We recently caught up with the main songwriter and rhythm guitarist Michael Powers of Indianadesolate, and asked him how he feels about the success of the latest album. What he, and the guys from Indianadesolate have been up to, and if any forward progress has been made on a third album. Here is Mike's reply. "The new album, where to begin, gosh! Well I pushed for a ton of paid radio play with mostly what I feel are the best two tracks of the album are, and that's when the rubber meets the road, and raise the horns. The problem is without a larger budget and the dough in your pocket , and also being a unsigned online band. Also with no label pushing our stuff, it's twice as difficult. Even though we have tons of talent, and we write great metal music, a lot of times it helps to have strong, popular, and financial connections in your corner. Going on my part time measly budget it was very difficult. I was mostly working with the platform Fiverr for almost all of the radio play we did get. We had great success with a station named www.radiorockon.com out of Los Angeles with our tune 7 Abominations. The station gave us legit radio play and they also played our tune 6 times a day, which gives us great exposure just starting out, so that station is awesome! Now I'm not bitching but I absolutely hated the fact that the other stations mostly just threw us into the mix with a genre were not even in. They would play When the Rubber Meets the Road but we were being played with what is known as pop, hip hop, and what's called EDM, which stands for electronic dance music. We had a song time issue with When the Rubber Meets the Road with the www.radiorockon.com station because the song was too long for the time slot, so we couldn't get it played with other Rock songs. We were successful with having those two songs on paid radio stations but it was a real letdown because I didn't get to hear how hard rock or heavy metal fans liked the songs. Where I am located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, I hardly hear any feedback on how the album is even being received by people. It seems like without a marketing team or expert helping us it's very difficult to gain popularity. I have to also cut myself a little slack because I am doing a lot of this stuff for the very first time, and with no teacher or mentor guiding me. I am hoping and praying that I do not make any major mistakes that hinder our progress or upsets our fans, or potential fans. By the way, yes this album has done better by leaps and bounds, we are getting better, but as the leader I need to really try to stay focused. Right now I have guitar writers block, and for me, it's to where I can create cool riffs, but for some reason my mind is not allowing me to stay focused long enough to fully lay down what needs to be recorded. It's like a attention span thing or something. Maybe its my older age, I am not sure, but it needs to leave. I spoke to my doctor about my short term memory and he recommended a vitamin b complex pill to help with the memory. I am taking that, and I hope it will help soon. I don't want too many medications clouding my mind up. I have lots of good and great lyrics penned for about 16 songs right now, but with no music. I am hoping to catch a break soon. I have been busy lately trying to sort out a possible love life with a female but have been unsuccessful because I do get lonely, but I don't want the fallacy that I can rely on a female to provide my happiness in life. With this pandemic it's even more difficult with social media sites, because you never know if the person is legit. Going on almost five years now since my ex wife I think I would like to get off of the bench and play in the game again sometime soon. But we'll see, I need a bad ass bitch, lol!!! What I mean by that for all of the P.C. Police out there is that the woman I get with needs to be supportive of my vision and dreams of being successful in the heavy metal industry. For her to realize that I spend a ton of time making this music. She would have to understand that I am not content with a mediocre part time auto parts delivery driver position to fulfill my life. Yes, it helps pay the bills, but I am better than that. Indianadesolate as a band is way too good for a mediocre life for each one of us. So I push harder to become better and to have life better for each one of us."
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Studio Update From Michael Powers of Indianadesolate for June 2022
We recently caught up with Michael Powers of Indianadesolate, and asked him how the 3rd studio album for Indianadesolate is going, and if he can share any details with fans about the album. Here is Mike's reply. "The studio time has so far, been very interesting, yet fun as well. Last month in May, we had to stop production for a little bit. We had to sort out some production problems we were having. I can now say that we are back on track and rolling again, thank goodness!!! I can say we have been very blessed and fortunate to even be able to record what we have so far, and what we have so far is really good. I want to say, if the other two songs go well in production, and vocals go well, as our lead singer Mattia is awesome at making the songs really shine. That should give our song total of 6 songs so far. I help as well in production, as when I listen to some of Mattia's demo takes, I hear certain things that he does not. In production it is always great to have another set of experienced heavy metal ears to hear the tunes. For example, this latest song, on the chorus Mattia was thinking the backing vocals to be aggressive. As I listened to him singing, I heard Chester Bennington style from Linkin Park, so I said Mattia, please try to do the verse aggressive, and the backing melodic like Linkin Park style. Needless to say the verses are awesome, thanks to the influence of a different kind of heavy metal. I do feel it is a good thing to be well rounded musically, as it often helps in production times. Needless to say the verses and choruses of the tune are super catchy and good. We have had the vocals done for about five songs now, and I would say four out of five songs are single worthy songs in my opinion, which is awesome!!! Right now, we are looking, if the rest of the tunes in production are album worthy at a total of six songs. I said earlier in the year that I would like to try for a December 25th release date, but it may be sooner. Depending on how finances go, as it takes finances to pay for the production of the songs, and other things as well. As for example, not only the cost of the albums release, but if I am going to have the first single on the radio or not. All of these factors have to be considered in the albums budget. I also have to have rehearsal time go fairly well also. To get the song structure in proper order, if possible with the rhythm guitar. A good producer helps very much with that as well, so those two factors are super important. Rehearseal time and financial means to create the start of the album. That is why I said earlier that I am super fortunate and blessed to even be able to create this album because I do not have a lot of money to spend on a album. So I am very thankful for what I am able to accomplish, with the means that I have been given. As far as the albums details go, I will know more when I see how well the current songs in production go. I will try to touch base with the producers and get a guesstimate lol, of when I can reveal the albums name, and a possible release date for all of the fans."