Hey guys my band finally put our full length album on bandcamp, you can choose whatever you want to pay for it, or download it for free, whatever you think it's worth. Let me know feedback, I like feedback.

www.thoughtmachine1.bandcamp.com


Edited by ExittheLemming - March 06 2012 at 05:08

MattGuitat wrote: Those are some proggy song titles...

Haha, those titles are proggy as balls mate. I was waiting for "The Empire of Glass Soldiers march on Heaven's Fireplace Pt. I of XII"

We were deemed not progressive enough by progarchives so we didn't get included yet... but the songs that were up at the time did not properly illustrate what our overall sound was, i think the tunes that were up were personal gods, persuasion and chalk lines... which are our least progressive tunes. However do you think they would take another look at it since I have more representative material up? 

We have a new guitar player and have been working on new stuff for a while, really optimistic about the next album, which is a concept

Prog_Bassist wrote: We were deemed not progressive enough by progarchives so we didn't get included yet... but the songs that were up at the time did not properly illustrate what our overall sound was, i think the tunes that were up were personal gods, persuasion and chalk lines... which are our least progressive tunes. However do you think they would take another look at it since I have more representative material up?

Since it was initially rejected by the team it might take a while... but from what I hear (based on The Fall of House Atreides and Gordian Knot) I'd say you are Neo-Prog (not my favorite Prog sub-genre but I am really enjoying your album!).... IMO you belong to Prog Archives! (but I am not in the Neo-Prog team, so I can't do much about it).

If "Maiden Voyage" is new you can try to speed things up by suggesting the group again arguing that you have new material out....

Since the very first post of Prog_Bassist I thought that hey deserve a place in neo-prog (but he says that this is not how they consider themselves).

what dat mean? haha 

haha, brutal lol. honestly though I don't really see why we wouldn't be included...we were reviewed in progression magazine...13 out of 16... i dunno whatever, let's see how she plays out. prob will have a live video sometime this week to post.

I bumped the initial suggestion for you guys in the New Bands & Artists forum on 10th Jan: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=70120. Andy replied thus: 'Thought Machine has been thrown into the pits of discussion... which means we won't get to a final decision most likely for a little while, until after we've cleared our back log. I voted move to crossover (IIRC), and if Karl or Cesar choose to vote move they'd be moved, but they're not our priority right now'.He said in a reply to me in another thread (for 'Not Otherwise Specified' - another artist with an album that was most definitely regarded by everyone as decent enough prog, but which no team seemed willing to accept...) that his plan was to clear and add all bands with 2011 albums before February 20th this year. Well hopefully that has now been achieved...I guess the problem in your case is that your album wasn't released in 2011, but well beforehand!!  Your stuff is prog without a doubt, and as far as I'm concerned it belongs in our archives. Hopefully, now the voting appears to have started, we'll finally get things sorted out for you.

Edited by yam yam - March 05 2012 at 19:01