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What's going on with this blog, here?

I haven't updated this thing in forever. Why? Because no one seems to read it or care. That said, it's still showing in the Last.FM page. Maybe I should just delete this from the Last.FM page and move on.

World Gone Dead: When's it coming out, already?

Well, we've been leading you guys on for a half a year now. Here's the thing. Lately we've been saying World Gone Dead will be released in March, and now it's looking more like April. Late April.

Here's the upside: it's going to be worth the wait.

The early builds of the new mixes we've been hearing are unbelievable... I am NOT on production, so you're finally safe from my horrible lack of mixing know-how. The drums are punchy and organic, the sound is truer, everything is heavier. I want to wait until we have the final mixes in-hand before we put these new versions up on the myspace. At that point the hype machine will really start cranking into gear.

Lich King Live

We've been doing the live shows for almost three months now and have a lot of shows coming up. The next one, on the 26th of March, is one we're very excited about: we're playing with our contemporaries and inferiors WITCHAVEN, RAZORMAZE and HATCHET. Anyone that's been following the new wave of thrash will tell you that's kinda a big show, and anyone on the east coast will tell you that a thrash show like this never happens. NEVER. This is a real anomaly, so if you're in a five-state radius, make the drive to catch this firestorm. We're planning to do a cover of a well-known song you might want to wear your dancing shoes for.

If / when you see us, look out for the new song BEHAVER. It's my opinion that this song is made for destroying live crowds. The final 35 seconds are going to leave you gasping in a cloud of your own powdered teeth. Behave yourselves.

Interview

We did an interview with DJ Shredder of Metal Assault Radio recently. Tom, Brian and Kevin showed up and mostly just got very silly. As of this writing it's not uploaded yet but keep checking this link to hear it when it's up.

Fourth Album update

Wait, what? Yep. We've been working on new material for the fourth album since December or so. We've got three songs in various stages of progress, and a buttload of ideas for other songs.

The Thing We Can't Talk About Yet

We can't talk about that yet.

Tour?

That's the plan. Problem is, we haven't done this before and trying to work out the logistics is like untying a knot while standing on top of a flagpole while meteors continually crush your skull into atoms. Summer's looking good, but we'll see what happens. A good thing would be if a more experienced band stepped up into a package tour with us and handled the details like booking and all that while we watch and learn. ...Hint hint.

And, once again: The Facebook page. Become a fan.

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...and that's pretty much it for now. I'm sure I've forgotten something, but meh. In case you haven't heard it before, stick this in your earholes.

World Gone Dead - good news and bad news

HIYA FOLKS. Thanks for withstanding the frenzy of promotion crap I've been doing recently. A number of circumstances have been aligning recently, none of them negative but having irritating side effects. In truth, Lich King's stock is shooting up right now and luck has been with us. Big things are in the works and I know I've been saying that for a while, but it's true.

So here's the bad news. World Gone Dead is getting delayed. Last you'd heard, it was coming out in mid-November. Now, it's looking like it'll be available in late January. There are two reasons. Our label dude has a trip coming up and he realized he'd only be able to process a few preorders before he has to leave for about three months. That means you couldn't have received your album until January without preordering anyway. The second reason is that we've decided to rerecord the album- the entire thing, minus solos and vocals (with luck) with the new, permanent live band. I've ditched the studio musician dicks whose arms can't stand up to heavy chugging. What with these guys being serious thrashers and now being the live band, I thought I might as well have them rerecord their parts for the album. Apparently the drummer's got some recording space and production knowledge and he can make it sound like it wasn't mixed by... y'know... me. The end result is going to be tighter and I think much better.

The above contains some of the good news. Here's more.

With the time we've got, now, we might just forge another song for the album. I'm starting to think up concepts.

