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Rainwound

About Me


The Ivory Chapel
1. November 23
2. Her Silvery Vision
3. Memories
4. The Ivory Chapel
5. The Measure One's Worth
6. A Knight's Vengeance
7. Holy Light (The Return)
8. Assault on the Kingdom
9. Spiritual Hallucinations
Featuring my photography, and a beautiful painting of a woman by artist Melinda Gramnaes. The Ivory Chapel was written in December 2006 and recorded throughout 2007. Then, it was recorded a couple more times in 2008 and the beginning of 2009. Currently, vocal recordings are taking place. Shrouded Destiny was written in 2005 (a demo version was produced) and re-recorded throughout 2006. "Shrouded Destiny" was released in May 2007.
The Official Website - I'm not releasing the debut album at this time. If you would still like to get a copy, please contact me, and we can work it out.
Shrouded Destiny Reviews
"Fans of prog in general should take notice of Rainwound despite its flaws stemming from musical immaturity since its creator will, in time, have the ability to create the next great prog metal opus." -Jordan Knoll, ultimatemetal.com
"Though a tad long at just about 80 minutes, the CD contains some epic tracks that have a lot going for them, like "Christmas", with some majestic keyboard work and emotional guitar solos, "Rainwound", which mixes black metal and prog quite nicely, the Opeth-influenced "Companionship", and the lengthy 16 minute "Opressing the Past". The latter is part symphonic prog, and part technical metal, with complex guitar work, manic electronic drum programming, and varied styles of clean vocals. "Loves Sacrifice" is a rather nice piece, with lots of atmospheric keyboards, piano, and pastoral acoustic guitar work. 3/5" -Pete Pardo, seaoftranquility.org
"“Shouded Destiny” is where dreamy Light Rock impacts headfirst with blistering blackened Thrash. It’s a remarkably varied album that would have slotted in well with The End Records before that label was taken over by Post-Rock shenanigans. The material has a lot of depth and is worth exploring, but it will probably take one a while to get into it... ...what RAINWOUND is doing is clearly on the cutting edge and groundbreaking... 7/10" - Keith Stevens, metal-observer.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 04/08/2005
Band Website: http://www.rainwound.com/
Band Members:

Brandon Strader - music and lyrics

Influences:
Nobuo Uematsu
Pain of Salvation
The Flower Kings
Forest Stream
Opeth
Pagan's Mind
Camel
IQ
Novembers Doom
more...
Sounds Like: The Flower Kings, Transatlantic, Opeth, Pain of Salvation, Camel, IQ, Glass Hammer, In Flames (the good era, not the new stuff), Katatonia, etc
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

The Ivory Chapel completed!

The new album, The Ivory Chapel, has finally been completed. This is the follow-up to the band's first album, Shrouded Destiny. It is also a concept album. 7 out of 9 of the songs have been added to t...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:38:00 GMT

Spiritual Hallucinations

I just added this new song, "Spiritual Hallucinations". I just bounced it down about an hour ago. It probably is not the final version but I think it sounds great. This is using different EQ than "To ...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:14:00 GMT

To Measure One's Worth

If you haven't noticed yet, a couple days ago I have uploaded a version of To Measure One's Worth, which is going to be the 5th song off of The Ivory Chapel. It isn't the final version, as it uses set...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:59:00 GMT

Three years...

It seems like it hasn't been that long since I posted the last anniversary blog on November 13th, 2007... The demo was originally released in 2005, though an old log I recently discovered from a separ...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:39:00 GMT

’The Ivory Chapel’ cover and tracklist revealed!

From www.rainwound.com:Hello there! I am very happy to finally unveil this, the new cover artwork for The Ivory Chapel. I also updated the site to use the new artwork. The beautiful woman's face was p...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:28:00 GMT

Recordings done! What’s next?

The recordings for the new CD are done... apart from a few touch-ups here and there, as is the usual deal. Here's what I am hoping will happen next, after the touch-ups!- Speak to local studios about ...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:39:00 GMT

Studio Diary: Recording Update 2.0

Will appear on the official site rainwound.com soon enough...   Studio Diary - Recording Update 2.0 February 13th, 2007  1:42 PM   ..:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /> Greetings, my friends. I've ha...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:55:00 GMT

The Ivory Chapel details revealed!

As posted on rainwound.com:Greetings! Well, as previously reported, I am now ready to release the track list for The Ivory Chapel! There are 9 songs and the total length is just a little bit more than...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:58:00 GMT

Merry Christmas!

I wish you all a very merry Christmas, have a great one everybody! 
Posted by on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:46:00 GMT

Holy Light

Holy Light is HERE! Take a listen! Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope you like it! You can download the 320kbps version from the official website...You can watch the making-of movie here on MySpac...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:45:00 GMT