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Derek posted this video yesterday.

We here at dw.net are super excited about the upcoming release from our favorite bald man. We’re trying to set up an interview with Derek about the record so stay tuned.

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From reading the comments, some of you seem interested in discussing the new album, the future of the band, etc. We would invite you to register for our Rumor Forum, which has a dedicated Caedmon’s Call Board. Membership is free for the first 100 posts.

Caedmon’s Call fans:

The band has heard your frustrations with the Raising Up the Dead pre-order, and Derek has addressed many of them. The salient point:

now in terms of the limiting of the immediate download to the top two pre-order tiers, this was not an easily made decision. there was some disagreement at INO as to whether we should immediately deliver the record during the pre-order seeing as though the record would only ever be a digital release (otherwise, it isn’t really a “pre-order” so much as an actual “release”). the compromise was made to allow for some tiers to include an immediate download and to have the others digitally deliver the record on release day.

but since the focus with this record has been and remains on the fans, we have heard your disappointment and have decided to change the pre-order options. as of this posting, ALL PRE-ORDER TIERS WILL INCLUDE AN IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD.

what does this mean if you’e already pre-ordered? if you have already pre-purchased a tier that didn’t include immediate delivery, you will receive a download code via email within a day or so to get your immediate download as well. and if you pre-purchased one of the top tiers and want to reconsider which one to buy in light of this change, simply send an email to support@discrevolt.com and they will take care of you.

This will not answer everyone’s concerns, of course. Nothing is ever enough, after all. But we do believe that this will address the key concerns that many of you had.

The pre-sale page will be up by evening. So get back to work and quit asking Geof when it will be online. ;) We will post an update to this post when it’s out, and we’ll also tweet when it’s up— we’re @ccnet.

Update, 1650CT: So, here’s the 411: you’ll be able to get an instant download, plus some extras. There will be an exclusive physical version of the disc, for you collector types. [1000 printed.] Oh, and … something about Guild 1 was mentioned, but then our call was dropped. [THANKS A LOT, Steve Jobs.]

Update, 2220CT: It is now up.

1. Tier 1: Digital album.
2. Tier 2: Digital album + T-shirt.
3. Tier 3: Digital album + T-shirt + digital copies of Guild content from over the years, including Guild 1 MP3s.
4. Tier 4: Digital album + T-shirt + Guild content + physical CD.

Let’s clear things up: there will only be 1000 physical copies printed. That’s why the top tier is where that is. You want the physical CD, with all the bells and whistles that the band will put in it, you pay the highest price. Don’t eschew that expecting that there will be a bookstore release of this record.

You may remember the short-lived indieriver.net bootleg-trading service. It was shut down for a number of reasons, the main one being that it proved technically challenging for many users, who just wanted high-quality MP3s and didn’t care about all the nerdy lossless audio and all that, much less being interested in trying to figure out BitTorrent, etc. As a result, the service was shut down in favor of something less daunting: archive.org’s Live Music Archive. That’s not to say that LMA is easy, but we’ll explain it for you.

On any show page, you can stream the audio to check to see if you want to download it. You can also embed this on any Web page that you like. If, for example, you recorded a show and wanted to announce that fact to the world, it’s as simple as using that embedding function.

If you’re wanting just the MP3s in a simple convenient format, click the “VBR ZIP” link in the left-hand sidebar. You’ll get a happy ZIP file with all the MP3s—nothing more, nothing less. Drop that in iTunes and you’ll be listening in seconds.

Now, if you care about lossless audio, MD5 sums, metadata, et al … that’s all still available. The easiest way to download everything is to hit the “All Files: HTTP” link. LMA used to support download via FTP, but sadly that is no more.

Go forth and download. I’ll be getting the Derek backlog up I have from all my taping, plus the shows that other tapers shared, out on the Live Music Archive repository for Derek Webb soon. You may pester me in the comments if this goes slowly. Happy downloading!

Did you miss us? Our comments on the last post indicate that you did.

If you missed the emails from the band, Caedmon’s Call is releasing a new album later this year, titled Raising Up the Dead. We’re not sure what Cliff will call this one when you ask: “the brown one” or “the mustard yellow one”? Time will tell, we guess.

As we indicated back last August, this is a slightly smaller Caedmon’s Call than the previous iteration. Andy O publicly stated back then that he wouldn’t be a part of it, and while we here at [caedmonscall.net] will miss him, it’s not like he’s not making music anymore. Same with Josh Moore. But our reports were a bit off with regards to the bass support: rumors of Jeff Miller’s musical demise are greatly exaggerated. Our favorite bassist/programmer even wrote a song for Raising Up the Dead. We know this because Derek told us so, although we think he said that on the Twitters, too, so that’s probably not much of a scoop anymore.

We can tell you that we really like it. If you’re wanting to hear it, you can get two of the songs up on NoiseTrade: “Sometimes a Beggar” [the aforementioned Miller-penned tune] and “She”. We would argue that these are pretty representative of the sound of the album, so if you’ve been wondering what a 2010-era Caedmon’s Call record would sound like, well, get to listening.

Pre-sales for Raising Up the Dead start on August 2. We would like to thank the band for honoring the anniversary of our rumor about the band recording together again with the pre-sale date. They love us like that.

Our inside sources have indicated to us that there will be a few one-off tour dates for Raising Up the Dead, but no tour is planned as of yet. There will be release shows in Houston and Austin that will be announced at a later date.

Would you travel to Texas for a Caedmon’s Call release show? Let us know in the comments. Maybe we’ll work up getting a group rate on hotel rooms or something and panty raid Bryan’s room.

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