A Slave to the Grind takes over as the bands most successful single in terms of pre-album streams since 2014’s Iron lady from The Waystone. Second Coming is also preforming well on YouTube, having had over 3000 views.
Despite a decent amount of plays and interaction pre-orders for the album remain low at just 45. We are working hard to get the number up to 100 to help with the costs of printing the new album on CD. You can pre-order the album here.
Over the past four days we have had over 5000 streams for our new single across a number of social media platforms.
The single, which now has over 3000 streams on YouTube, has been the most streamed after it’s immediate release since Iron Lady from 2014’s The Waystone which ended up in the 10k region before tailing off.
While the streaming across social media platforms has been strong, pre-orders for the album have remained low, and stand at just 40 total. We will continue to work hard to push the new album and get those numbers up over the next few days before the album releases on Monday.
Breakdown:
Our new single has so far been streamed over 2,234 times across a number of platforms, however not all of these streams represent complete plays with a large % of listeners ducking out after the 10-15 second mark. Despite the high number of plays, pre-orders for the new album remain relatively low at 31 so far.
The totals of streams across the platforms for Second Coming are as follows:
You can pre-order the new album digitally for just £1 and CD for £13. The CD comes in a super jewel case and with a full colour lyric booklet. You can pre-order here.
The album is now fully mixed and mastered so we’ll be releasing the first single tonight, Second Coming (The Cycle) along with the official pre-order. There will be details of the CD package too. To be notified when this is released, click FOLLOW>>> here.
Our new album has now been fully mixed and mastered. We will soon begin to release the singles from the album, as well as announce the release date and open the pre-order period.
We performed two songs from the album, Left Behind and Bright, last night at the Cart & Horses, Stratford while supporting Planet Fatale and Desolation Angels.
We are pleased to report that we are at the very final stages of mixing the new album and this should be completed by the weekend, with mastering to follow on shortly after. The immediate plan will be to put out several singles along with a pre-order at a much-reduced price to help recoup the losses from the album.
Due to the Covid-19 restrictions over the last 2 years the record was recorded in several different studios and has had more engineers working on it than previous records, both in terms of recording, editing, mixing, and mastering including the band themselves. It has been a long and costly process putting together the record we started writing in 2019. We have been rehearsing (and even playing some of the songs live over the past 3 years) and began recording the bulk of it last year. We recognise this has been a long process and can only apologise it’s taken this long to put the new record out. As announced recently, we have a track listing, and this will prove to be one of our most varied releases yet.
We are now focussing on finishing the two Patreon EP’s. The 2021 EP’s lyrics and vocals are being worked on, album art and EP name to be released not long after the new album, and Liam is currently writing the drum parts for the Falling Through Freedom EP, of which only the drums and vocals need to be recorded for. The new art and t-shirt for that released will also follow the new album.
Rehearsals this week are postponed due to our gig supporting Planet Fatale and Desolation Angels at the Cart & Horses which is now close to selling out.
After Extinction will contain 9 new tracks and features the same line-up that wrote and recorded 2019’s Reforge The Steel, the first time that Kaine has had back-to-back records with the same line-up since the original band formed in 2009.
The official track listing for Kaine’s new album is as follows:
An official pre-order date will be set soon. The album will be available on CD/Digital download. The album will be printed on industry standard, high-quality CDs and will be housed in a Super Jewell Case. This will also include a full lyric booklet. Click FOLLOW on the right hand side >> HERE << to be notified of when the pre-order goes live.
After Extinction
The album has made some progress in recent weeks with the addition of keys and some last-minute changes to some of the vocals. The reason this album has been more complicated than previous releases is it has been recorded between two studios (Unit One and Gallow Wood Media) and both studios have had a hand in the editing process whereas I and the band have overseen the mixing process in a more involved way than previous releases. It’s not where our expertise is, but due to the UK Lockdowns over the COVID-19 pandemic, we had to work in this way. This has also meant the costs associated with the album are much greater than our previous releases. Broadly speaking the project is almost finished and we are sorry about the delay.
Kaine 21’ EP
All the instruments have been recorded, I am in the final stages of finishing the lyrics before I book in vocal recording sessions. This EP contains 5 brand new songs and has been delayed largely because of the backlog to do with the new album. So far all of the recordings have taken place at Unit One Studios and no editing or mixing has taken place.
Kaine 22’ EP – Falling Through Freedom Anniversary Box Set
We have finished recording all the bass and guitars for the new EP at Gallow Wood Media, with Liam currently working on what he would like to do with the drums. This EP will be included in the anniversary set of the album, which will include the “demo” album, recorded by the 2011 line-up, the original 2012 album, the 2016 remaster, and the new EP.
