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Haste the Day on crowdfunding: ‘None of us expected it to kick off so fast’

by Bram Teitelman | Aug 19, 2014 | Crowdfunding, Interviews, News

[youtube]http://youtu.be/dX7mRY6A6jU[/youtube] Yesterday, recently-reunited Christian metalcore band Haste the Day made headlines when it was revealed that in just two days of crowdfunding their new album, they’d already made $33,000 of their $65,000 goal...

Rob Zombie will crowd-fund his next horror film “31”

by Metal Insider | Jul 31, 2014 | Crowdfunding, News

When he’s not rocking stages with some of the most elaborate set pieces and wildly costumed support cast known to music, Rob Zombie is a horror movie director with an impressive resume to his name. His last film was 2013’s The Lords of Salem, which he...

Jari Mäenpää of Wintersun discusses crowd-funding while on a label contract

by Metal Insider | Jul 31, 2014 | Controversy, Crowdfunding, News

Two years after the release of Wintersun’s second album, Time I, fans are anxiously waiting for information regarding the release of its follow-up, Time II. Today, band mastermind Jari Mäenpää took to Facebook to discuss the obstacles facing the album’s...

Acrassicauda successfully crowdfunds debut album

by Bram Teitelman | Jul 23, 2014 | Crowdfunding

Iraqi metal band Acrassicauda are no strangers to overcoming adversity. They rose to fame in 2007 as the first Iraqi metal band, where dressing in metal shirts and playing shows was seen as an act of defiance. Now they’ve persevered again, this time successfully...

Despite major label $, Unlocking the Truth crowd-funding EP

by Bram Teitelman | Jul 21, 2014 | Crowdfunding, News, Updates

Last week, the talk of the music industry was a band with a combined age of 38. Preteen Brooklyn trio Unlocking the Truth were signed to a subsidiary of Sony for a deal that was reported to be worth $1.7 million. We detailed the ways in which they probably...

Ne Obliviscaris to embark on successfully crowd funded world tour

by Zach Fehl | Jul 1, 2014 | Crowdfunding, News, Touring, Video

This week Australian extreme prog metallers Ne Obliviscaris started a crowdfunding campaign to raise A$40,000 (US $37,936) so that they could go on a world tour, reports Metal Underground. As another example of crowdfunding gone horribly right (ex. Devin Townsend’s...
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