Hi All, Rob here. Last night we performed our gig at Jay’s brother’s 25th birthday party. Despite taking near 10 hours to setup and some minor technical issues the gig went very well. It was all captured on camera and will be available for viewing along with a complete sound mix when we’re done putting it all together. Until then keep rockin’ !!!. My album of choice this month is ‘Shot to Hell’ by Black Label Society.

Yet another late post, but at least it’s still weekly.

The last practise session before the gig… we thought we had a lot more time but it snuck up on us. That’s alright because we kick ass. The set is sounding awesome and I can’t wait to play the gig tomorrow. Ben having warmed up his throat and vocal chords with scales, didn’t go to the aforementioned awfulness of pushing too hard. We played the set all the way through about 1-2 times before lunch and then another 2-3 after. In between set playing we just relaxed and chatted about the next song. In a rather bold move we decided to stop playing the set as too much practise and we’d probably go insane, and instead started writing the music for the new track based on subject matter very important to Jay. Jay already had the drums and lyrics worked out for the intro and first verse. Rob and I just started mucking around and somehow ended on a cool riff, which is most likely going to be put into the bridge. After spending about an hour on the intro, which sorta went nowhere, we focused on the first verse and were able to get a sound that we were all happy with. Ben’s vocals in the song are already sounding very moving and powerful, and that’s only the first sing through. All in all I can’t wait until we are able to work on it some more. But we have the gig tomorrow.

We are going to spend a fair chunk of the day just setting up and moving stuff around so we get the best sound. We’ll probably play through the set 2 times or so just to be sure it sounds cool. Then it’s relaxing time, the guys will probably go get their wives (if they haven’t done so already), and then I don’t know what we’ll do until Kynan’s party. The gig will be recorded in some way, so it might make it on to the web site in one way or another, you just never know. For those of you blessed enough to see Kurodust live tomorrow night, we start at 10 and prepare to rock, cos we are going to “rock your socks off”.

Looks like none of the other guys are going to take the initiative, so here’s our weekly update post!

Firstly I’d like to apologise to the band members, their wives/fiancees, the neighbours and any cars passing by Jay’s house last Saturday. I didn’t warm my voice up and pushed too hard, and by the end of the session I was sounding pretty awful. I’ve learnt my lesson though and I’ve been doing my scales all week, so tomorrow I will sound a LOT better.

The gig is next weekend! We were hoping to get some t-shirts made for our groupies (read: significant others) but I think we’ve run out of time. Anybody know of any good places that will do a small run of white on black t-shirts for cheap?

We also need to finalise our video and photography teams, I’m hoping my sister can do some photos but I haven’t got a firm answer from her yet. Whatever happens, I will make sure we get some decent footage and some good photos out of the night. It will be a while before we have another gig, so I want to make the most of it!

The set is tightening up nicely, our Initialise tracks are near perfect and the other three are getting there as well. We found a backup guitar for Rob in case the capo isn’t working out (that’s how it’s spelt by the way, Trev…) and the PA is holding up well so we’ll be good and ready on the night.

Rock on!

Howdy peoples,

Sorry for the late post this week, all of Kurodust has been pretty busy lately preparing for the gig. Anywho, after two weeks of having to play with my practise bass (the SX bass that you could barely see in one of the latest pics on the site), I have finally got my ESP LTD B-154 back from the repair shop. Even though it was bought new sometimes you get bad wiring, but it is all up and running and kicking ass, even if I do say so myself. Props go to my fiancee for picking up the bass from billy hyde, because without her I’d be playing the SX still (or I woulda had to go down and pick it up myself. I’m too lazy for that so…)

As we all were invited to a wedding on Saturday (no, we didn’t get invited to play We would have liked to but I was part of the bridal party and we weren’t asked) we had the usual band practise on Sunday. The first run through was pretty much the best that we have played yet, which is great because we are going to have no real warm up time on the night of the gig. After the lunch break, we continued playing the set and tweaking Ben’s PA amp. As there is going to be a retune in the middle of the set, Rob decided that because he would take to long to retune he will play the Initialise tracks with a karpo (or however you spell it). Jay played brilliantly like usual, Ben was hitting all the notes seemingly easier than normal, Rob was flawless and I was solid.

Rockin out at the altar of metal, within the metal church of metal.
Trev