Is this the end?

It’s not what you think.

I can’t believe that it has been over ten years since I started doing music again, and four years since our first album dropped. (November 13th, 2020). In that time we’ve released three full albums, five singles and six Christmas songs. That’s around 586 minutes worth of music. We’ve also released five videos (not including the animated ones). That’s a lot of time. But that time is not including the countless hours behind the scenes of creating the artwork, shooting the videos, updating the site and social media posts, etc. It’s been a solid five years of work for us. In that time we made some fans and we have our CDs all across the US and a couple of places internationally. Not bad.

Originally when I started out, I just wanted an outlet to share some of my music, and see if anyone liked it. But I tend to try and be as professional as I can, so I went with a full album right off the bat. I tried to offer the best experience and the best art that I could on a limited budget. Everything you see and hear, is 100% us. There’s been no help from outside sources. And that can be good or bad depending on how you look at it.

With the first album “Warpriest”, I just wanted to be able to get an album out. With the second, “Dark Ages”, I wanted to be able to do it again and expand on our sound. With the release of “Gloombreaker”, I think we released the most personal album and stretched ourselves a bit in the process. I took some chances with things that in the end I think worked. I knew that it was pretty much going to be our last album. I feel that three is a good number to end with.

All this to say that this is going to be our last album. Especially a physical CD. It’s far too much work on our end, and to be honest the pay off is not that great. Sales wise this was probably our best, but it just covers costs, and after the initial surge, it drops to barely a trickle. We didn’t do this to make money, we knew that wasn’t going to happen. But it’s nice to see something for you effort. In the end, we just never seem to gain any traction. Maybe that just shows that we are not that good, which I can accept. We knew we had weaknesses and had a lot to improve on. Sometimes we thought it was because we didn’t play out live. Live is a great way to get fans. We’ve always felt that we were a niche in a niche of a niche and couldn’t expect a big fan base. Not to mention that the algorithms in social media end up with you working harder and not really getting anywhere. This time around we had hoped that we were building up momentum, but it just never really worked out. Fans don’t really share our music with others. People would ask to interview us, and then never contact back. And the three reviews that we finally got, ripped us to shreds (which we don’t use to validate us, but it still stinks*) And in this last year It’s disheartening to put in all this work and see A.I. “music” on YouTube get more views than our music.

Music is part of us and something that we will continue to do no matter what, but we will probably go to releasing some singles here and there with maybe some merch. In the spring of 2025, the website will go down and I’ll have to find another way to sell merch that is cost effective (free).

We appreciate everyone that has bought our music and merch and given us a listen. It has made the time worth while. Stay metal. \m/w\m/

*Out of all the places we submitted our album for reviews, only one responded. The other two reviews seemed too much like the first review, which seemed like they were just copycatting the first.