Production Notes: Week One: The Sounds of Self Destruction

Above is the new cover for The Sounds of Self Destruction. The album, still in it's fetal stage, is coming along way better than expected. So far, I have three completed songs, and that was from just one night of work. This is another concept album, about a lost radio station that transmits subliminal messages about suicide to it's listeners. The opening of the album "Lost Frequencies" serves as an interlude to Radio Waves [Transmissions 1 - 4] (The song was originally broke into four segments and would be scattered about the album). "Lost Frequencies" is the beginning of the story, when the listener accidentally tunes into the radio station from Sanctuary. By this point in the story, our hero, Andrew, is strapped to a bed in a decaying hospital called "Alchemilla", where the head of the staff wants to extract his blood and infuse it with the Blood Goddess, who at this point is still the unawakened Flesh Goddess, his ex-loved Raychael who got pulled into Sloth after a fatal car accident in the real world. It's in this hospital that the radio station, 66.6 ATTCS begins to play over the PA system. The sounds unlock repressed memories inside Andrew's mind, as well as awakening the inhuman monsters chained in the 3rd floor basement, eagerly pulling at their chains, breaking free to take the lives of those who created them, the sadistic staff of Achemilla, and eventually the remaining residents of Sanctuary.

Along with this album, I will be releasing the story (or at least the part in which takes place during this album) with the album. I can already tell there will be a bonus disc, including a few exclusive songs, some b-sides, and the long awaited "Rise of the Temple", the start of the new TOS saga. As I've stated in past posts, Sloth will be a full length story. I have thousands of ideas for how the story will go. I'm very excited about the story because it will have soundtracks. I will post the story behind "The Sounds of Self Destruction" once the album is complete on this site.

In addition to the bonus disc, the slew of photographs, and the stories, I plan on releasing a "Making Of" documentary and two new music videos that will eventally wind up on the long awaited "Astral Visual Journey: An Astroid Andy Experience" DVD.

So without further ado, I present the first three songs in the Sloth/Sanctuary saga.





Until next time, keep Astral Projecting:

"Astroid" Andy Day