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Tymon
Forum Newbie Joined: January 17 2009 Location: The Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 11 |
Topic: Exivious - featuring members of Cynic & Textures Posted: January 17 2009 at 10:42 |
EXIVIOUS announces debut album, to be released in May 2009.
Fusionmetal - A relatively new and unexplored genre in the world of metal. Exivious marks a first to truly marry jazzfusion with metal into a coherent new style. Featuring members of legendary US prog band CYNIC and Dutch metallers TEXTURES, Exivious isn't an over the top math metal band and certainly isn't a loungy jazz combo either. But expect everything in between! With a jazzfusion backbone Exivious uses freaky metal riffs to decorate their organic eruption of free improvisations and complex rhythms. Guitarist Tymon comments: "We finally managed to transform a vision I had a long time ago into 9 intense and fiery songs. There's an immense amount of information in there that will definitely take more than one spin in your CD player to comprehend!" The band will release the album independently to preserve 100% creative freedom. This is not only evident in their music but also in the artwork. Their self titled debut will appear in a limited 1000 numbered copies, each single copy bundled with its own unique artwork. An mp3 stream of the song “Waves Of Thought” is available on the Exivious website and myspace now! Exivious is: Tymon (Cynic) – guitar Michel Nienhuis (ex-Sengaia) – guitar Robin Zielhorst (Cynic, ex-Blue Man Group) - bass Stef Broks (Textures) – drums www.exivious.net www.myspace.com/exivious First off: My apologies for the shameless self promotion! I hope you guys will understand our position as an independent band without a record company behind us to promote us. Anyways, I hope you guys will dig our stuff! If there's any questions, gear related, recording related or whatever, feel free to ask! Cheers, Tymon Edited by Tymon - January 17 2009 at 10:43 |
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DatM
Forum Groupie Joined: November 19 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Status: Offline Points: 95 |
Posted: January 17 2009 at 12:37 |
Tymon, awesome music! Saw Cynic in Berlin, great show, although Paul seemed to be a bit under the weather.
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Bj-1
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Posted: January 17 2009 at 12:51 |
Ahh, finally! I've been waiting for this ever since hearing Exivious's very Cynic influenced demo EP a few years ago!
Really nice stuff! I liked "Waves of Thought" a lot and Im looking forward to hear the rest of the album.
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Mr ProgFreak
Forum Senior Member Joined: November 08 2008 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 5195 |
Posted: January 17 2009 at 13:28 |
I'm curious though ... why only 1000 copies? I mean, it sounds pretty elitary to me. You could also sell a basic version at eMusic and other download stores ... that way you could expose more people to the music.
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Tymon
Forum Newbie Joined: January 17 2009 Location: The Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 11 |
Posted: January 17 2009 at 13:46 |
Thanks guys!
Why only 1000? Well, there's a number of reasons why we did that. But the main reason is we're a new band, we're releasing it ourselves without a label to back us up and we're limited financially. We wanted to so something special though, not a normal plastic jewel case or digipack. So 1000 seemed like the best choice. If there's more demand we'll release a digipack version later. |
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Mr ProgFreak
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Posted: January 17 2009 at 13:48 |
^ ok, but you could release a download version without any restrictions of quantity.
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Tymon
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Posted: January 17 2009 at 13:51 |
We are doing that! :)
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Mr ProgFreak
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Posted: January 17 2009 at 13:56 |
^ that's good to hear! Will you publish the album on eMusic too - or just the more expensive portals like iTunes?
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aniwolfe
Forum Newbie Joined: June 27 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 19 |
Posted: January 18 2009 at 02:08 |
Just went to myspace and heard the track on there...VERY IMPRESSIVE!
Will buy CD on release date |
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Plankowner
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Posted: January 18 2009 at 08:04 |
Will you let us know when the pre-order is available? Would love a copy myself...
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Tymon
Forum Newbie Joined: January 17 2009 Location: The Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 11 |
Posted: January 20 2009 at 16:55 |
Thanks guys! Pre-orders will start March 1st. I'll swing by to remind everyone on this forum though ;)
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blueburger
Forum Newbie Joined: August 30 2008 Status: Offline Points: 3 |
Posted: March 02 2009 at 19:07 |
Awsome! Great news, Ive been visiting the exivious home page for about a year now and everytime I get a "new album comming next spring" messege, Couldn't find any info on the bands progress either, Ive heard a few off the demo and have to say that the jazz parts are amazing, So are the metal parts, Bands like yours and Continuo Renacer and other jazz metal bands are very underated and deserve alot of respect, I cant wait, Thanks.
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blueburger
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Posted: March 02 2009 at 19:17 |
So is Eyesight and Shapeless Thoughts, The inner child and Without your name going to be on the album? This is going to be one on the best instrumental jazz/metal albums ever, There is definately not enough of them. |
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Tymon
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Posted: March 03 2009 at 02:31 |
Wow, someone who knows our past :) No, those songs will not be on there. I probably through away3 full albums worth of songs before I finally settled with the songs that ended up on our album haha.
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blueburger
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Posted: March 08 2009 at 23:22 |
"I probably through away3 full albums worth of songs before I finally settled "
Damn! I would love to hear the ones that you threw away, Just e-mial them to me! HEHE, Anyways tomorrow morning im going to pre order your new one, Cant wait. Waves Of Thought sounds insane, The jazz compliments the metal and vice verse. Edited by blueburger - March 10 2009 at 21:27 |
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Tymon
Forum Newbie Joined: January 17 2009 Location: The Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 11 |
Posted: March 12 2009 at 09:19 |
Hey guys, we just put a new song online on our site exivious and our MySpace. Curious to hear your reactions! In other news, here's our 2nd press release that will go out today:
--------------------------------------------- EXIVIOUS album release date & eBay auction Fusionmetal band Exivious (featuring members of CYNIC and TEXTURES) will release their debut album May 11th through exivious and MySpace. Their self titled album will appear in a limited 1000 numbered copies, each single copy bundled with its own unique artwork. Album number 1 to 10 will be sold through eBay auction starting May 1st and ending on May 10th. This first batch of albums will be bundled with 2 guitar picks and a drum stick, all signed by the band. A second song, Asurim, is available on the Exivious website and MySpace now! With Waves Of Thought being one of the catchy songs on the album, the obscure fusion based Asurim will show another side of Exivious. Exivious tracklisting: 1. Ripple Of A Tear 2. Time And Its Changes 3. Asurim 4. All That Surrounds pt1 5. Waves Of Thought 6. The Path 7. All That Surrounds pt2 8. Embrace The Unknown (feat. Paul Masvidal of Cynic) 9. An Elusive Need You can place your pre-order right now!! |
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Tymon
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Posted: March 27 2009 at 05:10 |
We've uploaded a short documentary style video to youtube, check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sFn_B5r9ZM Edited by Tymon - March 27 2009 at 05:13 |
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Bj-1
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Posted: April 10 2009 at 12:45 |
Nice one!
I really have high hopes for your album. I must add that I can't possibly be disappointed based on the samples in this video.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
Prog Reviewer Joined: December 24 2007 Location: Ukraine Status: Offline Points: 25210 |
Posted: April 10 2009 at 12:52 |
Tymon, sell me your Fractal Audio Axe FX Ultra, bro. 1250 USD and I'll pay shipping to Australia.
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Tymon
Forum Newbie Joined: January 17 2009 Location: The Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 11 |
Posted: May 08 2009 at 15:22 |
The release date is coming near! All pre-ordered copies have been sent out, so they should reach you guys in a couple of days. Thanks again to everyone who pre-ordered our album!
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