Are We Alive? Yes!

Missed us?  Well, as you can probably tell, we at \\\Maytag haven’t been particularly active over the past year.  In fact, when I said that Tnuc Lana and I started recording, we literally just worked on it for a little bit, and then proceeded to play Super Smash Brothers for a few hours before calling it a night.  You see, as it is now, \\\Maytag is effectively a two man operation, much like SunnO))).  However, the two of us have a lot of things going on in real life that just don’t translate well to having time to commit to such a serious project like this.  We both work many hours a week, just like you probably do, and mixed with educational whatnots (derp, college), we just don’t get to meet up and collaborate as a team like we’d want to, nor do we get the time to fiddle around with production much.  It’s sad to see that our beloved project is slowly fading away into obscurity.

I silently noticed to myself that May 26th was the 2nd anniversary of our debut releases.  That, followed up by a Metalsucks post about us, got me thinking about the status of the Fridgerick Douglass EP that we’ve been working on for ages now.  Well, 27 minutes have been done for awhile now, ready for production and mixing, and as of yesterday, I finally got the fucking balls and motivation to start writing more music!  I got a dandy new Bionaire portable mini fan, with two speed settings, and recorded it for a bit.  As of now, I’ve turned that into an intense 3:30 of new material, with massive layering and production value, that will surely be a wondrous new addendum to the material that we already have!  I’ve actually been practicing my production techniques since we released our first album, and I’m ready to really test them out here!

So yes, world, we are alive.  All I can say about this music is that it’s guaranteed to be better than a Morbid Angel album.  Y’know, that album (IT’S TOO EXTREME!!!).  Jeez, we couldn’t make music that bad if we tried…

Recording Starts Today!

Well, I have a bit set up already that I really like so far, but today shall be the first official live collaboration!  Tnuc Lana and I shall be working together to make Fridgerick Douglass the best refrigerator drone ever.  It’ll be very interesting to see how  \\\Maytag music works with two people actively involved in the creation of one final product.  Also, this is awesome:

Guess What? We Want You To Bootleg Out Merchandise!

I was checking our last.fm, and I noticed that a user known as steinarhr1 uploaded a picture to our photos of a \\\Maytag shirt that they made themselves.  Franky, we are flattered that someone would go out of their way to make \\\Maytag clothing–thank you, steinarhr1!  With that in mind, I’d like to officially open this up to the rest of our fan base.  If you so desire, you are more than welcome to create “bootleg” merchandise.  In fact, we’re encouraging you to!  We want you all to make as much bootleg \\\Maytag stuff as you want. Go ahead, make bootleg shirts, hats, capes, socks, eye patches, posters, and anything else that you can think of.  It would even be funny if bootleg CDs started being circulated.  Feel free to spread around what you make as well.  Although we’d prefer that you not sell it (or at the very least, only charge for what the materials cost), it’s not like we would plausibly stop you.

To start, we should provide you with high-quality (1515 x 1515) PNG images of our album covers.  We have all of them at this quality except Concerto for Three Washers in Sea Major, so here they are:

The Saga of the Frostbitten Lands of Frigidaire

Permafrost

I’m on a Fridge

Fridgerick Douglass

In addition, here are some variations of our logo, as well as our mascot (at lower resolutions and in JPEG format):

Black and White

Red and Blue

Mascot

Of course, you’re not limited to just this–you can use anything you want, even with original content!  Anyway, if you do make something, feel free to send pictures to us at maytag235[at]gmail.com and we’ll post it here!

Fridgerick Douglass

With the announcement of new material, I also thought it might be a good idea to reveal the album cover for our next release–”Fridgerick Douglass”–in all of its frostbitten glory!  I actually made this over a year ago (Photoshop FTW!) before the release of the original album and revealed on this site in the form of a hyperlink, but not many people saw it, so this is more of a true introduction to the magnificent cover of “Fridgerick Douglass.”   For this release, we will be giving away our music for free, as usual, under a Creative Commons License.  I’m going to estimate that this will at least be completed (not necessarily released) by the end of summer, because that is all the time that Tnuc Lana and I (and possibly Pledgehammer) have to work together.  As for promotion, this time around, I will be more aggressive in terms of sending it out to people.  Since this is now a (more) serious musical project, I feel that it should get more of the exposure it deserves.  I saw a few blog posts about us after the release of the first album, which was pleasing considering what it was, but for the next album, it shall be better!

Does Anyone Care About Myspace Anymore?

If so, then you might like to know that I recently gave our Myspace page a complete makeover.  It actually looks kind of nice now.  In other news, Tnuc Lana and I might get together soon to record new material!