Regardless of genre, radio airplay is still one of the key steps of marketing a band. It creates awareness and drives sales, and hopefully finds fans. Of course, being a metal band creates interesting waters to navigate through.
Iron Thrones received a radio promotion campaign as part of winning the No Label Needed contest and [...]
As the winner of the No Label Needed Contest and Series, Iron Thrones received several merch designs based on The Wretched Sun EP artwork done by Sons of Nero. With item options ranging from baseball caps to booty shorts, the band opted to keep it simple, going with T-shirt and a zip hoodie.
This being the [...]
Among the many prizes given to the winner of the Scion No Label Needed Contest and series was a digital makeover, or redesign of their website and MySpace page.
Contest winner Iron Thrones unveiled their new website and MySpace designs this week to coincide with a pre-sale of The Wretched Sun, the EP they recorded at the [...]
As part of the No Label Needed series, The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Benjamin Weinman shared some thoughts on management. The Dillinger Escape Plan have acted as their own management for their entire career.
Why does Benjamin self-manage? That’s the kinda guy he is and always has been.
Is taking things into your own hands the best thing [...]
We continue to look at production of the Iron Thrones EP. The final piece to the recording is the vocals.
We’ll take a look and listen to vocalist Adam Clemans screaming. We’ll also hear from guitarist Steve Henningsgard about not screaming at times.
Once again, Will Putney continues to oversee things in the studio for Machine [...]
We continue to look at production of the Iron Thrones EP with a look at guitar and bass tracking. Steve Henningsgard will show us some of the things he used while laying down guitars while Curtis Parker will take us through tracking bass. Will Putney continues to oversee things in the studio for Machine Shop [...]
On the heels of last night’s Justin TV chat with Machine and Will Putney (which you can still watch) from Machine Shop Productions the No Label Needed series continues to look at production of the Iron Thrones EP.
We start with a look at drum tracking with Peter Clark of Iron Thrones and Will Putney.
The No Label Needed series will be holding a chat with producers Machine and Will from Machine Shop Productions is at 8pm EST tonight. You can view the stream below.
The chat is going to be with the crew of Machine Shop Productions. This includes Will Putney (Reign Supreme, Upon a Burning Body) who produced [...]
One of the prizes Iron Thrones won was the chance for a photo shoot from a professional photographer with the No Label Needed contest and series. Jeremy Saffer has taken photos of some of the best metal bands around; Every Time I Die and All That Remains for example.
Iron Thrones was able to apply marketing [...]
Pete and Curtis from Iron Thrones sat down with Jamie Roberts and Leo Lavoro from Big Machine Media, the public relations company that will be representing Iron Thrones, to get some pointers on running a press campaign. Here are highlights and tips to market your band.