Some trivia bits regarding 'Achromatic horridness'

As I mentioned in previous post, I'll write about some events that happened during the creation process and / or things that lead into creation of the whole album in the first place. Events which I will definitely remember for years to come.

I'll begin with the most funny detail which happened with the song "Planet of Atzsypellb". Usually my song ideas come 100% from my alone, but this "PoA" song makes a special exception to that rule. Sometimes around middle of April 2024 our child (she was 5 years old then) was drawing some pictures as usual. Usually she draws animals, figures from children's TV shows, you know, the usual kids' stuff. Until this one beautiful spring day I walked up to her and ask to see what she's drawing as it looked bit different. She had drawn a planet (and even told with a firm voice that it's a planet, "not just some ball or circle") floating within nothing but colors. Floating in ... space. And it didn't end there, but there was large capsized graphical letters above the planet shape, saying "ATZSYPELLB" ... I was like what is this text here, can you tell me? (I was also surprised about it, because I hadn't seen her writing other than her name or mom or dad until then). She replied with a serious face that well, of course it's that planet's name. Bang! I felt instantly so inspired and asked her that hey can I use this fine planet of yours in a song I'll compose? I think I got awesome musical idea for a song that tells about this planet of yours! She nodded and was funnily about as excited than me. I went downstairs, picked my guitar and the riffs were born in matter of some minutes only. The whole song came out like explosion, and while crafting the riffs I already knew that it will become a crazy, twisted blasting piece. And ... that's what it became. Definitely a special memoir for this one song and which will be fun to explain to our daughter as she gets older. :)

I went through lots of drawings done by our child, but unfortunately I didn't find this "Atzsypellb" picture ... not yet anyway. I might still find it, and if I do - I will post the picture about it here into this blog. Perhaps right here into this spot? Or then simply as a new post. Time shall tell.

Well, as that was definitely the happiest memoir related to the creation of the album, let's move to completely other end of spectrum for now; sadness and in a double form, one could say. 

As you might have read from back cover of the album; I've dedicated the album to my dad and sister. Both of whom no longer walk the earth. Yeah, I wrote about all this back in Spring 2024 here in this blog, when I started crafting music for 'Achromatic horridness'. My dad suddenly passed away in December 2022 and it came out of blue. Well, being born in 1936 he lived a long, happy life. He never understood metal music, but he actually learned to respect my passionate metal music hobby and at some point during 2000s he even said to me that believe it or not but I am proud of your music / musician hobby. Dad's passing was naturally sad, but as he lived a long and happy life, it wasn't hard to accept. The same can't be said about my big sister, who passed away just four months after my dad ... cancer took her life and as she was born in 1967 her death felt not just extremely sad but at first also bitter in many ways. But she took it all with such a respectable attitude, ... even that everyone wished her to recover right until the end (she herself too) she accepted her fate early on and even did "a death cleaning" for all her things almost a year before she died. She even pre'organised everything for her funeral, I mean everything. Sister's death really struck me even that unlike with my dad we all knew the death is coming for her ... talk about pain and grief. So, ... it was these two deaths in the family that gave me inspiration for compose music which turned into 'Achromatic horridness'. I feel like the grief came out of me in a form of music. Strongly, too.

Actually I only now realized that I started crafting music for this album almost exactly a year since my sister died. I might have thought about it on some level, certain passing of time, but I truly understood this timíng only now when I started writing about this matter here. Exactly a year since sister passed on, I picked up my Scumguitar and the material started flowing. Coincidence? I don't think so. I always joked with my sister when we were younger that no matter which one of us dies first, he/she has to pass on the correct lottery numbers from the other side so that the one who remains on earth, wins the jackpot in lottery ...

.. Well, I haven't won in lottery, but I do consider 'Achromatic horridness' as a musical jackpot for Scumfusion! The tunes were born in matter of moment, eyes closed, hands playing, hit the record, hey it's another song, and here we go again, and hey now it's another song base. Tunes kept flowing in a constant stream and suddenly I felt that this is the very last track, and it's not coincidence either that it was one of the two tunes which especially are musical obituaries for both dad and sis.

Well, as you know this background, inspiration coming from a grief of multiple deaths in the family ... it shouldn't come as a surprise that what I think is the ongoing theme in the album? It's death. Clearly. If you follow the lyrics, it's all about life and death inside the scifi tales happening in space environment. There are some exceptions to this rule where science takes the main role, but it feels like if you listen the album from start to end, the theme of death runs there constantly in the lyrics. In a different, notably more personal way than on past Scumfusion albums, I'd say. 

