The new album art is finally done! It looks amazing! Nyarko did an incredible job! Check them out below I have widgets for all three Volumes:
Anticipating Art and Price Drops!
The artwork for the 3 Volumes of In The Shadows is complete! I’m just waiting for the e-mail so I can finally see them. I’m still very excited!
While scanning through Amazon today I saw some really great deals! If you ever wanted to check out the Persona games or the regular Shin Megami Tensei series, most of their games are on sale on Amazon for 19.99! Here’s the link to Persona 4:
If you scan around I saw Persona 3 FES, Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, and Digital Devil Saga for 19.99 as well. Great deals, especially right now in the summer. Usually you can’t find one of these under 30 bucks.
A Few More Updates
Some great news. The job is going very well, so far the training is good and the team leaders are great! I feel that this job will be refreshing, a learning experience, and of course good money to help me survive! Which also means my projects get to move further. Speaking of projects I’m very excited about the new album art coming to In The Shadows. Nyarko, a user from Deviant Art has agreed to make some album art from me and I am completely excited. Check out his work and give him some love:
He has amazing Shin Megami Tensei fan art and I can’t wait to see his album designs. That’s the biggest news. I’ve almost got In The Shadows Volume 4 completed and a lot of songs for it already. If you look in the post below I have a set list already up on Soundcloud with most of the tracks uploaded on it. A big favorite of mine is a remix that I did of Lover Arcana. When I originally made that song I wish it was longer and done a bit differently. Now I have done it! And since it’s the Lover Arcana that inspired it I renamed it Yukari’s Theme.
E3 is coming up soon so expect to see awesome posts from me about my favorite things. To follow E3 in FULL I recommend going to Kotaku. They are going to cover the entire thing as well as having streaming coverage. ❤ Kotaku!
Because I prefer the blog view 😉
Also the Crimzen General Project is still on going and will follow a set theme. With a story hopefully. I love the Coheed and Cambria concept of having an underlying story. Since I have no vocals I’m going to have an accompanying PDF file that tells a bit of a story to go with the music and I hope that it adds to the experience and you guys/gals enjoy! More tracks for that is coming soon as well! I’m a busy bee but don’t worry I’m still here even with no internet access, I wifi when I get the chance 😀
Well Now
Well several things to update on that is awesome! Skyrim’s DLC is coming out soon and there’s a trailer for it that gave me goosebumps 😀
Also ATLUS just released the teaser site for Shin Megami Tensei IV! But to my disappointment it’s coming to the 3DS. I don’t own a 3DS and I’m actually quite displeased that they would release a continuation of their console RPG on a handheld like the 3DS. I really want another console game to play. I have a Playstation 3 now, I’d love for SMT IV to be on the PS3! Heck even the PS2! But I digress, I’m happy they are making another one and it is continuing. Now I guess I have to save for a 3DS now. Check out the teaser site here:
It’s Over 1,000!
I just hit over 1,000 page views, awesome! In other news, I forgot my laptop cord today so I have very limited amount of time on my computer. Does anyone know if I buy another battery for my laptop complete with power cord, will that give me better battery? Because it’s on that leg where it doesn’t want to hold a charge for more than 30 min.
Also, I have some more tracks uploaded and they’re for In The Shadows Volume 4! You should check the setlist and listen to the new ones:
Let me know what you think! The new tracks are: Battle Tactics, Retribution of the Lost, and Yukari’s Theme (Lover Arcana Remix)!
Awesome Art Coming
Some awesome art is on the way, being commissioned by a deviantart artist by the name of: nyarko, his art is quite amazing and I highly recommend that you check it out. Here’s the link to his work: http://nyarko.deviantart.com/
As many know from reading my blog that I am a huge Shin Megami Tensei fan. I love the games in that series. And from playing the Persona ones I have grown to love the music behind not only the Persona games but all of the SMT games as well. It inspired me to make music similar to those games. That’s what spawned my In The Shadows album series. Fused with atmospheric, jazzy, and trip-hop styles. I love making this music showing tribute to the games I like to play. And nyarko has shown amazing talent drawing and painting pictures showing his love for these games too.
Since the ATLUS fans are called The Faithful, I would like to create a whole Shin Megami Tensei collaboration of fan work all geared towards those games. I don’t want it to just stop with my music and nyarko’s art. I want to extend this to something all on it’s own. A site even, dedicated to fans creating fan related material in the SMT world. I want to create graphic novels, music, mythology, and even possibly fan made ideas for future games. Or maybe get it big enough to where if voted upon by the fans, and ATLUS happens to see it, puts some of these ideas into future games. The sky’s the limit and I want to make this happen!
