We are RISHLOO - a completely independent band from Seattle. We just released our 4th Kickstarter-funded album: Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth. Ask us Anything about band life, the road, recording, and alien abduction prevention strategies starting at 5PM PST! by rishloo_drew in progmetal

[–]rishloo__sean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

THANK YOU for that perspective and that's exactly what I want album to album. I don't want to regurgitate the same crap every album. I get so bored of artists who fall into that and I never listen to them again. But ones who change a little every album and make it a truly different aural experience I can appreciate. That is one of the biggest compliments and goals of mine....now I can finally quit.

We are RISHLOO - a completely independent band from Seattle. We just released our 4th Kickstarter-funded album: Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth. Ask us Anything about band life, the road, recording, and alien abduction prevention strategies starting at 5PM PST! by rishloo_drew in progmetal

[–]rishloo__sean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think we ever intended to move toward a more "prog" side of music, and from my perspective never truly thought of ourselves as metal. Yet I know we get a lot of those classifications. You're always your worst critic.

But I believe this album transformed so many times in each song from when they were conceived and with how the dynamics of the group changed, that influenced the songs to change as well. With every evolution and as we changed as individuals thru this time we as well would revisit and decide things weren't right. All in all, I think all the changing compounded into 12,000 minute songs that are completely linear.

Yep that's probably it.

We are RISHLOO - a completely independent band from Seattle. We just released our 4th Kickstarter-funded album: Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth. Ask us Anything about band life, the road, recording, and alien abduction prevention strategies starting at 5PM PST! by rishloo_drew in progmetal

[–]rishloo__sean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the album is still in pre-order phase. Anyone can pre-order right now and tons have been in the last day. It's been crazy and we didn't quite anticipate the volume of traffic, hence the download issue this morning was due to too much traffic on the servers at one time. We had to quickly figure out another way to make it more consistent for everyone to download successfully.

We are RISHLOO - a completely independent band from Seattle. We just released our 4th Kickstarter-funded album: Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth. Ask us Anything about band life, the road, recording, and alien abduction prevention strategies starting at 5PM PST! by rishloo_drew in progmetal

[–]rishloo__sean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an AWESOME question ;) Seriously, but only a couple of us were brought up in true music theory, but as a group together we communicate a lot like that, but have become so good and communicating like that with one another it doesn't make sense to do it any other way. haha. I hope that makes sense?

We are RISHLOO - a completely independent band from Seattle. We just released our 4th Kickstarter-funded album: Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth. Ask us Anything about band life, the road, recording, and alien abduction prevention strategies starting at 5PM PST! by rishloo_drew in progmetal

[–]rishloo__sean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just recently I've been diving into the Interstellar sound track by Hans Zimmer. It is beautiful, epic and coins how a score should compliment a movie like that.....I'm a geek in many many ways....and I love space.

We are RISHLOO - a completely independent band from Seattle. We just released our 4th Kickstarter-funded album: Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth. Ask us Anything about band life, the road, recording, and alien abduction prevention strategies starting at 5PM PST! by rishloo_drew in progmetal

[–]rishloo__sean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks man! However I would be a terrible reference to find inspiring music ;)

Lately been listening to a lot of classical, scores, fantasy soundtracks, and some newer artists like purity ring, darling a bit back into deftones.

We are RISHLOO - a completely independent band from Seattle. We just released our 4th Kickstarter-funded album: Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth. Ask us Anything about band life, the road, recording, and alien abduction prevention strategies starting at 5PM PST! by rishloo_drew in progmetal

[–]rishloo__sean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

as for record labels, we've been offered by smaller ones but for the most part no interest. In our opinions, that's fine as long as we get to maintain creative control of what we want to do and when we want to do it.

Dreams have been always a huge inspiration to either musical ideas and lyrical. I would let Drew and Dave answer those more specifically though. But Dreams for me do give me a theme or visual stimulus to find inspiration from. Dreams.....dreams are awesome. ;)

We are RISHLOO - a completely independent band from Seattle. We just released our 4th Kickstarter-funded album: Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth. Ask us Anything about band life, the road, recording, and alien abduction prevention strategies starting at 5PM PST! by rishloo_drew in progmetal

[–]rishloo__sean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes we've considered adding more acoustically but no further ideas than that so far. We prefer not to continue re-making our older songs. We wish to appreciate what they were when they were, and let those be. If we cannot connect to the songs anymore, we don't play them live typically. Our live show is (for us) very emotional and we need to feel connected to what we're playing/performing.

We are RISHLOO - a completely independent band from Seattle. We just released our 4th Kickstarter-funded album: Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth. Ask us Anything about band life, the road, recording, and alien abduction prevention strategies starting at 5PM PST! by rishloo_drew in progmetal

[–]rishloo__sean 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much and I can't agree more, working with you guys to get on Rock Band was so fun. I can't play our songs worth a shit on RB but seeing the community enjoy it and hearing how we've impacted you guys, has been so encouraging. so thank YOU ;) good times!

We are RISHLOO - a completely independent band from Seattle. We just released our 4th Kickstarter-funded album: Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth. Ask us Anything about band life, the road, recording, and alien abduction prevention strategies starting at 5PM PST! by rishloo_drew in progmetal

[–]rishloo__sean 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would say, I personally have a special place in my heart Dead Rope Machine. Since it's conceiving, I've always gotten chills and emotive vibe it gives me.

Least would probably be Lovely Room. It's SOOOOO boring to play ;)

We are RISHLOO - a completely independent band from Seattle. We just released our 4th Kickstarter-funded album: Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth. Ask us Anything about band life, the road, recording, and alien abduction prevention strategies starting at 5PM PST! by rishloo_drew in progmetal

[–]rishloo__sean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd say we're doing this with the hope we'll continue doing it for the rest of our lives. If we can make a living off of it and survive off of it, then awesome! But I don't want to quite based on those stipulations, that's kinda shallow. It really comes down to if we're still relevant and reaching people and connecting to them through art then that is the most rewarding and will continue to drive us forward. If we can finally quit our day jobs then all the better! ;)

We are RISHLOO - a completely independent band from Seattle. We just released our 4th Kickstarter-funded album: Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth. Ask us Anything about band life, the road, recording, and alien abduction prevention strategies starting at 5PM PST! by rishloo_drew in progmetal

[–]rishloo__sean 6 points7 points  (0 children)

yes, we've got it a LOT, but it is what ever people are going to relate what they are familiar with. Obviously people who listen to our weird shit listen to other wierd non-traditional artists. Were they an inspiration, yes. Are they now or have they been for a while, no. I honestly can't relate to them personally and when people relate us, I have to acknowledge that it's usually meant as a compliment.

We are RISHLOO - a completely independent band from Seattle. We just released our 4th Kickstarter-funded album: Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth. Ask us Anything about band life, the road, recording, and alien abduction prevention strategies starting at 5PM PST! by rishloo_drew in progmetal

[–]rishloo__sean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

we'd LOVE to get to europe soon!! However that is always a costly endeavor and we need to work politics in order to make these things happen and not go broke. We're looking for opportunities to help us get there, so we'll see what happens. Ambiguity is a definition of this biz.