Lillian Axe and Riot Act Tour
I have also been very busy working on the tour. I am pleased to say the transport and hotels are now all booked up. In terms of crew, Alex Odinson and Charles Franklin will be handing roadie duties which include everything from loading in, to providing tech support, looking after merchandise, and recording video footage of the gigs.
All t-shirt pre-orders have now been sent out with signed posters. In recent weeks I have written to a number of our Bandcamp buyers via the post with invitations to the tour, I have been using our emailing lists to send our targeted emails and videos to promote the events and obviously running an extensive social media campaign. I have also been supporting Lillian Axe with their social media campaign.
We will be using this tour to promote our most recent album Reforge The Steel, which was released just before the Covid-19 pandemic and this restricted the number of gigs we could do to promote it.
Opportunities like this do not come around often, and whether or not we get this kind of opportunity again depends on the success of this tour, which is why I am working flat out to try and make every show a sell-out. You can get tickets from here.
Kaine guitarist/vocalist Rage Sadler has completed the tracking of the 22′ EP guitars for the Falling Through Freedom anniversary set and remaining vocals for the new album After Extinction. These were completed with Talon Payne and Gallow Wood Media yesterday.
The bands new album is close to completion, on the 21′ Patreon EP the lyrics are being finalised ready for recording the vocals, and with the 22′ EP all that is left to track is the drums and vocals. All three releases have been delayed due to the backlog caused by the Covid 19 Pandemic.
We’ve recently ran into a few issues with the new album which has caused some delays. Unlike previous records which were done in one studio, with one producer and over a short period of time, After Extinction has been a totally different process largely due to the Covid restrictions which have delayed the writing, rehearsals and recording of the album significantly over the past two years.
We out of necessity have tracked the album across two studios (Gallow Wood Media and Unit One) with Talon Payne and Wayne Thompson contributing to the recording, production and editing of the album while we have been mixing the album ourselves and with advice from an external studio. I have overseen the whole project between managing the day-to-day business of the band and my day job. We have also been back on the road gigging with Neverworld and Planet Fatale which has meant much of my free time has been focused on making those shows a success on top of looking after the new album project.
Recently this was pushed back when there was a hardware failure has resulted in further delays to the production after a handful of songs had been mixed, and between further revisions and contributions of the keys from Heidi Crowell. This hardware issue has now been resolved and we are now moving forward with the album release again.
So, while the songs have been tracked and are sounding great in the raw, we do need more editing and changes as we go through the mixing process to give this album the best overall sound possible.
We debuted a fair chunk of the songs like since 2020 and many will hear that this is a completely different direction from our previous releases and represents an overall change for the band which we have matched with our new stage aesthetics and our brand-new logo. The new album has a march harder edge than the previous and is an album more influenced by our Speed Metal origins as opposed to anything really rooted in the NWOBHM movement which we had moved towards during The Waystone period of the band.
That is not to say we have lost the melodic stuff at all, there is a ton of that on the new record, but the music overall and the subject matter is much more in alignment with what is happening in the world right now rather than being mostly influenced by the 1980’s. It is a Metal record, and if anything, our least mainstream sounding record, and probably our least NWOTHM sounding album and production, although it is not as modern influenced (or progressive) as the material on Crisis of Faith and a lot more refined than out debut release, I think the best way to summarize it is it is our heaviest and angriest release yet.
Lyrically we have touched on everything from battling Alzheimer’s disease, the culture war, drug addiction to the decline of western civilization and the evils of greed right through to the negative impact the existing Governments over-building policies have had on our environment. It is a bit more relevant lyrically than our past records I would say, it may upset a few people, but we have tried to keep it as balanced as possible.
While the album has been slow to put together, we have soldiered on with the 5 new songs for the Patreon 21’ EP having recorded the bulk of those and started rehearsals for the 22’ EP material, oh which the band has now learned 4 of the 5 songs on that release so substantial progress has been made. The 21’ EP was delayed due to Covid restrictions and the band having to focus on the new album release.
The 21’ EP is most definitely much heavier than the new album in places, but also has the most diverse range of songs. It is influenced by Speed/Thrash/Death Metal but there’s also a Sabbath inspired track on there and a song mocking industry created “alternative” bands that have come straight off a production line but sold as an organic thing.
Anyhow I thought I would issue this update on just where we are at with the 3 releases which we fully intend to get out this year.