Month: October 2007

Days From Evil Track 1 – Forced Entry

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If you click over to the Merch page, you will find the first track from the Days From Evil album, “Forced Entry” is available for download.

For Free. Gratis. Kostenlos.

Of course, don’t let that stop you from giving us money, whether by using the donate buttons inconveniently located at the bottom of the page (consider it a virtual tip jar, if you will) or by simply e-mailing us your credit card number and pin, or your coworkers credit card number and pin for that matter.

A better idea is to visit this page to discover the myriad of other ways you can support independent bands like Jagged Spiral. You shouldn’t be surprised to discover that a lot of them don’t cost you anything at all.

One of the ways you can help us out is by spreading the word. Tell people to download the latest track and give it a listen. If it doesn’t click with you, no worries, we won’t be offended, but come back next week for the next track; Days From Evil is pretty diverse, and you might be pleasantly surprised.

For the next nine weeks, we will be posting all nine tracks from Days From Evil. It’s a concept album, so I suggest you listen to the songs in order to get the full effect…

really loud…

with headphones…

in the dark…

completely naked.

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What is Emo, and Why does God Hate it?

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There was no small amount of confusion last weekend when Jagged Spiral debuted it’s first Mega-Single, “God Hates Emo”. Many people were confused. They didn’t understand what Emo was, or why God hated it enough to phone Jagged Spiral and tell them to relay her message to the world. Hopefully, this video will help you understand Emo better:

What Is Emo?

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Jagged Spiral’s First Concert!

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Wow. Who knew three people could make so much noise? Well, a small group of people found out firsthand on Saturday during a Halloween Costume Party where Jagged Spiral made their first public appearance.

It was fun.

It was loud.

It was fast.

No, it was Really Loud and Fast.

I think the performance was as good as one of our best practices, which is to say that it was pretty damn good. There were mistakes, but we never stopped. A couple fumbles, but we quickly recovered. No technical glitches. We forgot to turn on the strobe light, but I think our music gave people siezures without any help.

The best feedback was from Saveau who said Jagged Spiral sounded like a child of Pantera and The Dead Kennedys. And my mom e-mailed me today to tell me that she still cannot hear anything. Xtina said that of all the songs to stick in her head, “God Hates Emo” topped them all.

My stomach still hurts, but my voice is coming back. Never did find my tonsils.

Pix to come….

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Nine Weeks From Evil

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We are still working on artwork for Days From Evil but we have a ways to go.

Actually, that’s a lie. If we were working on it, it would be done by now. Truth is that we aren’t working on it at all. Which means there simply is no way the album can be released by Oct 31 as we had hoped.

Instead, what we will be doing is releasing the album online one track at a time. Nine tracks total, one track per week (give or take) throughout the remainder of 2007.

Nine tracks. One per week. Nine weeks of evil.

The first track “Forced Entry” will be available on Halloween, and you can check the countdown timer on the right hand side of our homepage to see how much longer you have to wait. Links to the free track downloads will be through our merch page.

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Jagged Spiral Website Update V2.1

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Well, I’ve made some changes to the image rotator on the band page. If you have any problems with the pictures not working or displaying properly, give a holler to jagged spiral at gmail dot com.

You should now see the menubar, which will let you scroll back and forth through the pix. Also, the pictures will now be auto-resized to fit the player. Clicking on the picture will open the picture up in its native size for downloading.

I’ve reduced the size and quality of uploaded images to make the player more responsive for slow connections (Does anyone still have dialup?) and I added some other pictures to the image rotator that you might find scattered throughout the other pages of the website. Keep checking back and I’ll sneak some other pix onto the list, and we’ll see if Josh or Colin notice. Then we can have a bidding war to see if fans will pay more than Josh or Colin to keep the pictures posted, and I’ll put the money towards a new bass amp.

The band has talked about another photo shoot, (partially for website content, but mostly because it’s fun and makes us feel like Rock Schtaahs) but first we need to get artwork for Days From Evil finished.

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Days From Evil

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Now that the album is nearing its entree into the world of the listening public, what does it sound like? Interested parties might check out www.myspace.com/jaggedspiral and give a listen. Send us your feedback. We’d love to hear what you think, not just whether you loved it or hated it, but why. What does it remind you of? Is it hopeless derivative, or a classic sound approached from a different mindset (which is what we like to think!)?

How would Jagged Spiral best describe its sound? Tongue firmly in cheek, we often refer to it as “sloppy metal” or “Northern Rock.” It’s not a raging inferno, but it’s not Nickelback. It’s…Jagged.

Our new material displays its roots in a less abstract fashion, so all of this might make more sense after hearing “Lamented.”

Josh

jaggedspiral.com 2.0 is live!

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Thanks to Conrad’s tireless work (the guy even worked through lunch breaks…) the new site is up and running. We’ve changed the logo and color scheme – the overall look, really – and it looks polished, pro and rock n roll.

You’ll notice in the corner a countdown to the release of the first track, “Forced Entry.” Yes, even though we planned on releasing the album *last* halloween, we’ve decided to stretch out the release even *further*…one track at a time. 😉

It’ll be worth the wait. We promise. =)

Josh