Today I decided to break up Rancid Abomination for good. I had good reasons. I was sick and tired of all the stress involved with A) Writing the music for the project B) Mixing the music properly C) Doing good vocals and mixing them properly and D) Marketing the music online. The stress has become unbearable for the last few months, so I decided to quit permanently. This time all of my projects/bands are no longer going to come back, this covers all of them, Unleashing Vengeance, Homicidal Hammerfist, you name it... I won't be writing metal anymore, the response lately has been lacking and it doesn't seem to be worth it now..
So after all these new cd's and the reunion and all, Rancid Abomination is finally shutting down... I simply cannot do it anymore... Don't get me wrong... I LOVE Rancid Abomination, like no other band, because it's my first serious band/project and I really enjoyed writing music for it.. But I cannot continue anymore. It's a hard decision.. To continue or to quit. Is continuing even worth it? Hard decision to make.
So, without any more stuff to do, what will I do from now on... I know that I won't be doing anymore albums, that is for sure... But the fan reception needs work.. So I am not quitting the marketing of the band just yet. Everything else will be off the table so I can focus on doing various things to get it out there for one final push... I will be filming documentaries for Rancid Abomination and Unleashing Vengeance tonight, complete music samples being played for different parts of the documentaries... I will split up the documentary into sections to make it easier to film. I will have to make it 15 minutes or smaller to fit it on my youtube but that shouldn't be a big issue I think. The detail I go into into the documentaries will be limited for the UV one I will be doing as well so I need to focus on Rancid Abomination first..
It's a lot of work to try to get your solo artist or band out there in the metal scene because A) Metal isn't popular, B) A lot of music upload sites suck and C) Metal fans are fickle as hell. They ditch bands for stupid reasons like changes in band's sound, lack of complexity in later releases and stupider things than that. I found out that it was really hard to even get my stuff on a good site to get plays, It took me years of using crappy sites and then giving up to finally find a good site, 5+ years later! It was almost not worth it in the first place... So retiring seems to be a good move now..
I will still listen to Rancid Abomination. It may have very little fans now, but it did get a boost recently A russian site called World Metal bands linked to a music video I did for a song called "Black Eyes" and it got 2300 likes... That is .... SICK! But everything else has been ignored a lot. My youtube channel isn't getting good views now and it sucks... I will keep putting stuff on it till tonight and then quit there. The youtube thing is failing so bad.. I mean I will keep it up but I don't expect it to work well in the near future at least. My one good bit of news on the plays department is that Jamendo has gotten me 1300+ plays for Rancid Abomination, which is great..
Hell without Jamendo I would not be here talking about Rancid Abomination in this blog post series. Jamendo saved the day. But this is the end... I can't keep writing new material, it is too hard to do for me to keep doing it from now on. I will try to market old stuff but I can't guarantee much from now on...
I wish Rancid Abomination made an impact on the black metal scene to a better extent. It did not.. 2300 likes on some Russian site isn't really that good.. Jamendo likes it but that's a tiny site that is barely used... No one favors it. A couple of people have put RA on lists which is GREAT but it isn't enough... RA is still KVLT as ever... Hell it still hasn't gotten well known enough to break the stigma of it being the most underrated black metal project out there.. That's bad... 2 years have gone by and I expected some better results but they didn't happen. I guess it will fade into obscurity bad... See... I don't want RA to Be KVLT! I want to be better known then it is... It's a disappointment...
RIP Rancid Abomination 2001-2006,2016-2017
