Na home page clique em “store” e veja nossa nova loja virtual.
Estaremos disponibilizando para venda online o catálogo do Apokalyptic Raids, CDs, LPs, 4 modelos de camisetas e muitos outros títulos de distribuição, e até acessórios e instrumentos futuramente.
A loja aceita pagamento via PagSeguro, que é garantido pela UOL e permite pagamento via boleto ou parcelamento em até 12x no cartão de crédito.
Quem preferir depósito em conta pode continuar mandando seu pedido por email como sempre.
For you overseas, this is about the our web store, acessible on our home page. Sorry, but the store is fully available only for brazilian folks for the time being. We’ll be working on an international version some day, but you still can browse the stuff and get in touch via the email adress contact@apokalypticraids.com to get the prices + postage and get instructions on how to pay easily and safely using paypal.
While recording the 4th album, we played in Rio with Farscape. Tomarock Prod. did this gig and we presented the new songs. Our drummer Slaughterer plays also in Internal Bleed, which played on that night too.
Durante as gravações do quarto álbum, tocamos no Rio com o Farscape. O show foi organizado pela Tomarock Produções e nele apresentamos o repertório novo. Nosso batera Slaughterer toca também no Internal Bleed, que também tocou naquela noite.
We played with Matanza in São Pedro da Aldeia, near the lakes, Rio de Janeiro countryside. The gig was by Chicão, who does the Rock Humanitário Open Air Festival. The fest is 4 years old already with a 4.000 to 5.000 audience. The tickets are excahnged for just 1 kilo of food for charity. Here we have a glimpse of what it looks like…
Tocamos com o Matanza em S. Pedro da Aldeia, na região dos lagos do Rio de Janeiro. A organização de primeira foi a cargo do Chicão, que é o responsável por nada menos do que o festival de Rock Humanitário. O festival tem 4 anos e já conta com público de 4.000 a 5.000 pessoas. O ingresso é 1 quilo de alimento. Aqui tivemos uma pequena amostra de como as coisas rolam por lá…
We have noticed that many blogs feature our albums with links for downloads, for which we do not receive any payment.
Such links usually do not feature links to our site or myspace, a band bio or photos, like a fanzine would.
Funny as it is, we are an independent band and we produce all our stuff ourselves. Consequently, we do make a living on our album sales, contrary to what is commonly said, that bands do not get enough pay from records. We do get all our pay from album sales.
The fact is that we are in big trouble when downloads are so widespread. Also, we can not be against technology, that would be pointless. But I’d also like to point out that the drop in CD sales in the last 2 years punishes the smaller bands more severely.
So we have decided to adopt a policy that would be good to our real fans, and on the other hand be up-to-date with the way things have become. We have to receive payment for the music we play and record, in one way or another, if we are to make more of it.
We are asking for it directly from you, the decent Apokalyptic Raids fan. If you did not buy a physical copy, but instead downloaded one of our albums, heard it and liked it, and if you feel a connection to our message, you are kindly urged to use the button below to send us US$5 per album via Paypal. That is exactly what we would get from an album sale, manufacturing and shipping costs discounted.
In exchange for that, you’ll receive files containing full album art, high quality mp3, photos, lyrics, whatever comes with the physical album, as well as the invaluable feeling of doing the right thing.
Music is art. Giving your support is priceless.
Temos notado que muitos blogs tem links dos nossos álbums para download, pelos quais não recebemos pagamento.
Tais blogs normalmente não tem links para nosso site ou myspace, um release ou fotos, como um zine.
Por incrível que pareça, somos uma banda independente e produzimos nós mesmos nossos álbums. Conseqüentemente, vivemos de vendas de discos, ao contrário do que se diz por aí, que as bandas não ganham com discos. Praticamente tudo o que nós temos são vendas de discos.
O fato é que com a disseminação dos downloads, temos um grande problema. Por um lado, não tem sentido ir contra a tecnologia. Mas gostaríamos de dizer que a queda no mercado de CDs nos últimos 2 anos pune mais duramente as bandas pequenas.
Assim, decidimos adotar uma política que seja boa para nossos fãs de verdade e por outro lado seja atual com o estado de coisas. Precisamos receber pela música que tocamos e gravamos, de uma maneira ou de outra, com o que vamos produzir mais música.
Estamos pedindo diretamente a você, o fã decente do Apokalyptic Raids. Se você não comprou um CD ou LP, mas em vez disso baixou um dos nossos álbums, ouviu, e gostou, e de alguma forma se sente ligado à nossa mensagem, pedimos gentilmente que nos doe R$5 por álbum baixado. É exatamente o que ganharíamos por disco, descontada a fabricação e o frete. Entrem em contato pelo email contact@apokalypticraids.com
Em troca, você receberá o álbum completo em jpg e mp3 de alta qualidade, com todas as fotos, letras e tudo mais que vem no disco original, e a impagável sensação de fazer a coisa certa.
In order to keep the band growing more and more, we have started a campaign to get some suppliers. Their links are on our home page…
Until the present moment the list is
Sonar drumsticks: they provide great drumsticks (Slaughterer claims he couldn’t break them) and the stuff can have custom logo/signature. So now we have our own drumsticks.
BMA racks: they do light weight aluminium cymbal racks, so now Slaughterer can use all his cymbals without having to carry around a lot of single stands.
Meteoro Amplifiers have a lending system that can provide us with their best amps when we have gigs in their influence area. Their tone can be very close to a Marshall stack…
Carlito straps does great quality customized leather straps for our axes.
AMR has granted us some bonus hours because we have been recording our stuff there for quite some years now, including 3 AR’s albums and also Necromaniac’s production of Farscape (2 albums and 2 eps), Diabolic Force, Atomic Roar and Flagelador.
We are still searching for some other suppliers and news will be presented as each deal is closed.
In our recent attempt to get our web presence up-to-date (our sound remaining the same, ça va sans dire), we have decided to replace the old and battered web site by this new one.
The domain/e-mail address apokalypticraids.com was long needed too.
The solution we are implementing features this blog you now read, that hopefully will take care of updates more frequently, and a web store in 4 different languages and 3 different currencies.
We are still working on a new myspace and a possibly a youtube channel.
Here’s a video of last year’s Roça’n'Roll festival (approx. 4.000 people):
We are still working on our new album. It is delayed due to the hectic recording schedule at AMR. We have been doing our albums there since 2003, so it will be worth the wait.
We are still trying to find a proper cover art. The “Phonocopia” concept is completely developed. We just need some one to do it in the appropriate style.
The new album will be a co-operation with some labels. As we all know, the CD market is on a crash, but we need to expand. This time the intended print run is 2.000 copies for a start. So, the only way to grow the way our new album demands is to unite some 4 or 5 brazilian labels with whom we had good relations. The exact names will be here as soon as the list is definitive.
We did record a lot of outtakes and we intend to release some EPs and split releases soon.
First, there is a long-planned split CD with Farscape. It will feature 5 or 6 tracks by each band, some cover versions, some unreleased tracks. They were recorded some years ago as outtakes from our previous albums. On this CD, Pedro Rocha plays the drums both for Farscape and for us. Bass is taken care partly by A. Aguinaga (from our first 2 albums) and by Hellpreacher.
Equally long awaited is the split 7″EP with Nordic Mist, on Hell’s Headbangers.
Hell’s Headbangers is also to re-release our first 2 albums on LP as well.
There is also a split with Atomic Roar on the make. We call it the AR-AR split. Our bass player does the vocals on Atomic Roar, and the remaining members are Farscape members.
More split releases will be out, and info will be published here as soon as they are confirmed…