Lich King live shows, teased back in late august, have been in the works since May. Not much has actually been done to further these until recently, when I shifted focus from the halfhearted studio guys Toxic Holocaust-style to this new group of guys. They're practicing feverishly, they sound great, we think alike and I no longer feel like the only member of the band. Apparently we're going to be ready for shows in December. I'm booking stuff now and hope to have some shows to announce soon. They'll mostly be in and around this area as we stretch our legs.

We just need that bassist.

I'm officially feeling out another new wave band on whether they'd be up for a tour. So far they've ignored my message. Let's see how long they let that go before I start flinging poo.

Lich King needs a bassist

If you play bass, like to thrash, can commute to the western MA area and aren't a douchebag, east coast thrash titans Lich King want to hear from you. You must have your own gear and be available to tour and travel. Live experience would be a plus.

Email lichkingmetal@gmail.com to set up an audition. Things are rolling fast so get moving.

Your artwork in the WORLD GONE DEAD booklet

This is an open call to all LK fans. Send in a doodle, oil painting, charcoal sketch, whatever to me and we'll put the best stuff in the new album's CD booklet. Here are the guidelines.

• Have the art be of the King doing something awesome, or of some other subject that ties in to LK songs or mythology or whatever.

• We're not necessarily looking for good art. Crappy art is just as fun. Do stick figures if you have to.

• Make the art big. 300 DPI is optimal. A tiny, shitty jpeg won't cut it.

• Submit the art to lichkingmetal@gmail.com asap. There's no deadline just yet, but make it soon.

• You're not getting paid and there's no prize for the best submission. Deal with it.

Obviously your art will live on through the centuries as this classic album is reprinted, remastered and reissued in perpetuity. This is your chance at immortality, so jump at it you spineless worm.

Ooh!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq5LHGy4yEY

TERROR CONSUMES is up... at last

Just put up the demo version of TERROR CONSUMES. This version's been around for about a half a year while I waited on the celebrity guest vocalist... who wound up letting me know he was no longer interested by ignoring repeated emails. Thanks dude.

So these vocals are the dummy vocals I put in just to show where the vocals went, and they're not so shabby. As it's a demo, almost everything's getting rerecorded.

Hell, I just realized this version might not even have the bass track. Funny.


What mind can't devour itself?
Atrophied ego, degenerate cells
Just beyond the curtain of dark
An unknown number, an unseen attack

Suggestions of something beyond
Moving about in dark attic rooms
Subconscious thought working against
Your own will
Terror Consumes

Dread's geometric design
Evolution's byproduct, sickening fear
The mind simply cannot abide
All of the things that it can't stop creating

Branches black against the sky
Brain is imprisoned and skull is a tomb
Beckoning arms of the night
Calling you
Terror Consumes

Terror Consumes

No release from horror
Recreation recombines
Charming by the light of day
By night it realigns

Anxiety will overcome
And all the world's askew
You can't see the ghost
But be assured, the ghost sees you

Pale radiance as day breaks again
Heaving a sigh as the witch takes its leave
Go hide in the hours of the sun
But time is a cycle, it's finite, and soon is it spent

On the horizon the sun
Is dying and red in a worsening gloom
You will return to the house
that you built
Terror Consumes

3rd album update

I gave an update a while back. Here's an updated update. The songs for the third album are currently (and in no particular order)

Terror Consumes
ED-209
Lich King III
A Storm of Swords
Waste
Act of War
annnd one that I finalized the arrangement for today. It might make the first track. It's called... Behaver.

We're unsure at this point as to whether the Aggressive Perfector cover is going in there or what... We're not too worried about it. Also? We might put on Grindwheel, which is a song we did about three or four years back, before we ever got serious about this stuff. It's got a slower sludgy thing going on. I think I can heavy it up a bit. There's no current title for the album. We're batting around some ideas.

The cover art is in progress and is about half done. I expect it to be done sometime over the next month. Here's a hint: It features the Lich King. It also features zombies. Gasp! Spoiler alert, LOL

So there, yer updated. Shaddap.

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