Stargazer: The Story Of.

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It’s been a busy day. I wanted to talk a little about the “Stargazer” song and video as it’s almost ready to release. So, first off, the song was recorded in Gardena California at a place called the Media Kitchen. The Media Kitchen has some heavy metal history associated with it, I don’t know the details exactly… but I believe some pretty famous bands rehearsed there for some pretty famous recordings. So the ghosts are good. It’s a small place this Los Angeles is. Stargazer was recorded in 2020, It was engineered and mixed in early 2021 by Rob Black who happens to run the recording studio at the Media Kitchen. It was recorded as a B side track for a band called “TOR” in Los Angeles which I was a part of. TOR was an odd band in that we all decided from the very beginning that we wouldn’t promote anything about the band until we finished our first full length record. It went against the grain of social media, but, we thought it was a good thing to do at the time, to honor the past and make a record before we launched any media about the band. I enjoyed that notion actually as all my energy went into the vocals and lyrics and arrangements without any distractions. You have to understand we were doing this for the music after all. A crazy ship of fools in a frantic sea that tried desperately to sink us many times. We regularly rehearsed for 3 years, gathering in a dark industrial area of Gardena each week, through Covid, through Guitarist Arm Breaks, through changing times and changing lives. We were a family of brothers. We wrote, demoed and recorded a full record of 9 songs, written and recorded live as a band, with the B side “Stargazer” track included as a tribute to the sound we all loved. It’s wasn’t done for money or any other reason other than paying respect to the people and sound we all so admired, and to try to make a real record of course with good songs on it. The bass on the recording of "Stargazer" was done by James Staples of TOR, unfortunately he left the country just before we shot the video, so we had Kent Hiltz step in to shoot the video. Both Kent and James are amazing bass players and people and it was great to work with them both. Also in the Video is Doug Weiand on Guitar, Joey Mancaruso on Drums and Myself doing the singing… all of which are part of the TOR band. The song itself was recorded live musically, all members in a room isolated and recorded in one take. No click tracks. Vocals and solos and a few overdubs were recorded after. Originally the 5th member of TOR, Brent Woodward, was on the song as well but decided not to be part of the release. I think I can easily speak for all members of TOR in saying we wish he would have been part of it, but in the end we all respected his decisions and his reasons and left it at that. Vocally I cut all the tracks myself in my studio in Los Angeles as well as all the keyboards and we mixed back at the Media Kitchen in Gardena with Rob Black as the mixing engineer. The TOR band semi broke apart in early 2021, a few weeks before our first official release from the band, a song called ‘City of Fire”, actually on the day we received the “Artwork” cover to be precise. Bad timing, I suppose. For now, us 4 TOR members decided it was important to release what we could, how we could, as we had planned for the last 3 years while making the record together... starting with "Stargazer". I’ll talk in more detail about TOR some other time I’m sure, but, for now, back to the B Side. The stargazer video footage was shot by Rob Mestas who runs “Defiant Digital Productions”in Burbank California and myself in my rehearsal studio in Vernon Ca in early July, the same rehearsal building Dave Mustane of Megadeth was reported living in where “Peace Sells” was written. That’s the rumor anyway. So the building has good honest metal blood and a little attitude I'm sure. All the footage was recorded during 2 days of shooting and lots of Low-Lying Fog. I edited the video myself over about 3 weeks time and there you have it. That’s what it took to make “Stargazer”. The things we do.. for heavy metal. Much love and respect to everyone involved in this, it takes so many people to create something like this. We all did it for good and right reasons and I hope it comes across that way. We will release soon. Staying the course. Enjoy a few more stills before we release.

One final note, If you really care about something, you should prove it, try harder, words aligned with actions,.. most roads are created by people with an axe and the simple will and courage to swing it... even when its hard and no ones looking or seems to care. Just saying., in case you stayed the course and were looking for something a little bit deeper.

