First things first – the FLAC download should be working now.

All righty. So I did a little video log.  I tried to edit out the junk video at the beginning, but every time I rendered it, the video started too far after the beginning, so I decided not to waste any more time and let you have it RAW.  Here it is:

The project to which I was referring is xeraen which, by the way, I totally misspelled in the video, haha – I was rushing the video as I was already late for my dinner plans.  I’ve come up with some guidelines that I plan to follow for this creativity experiment.  Here they are in no particular order:

• The album must contain at least 8 songs.
• The album must be at least 40 minutes long.
• At least 4 of the songs must contain a significant amount of vocals.
• At least 2 of the songs with vocals must have lyrics.
• Any genre or combination thereof may be used.
• Each song should be as cohesive as possible (i.e. no concatenations of random riffs/parts/ideas).
• Show dynamic contrast not only within songs but also among different songs.

I believe those are enough rules for a first try.  I’m hoping this turns out well.  If it does, it may be something that I do more often.  So definitely be on the lookout for the results of this experiment!  =)

Happy Valentine’s Day, all!!

I hope it’s a good one for you. To celebrate, I’ve put up a video that we alluded to in a previous podcast – the video we shot while we were making our first podcast! I hope you guys dig it. Check out orderoftyr.com/youtube for more videos!

I just uploaded a video we made back when we were calling ourselves Flames of Destiny. It’s a game competition that features Michael, Bryce Hipp (our current live bassist), Tim Burbeck (former guitarist), and me.  Be sure to click the link which appears after the first video to see the rest of the videos in this competition!

For more of our videos, see our YouTube page!

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