I can’t wait to see what nyarko comes up with and stay tuned for more SMT goodness. Are you an artist? Do you make things inspired by SMT? Get a hold of me, let’s collaborate, or get started creating this fan site/group!
Good Stress and Bad Stress and Awesome News
Posting and updating is even harder now because I have a new job and that’s taking up most of my time and I have no internet and with recent findings… I won’t be getting internet until I get my own place which won’t be for a year probably. Things are good stressful and bullshit stressful right now. How to deal with anxiety? I don’t know right now. It’s really hard. Some things stress me out more at home than they do anywhere else so going to work is almost a godsend in itself. The job I’m doing really isn’t that hard. But it’s a learning experience and it’s a great one. One I hope that by moving up I won’t have to do much school. Which that means less loans to pay back. I like that. The less debt the better.
I’m really just saving towards my own place for me and my girlfriend because things are just way to stressful where we’re at. Having to live with other people besides the one you want to be with causes so much extra unnecessary stress that you don’t need that wrecks your body. Honestly my health is being affected by it.
People talking behind your back. Making you feel like shit. Things like this happen in my situation and you have to suck it up and deal with it or you’re on the street. Taking beatings left and right. But I digress, it could be worse. Such is life. But I’m going to be getting out hopefully very soon with the woman I love and around people I want to be around.
I have in the works, a great thing coming soon! I have someone that might be able to do some amazing album artwork for me for my Shin Megami Tensei inspired albums: In The Shadows. He has extraordinary art and he looks like he should be working for ATLUS, that’s how good he is. Here’s his deviant art to check him out:
So this is semi-confirmed. We’re still writing back and forth on the details, but I for one am excited. I want to see this grow beyond my music. Into amazing fan created material and universe that could get recognized by ATLUS and the world! More people who play games should know about Shin Megami Tensei and how awesome it is. Especially people who are burnt out of Square Enix.
Speaking of In The Shadows, I have added something to Volume 4 setlist on Soundcloud. Take a listen for me and let me know how I’m doing! 😀
Good News
Things are starting to look up. Today at 3pm I’m going to start training for my new full time job! I’m so excited. Nervous also. But it’s a call center so I feel it won’t be that bad. Better than Amazon Warehouse, that’s for sure. Warehouse work was killing me. And with this small country area, that’s about all that’s good around here. This full time call center is a godsend honestly. I can start saving again and I can start school this fall (finally after years)
I’m having a lot of great ideas. Mainly moving. I want my own place. I hope this job will help me secure that. But it may not. If it doesn’t I’m still saving as much as I can. Work through school and be able to do things with my wifey again. It will be so nice to go on a date again and have dinner besides a dollar heat up frozen dinner from Walmart.
I want to get a MIDI Keyboard to help start making even better music than I have been. I’ve been writing a script. Remember me talking about a Persona fan fiction story? I’m writing a movie script. I want this to be awesome. I want to create a movie about Persona. Now with all kinds of movies like these, it’s going to be my version of Persona. It’s not going to copy any of the games only certain aspects that the fans know. But translating it into a movie that people who don’t know about Persona will enjoy. Let’s also just say that it will merge with the way Shin Megami Tensei main title games go. With that said, it’s going to be insane.
Music wise again, I have this new project that I feel is getting no love. It seems like no one is really paying attention to it. But I think it’s crazy good. It might just be me, if it is, then oh well. But here’s the set list of what I’m working on. And as I’ve stated before, this music is (for me at least) what embodies my band name: Sleeping Awake. Let me know what you think , spread the word, this will be the next Sleeping Awake album.
Shin Megami Tensei fans keep your heads up for more In The Shadows Volume 4.
New Tracks
So I’m working on this new set list. And right now it’s called the Crimzen General Project. It’s weird, it’s new, it’s different. But it embodies what I think the name Sleeping Awake means. I would love it, if you could take the time to listen to this setlist and give me some feedback. I’m really enjoying where this is going. Let me know if you are too!
Toonami’s Back!
There’s something that I just found out and I think it deserves it’s own blog post. The picture states it all and all I have to say is, I’m fucking stoked…bitches 😛
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