As I mentioned that there are two tracks that are especially like musical obituaries to sis and dad, can you guess which songs they are? Well I can reveal that they are songs #10 ("Rotting in space") and #20 ("Dead starlight passengers"). Not exactly surprising if you read the lyrics, I'd say.

Some sources of influence aren't really hidden

Musically speaking some of the song titles formed funnily into final shape which reveal something about their source of inspiration musically speaking. I didn't mean this to really happen, but it just happened along the way - and I only later noticed it, and I was like ... it's fun, so why not? These three songs are:

• Napalm universe = Napalm Death
• Star slavers = Slayer
• Grand galactic war incantation = Incantation

"Napalm universe" definitely has a ND vibe to me, in a strange way though. It might not be so obvious to others than to me. "Star slavers" well what can I say ... not nocessarily the riffs but check out the drums and tell me if some certain drummer comes to mind? No need to say more. :) And finally "Grand galactic war incantation" which is very much inspired by the most extreme (blasty) tunes by Incantation.

As a final thing I can say there are still some easter eggs and I don't mean the Lossidia references by this, but not all should be revealed. I can only say that if you get some hidden element, it makes certainly sense in how the album feels overall, beyond all that noise / grind / deathy metal stuff. :)

Afterthoughts about 'Achromatic horridness'

Now that some time has passed since 'Achromatic horridness' was released - several months already - I think it's time to write some self analysis and perhaps reveal some insider info bits as well about the album. There are things that I won't reveal though, things that fall under "easter egg" category, things which could be hidden for ages - or then not. Both sonically as well as lyrically, and in general simply hidden little things that make at least the artist himself smile. EDIT: I decided to write about these insider info bits in separate post, in coming days.

Let's start with a brief "how does the release make me feel now?" self analysis. I felt really good as the album started taking its' shape, it felt great from the very beginning - and the more it progressed, the better I felt about the stuff. Has that changed with passing of time? Nope! More like the opposite actually. I feel that the album is one of the best metal releases I've ever done - and the fact that it's all done from beginning to end 100% by me alone, it kind of makes me feel extra proud about it. 

It took quite a lot of my free time (like hobbies tend to do), it's hard to say exactly how much time - but I could estimate that from beginning to compose into finishing the package it could well be 200+ hours all in all? Considering that not only I compose, record it all, create all the artwork, write all the lyrics etc etc etc ... Lots of 1-2 hour long sessions, longest sessions perhaps 3 hours long or so. Considering that I have my dayjob which is 100% my income and a family including small child to be and spend time with - it meant lots of short (and fun) sessions. If anything, the material came out of me like supernova, ... with a blast. More about reasons behind this later in the next blog post.

Thinking about how I'd describe the album overall, how it sounds and feels, how it stands musically speaking, how it flows - I'd say it's closest to my original vision back in 2000 about how Scumfusion should sound and feel (back then home studio was more like a joke and of course it limited visions in a brutal way ... we all know how things have changed in 25 years when it comes to recording your own music projects with home equipment). And for me this is a true achievement in itself: This album is a manic ride musically, it also has some crazy vocals (not just music), it reflects the early grindcore and death metal albums from late 1980s and early 1990s which truly inspired me and forever got into me. Yet it sounds all different kind of thing, and I recognize how it sounds like ... well, me. I know it's not a real studio production, but for me also the production in this case - still total DIY - turned out really sweet. What makes it feel even better is the fact that I was heavily disappointed with 2017's "latemogelian infiltration" production which I messed up. What reflects all this the most, is one fitting comparison which comes to mind ... 

.. take a band like Bolt Thrower ("realm of chaos" was massively influential to me back in the day) and the way their career went, after "those once loyal" album was completed, ... you know, years later (even way before the band ended) they stated that there is no need to record new album because they feel "those once loyal" is Bolt Thrower captured in a perfect mode and sound, perfect album, all things inluded. And here's the catch; while I kind of understood that back in the day, big part of me was like "booohooo! please make a new album! I need new BT album, I'm hungry for more! Always!!" ... 

