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Bewitched

Hi, guys.

I would like to let you know that this summer Solitude Productions (http://solitude-prod.com/) will release the first album of my ambient funeral doom band Narrow House called "A Key to Panngrieb":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNlzf9KJg9M

You can visit the official web site of the band at http://narrowhouse.net/ and spread the word by sharing via social media buttons. Thanks!

Bewitched · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:32 pm Post subject:

The album will be released on the 20th of August.

Bewitched · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:07 am Post subject:

You can check out the full version of the song featured in the video here.

Bewitched · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 2:08 pm Post subject:

The album will be out in 30 days!
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Bewitched · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 11:42 am Post subject:

Just 10 days! We have already received some cds from the label:

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Bewitched · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:46 pm Post subject:

So, apparently our album can be preordered now: http://www.solitudestore.com/en/blog/128/
The direct order link is here: http://www.solitudestore.com/en/product/narrow-house-2012-a-key-to-panngrieb/
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Bewitched · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 2:55 pm Post subject:

Today is the official release of our album. You can check promos for all the songs at the official Solitude Productions blog: http://solitude-prod.com/blog/lang/eng/2012/08/sp-064-12-narrow-house-a-key-to-panngrieb/

To buy the album click here: http://www.solitudestore.com/en/product/narrow-house-2012-a-key-to-panngrieb/
Digital version is also available: http://narrowhouse.bandcamp.com/album/a-key-to-panngrieb

PS. we have also launched our web site in full scale. It's in Russian but you can use the Google Translate plugin which is present on all the pages to get the general idea

. Here it is: http://narrowhouse.net/
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Bewitched · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:32 am Post subject:

Due to our album release I'm very pleased to present you a video for the first song from the "A Key to Panngrieb" - Poslednee Pristanishe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qry6BE7dQxc
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Thrashtildeth · Einherjar Joined: 07 May 2008 Posts: 2419 Location: Oz

Well, you have good taste in movies, I'll give you that.

Music's ok too.

Bewitched · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:18 am Post subject:

Thanks! It was a pure hell to create a 14min long video for a song. No surprise funeral bands don't tend to create videos for their stuff.

Yeah, btw, we have a Twitter account. Most of the blah-blahs are in Russian but the important bits of news are always dubbed in English.
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Thrashtildeth · Einherjar Joined: 07 May 2008 Posts: 2419 Location: Oz

AlexandeR · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 7:20 pm Post subject:

Bewitched · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:22 pm Post subject:

2Thrashtildeth
Yes, it is. However, the movie itself lasts for 96 minutes, while the music video should have been just 14. The first step was to browse the movie frame by frame to choose the suiting parts which would make sense for the song itself.

The second step was to cut scenes which worked not so well after all. Then I've synchronized the scenes with the track, so they would change with the flow of the music to set more dramatic atmosphere. After I've finished with including bits with the musicians, I've began to render the final thing, each time just to find out that something went wrong during one of those 14 minutes.

For a 740x480 movie the rendering process lasts for about 2 hours. I've made roughly 10 renderings to make sure everything worked fine at the end.

So, yes, it was pure hell

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Thrashtildeth · Einherjar Joined: 07 May 2008 Posts: 2419 Location: Oz

Ok....

I apologise!

Bewitched · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:50 pm Post subject:

No problem

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So, the first review has emerged! This one is form a Canadian website Puregrainaudio. Here is a bit:

Bewitched · Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 12:19 pm Post subject:

Yeah, btw, if someone here is feeling like reviewing our first album - drop us a line at narrow.house.ukr[at]gmail.com (just replace [at] with @).
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Bewitched · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2012 11:18 am Post subject:

Another review has arrived. This time from "Two Guys Metal Reviews", and it's more detailed than the previous one. Here is a bit:

Bewitched · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 11:54 am Post subject:

Ok, here's a fragment from a fresh review from the website called "From The Dust Returned":

Bewitched · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:19 am Post subject:

A few words from German people at Metal.de about "A Key to Panngrieb":

Bewitched · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:34 am Post subject:

Ha-ha, I actually realized that most of the native English-speaking crowd doesn't dig the name of our band. But no fear, Metal Storm had cleared this out for wide audience in their last review of our album.