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The Trying (The new albums are out!)

http://thetryingmusic.com

About Me


Video for "Numb To Love" off of The Most Delicate Muscle
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The Trying. A name representing something we must constantly be doing in our lives. We must always try to overcome our problems. We must always try to take the negative and turn it into a positive. We must try to always get the lessons from the trials we are given. And we must always try to become better people. Embrace knowledge and experience and never stop growing.
The Trying discography
I just finished an EP entitled "Scraps" which is a collection of random songs written/recorded since The Trying began in 2005. It was released on Sept. 29th, along with a demo entitled "Anything". Scraps has 14 songs and spans 72 minutes.
“Realize, Accommodate” is one of the releases for April 19th. The theme of the album is all about realizing things in your life that contradict your beliefs, and changing your beliefs around to accommodate for the new information. Too often we find information that contradicts what we believe, so we ignore it like it doesn’t exist. This keeps people separated. Humanity’s goal should be to unify, and if we continue to ignore the world other people face and stay within the confines of our own world, we will surely stay divided.
Also, another album I am releasing on April 19th is entitled "The Most Delicate Muscle".which will be released right along side "Realize, Accommodate". It is an extremely, extremely personal album. You can find out anything about within the contents of the lyrics. And I do mean, anything. It's all laid out right there. TMDM is a sad, hopeless album. However, R,A takes that hope and describes what to do with it in order to make things better. I didn't plan on releasing them together, but it certainly works out well.
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Member Since: 2/15/2006
Band Website: http:thetryingmusic.com
Band Members: Just myself, Chris Kaetzel

Advanced Global Personality Test Results

Extraversion |||||||||||||||| 70%
Stability |||||||||||||| 56%
Orderliness |||||||||| 36%
Accommodation |||||||||||||| 56%
Interdependence |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Intellectual |||||||||||||||| 70%
Mystical |||||||||||| 50%
Artistic |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Religious |||||||||||| 50%
Hedonism |||||||||||| 43%
Materialism |||||||||| 36%
Narcissism |||||||||||| 50%
Adventurousness |||||||||||||||| 70%
Work ethic |||||||||| 36%
Self absorbed |||||||||||||||| 63%
Conflict seeking |||||||||||| 50%
Need to dominate |||||||||||| 43%
Romantic |||||||||||||||| 70%
Avoidant || 10%
Anti-authority |||||||||||| 43%
Wealth |||| 16%
Dependency |||||||||||||| 56%
Change averse |||||||||| 36%
Cautiousness |||||| 30%
Individuality |||||||||||| 43%
Sexuality |||||||||||||||||||| 83%
Peter pan complex |||||| 30%
Physical security |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Physical Fitness |||||||||| 37%
Histrionic |||||||||||||||| 70%
Paranoia || 10%
Vanity |||||||||||| 43%
Hypersensitivity |||||||||||||| 56%
Indie |||||||||||| 48% Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test

messy, outgoing, open, self revealing , ambivalent about chaos, unpredictable, not good at saving money , social, likes large parties, likes to stand out, risk taker, quick to make friends, does not like to be alone , rash, fame seeking, sarcastic , craves attention, social chameleon, low self control, food lover , not rule conscious, weird, assertive, not a perfectionist, anti-authority, thrill seeker, vain, likes to fit in, reckless, emotionally sensitive, leisurely, trusting
all of those are true, I just bolded the most true ones.

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Influences: 36 Crazyfists, 40 Below Summer, AFI, A Perfect Circle, Alanis Morissette, Asleep, At the Drive-In, ATB, Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, Ayumi Hamasaki, Billie Holiday, Bright Eyes, Bush, Chimaira, Coheed and Cambria, Cradle of Filth, Creed, Cursive, Disturbed, Eighteen Visions, Eminem, Everclear, Extol, From Autumn to Ashes, Garth Brooks, Godsmack, Green Day, Hatebreed, In Flames, Infected Mushroom, John Lennon, Keith Caputo, Killswitch Engage, Kittie, KoRn, Laava, Lacuna Coil, Leaves' Eyes, Led Zeppelin, Life of Agony, Marilyn Manson, Matchbox 20, Meshuggah, Metallica, Mindless Self Indulgence, Modest Mouse, Mr. Bungle, Mudvayne, Mushroomhead, My Chemical Romance, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, PANIC! at the Disco, Placebo, Pressure 4-5, Primus, Radiohead, Sarah McLachlan, Saul Williams, Seal, Slipknot, Staind, Sublime, System of a Down, The Beatles, The Blood Brothers, The Goo Goo Dolls, The Offspring, The Mars Volta, The Moody Blues, The Presidents of the United States of America, The White Stripes, Tool, Type O Negative, Venetian Snares
Sounds Like: I feel my music can actually represent my feelings upon unity. Just like alot of things, I've opened myself and learned to love many different styles of music, and it reflects in what I write.

...It Festered To This Fantasy?

I effin' love the king

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Music Update May 16, 2007

So, I've taken time off the EP.  Almost a month now.  There are a couple reasons for doing so.  I wanted to step back for awhile to kind of become hungry again.  Working on it so l...
Posted by The Trying on Thu, 17 May 2007 05:35:00 PST

EP Update Apr 22, 2007

So, it's been a little while since the last update.  Since the last one I've wrapped up the second draft of Realize, Accommodate.  I got the second drafts to You're Not the Only One and Porc...
Posted by The Trying on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:45:00 PST

EP Update Mar 28, 2007

So, I finally mixed and mastered the second draft for The Cycle.  Virtually no one has even heard the first draft, so that's cool.   Leave me some feedback :-)love,Chris...
Posted by The Trying on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:31:00 PST

EP Update Mar 19, 2007

I was working on the second draft of I'm Taking You All With Me and ended up doing some major reconstruction on it that has turned it from an "ehh" sort of thing to something much much greater.  ...
Posted by The Trying on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:43:00 PST

Is the reason for the increasing amount of antidepressants being prescribed more profit-driven?

So, I worked my ass of this quarter on this research paper.  I put in around 10 hours on it, total.  And I just wanted to include it because it's something I'm proud of.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...
Posted by The Trying on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:54:00 PST

EP Update Mar 14, 2007

Well, I finally got the second draft of Schema Stir done and it is now on the page!  Also, I did a very quick, raw cover of Placebo's "Lady of the Flowers", which you can hear here.  The son...
Posted by The Trying on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:22:00 PST

EP Update Feb 24, 2007

As I announced in the last update, I've divided progress into 4 categoriesrough draftrough draft 2collab periodfinal recording/mixingI got Nothing But Decay finished in it's second rough draft form.&n...
Posted by The Trying on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:54:00 PST

EP Update Feb 12, 2007

So there is progress.  I kinda stopped working on it for awhile to focus a little more on school and I've finally managed a way to balance music and school, so that's good.  And also in that...
Posted by The Trying on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:58:00 PST

Who is important to me?

Mike did this on his page and I really like the idea.  The 8 most important people in life, why, and what they mean to me.  Mike did 10, but I'm doing 8 because after 8 I was struggling to f...
Posted by The Trying on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:57:00 PST

2 years

So, I just wanted to let the world know, or whoever reads this, that today marks 2 years of my girlfriend and I being a couple!  I love her very much and I can't imagine where'd I'd be right now ...
Posted by The Trying on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:24:00 PST