Well, with completion of Scumfusion's 'Achromatic horridness' I realised I suddenly can understand that Bolt Thrower's statement so much better. It makes sense now (but hey, I would always welcome comeback of Bolt Thrower!). I feel like this Scumfusion album is very close to perfection in how it sounds and feels all in all, considering my original vision some 24 years ago. I'm not saying I'd never return to Scumfusion, but I'm saying not returning to it could be possible as well, in a way - because ending a long lasting DIY music project with a style would feel awesome. So, yeah, I'd go as far as saying that I've never before been as satisfied with any Scumfusion release. This one tops even the production peak points, albums I did with Timo (with peak points I mean "lost constellations" and "lossidian threnody"). Quite a statement I know, but that's how I strongly feel. This is most certainly closest to my own vision about how this "band" / music project should sound. And it makes me really happy and proud about it all. 

Thinking about this more deeply: Reaching a point like this feels surprising and awesome, after all these years. It's been a very long road of DIY hobbying, I never thought I'd be creating Scumfusion music tens of years later as inspired as I was when I begun it. Well, I think I'll never grow tired of extreme metal, grindcore and death metal (and especially the early releases of the scene, but I follow the modern scene as well as time permits) ... a passion is a passion.

I'll write about some trivia bits & things dealing with creation of 'Achromatic horridness' in coming days as I have time for writing. Some emotional background things, ranging from extreme happines into extreme sadness.

From the past (comes them zombies)

Ages ago in late 1990s, and well before the modern zombie TV series (like Walking Dead) not to mention modern zombie movies, I was crafting some zombie (and ghoul) themed tunes as part of my tracked metal (information about tracker music) ventures with a nickname 'Aeuk'. Zombies as inspiration was nothing new back then of course, as anyone into metal music (not to mention horror movies & stories then) knows. 

But well, as I've sometimes in past explained, these certain experiments led me into forming Scumfusion. Scumfusion wasn't originally about scifi / space themes, but zombies and horror stuff in general. Rather miscellaneous topics in the early releases, for sure. But Scumfusion wouldn't had been born unless I hadn't crafted the certain songs as 'Aeuk' in 1999-2000. I downtuned guitar inhumanly low (don't ask me how low, I can't really say it and I didn't keep diaries back then!) and crafted music that I soon started calling as "sewer metal". Part of it was the guitarsound, but other part was the vocalstyle I came up for it - "sewer vocals" - singing while inhaling ... rough way to do it, for sure. And not necessarily good for throat either! :)

So, ... as I had put finishing touches to that 'Achromatic horridness' by Scumfusion, I went into digging my mod archives, and listening some of these sewer metal tunes after years of break from listening to them, at all. I think it could well be that I was listening to this stuff previously around 2010 when I was putting up "Garage grind days & Z-files" compilation (here) with Timo who was doing Scumfusion with me back then. On that compilation born out of fun (the covers) there are the Z-files which were Scumfusion songs  not released previously or songs related to Scumfusion in some other ways - and one of them was part of these "sewer metal" tunes from 1999-2000, namely "Zombies" which is the closing song for that compilation. That song was chosen there because it was one of those ancient tunes which led me into forming Scumfusion, based on the so-called sewer metal experiments.

Well, I got kind of inspired listening to the Aeuk songs and got an idea to do a sort of remix album about selected sewer metal style songs. With especially the artist name Aeuk, which was the name I was tracking metal style music from 1989 into 2007 (actively into 2004). I used some 2-3 weeks of October and about 1 week of November for working into this remix package; the music is in its' original form, more or less, some tiny changes / finetuning technically - but I re'recorded all the vocals for all of the songs, trying to pay respect to the moods & atmospheres. And as not all of these songs from 1999-2000 had full lyrics, I wrote bunch of new lyrics in the same vein - over the top zombie & ghoul themed things. All in all it came out very nicely I'd say and it feels good to truly pay homage to origins of Scumfusion - that's why I'm writing about this here, too. It has a strong Scumfusion connection after all. Some of the 'Aeuk' songs in this release were later re-recorded for Scumfusion but with different song titles and lyrics which had no longer nothing to do with zombies (it was the way Timo wanted, as he wrote the lyrics and sang back then). Honestly I didn't like that the lyrics were changed, something got lost - it could be that I just feel like that because it was me who composed the early tunes ... but you can compare a song like "zombie twins" (Aeuk) and "in weary light" (Scumfusion) how it feels ... I'm not saying I wouldn't like "in weary light", I do - but the original piece "zombie light" was something I really liked, from theme to music.