- evermore j (Axe Weilder)

Images:

Doug Weiand - Guitar

Joey Mancaruso - Drums

Kent Hiltz - Bass

John Evermore - Vocals

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Stargazer: Coming Soon

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/77466a_04001ffdc70b4578a44654f768baef30/1080p/mp4/file.mp4

Just a few moving stills from the new Stargazer video which should drop soon. Almost done.

- evermore

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The Warmoths.

Field Notes from Diamonds Hadder:

I’m sitting on a hill today taking notes again… Before people really remember and long before recorded events inside of evermore, it’s said the world was ruled by these Warmoths, ruled is a heavy word, so let’s just say they were naturally governing the hillsides… at least that’s what I’ve come to understand… I’ve come to know them as much as they allow and wish for me to know and I’m ok with that, for some reason they have taken a liking to me and let me roam the hillsides and observe them and even spend time with them…. I have vague memories of them in my dreams that I don’t fully understand as the line between reality and sleep to me seems a bit blurry at times… I do hum their songs a lot…. They fascinate me… dark shadowy figures with glittering transparent wings. They have a strange ability to change the speed of their wings, which already are much quicker than any earthly creatures, much faster than any hummingbird for sure.. as they change the speed of their wings they alter the vibration of the air and sound waves as they hover… giving them a unique ability to make sound and melodies as they hover. They stand about 8 ft tall in a slender triangular shape although they can look very different at times. They have many wings, some for flying and some for stabilization which allow them to move rather oddly and in any direction quite quickly… the lower wings, about 50 sets or so.. run down their spines and along their tails. Each set a little smaller and more precise as to its purpose. A tail with wings can do a lot of things they say. Decorating their legs and torso are feather like scales that vibrate and control flight as well. By altering their wings they can take on many shapes and generally appear as black triangles hovering in the distance. At the base of their tails are color cells attached to 12 inch stems similar to a rats tail.. the glowing cells are liquid sacks similar to the bellies of fireflies and luminescent blood of underwater creatures and in the dark they can actual simulate a small swarm of flies rather nicely, moving each cell in various ways and independently from each other. They can also illuminate the dark in a bright flash, blinding prey, which comes in handy for avoiding dangerous situations and gathering midnight snacks I suppose. Sometimes they sing and create quite the spectacle on the hillsides at night. Their heads appear to almost hover inside of the upper wing base, which is large and protrudes from the shoulders and when their red eyes are lit they can appear quite menacing. Their heads are shaped like bats with small pointed ears. They communicate through telepathy and odd wing bursts of sound waves which can travel miles across open land and can almost knock you off your feet. They can and will bite although they are normally docile creatures with immense powerful claws at the ends of each main wing. They are intelligent and somewhat peaceful and generally keep to themselves unless provoked. They do however hunt at night and eat large game, men included, and make travel through the woods in Dark a littler unsafe for even a 3rd tier swordman. Though conflicts with warmoths and men are generally uneventful in this time.,.. there was a time long ago when men and warmoths were at war, a great king named Lord Krell decided his kindgom would be best without the threat of warmoths obstructing his shipments to BOK and the outlining citys of evermore, and he decided to pay quite handsomely for warmoth wing pelts… of course this didn’t go over well with the warmoths and so they had a little feast themselves on lord krells behalf, him included in the end, so goes the story of the great war and the human mage hero Johnathan Hadder who stood beside the leader of the warmoths, TYOK, known only by his strangely unique and ominous hovering posture and wing patterns, ultimately defeating the great armies of lord krell. How long warmoths live or where they come from is unknown. As is the fate of Mr hadder, who disappeared in the black forest after the war. It’s said he decided to live amongst the Warmoths as he didn’t really enjoy the company of men. It’s rumored that he was creating his own magic based on old text found in the company of the warmoths.. but no one knows for certain. I like them, I think I can relate to Mr Hadder and I’m happy zabble graced me with his name.

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