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** Tim reflects on this date in years seemingly long ago, and also looks at where the band is now and moving forward.**

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On this Day... Jan 23, 2016

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Yasith

Awesome insights from you guys! Thank you for sharing these! The Graal live party was awesome, really great to see that exclusive content for us Patreons. Would indeed like an FullAlbum Preview one. And an Exclusive Patreon Concert streaming or live. Also glad to know how helpful the contributions of us Patreons has been. Everyone that has supported in some way throughout the tough times is seriously awesome! 🫡👏 Hope to see much more fans supporting here at Patreon🙏🤘

Maria Mazzacane

Thank you for the heads-up -just preordered the Blu-ray from a vendor, since I missed it direct from you. Yes to more content - I would join you on Twitch! Take care, and an ocean of gratitude that you are bringing this music to my family and friends to share. See you on tour!

Kenny V

Everything sounds great! I would love to have the EPs digitized or maybe a rerun of physical copies exclusive to patreon members. As far as any ideas for patreon maybe a third single could be shown through the viewing part in late February. That way it is exclusive to us to get another early listen! You guys are doing great so far and this shift in revamping and recreating patreon into something exciting is really great, thank you NeO for always doing your best and honest work! 🖤👍🏻

Val

The previews for Equus and Graal were really exciting, thank you for hosting them! A preview for the album the week it comes out would be great, and surely it could make new people come on Patreon. Early access is always an attractive thing. The industry has changed indeed, and you guys are moving along with it. Back in 2016 some people may have disapproved of Patreon, but you did it anyway. For us fans, it makes us feel like we’re part of the band’s evolution, and it’s an amazing thing. Thank you for everything ♥

Mat

Yes to everything you said

Mat

And thank you

Cormac Jordan

Glad to see you in a good mindset Tim and that long term planning is coming for Patreon. I'd have two suggestions: 1. Instead of the interviews you've done before (patreons comment questions, band member answers on a self made video) you could have a interview with someone who can put together a good interview and knows the band/members well enough to have questions that could lead to a really interesting conversation. Patreons could suggest question or topics to cover as part of it. Plus make it Patreon exclusive so you can open up a bit more as opposed to a normal interview where everything goes public. Could be done in person or via zoom, one member or full band, etc 2. It would be cool to have some content aimed towards musicians/producers/music nerds. For instance stems, tabs, tutorials, live or album rig rundown, interview with Mark Lewis about producing/mixing the new album and the gritty details of it (I'd say there would great details about producing remotely)

Desirae Laura

I think we are all on board for a full album stream before the release. The Twitch idea sounds awesome too, might be easier to manage than fitting everyone on Zoom. The odd live stream from the shows on tour (I caught one with Unleash The Archers which was an awesome dynamic.. including interaction with the fans at the show with the Twitch members.) All your ideas sound great! It doesn't hurt to at least try. Thank you guys for all your do on here.

Chris Bossardet

I would love to see a Zoom album release party thing. Looking forward to finally hearing it. Would be fine to do Twitch, as well but that wouldn't be able to be set to patrons only like Zoom would. Would be really cool to see you guys stream some band practices or random playing on Twitch in the future though too. Also would be really cool to see instrumental versions of the songs here on Patreon. Even better if we had the option to buy an instrumental version of the album in the future via Bandcamp or something. I'm also seconding more exclusive Patreon releases - whether that's old EPs re-released or some custom stuff (e.g. b-sides). Lots of old band fan clubs from the early 2000's used to do stuff that - exclusive EP/b-sides releases on CD or digitally. I'm so happy you guys made that first US tour happen. Got to see you at the RI show and met you guys after the show. It led to me becoming a longtime fan after seeing how great you guys all were. Can't wait to see you in Boston in November.

Dina

Twitch sounds like a great idea! Maybe already for the album release party because the sound quality would be much better than on Zoom? Also, I'm sure that releasing the EPs and the second live show on Patreon would bring a lot of new people on board.

Avintha Fonseka

Definitely yes to the album release party! Would love to see more regular content for Revered members going forward.

Ne Obliviscaris

Hi Maria, thanks for the support buying that Blu-ray and also your feedback about Twitch. We are going to look into it a bit more! - Tim

Ne Obliviscaris

Thanks for your amazing support and encouragement Yasith! :-) - Tim

TheStalk

More content sounds great! Of the things you've mentioned, I'd say those that are most exciting to me would be the live string quartet, re-release of the EPs (possibility to get physical copies would be even better for all us collectors! I know this would mean more logistics and money but you could perhaps open pre-orders on Patreon for a while and only "print" to demand to limit overhead costs?) I unfortunately missed the viewing party for Graal as I had family commitments but would love to attend some in the future - I've hosted a lot of listening parties on a prog discord I'm a part of (including all of your albums) and the vibe is so fun when everyone is into it! Cormac's idea above of stems would be amazing as well, I'd love to try (and fail) to play along on guitar or remove the vocals and attempt to do them myself! I'd also be really interested in a more in-depth look into your songwriting process - who writes what, how songs come together, etc. If Xen could do a deep dive into some lyrics too that'd be fantastic - where the inspiration comes from, the meaning behind them, does he write them before or after the music is written, I'm a sucker for all that "inner workings" kind of content.

Tina

Didn't watch the video yet (sorry), but pre-album release listening party (for the remaining songs), anything related to lyrics and artwork (meaning), artwork posters, handwritten lyrics would be nice. 🤷‍♀️