To our friends and fans. Promotors and bookers. And to those it may concern:
Five months ago we entered the studio to record our fourth full-length album at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg.
Five months ago we poured our hearts out on something we've been working on for the past year; an album that would bring us band members closer together, more than we ever thought it would. It is something we are extremely proud of. This is an album that should have seen the light of day by now. Sadly it hasn't.
During this time we have been struggling with our former record label/management for some time. We signed with them way back in 2008 and released three albums on their label. Even though we pretty quickly realized that this wasn't the management we thought it would be, we had a signed contract that we needed to honor. The label and management shot down every plan or idea we had, if it wasn't to their liking or met with their personal preferences. This is how we travelled for many, many years.
When our contract expired we decided to proceed on our own, be masters of our own work and do it ourselves. Try to make this work without a management or a record label. It was either that or chose to drown together with the label/management’s narrow visions, with only short-term money at sight. We'd been a "Do It Yourself"-band pretty much since day one anyway, so how much different could it be?
During these last couple of years a lot of money has been turned around but very little has come to the benefit of us band members.
Finally freed from our label/management we released our first single 'Dark Clouds' in the beginning of April (in connection to a tour we were booked on). This is were the problems started.
Our former management/label wrongly claimed that we are under an agreement and demanded the rights to our single (and whole album). They argue that we needed to pay them a large amount of money in order to stop the take down of the track on digital services, such as Spotify and I-Tunes.
We will however persevere to endeavor for the love of music and our fans!
So on July 1st we will announce album details. Artwork, title and release date.
We will soon launch a pre-order campaign and to all of you who are fans of our band please support this campaign. This album will cost us loads for the second time since we now need to re-record the album and we really need your help this time around.
We hate to have let you down due to internal problems, but the one thing we can promise you all; we will not give up! We trust in your support and your love to our music.
The album will be released and the band will live on.
Thank you for your understandings.
xxx
Robert, Gabriel, Gustav, Jerry and Filip.
Photo: Lucas Englund