Guess what, it's actually possible to do that comparison already. :) Aeuk compilation album "Selected raw sewage works" comes out (streaming medias worldwide) on 30th November 2024, but I've crafted two visual lyric videos for Aeuk release - second one of these happens to be "zombie twins" and I released the video just today. :) Check out the videos below or head out into my youtube channel <here>.

Lyrics for 'Achromatic horridness'

The lyrics can be found from multiple locations online (for example at Bandcamp) but I'll put the lyrics here as well for easier reading.

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1. Achromatic explosion

Nebula sprawls a cosmic bruise
Where starlight bleeds through
Across the void a vessel streaks
Hull acts as canvas as traveller speaks

Silent fury as universe bled
Through the wasteland of stars

2. Horridness of barren moons

Once vibrant suns now husks of grey
Where life used to bloom in all colors
Sentinels of time stand on cold barren moons
Whispering hidden tales for those who came before
Achromatic explosion, symphony of light gone dead

3. Planet of Atzsypellb

Crash landed on a chrome terrain
Two suns beam down into my veins
Planet Atzsypellb a world so strange
where logic bends and minds derange

 
Silicon trees with fractal leaves
Growing secrets in the solar breeze
Creatures made of living light
Crawl in this breathtaking night

 
Time flows backwards only
All the memories fade away
Their past is someone’s future
Enter a vast cosmic charade

4. Napalm universe

Napalm universe burning on a pyre
Stars ignite in curtains of fire
Stardust turns to shrapnel rain
In this cosmic war we can’t explain
Dream of fertile soil and rain
Distant future through the pain

 
Is there life beyond the flames?
Signals in the galactic void?

Here under napalm skies we fight
For every fleeting breath
Another day and another fight
Until we meet our unglorified death
Dream of fertile soil and rain
Distant future but not in this moment

 
Is there life beyond the flames?
No one answers in galactic void

 
5. Star slavers

Neon glow on gold and steel
Starship streaks across the night
Engine hums lullabies
As we chase the binary lights
Starslavers! They call us cold
Hearts of silicon minds of fire
We roam across thy galaxies
Fueled by dreams of death

 
We barter stardust and harvest moons
Planets made of diamond rain
Where nebulae paint the swirling skies
Fortune glowing in the cosmic strain
Beyond the charted starlit maps
Past the veil of what you know
We are the Starslavers never lost
Wherever all cosmic currents flow

6. From dying suns

From dying suns we steal the light
Inside black holes our secrets are kept
We navigate the cosmic dance
Where gravity and time are swept
By alien winds on shattered worlds
We find the echoes of a race long gone
Their music guides us through the void
Haunting melody cracked by android

Some call us pirates some call us kings
In the court of lizards we hold still
But our allegiance is to freedom's call
And the wonders that light up the way

 
7. Nebula highway

Earth's a memory, a fading star
Launched ourselves into silver dream
One-way cosmic lane here we come
Stardust streams inside neon blur
Past constellations long since gone
Nebula highway our only way
Until the next new dawn shall sway
Million light years, so far away
On this endless cosmic chase
Chasing trails of a promised land
Through the future we can embrace
One-way cosmic lane here we come

Nebula highway, our guiding light
Burning eternally vivid and bright
Sealed into metal womb we call our home
As we keep going on and on
One-way cosmic lane so long gone

8. Space excrements

Space excrements cosmic debris
Asteroids in dark floating wild and free
Meteor showers of questionable source
Reminder even spaceships gotta purge the load

Wait there's a signal, faint and digitized
Alien message, on the brown stuff we just spied
Translates into warning, universal plea:
"Don't pollute the cosmos, or consequences you'll see!"

