State of the Studio #23: January '10

I arrived at the Studio today in my flying car. I was deep in conversation with my cousin who works up at the Omni Estates lunar colony. And I left my three-course-meal-in-a-pill sitting on the counter at home, so I had to run out for lunch today. Oh, wait, let me return to reality.

The year 2010 is here. The year 2009 is history. Metal XOR saw a lot of new things in 2009. But more specifically, the last two months saw collectible card sets #2 and #3 released. The debut album from Equinox Dulcet, Ethical Travels on a Green Planet, was also completed. And another music video was released, this one was the song "Placid" from ORC's 1999 Purging the Great Abyss album.

Card sets chronicling the Mune Mud catalog will continue to be released this year as new Mune Mud material continues to be recorded. Who knows what 2010 will bring to the Studio? Maybe even a new studio...

Check back in two months for more.

Studio News: ***NEW ALBUM RELEASE***

Metal XOR Studio is proud to announce
the release of the debut album from
the newest Studio project, Equinox Dulcet

This is the debut album from Equinox Dulcet, consisting of the seven songs used for the Equinox Dulcet website project in 2008. It is a collection of instrumental music influenced by music from around the world.

All seven songs can be heard at the Equinox Dulcet website.

Project Spotlight #21: What is Equinox Dulcet?

In May 2006, a new project was unknowingly born with a song titled "Lamplight Over". It was created using nothing but the computer music program called Reason. A week later, another song was started. By November of 2006, twenty-seven instrumental songs had been started, many of them had also been finished. It was clear that this was music unlike any the Studio had produced thus far, so it was set aside as a new project called Equinox Dulcet.

A resurgence of the project happened in 2007 with only four new songs being started, none of which were finished.

In July 2008, the seven songs that were finished were used for the Equinox Dulcet website, a combination of music and pictures to incite the reader/listeners' imaginations.

In December of 2009, the seven songs were finally compiled on CD and released as the debut Equinox Dulcet album titled Ethical Travels on a Green Planet.

Collectible Cards: Album set 3

The third set of collectible cards from Metal XOR Studio was released today.
It contains 36 base cards and 1 promo card.

This third set is about the 1993 Mune Mud album Pryme Material. Each of the 17 song cards describes one of the songs on the album. Each of the 15 equipment cards describes a piece of equipment used in the recording of the album. One card describes the studio. One card discusses the lyric book. The other 2 cards give facts about the album itself. A promo card (pictured above) is also in the set.

Please visit the online gallery to view all of the album sets of MXOR Cards today.

Collectible Cards: Album set 2

The second set of collectible cards from Metal XOR Studio was released today.
It contains 32 base cards and 1 promo card.

This second set is about the 1992 MuneMud album Underwater Problem Factory. Each of the 19 song cards describes one of the songs on the album. Each of the 9 equipment cards describes a piece of equipment used in the recording of the album. One card describes the studio. One card discusses the lyric book. The other 2 cards give facts about the album itself. A promo card (pictured above) is also in the set.

Please visit the online gallery to view all of the album sets of MXOR Cards today.

Video File #12: ORC "Placid"

"Placid" video is now online!

Today is the release of the first music video from ORC. The song comes from their 1999 debut album Purging the Great Abyss. The video contains footage of the vocal recording session mixed with adventures in a cornfield. It offers a rare glimpse at the first Metal XOR Studio, Metal XOR-A.

Click here for the YouTube post.

State of the Studio #22: November '09

The last two months have been rather active at the Studio. The amount of new Mune Mud recordings has decreased, but Trashman and the Blood Baker have recorded some new tracks. It will be at least another year before a full Trashman album is released, combining last year's recordings and this year's is not enough material for their debut album.

There were two new videos released since the last State of the Studio: a Trashman and the Blood Baker video and a Muffin Loaf video.

And the Studio has branched out into a new medium: collectible cards. October saw the release of the first Mune Mud album set of cards, Olympus. You can read all about it here. Plans are to release a new set every month.

You can expect more cards and videos from the Studio by the end of the year, those are the projects at the top of the list. But there may also still be an album released...

Next update... January 1, 2010!