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I would like to introduce Relative Awareness.This is my project and i've been working on this for almosttwo years now. My debut album will be released on 1 september 2014The style of this project is a mixture of styles i like. For example trash, death, prog metal. But there are also some clean parts in there. Clean vocal, grunt vocals, combined with some 70s organs. this is just an example.If you wan't some more info you can go to the following site:https://www.facebook.com/RelativeAwarenessYou can listen to one of the songs that will appear on the debut album here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZJsymNvedkPlease let me know what you think of it.

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Hey Relative Awareness, I know that what I am about to say is going to sound like a joke, but it is truly how I feel about your thing. If this was staged as an opera with grotesque hand puppets, and focused on the protagonists failure to succeed in what ever corporate hell contains him, I would watch it for 40 minutes, but only if I didn't have to watch it alone, because I would need someone else to be watching it with to prove that is was legitimate art, otherwise I might feel as though I was wasting my time on something half baked. The swirling around background and barrage of information in the video makes me think that this is patchwork drivel made with too much computer aid and not soulful, though I see that you have players and there is musical skill involved. I appreciate that you may be aiming for soul crushing technical desperation, but you are going to need hand crafted puppets to distract me from your technical pinwheel. Thanks for your post.

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@GorboGorbozeI see what you mean. I didn't make this video. The label did.They have a vision of how stuff should look like. It’s notthat i have nothing to say but in case of this video i agreedon what was made for me and i felt it fit the song really well.But i appreciate your comment. That means you gave it some attention.And even though i don’t expect from everybody to like this. I do appreciatethe fact that people take the time to look and listen to it. I know that itshard as a young band to get some attention. Positive or not i know itsnot everybody’s taste. But that’s what music is about. And i have to deal with that. But i don't mind. It’s all part of the job ;)

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My mom didn't even ask me to go to mass' date=' and neither of my parents argued about anything for the whole week. I got acclimated to using a tablet for sketching and just generally had a great time.[/quote'] No arguments? Gosh, what did you do for entertainment? ;) I enjoy drawing in my phone or on the laptop, for certain things, though I do vastly prefer physical media unless there's a specific reason for something to be digital. I'm planning to see my family in early October, and I hope to spend a bunch of time with my brother, we don't get to see one another nearly enough. Also, I'm happy you're back, BAN has been on hiatus and it's been very slow the last few days. Great thread this is turning into. :D
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