Mr. Tony Fredianelli (aka
The Monk) has been making regular
stops at our forum over the last week to offer up some information
about album #4 and reward us loyal 3eb fans with a few musical treats:
instrumental demos from the sessions he and Arion and Brad held last
February, minus Stephan.
If you've been following the recording of album four closely (as we
have), you'll know that the three of them presented Stephan with a cd
of song ideas to "tickle his lyrical muse," so to speak.
TONY STRESSES THAT THESE ARE THE TRACKS STEPHAN DID
NOT
PICK TO WORK ON AND IN NO WAY REFLECT THE DIRECTION THE BAND IS
HEADING FOR THE NEW ALBUM.
Regardless, they rock pretty hard and you can check them out here:
Track
6
Track
8
Track
9
Track
13
Track
18
Track
19
(thanks Jacob and 3ebarchive.com)
As always, head over to
General
to join in the discussion and/or thank Tony. It doesn't get any more
exciting than this!
In other news, Tony has also offered an extremely tentative idea of
what album #4's tracklist might look like. These are the songs
currently in contention:
Red Star
Second Born
Standing Up For You
Summer Town
Abba O'Reilly (Don't Believe a Word)
Dont Like Me Now
Break Me
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Monotov's Private Opera
A Sharp Knife (NOT Knife in the Water)
Swimming (from the partially-released Symphony of Decay EP)
Away
In the Skin(?)
Captn of emo(?)
Jesse 2k(?)
A (?) indicates he is less sure of those tracks than the others, but
not necessarily that the others are a lock. Many of these are still
working titles and will almost definitely be changed when they reach
their final form. Tony also confirmed that the song Lay Back (And Let
the Water Hold You), which had been performed a few times live, has
been scrapped.
The Village Churchyard would like to wholeheartedly thank Tony for
reaching out to us sometimes-fickle fans in such a generous and open
way. It is indeed a great time to love this band as much as we do.
