iron thrones - new stuff

I can't remember if i paid for their album or not, but i downloaded "visions of light" off of their website where they offer it for free or donation. all i gotta say, is GET THAT SHIT.


and while on that topic of them being unsigned and offering their album for free - i have something to say for that....
these are really transitionary and interesting times we live in. when i was a kid, to find new bands you had to march your ass down to the sketchy punk record store where all the "older kids" hung out and ask the kids working there what sounded like this band or that band, and asking recommendations. you bought albums to check it out. sure, there has always been DIY punk metal etc, but when i was a kid it was way more possible to make some money playing shows and selling records. now, while people will say otherwise by qualifying it with tons of preconditions, i just flat out assume that YOU CANNOT MAKE A DIME off of music, and when you do, it doesnt have anything to do with talent or quality of the music, but how you are marketed and how you are sold to the consuming public. as my homeboy immortal technique says "If you go platinum, it's got nuttin' to do wit' luck it just means that a million people are stupid as fuck".

and so in these changing times, how do we respond as musicians? do we throw a metallica-fit and say "OHHH NO WE ARE LOSING ROYALTIES BECAUSE OF DOWNLOADING! CALL THE FBI AND NSA!!!" or do we have to adapt and figure out how to be even more revolutionary than selling cds? we adapt, nukkah.

so i take it to mean iron thrones was saying F.U. to the record label system, the pay-to-play radio system, the download controversies, all of that, and just saying fuck, guys, we just want to do music. if this means we can get it to you the fastest and purest, then shit, its free.

so fuck yeah, distribute that shit, and support the band directly if you have the money to.

so on to today's video, i like how this is something they just wrote at one practice and recorded on a video camera, and it sounds better than anything i've done in my life. this is the kind of music that i get wet dreams off of imagining playing, but to them its just "we feel it's got a good framework to build off of."