Crowdfunded Rock/Metal projects

scudzilla

Seems like these crowdfunded projects are the big thing now, and you can get some really cool signed stuff.

Post here if you come across any decent one's

I'll start

BUSH

Help with their new album 'Man on the Run', plenty of cool signed stuff to get

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/bush#exclusives



BUCKCHERRY

Recording one song per month, you can even go bowling with the band :rolleyes:

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/buckcherry#exclusives

Liam McPoyle

Stuff like that is taking the piss for bigger bands. Bush were MASSIVE a couple of years ago so they would have no trouble getting a record label to help them out. Buckcherry would also have a decent following.

It smacks of them wanting to make as much money as they can by cutting out labels imo.

devildriver

Business Cat wrote: »

Stuff like that is taking the piss for bigger bands. Bush were MASSIVE a couple of years ago so they would have no trouble getting a record label to help them out. Buckcherry would also have a decent following.

It smacks of them wanting to make as much money as they can by cutting out labels imo.

It's a sad sign of the times when you see formerly "big" bands going "cap in hand" to crowdfunding options.

Not sure about cutting out the labels though, Obituary's latest was crowd funded, just for the recording part and is now being released and distributed by Relapse Records.

GLaDOS

Devin Crowdfunded Casualties of Cool, with the excess going towards Z2

Passenger

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Devin Crowdfunded Casualties of Cool, with the excess going towards Z2

Apparently he raised over 500% of the intended goal too which will surely go a long way towards the production values on Z2. Maybe Ziltoid will no longer be a hand-puppet but will be fully animatronic.

Business Cat

Business Cat wrote: »

It smacks of them wanting to make as much money as they can by cutting out labels imo.

Erm... What exactly is the problem with that?

horgan_p

Earache have used kickstarter to fund their vinyl reissues for smaller bands of the 90s like Lawnmower Death.

AllGunsBlazing

An interesting avenue for up and coming bands to explore. It's basically asking your audience to pay for the album in advance - which I don't think is a bad thing at all.

That being said, seeing multi-millionaires like Gavin Rossdale trying to exploit this just seems crass. Should get his missus to stump up a couple of grand while he's at it.


Edit - In regards to Earache re-issuing old albums via crowd funding; I'm fairly sure I read that a couple of the majors are looking into re releasing some of their artist's back catalogs using a similar method.

Talk about the fox in the henhouse....

Vanhalla

The great kerbdog have done it.

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/congregation

I see weezer are on there. they must be bloody loaded!

Somnus

I think it's a great avenue for a lot of bands to take, new or established.

Obviously there's not much money to be made in actually making records now, they just have to tour non stop. So I think it's great that smaller bands that can't afford to do that, or even more established groups who have ambitious projects can raise the money and focus on the work.

It's also nice to think that the funds go straight to the artist themselves without a middleman.
Even a moderately backed project would be a huge deal for a small. up and coming band

For Forks Sake

Vanhalla wrote: »

The great kerbdog have done it.

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/congregation

And wonderful it is too: http://www.kerrang.com/23681/kerbdog-stream-new-album-congregation-ahead-of-release/