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Since Drones Bloom
Since Drones Bloom cover
Studio album by Vixen Windstorm
Released TBA
Recorded December 5, 2007 – TBA
Genre Doom metal
Groove metal
Instrumental
Label Faceless Records
Producer Vixen Windstorm
Vixen Windstorm chronology
There'll Be Redemption
(2008)		 Since Drones Bloom
(TBA)

Since Drones Bloom is the first studio album by Canadian solo artist Vixen Windstorm, set to be released in 2009 through Windstorm's own Faceless Records. Unlike Windstorm's previous releases which were strictly demo compilations, Since Drones Bloom will be the first Windstorm release to not be compiled and packaged on the last day of the year they are recorded.

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[edit] Background information

With the demo sessions and the compilations they spawned, Vixen Windstorm's first studio album became somewhat of an anomaly. An album had been planned since nearly the beginning (though nothing more than a hope at the time), but production and lack of skill denounced this focus to performing, as well as demoing and culminating the year's end in a compilation of recordings entitled 7 Hours: The Demos of 2006. The beginning of 2007 saw the recording of several new demos, though throughout the year this activity grew quiet.

In November 2007, Windstorm concluded to record a select few full-length songs to feature on his second year's end release, an EP of sorts, unlike 7 Hours which featured 46 demos no longer than 1:57, with one exception being 2:40. With only one month left of the year, this short time began opposing Windstorm to the conception of the EP, and with no more than a brief demo session on December 5, Windstorm called off the idea and took the remaining month easy, instead releasing a second demo compilation of all 2007 recordings – this included the demos Windstorm had recorded that December as references for the full-length songs to have later been recorded.

Though the EP had failed to be conceived in the time left of the year, Windstorm had not abandoned the idea of this "better produced" release. Since the past December, the release (now leaning towards an album rather than an EP) came to be known as Since Drones Bloom, titled after an original doom composition used in a medley recorded on November 14, 2007. Several compositions have been written for the album, though only the ones recorded in the past December remain recorded at this time.

The actual track listing for the album remains generally uncertain, but several songs have been confirmed so far while there are also many compositions that have never been recorded, some which originate from 2006. Two songs from 7 Hours: The Demos of 2006, "28 Days" (known now as "28 Days Later") and "Through the Looking Glass" will be recycled and extended for the album; three original songs from There'll Be Redemption, "The Jabberwocky Ambiguous", "Bitchy Song" and "Absolutely New (Ode to the Bitchy Song)" (the former two being tentatively titled and actually representing of the same song) will also be recycled and extended for the album. A cover of The Cure's "Fascination Street" will also be recorded from scratch but will for the first time be full-length and not part of a medley of any sort. "Fascination Street" has been previously recorded several times by Windstorm and has seen release on each of his previous demo compilations. A groove metalesque composition written in 2006, though never recorded, is also likely to be used for the album. Initial plans to feature the title track "Since Drones Bloom" recorded in November 2007, albeit extended, on the album have also been scrapped.

On January 19, 2008, the first recording of the year, a guitar solo entitled "Yggdrasil", was recorded and will most likely be be used on the album, though possibly merged into another song from the track listing.

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[edit] Possible inclusions

  • "Yggdrasil"

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