Antichrisis Is Gone
Sid posted the announcement on the official site over two weeks ago, but I only looked last night. It would appear to be one more result of the “economic crisis”, though there is also the expected rant about piracy. I won’t get into that again, wrote quite enough about piracy and how it’s not like the content creators and distributors would want people to believe it is, but I will say that I’m quite saddened by the news.
From what I heard, that album had been fully written since 2003 and was supposed to be released in 2005. But then Sid wanted to rerelease “A Legacy of Love” first, to make it clear that this fourth album is linked to that one and not to the third, so “The Legacy Remains” was delayed, and then the delays kept piling up, mainly due to the band’s usual problem of repeatedly losing their female vocalists. My guess is that Sid wasn’t satisfied with just recording the songs again with the new vocalist after the first one who worked on this album left the band, so he actually wanted to change them to fully suit the new voice. That took time, which time was apparently longer than the second vocalist who worked on this album was willing to stick around. In came a third, the work probably started all over again and in December the word was that the album was finally going to see the light of day in early 2009. But now it would appear that the record label crumbled and it got pulled down with it.
I can’t say it was unexpected… Seems quite fitting for this to happen just when an album that seemed to just refuse to be released was about to finally be forced out into the world. But I was still hoping, so I’m still saddened by the news. And I’m even more saddened by his decision to just let it vanish into oblivion, become “the lost album”, as he put it. Fully agree that there are problems with all the currently available methods of selling songs in digital format, but if he’s not going to make any money out of it anyway, why not just make it available for free? He says it wouldn’t be fair to all the other band members, but I don’t see why. Unless I’m missing something, they’re not earning anything as a result of how things stand right now either…
What’s worse is that, for all practical purposes, the band has disbanded after hearing this news from their record label. Sid says that they only met in the studio, while recording, and since that’s not going to happen anymore it’s pointless to just say they’re still a band. So he’ll go back to the beginnings of Antichrisis, make music alone, though two of the other members assured him they’ll still help if he’ll need them. He also doubts Antichrisis will ever release another full album, since he lost his faith in this method of making music.
Why did I want to write a post about this? Just because Antichrisis is one of my favorite bands and I was really looking forward to that new album. I have mixed feelings about the sound, but I really relate to Sid’s lyrics and the story behind them, that’s why I even put up some of them.
I was seriously entertaining the notion of actually buying “The Legacy Remains”, if it’d have been released and some shop from here would have somehow sold it, despite being fully against buying “hard copies” of music or movies you never intend to play or watch on anything other than your computer. For a while I also searched every shop from here I could think of, plus many I never knew existed until then, for a copy of one of their old albums, thinking I could just show my support that way. I couldn’t find any, of course… Still, knowing me, this should tell you how much I wanted to support this band. But I guess it didn’t work out…
