Kingdom Of Sorrow, House Of Pain, Monster Energy, and lots of updates!

It’s been a long time since I have posted here. A lot has happened in the last few months. I quit my full time job to freelance full time, I got some awesome new clients, I had a bad wreck in my new car, and I’ve been working non stop.

The new Kingdom Of Sorrow record came out last week and I haven’t checked the numbers, but from sales in StillbornStore.com, it did very well. The week before the album came out, orders were pouring in at least every 5 minutes. My email was working overtime that week, it was nuts. I had to send out the email blast to all of the Diehards that night and stayed up until 3am to make sure it was perfect. If you want to join the Hatebreed / Kingdom Of Sorrow / Jamey Jasta email list, head over to JameyJasta.com and sign up on the splash page. I’ll see if I can’t embed the sign up widget here a little later.

Working with Jamey for the past almost 3 years has been a complete blessing. Jamey has done so much for me and my family, I could never repay him for everything. He’s so nice. I get birthday cards, Christmas cards, New Years cards, new stuff in the mail all the time. With all he has going on, he always makes time to let me know that he appreciates me as much as I do him and hopefully one day when he’s not being “Captain Work More Than Anyone In Metal”, we can spend some time hanging out. Hopefully he’ll finish his book soon too. He told me I could design the cover for that, and I have a ton of ideas.

So, if you haven’t checked out the new Kingdom Of Sorrow record, if you love rock, metal, grunge, thrash, or any type of good heavy music, go check it out. It’s a million times better than the first album. The first album was a lot of Crowbar / Hatebreed mix, and I think on this record they have really mended their skills equally to create such a new and awesome sound. I can’t stop playin it, it’s amazing. Here are some cool links:

iTunes Deluxe version with 2 Bonus tracks: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/behind-the-blackest-tears/id369469260

iTunes regular version “Behind The Blackest Tears”: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/behind-the-blackest-tears/id369742160

Blabbermouth.net Article on the album: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=138615

You can also headout to FYE in your neighborhood, most likely the Mall, and pick up the Deluxe version there. I definitely recommend you buy the Deluxe version, it has extra artwork, and it’s awesome.

In other news, I recently signed some new clients: HouseOfPain.com, Monster Energy (Danielle, I know you love me!), and some others that are still in the works. Once they launch, I’ll post some link for you to check out.

I also recently updated my portfolio using an awesome platform for Creative People called Krop.com. You can see my profile / portfolio / resume here: http://www.krop.com/joehickman/ – If you’re a freelancer I highly suggest you create a profile there and then come back and leave me a comment with a link to yours so I can check it out. I love checking out other people’s work. A quick shout out to a company I am very fond of: Sons Of Nero – they did the album artwork for some friend of mine in A Dozen Furies, who won the MTV show, Battle For Ozzfest back in 2005.

I’m out for now.
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