted previously, then this is definitely a noticeable improvement over your earlier mixes.

I'm digging it...perfect for getting me in the mood to buy Snapcase tickets when they go on sale today.

Yes. 9th St Malice was what I was working on last month. I applied what I learned from that to Sacrificial Camouflage. I like how they turned out. I had to do some digital voodoo to fix up the drums. The next time around I will be able to be part of the engineering. I will try to get a more focused guitar sound.
It is good that it is memorable enough that you can recognize it weeks later

 

[Novarocker]

Guys. There's no rules in Doom. I think this is a universally accepted truth. So. A buddy and I are trying something. We're a (temporarily) drummer-less band, but we're looking. Our main goal is to make enough money in this Doom project to fund a small run of vinyls for the first and possibly only album, and play the album out (provided a drummer can be found). We both have other projects and full time jobs so this is 100% a labor of love and done for our hearts, not our wallets. A self-contained a doom-bubble, if you will.

That being said, I'm going to brag for a minute.

Like I said, there's no real rules. So we made shirts first. It's a limited run as a test to see if it's a sustainable method of cash to help support the project. Right now it's set at break-even pricing and in 2 days we've sold about half of the product.

Second, if anybody wants to give us a follow on Instagram, I'm @Daniel_doom_Louis and he's at @drdoomsdad . I'd greatly appreciate and accepta all criticism of the stuff we've been cobbling together!

I've included a link to a youtube scratch track below, as well as an image of the hoodies/shirts we had done up.

Sorry for being so braggadocious, this is the first time I've had "merch," and my wife 10000000% does not care. Y'all are the only people I know who might give a sh*t about any user's doomy accomplishments!

Rad! You have the space one with purple shirt in L?

The art kinda reminds me of a darker version of guardians of the galaxy.

Pretty much, yeah. People are always amazed at how chill I am when I tell them I listen to “angry” music. I tell them the music is angry so I din’t have to be. It’s cathartic. It’s all different ways of dealing with crap. That’s why I love me some metal...

Same here. Totally get your earlier post too. Mad props to you. What blows my mind about my wife's school is almost none of the ones that do the crazy stuff are special needs. I have heard that some of the home life's are a bit wack though, so I understand where it can come from.

 

[ihaveaquestion]

My very-hard-to-categorize metal band

Not hard at all, it is clearly a nu blackened post grindcore with dad rock guitar solos band

 

[socialleper]

Not hard at all, it is clearly a nu blackened post grindcore with dad rock guitar solos band

Obviously.
We are leading the NBPGDR wave.

 

[bassboysam]

i can't wait for all the Post NBPGDR bands to emerge

 

[socialleper]

i can't wait for all the Post NBPGDR bands to emerge

Wait...if you have a post-post genre, does it become a pre-genre?

 

[lucas303]

Wait...if you have a post-post genre, does it become a pre-genre?

Pre-Post Post NBPGDR

 

[BurtMacklinFBI]

I don't play in a doom/stoner band anymore even though I still listen to the music.
My very-hard-to-categorize metal band is releasing these two songs today. I would appreciate it if you annoyed everyone around you by playing them at unbearable volumes.
I did the final mix and mastering myself.

Damn, that is some tasty guitar and bass tones there. Really nicely mixed.

 

[JoeVictim]

Is that the normal route bands take? Personally I always started playing once we had a good 45min sets worth of music. Built some hype and funds from shows, then put that down on a record and had a release party/show we promoted the daylights out of. Granted we were always broke.

I dig your approach, more collected.

As one who has only done bands via the normal formula of, get just enough material to play a show, continue to play on the strength of the same songs for a year or more...

I have decided that this is the best way to gain the most steam in a short period (to the public) as possible. I started thinking, who do some of these bands appear out of nowhere and are just on festivals...? I started looking at the trends. This seems like the best way to approach it and try to make it. I got one shot to get this right. Hopefully this will stick.

Guitar player got a new mic last night and it makes so much difference. We could honestly record on an iphone and it would sound better than most black metal albums.