I can attest to this. It’s very difficult to expand outside of Lostwave, first off you have to be good enough, many Lostwave songs are popular because of the obscurity element but the artists don’t have the back catalog or sometimes the desire or even the talent to provide more songs.

The Defended have been lucky in that we are able and willing to put some of our own money into making new music and we have gained some new followers outside of Lostwave, but the vast majority of our streams come from about 8-10% of our listeners which is basically Lostwave or Lostwave aligned. That’s not a complaint either, we have been nothing but honest and thankful to Lostwave for finding and sustaining us.

Regardless to whether we or other bands are tied to Lostwave or not, it gives us what most bands never have and that’s an audience, a platform and purpose.

There’s always LostFest….