Cryptodira will be hosting a free two-day livestreaming event they have dubbed ‘A Storm Called Progress‘ next month. Among their plans for that are a live in-studio performance of their latest album “The Angel Of History“. That set was captured at Graphic Nature Audio and engineered by Matt Guglielmo. Jamie King (Between The Buried And Me, Scale The Summit) mixed and mastered the performance.
You can catch their event via their Twitch on May 11th and 12th at 04:00pm PDT / 07:00pm EDT. Vocalist/guitarist Scott Acquavella commented:
“As a band that’s always done things the old fashioned way of writing, recording, and touring, pandemic life has been a particularly weird adjustment for us. Having put out a record in the middle of it, we were hellbent on finding a way to bring people closer to ‘The Angel of History‘ than anything else we’ve done before, and the answer to that was ‘A Storm Called Progress‘.
‘A Storm Called Progress‘ is centered around a live, in-studio performance of The Angel of History recorded at Graphic Nature Audio and mixed/mastered by Jamie King that will be premiered as a two day live stream event on our Twitch Channel.
From there, the following months will see a series of video releases, with each month being dedicated to a different song on the record. For each song there will be an instrumental play-through video, a deep dive lyrical analysis video, and a video cut of that individual song from the live performance to explore ‘The Angel of History‘ in a completely different context.
We weren’t content to just put out any old video performance in a sea of COVID-inspired live streams and it was important to us to release a body of work that would be engaging for listeners and creatively challenging for us, pandemic or not.”
