More music to come!!!

Being Prolific: I believe it is good to consistently put out records and music. Being in a band where we have the freedom to make any kind of music we want, it really helps to inspire us to keep the music coming. to keep challenging ourselves as musicians and writers, to do something different then we did last time. It's never about topping ourselves or our previous records and being louder or heavier or this or that....it's about making music we want to make. It is also about attempting to try out different styles and sounds. our EP, "wake the sleeping sun", was a way of getting our feet wet at writing and making music.
I think it had a lot different kinds of sounds, folk or alternative or a ballad, we got them on there in those 8 tracks. it was the beginning of something. Behold the wicked is an exercise in being a hard rock band. it takes the heavier sounds we touched on in the EP and magnifies them, it really gets that out of our system. It also touches on sounds we have not explored as a group. I guess in short this record is part heavy rock record and part art rock record, i won't say any more though :) I'll leave that a surprise for the ones who come to the shows and pick up the record...

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Hello! This is Brett, Lance, Ryen and Eric. We are unifying tonight for a certain reason....this reason is to give you an outline of what our blog means to us and want we are trying to do.

We are attempting to connect, make some friends, talk about music and just communicate about life in general.

this blog is for our band, Ascending to Avalon, but we all like to talk to people and get out there! So don't be shy, many topics will be discussed, not just music, so keep up with us because we want to keep up with you guys!

Thanks lot! A2A!!!

Practice Practice Practice

This week we will be practicing our new set list for the upcoming show Friday night at The Market on 7th in Ybor. We will be playing quite a few new songs from our upcoming CD "Behold the Wicked" so be sure to come check it out! As always we will have our EP for sale as well.

-Eric

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- Tell

Whats up guys

I am lounging tonight enjoying the cool breeze in Florida ( we are really blessed to live here no matter how much we cant make up our mind about hot or cold weather.) Tonight I am putting a few of our songs up on a website designed for Podcasters(link below). The coolest thing is that this site allows just about anyone to upload anything from modern rock, to spoken word, to psychobilly!(yes psychobilly check it out!)for FREE! This site allows Podcasters to safely use new fresh music from bands in their podcast shows, without a huge royalty hassle. For any bands not on a major label this is a great opportunity to get your music out there!

Here is the link MusicAlley

- Lance -

Tell em' you heard it on the Ascending to Avalon BLOGSPOT!

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Hard Work/ No free lunch!

I'm finding in life that anything worth doing is going to take some sweat, frustration, and focus. There is a book by Malcom Gladwell called "Outliers"(YOUTUBE!) it talks about people we hold as the greats, Micheal Jordan, Bill Gates, The Beatles... and the common factor he cites for them was they all achieved this level of greatness because most importantly they put their time in, about 10,000 hours or 10 YEARS is cited as the "Mastery" point to be exact! To put your mindset into these terms is humbling, and could even cause some to say "forget that"! Yet if we keep our nose to the grindstone and seek like-minded individuals who share similar goals to help pull us up to the next level, the possibilities are endless!

_Lance_

Here is the link to "Outliers"

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