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Journal jihadist's Journal: Heavy metal band releases shareware/GPL'd CD

"Eternal Devotion to the Dark Goddess" is finally ready.
  Yeah, I know. It's about damn time. Four years is a long time
to wait between releases, but keep in mind that don't make music for a
living and thus I need a full time job to pay the bills. The down side is
that I can't spend as much time making music as I want to, but the up
side is that I have full creative control over every part of the music and
art that go into Fireaxe. I feel that it's worth the trade-off. But even if
I were independently wealthy and could spend as much time as I wanted
making music I don't think that I could write and record more than one
CD every two years. Inspiration is critical to the creative process and
good ideas don't happen on demand. You can't force a good song out
of you. If you try it generally sounds derivative and flat. So part of the
reason that Fireaxe releases don't happen very often is that it takes time
for me to collect and assemble enough cool ideas to produce a work of
art that measures up to my standards. I'm not going to produce junk.
And yeah, I do other things besides just work and create music, so
sometimes by favorite hobby has to be set aside now and then. But now
the wait is over.

If you write reviews or put samples on your website I'll give you a
CD for free. Since I am not making any money with the current
recordings, you are free to make duplicates of them to distribute as
long as you obey the following guidelines:

1. You can only sell the duplications for the price of the medium or
  less, plus any delivery cost. You are not allowed to make any
  profit with the music.
2. You should tell me how many copies you gave out and who got them so
  I can keep track. Also, if they have an e-mail address I'd
  like that as well so I can add them to the mailing list.
3. You are likewise free to adorn any webpages or duplications with the
  gifs and jpgs on my website as long as you include an obvious
  link back to my website. This includes putting Fireaxe song
  samples on your site as well.
4. You are free to play any Fireaxe songs (in unaltered form) provided
  you are an unsigned band without a marketing tie-in. You are
  not allowed to record those songs onto anything that you will sell.

http://neptune.net/~bev/Fireaxe.html

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