9. Before the big bang

Before the light before the sound
Before the galaxies spun around
In the silence a slumber deep
Where secrets of creation all sleep

 
Quantum foam, a swirling sea
Of possibilities, waiting to be
Energy danced, a chaotic pit
Symphony of what could once be

 
Before the big bang, vision in the dark
Singularity's spark, a flicker a mark
Potential for everything, unseen and unknown
New universe waiting to be sown

 
Then, a tremor, a crack in the void
Birth echoing, unheard, unalloyed
The dance quickened, energy surged
New universe born, future urged
Now galaxies blaze, stars ignite the night
Echoes of that first light, still flicker bright

Reminder of silence we once knew
Before the big bang, before me and you

 
10. Rotting in space

Memories flicker, ghosts on the cold metal floor
The crew, all silent, stories they won't tell anymore
Ancient photos of loved ones, faces etched with pain
Aching for a touch, a kiss in once cosmic train

 
Rotting in space, like symphony of decay
Frozen pictures, countless light years away
The milky way shimmers, cold, indifferent sheen
A monument to failure, like cosmic halloween

The nebula dances, swirling, mocking shroud
Lost in the endless darkness, forever unbowed
The black hole rumbles, a promise of release
But even in oblivion, there's no end to this peace

 
Just a husk adrift, a monument to sin
Rotting in space, where it all begins and ends

11. Dissonance of vault 69

Steel coffin tomb vault 69
Sealed tight since the bombs fell
Three generations underground
Lost echoes of a world unbound

Faces etched with flickering light
Memories dim of day and night
Hologram teachers faded guides
A future promised but sterilized

 
Steel coffin tomb vault 69
Sealed tight since the bombs fell
Three generations underground
Lost echoes of a world unbound

Metal walls showing tales so old
Of world poisoned, stories untold
This vault is a cage, a gilded tomb
The dissonance grows in metal womb

Vault 69

12. Warp drive failure

Starship shudder, metal bursting, red alert, paints the deck
Captain's fist slams the console, voice cracks like an old wreck
Warp drive failing, coolant breached, alarms fill their heads
Years of travel, lightyears lost, one-way ticket, to the dead

 
Warp drive failure - lost in the unknown
No beacon's reach - silence of a dying groan
Is this our fate - a tomb of steel, with no need to feel?
Warp drive failure - bathing in this grey steel casket forever

Cryos failing, one by one, our hope withers, with each passing breath
Rations dwindling, tensions high, who lives who dies, deals with death?
Outside the hull, the void stares back, status report, can’t be hacked?
Million dreams, turn into dust, futures are lost, all life shall reek

 
But in the flicker of dying hope a flicker of defiance burns
We will make our peace with this stellar grave
… but our spirits will never return again

13. Alien professor anarchy

Six eyes blink antennae twitch
Equations dance on iridescent skin
From nebulae unknown he came
Aiming for galactic filament fame

He breaks the laws of physics known
Constructs realities from stardust sown
Black holes bend at his command
Anti-gravity held in his hand

Alien professor anarchy
Defying logic setting science free
Alien professor anarchy
Defying logic setting science free

14. Lecture by a grand traveller from Lossidia

Traveller speaks of quarks beyond the string
Of dimensions where causality won't cling

He builds machines that fold space and time
Travels through galaxies in a blink of an eye

His lectures challenge every damn rule
The universe is a vast and chaotic pool
The human scholars are baffled and impressed
Try to grasp the knowledge from his alien mind
He speaks of dark matter and dark energy's might
Unveiling secrets all hidden from a mortal sight

Grand traveller from Lossidia, a cosmic spark, igniting minds, leaving his mark
The universe unfolds, a boundless quest, with the last grand traveller, science awakens

15. Space storm near Pleiades

Pleiades ablaze cosmic fury
Solar winds space typhoon
Stars aligned exploding fright
Magnetic titans devastating sight

 
Space storm near Pleiades

Black holes hungry for the feast
Galaxies shudder a celestial beast
The fabric of space twists in pain
As Pleiades fall in cosmic bloody stain

 
Space storm near Pleiades

Planetary defenses crumble
Molten infernos scorch everywhere
Civilizations screaming in fiery rain
No escape only endless burning pain

 
16. Grand galactic war incantation

The cosmos trembles, empires fall
War ignites, consuming them all
From nebulae to shimmering stars
The battle cry echoes across the scars

Plasma cannons roar through the night
Fleets clash in a blinding white light
Molten metal rains on desolate spheres
The screams of fallen echo with fear
Black holes awaken drawn to the fray
Devouring planets in their monstrous play
Gods and demons can’t quench burning rage
Only oblivion waits on this galactic stage
Starships ablaze painting void with fire
Grand galactic war fueled by endless desire

17. At thresholds of multiple dimensions

At thresholds of multiple dimensions we stand on the precipice
Cacophony of swirling colors reality starts to slip fast away
Through the gateways woven from starlight beckoning the unknown
Yearning for the infinite in a place we've never flown before

