It would be cool if someone could draw the cover oldschool like Ed Repka since this is music from another time.

What I meant by "I'm putting it all together" is that I've been compiling all the songs, getting all the information, will be putting together the booklet, am driving out to Santa Fe to meet with Paul and get information/data, etc. I'm basically putting the entire thing together for Roxx. However, will will have to pay someone to remaster the whole thing. I'd like to see Cliffy or Ysidro Garcia do it.

As for the inferior recordings, that's why I'd like to release all that stuff on the limited edition 2-CD version. All the bonus demo stuff would go on Disc 2, by itself, and only those who are hardcore fans or collectors will be interested in it. Disc 1 will only contain the album and a few unreleased bonus tracks that are good quality.

I'd like to see someone try and "re-draw" thge original Downward Spiral cover. It looked good as it were, but needs some brighter colors. That you can probably do yourself, Scott.

I also still feel strongly about having two separate releases. Knowing it is plenty of material to back such a notion, it would irk me as heck knowing there was still stuff out there that would never see the light of day.

Heck, if the Heaven's Force demos warranted a release of it's own, the Rapture stuff can't be much worse. I also hate having 2 bands on the same release, maked my head hurts when placing them on the alphabetized shelves.

I'd buy both!

Thanks for the input. I'll let you know what we work out.

Paul has the original painting from the original album. I may be able to beef it up, if everyone thinks the original cover is good enough.


ult

Rodney Matthews who did Seventh Angel's artwork would be perfect for the Downward Spiral concept.

I think Dimitar Nikolov is one of the best artists in the business today, although I don't know if that would fit within the budget. Two examples:

I didnt know Rodney Mathews still did album art. The Seventh angel stuff was awesome....even some of the shirt art that he did for Jeff nickoles old company living epistles was rad.

This is one band I need to hear anyone have anything to send me? PM me!

Wargod50

wow ! never realized Rapture and The Moshketeers were/are the same band. Remember seeing Rapture open for Barren Cross.

First let me say thank you to everyone for your contributions and the constant dialogue here. I love it and prefer when the fans get involved to make these items really cool and truly what the fans want to see. Being a fan of all things metal myself it's just an honor to be doing this release and it never would have came to be if not for Scott! So thank you Scott!

After some discussions with the Roxx partners (cough, cough ultmetal and spectrefate) the best decision for the project based on the material we will have it looks like we will follow the same pattern as the Thresher disc.

Limited Edition preorders ONLY will to get the bonus disc with all the bonus Rapture material as a 2 disc version. After those are gone it will be truly a one disc version of all the Moshketeers stuff!

It would be cool I admit to have a completely separate release of both but honestly trying to push full releases of both can prove costly. If the success of the pre-release is that well, I am sure we could revisit a full formal release.

I think depending on what Scott comes up with we could posibly do a one disc tradiitonal true Moshketeers DVD at some point as well. But again a DVD would have to be based on how well the overal initial release goes.

As far as the art, I was hoping 'B' would come up with something but maybe we should have a formal contest? What do you think? The submissions will be judged by a 3 man jury and the winner will receive credit in the sleeve and a special Roxx prize package! Thoughts?

So it's not available for preorder just yet?

Whenever it is available I will preorder. This is a big deal for me having missed out on the whole scene completely. Ult. if you can please keep me posted so that I can get on board.

I would like to preorder that when its available also dudes.

Cool guys We will keep you posted! Hopefully in the next couple weeks.

I still say you should keep the original art, and beef up the colors. Will this be CDR or professional silver disc?

I'll pre-order too.

If anyone here is like me and wants to see a scanned copy of the original cassete cover, here you go...



Looks a little amature-ish in my opinion, especially if it's gonna go through a re-issue. The concept is cool and fits the title perfectly, but could probably use a little sprucing up. The band's logo and album title could use some enhancing too. Make it pop a little more so it doesn't just look like it was just slapped on there.