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Best Metal'ish albums of 2022

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We use the term Metal’ish because some of our favorite albums could be considered metal adjacent, not metal necessarily, but awesome none-the-less and worthy of this list. We are always on the hunt for the next awesome metal album and this year there was no shortage of great stuff, in fact, this list could have been a lot longer. Finding all these albums on our own would be near impossible. What we do is wait until all the YouTube metal nerds put out their metal lists and we watch them - 20 or so videos so far -  and any albums we haven’t heard yet, we check them out. Basically we let them find all the good albums that we missed and then check them out and see what we think. The criteria for this list is easy: is it a kick ass album? Yes or no? If no, then it’s probably power metal. If yes, we listen to it until we get sick of it. Anyways, here is the list of top metal’ish albums of 2022. We are reversing a trend and instead of making you wait to see what is #1, we will just start ther
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UNKNOWN ENTITIES ALBUMS 1-4

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Hello friends, fans and family! It's not rare for a band to put out four albums but it is rare for a new band to do that in less than six months. If we put as much work into promoting ourselves, as we did with our music, then we would be a hell of a lot more popular.  Look, we are just as surprised as you are, that we have not only put out four albums in less than six months, we've put out four really great albums and hope that sometime you will give them a listen because we are proud of what we have accomplished thus far.  Albums 5 and 6 will arrive soon. For all the people who have shown an interest in purchasing a shirt, we now have a place to get them done and they do a great job. Pick a design and send us your shirt size. Shirts are $25 and will be shipped directly to your house from the manufacturer. You can choose any of the four album covers or the crazy design by Poopyshores. In a rare bit of good news, we finally won the battle with our digital distributor, CD Baby, a
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BINARY STAR - UNKNOWN ENTITIES 2ND ALBUM!

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  Hello friends and family! We are back with our second album, BINARY STAR! The release date is April 23, 2022. This is the promo video we made for the album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8i_h9bZ17E This album shows us growing in all aspects of songwriting and production. We have stepped the quality up and we worked hard to make it flow well together. It's hard to believe that until a couple months ago, we had never tried making music together and now we are releasing our second album.  And this one is a really good! You can hear the full album stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qquoclw8d4 If you want to hear the tracks separately, you can listen to them on our new Youtube page: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL77B2i5Q0aGEECw23l9cGgaP_lb9tabLN If you want to support our efforts to take over the world: https://unknownentities.bandcamp.com/album/binary-star Or you can buy some of our sweet merchandise! We still have a couple of the original batch of shirts left, in
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UNKNOWN ENTITIES - debut album NOW AVAILABLE!

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 Hello Family and Friends! As you can imagine, nothing ever goes off without a hitch, and our debut album, is the perfect example of that. We finished the album on New Years Eve, it's so long ago, that we've completed two more albums since then. In this case, the hold up has been caused by our distributor, CD Baby, who flagged a couple tracks because they matched another song. This is because the whole album is done with royalty-free samples and loops. They cost nothing to use, or download, and can be used for commercial work, like ours. The cool thing about royalty-free samples and loops is: every person on the planet has access to them and can do anything they want with it. It's actually super cool and no two musicians or groups will use them in the same ways, it's limitless really, what you can do with this stuff. In our case, we made three albums in less than three months. And they're really good, btw, you don't get to hear the crappy songs, just the good on
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UNKNOWN ENTITIES - Who they be?

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  A couple months ago, GMorph asked me to show him how to make beats. Three months later, we have two completed albums and a dozen or so throwaway tracks. Who are UNKNOWN ENTITIES ? UNKNOWN ENTITIES are instrumental hip hop, beat makers. The songs are instrumentals because we don't know any rappers. That's why we have songs like: Seriously, We Need to Find Some Rappers (Pt.1, 2 and 3).   What does the music sound like? Check out this video for the first track from our debut album. https://youtu.be/GGta9GzlTpM What is the process of making UNKNOWN ENTITIES music? It's not a sober process and often the next day, the songs are a complete surprise. "We did that yesterday?!"- me . "That's pretty good, I don't remember making that." - GMorph . When is the debut album coming out? Very soon.  We will have shirts and stickers but all that costs money. So, this might take a bit. Goals for UNKNOWN ENTITIES ? It would be great if we could find some rapper
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The Pineapple Girl - Audio Book Now Available!

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  A quick question for you. What do you think is the longest process of getting an audio book online, is it: a) conceiving, writing, editing the story? b) recording, narrating, editing the audio files? c) getting it to fit the specifications of ACX - digital distributor? The answer: C! a) I wrote/edited The Pineapple Girl in two days. b) I recorded it in one day, edited in another. Added music, made more edits, so it was a three day process. c) It took me almost two weeks to get it 'approved' by ACX, aka the company that is taking 60% of my profits, for doing basically nothing, except hosting my book. So, if you're wondering, I'll never use ACX again. Oh, and by the way, they own the rights to my book for 7 years. Lovely. Oh, and to get it on ACX, I first had to publish it as an eBook, through KDP, giving them more % of my $.  You can buy it here:  https://www.amazon.ca/Pineapple-Girl-Studio-Mike-ebook/dp/B092L4K6DJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=161980381
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GOGOLAK - Rising EP

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  Artwork by ADRIAN Great news everybody! The GOGOLAK - Rising EP is available, as of today, April 1, 2021.  You can buy, stream or listen to the album on all music hosting platforms, including Spotify, iTunes, Apple Tunes, etc.  You can find all the links in one place:  https://gogolak.hearnow.com And I know what you're thinking: who the hell is GOGOLAK?? Who and what is GOGOLAK? It started with a text: ADRIAN: "I came up with a cool band name, GOGOLAK." ME: "That's a pretty good name! I actually wrote a song today that would work with that name." ADRIAN: "Oh, cool." ME: "Actually, I think I could come up with enough material for a 3 song EP." I wrote/recorded a song a day, on my days off from work, and completed the bones of the album in three days. I still don't know what a GOGOLAK is? It's a modern psychedelic rock band, started with a text between two old friends. How do you pronounce the name? I don't know. I've neve
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