Bare Knuckle Boxing + Skies on Fire going into Pre-Production!

After I've talked Eddie Cuddy through some chemistry exams, and after he thought NWN - IFHYP1 was the hit of the year, we decided we might cross paths musically in a serious realm.

Eddie Cuddy has been in and out of bands, some successful some not, for a few years strong now. I also have had this same blessing/curse. However, now, it seems that we are in two stable bands that aren't all about breakdowns or overly offensive topics, so what better way to start "crossing the country" than with a split!

Now, if you haven't heard Skies on Fire yet, make sure you hear their demo. Much less, make sure you hear the Bare Knuckle Boxing demo as well.

For pre-production, we've decided we're going to choose 4 songs each for this CD. BKB will be treating this release as the predecessor to our hopeful full length at the end of the Summer. We are not sure whether or not we will put our "different" versions of songs on this CD or if we will just put possible b-sides on this CD, but whichever our decision might be I believe it will be a very good release.

The name of this split will be called "Nationwide Broadcast". This CD will also be the hype machine that will hopefully allow both of our bands to tour either side of the coast a little easier.

Since recording isn't taking place at the same studios, BKB being local to The TriShed Area (The Shed, Shedaluma, and Shedbastopol [or "Maxi's" for short], and SoF being local to the PDL Studios area (however, it is unconfirmed whether or not they are using PDL again), we have both decided to master everything here at The Shed. This CD will be flying the 402 Productions label flag, however we do not know what it will be flying from SoF's camp... whether they will promote PDL's label (Lynch Recordings) or if they will choose to release under the 402 Productions camp name as well.

As for album art, we are on the fence from the BKB camp as to whom will take this challenge this time. We are always open to new artists, but Megan Kondrasky (she did the artwork for our demo) is always a top choice. Another prospect would be Matt Jehly, who has been working on our July show flyers, which would be fantastic as well. We haven't heard anything from the SoF camp on people doing artwork, so I guess when we get it all in we'll figure it out. It might be a "collect them all!" cover battle. Possibly an East Coast and a West Coast cover... most likely reversible. Who knows.

Anyway, here are the songs we're choosing from, with the top songs being the most looked at:

Winner Tambo
Loser Schau
Can You Dance to Redemption
Swimming to Drown
Dracula
Gus
Bumper Stickers Make it Easier For Me to Judge You
Stranger Stages
Friend Like Family

and since this is also the pre-production for our first full length, you can bet your sweet cent that all of these songs will be recorded and out for the public by the end of the Summer (hopefullyhopefullyhopefully fingers crossed!!).