Fractals bloom on fingertips a language whispered on low levels
Whispers morph to shooting stars while stories planets bestow

Memories blur with parallel lives where a million versions shine
Forming a kaleidoscope of consciousness into a tapestry divine
At thresholds of multiple dimensions we stand on the precipice
Cacophony of swirling colors reality starts to slip fast away

18. Universe expanded

Oh the universe expands a canvas painted by unseen hands
Across the cosmic tide where stardust paints this starry ride

Unfurling secrets, nothing untold, a universe for hearts of the gold
We're just dust in the vast unknown but this expansion feels like our own
Comets streak like silver tears across the sum of all the years spent
Messages echo from the past of civilizations that couldn't last
But from their ashes beauty blooms in swirling nebulas and cosmic rooms

Another dance of energy unforeseen with a symphony in shades of green
Oh the universe expands a canvas painted by unseen force

19. Lossidia’s war march

Across the cosmos engines roar

See this legion forged in fire

Starships like predators in effect
With weapons set to destroy

As Lossidia commands
Their ruthless iron fist
Planets tremble in their wake
Resistance won't persist

 
Laser blasts plasma trails
Illuminating the starless night
Troopers clad in chrome and black
Advance with steady stride

 
Starcruisers rain down all death
From a distance vast and cold
No escape from judgement day
As Lossidia’s grip takes hold

 
Surrender!

20. Dead starlight passengers

Woke up to a shiver, cold sweat on my brow
Escape pod rattling, was it only a dream?
Out of starport, into endless inky sea of black
Just debris and echoes, where our galaxy used to be

Dead starlight passengers, on one-way ride
No destination in sight, nowhere left to hide
Lost in cosmic graveyard, million light years wide
Dead starlight passengers, with none left to confide

Remember their laughter, the promise in our eyes?
On a mission of discovery, beneath celestial skies
Now their craft is creaking, time running thin
Hope is a flickering candle, battling the coming din

Is there anyone out there, sounds through the void?
A flicker of recognition, then a message to avoid
This lonely endless drifting, this never-ending night
They are barely fading embers, devoid of any light

Dead starlight is their only light, in this eternal sleep
Dead starlight passengers, with secrets forever deep

'Achromatic horridness' is released !

The release date is here, oh yeah. You can find the album from streaming media services from this date (26th September 2024) forwards. Just checked for example Youtube Music and Spotify and it's there already. So no delay at all, awesome!

I can honestly say that I think this album is closest my vision for how I always thought Scumfusion should sound and feel. It's true scifi grind from beginning to end. Yes! 

The full album visual stream with lyrics is also available through < Youtube >. And embedded below.

CDbaby data problem corrected

Just checked and phew, ... the erroneous song data for one song has been corrected at least in CDbaby's album details already. I'm not sure if it causes distribution delay or not, to the streaming media systems online or not - with good luck it won't do any delay. Or if it does, not big one anyway. Tomorrow local time (Finland) we'll see.

I also have the full album visual video stream with lyrics ready and waiting in Youtube already. Yeah! It was truly heavy job to get that video done, not just the video editing, but because that video project had like 500+ components it caused "quite a few" crashes with the editing software ... in the end I got it sorted out, and I have to say I really dig the result.

I'll post release date stuff tomorrow here on 26th September. Stay grinded! :)

Possible delay problem with CDbaby

Unfortunately there was a data corruption in my submission to CDbaby - I did notice it myself afterward and I took repairing actions, but ... it meant I had to resubmit all the 20 songs for the system. Well, this wouldn't had been any kind of problem timewise, except ... bad luck, where I thought the audio data is being replaced, it wasn't because the fella at their end was "out of office" (and with no automated message of any sorts about it) so ... I got to know this only yesterday, and the release date 26th September is just around the corner. The data replacement got started yesterday (I thought it started well over a week ago, oh well) only, so it could mean that distribution to Spotify, Youtube music etc system might be delayed by some days. Well, not much I can do about it, a pity.

But there are good news that counterbalance the above; I have the album in 100% correct form waiting at Bandcamp so it will be available from there on 26th September certainly. And I'm also working on "full album stream video with lyrics" which I'll release in Youtube also on 26th September. So the delay with all the other streaming media systems is not that big deal in the end, I hope. Of course I would had liked all go perfectly smoothly, but as with life in general, you know - things don't always go exactly the way you want.