Royal Dead’s new album, Enough Noise to Wake the Dead, is now available! D’ mixed and produced this album. You can purchase it from the KGM shop.

D’s new work, Divine Reich’s An American Tragedy has been released! You can purchase it from the KGM shop.

The past year’s worth of music writing goes off to the pressing plant tomorrow.
Divine Reich’s An American Tragedy.
This album features….
13 songs.
40+ different guitar tones.
99.999999999999% analog synths.
1 Linn LM-1 on 3 tracks.
ZERO vocal pitch correction.
Recorded entirely in my home studio.
One song that is a reinterpretation of a song I originally recorded with the first band Kristian and I were in together. It’s very different from the original.
Lyrical content that’s incendiary, meaningful, relatable. Some of it will piss people off.
Lots of experimentation in performance and recording techniques.
One instrument that’s older than anyone in the band.
One song that contains guest contributions by Chris Randall (Sister Machine Gun/Micronaut) and Eddie Suicide (Royal Dead).
The last song recorded was done in an unsual way to increase the isolation implied by the lyrics (You’ll have to ask [K] about it).
All music written by me.
Did I mention this album is guitar heavy? And very glitchy.
One thing we’ve been told from people who’ve heard it is “It’s not easy classified in a genre, there’s nothing out there right now like it”. This is definitely a ROCK album with influences from anything from glitch, sunset strip rock, 1980′s Prince, drum n bass, electroclash to 1970′s David Bowie.
I’m excited and a bit nervous. It’s been awhile since music of my own has been released to the public…let’s review some history.
2003 Deviant’s debut release Absenta, some compilation CD appearances
2004 One promotional release by Deviant and some remix work. Had some music appear in film and tv. Deviant broken up, Divine Reich forms in it’s first incarnation and garners attention from labels. Breaks up. I spend a lot of time drinking and hating music.
2005 – 2006 Deviant reforms, spent a year writing and recording a Deviant album that got scrapped. One Deviant track surfaced to appear on compilation stuff. Worked on Royal Dead’s 1st EP. Band that I worked on since 2002 broke up.
2006 – 2007 Divine Reich reformed. Producing Royal Dead’s full length album and writing/producing Divine Reich’s full length. Formed a record label with my wife/manager/partner Jolene.
I’m sure a lot of people will love it. I’m sure some people will hate it. I’m sure I’ll get some hate mail. But art isn’t safe, art is dangerous.
It’s been a long road but this album is truely an effort that I’m proud to have worked on.

A limited CD single Arcadia has been officially released featuring tracks off the upcoming album Divine Reich album An American Tragedy as well as remixes and a cover of a Prince song exclusive to this release. Pressing has been limited to 100 copies.

D’ will be on KVCU’s Remission show on Friday, September 1st, 2006. Read more about it.

D’s band Deviant has been nominated to play at the 2006 Westword Music Showcase!

For those of you not familiar with the Westword, it’s THE source for music, arts, and film reviews and shows in Colorado so this is a big event.

Please take some time to vote here:

http://www.westword.com/music06/ for Deviant under the “Gothic/Industrial” category. You can also vote via paper ballots by picking up a copy of the Westword.

D’ will be performing with Deviant at record label showcase on May 13th in Salt Lake City.

The next issue of Denver’s Buzz Magazine features an interview with D’ discussing the past and future of Deviant, the process behind recording the new album, and more.

D’ will be peforming two benefit shows with Deviant in the upcoming weeks.

The DVD release of the movie Throttle came out today. The link goes to the amazon page for it.

It features the Deviant song Keep Away.

You can view the trailer here. (Quicktime Video (320×240) 17MB)