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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4192785" data-attributes="member: 19675">I want to jump in and really stress this point.  One of the most crucial elements in "making it" (that you control) is having something about your band stand out.It could be vocal style or quality, it could be difficulty of the music itself, a taste for dissonance or harmony that is unusual for for your genre, unusual time signatures or tempo changes- whatever.  You need to have something about your band cut through the "noise" of other bands in your genre.Example: Portishead is/was a little band out of England that does some interesting new new-wave/trip-hop tunes, but they were pretty big for a short period of time because someone in their camp- I don't know if it was a producer or a bandmember- had this thing for stylized fuzzed out spy guitar /electric balalaika sounds that hadn't been used in pop music since the 50's or 60's (there are bands like Laika and the Cosmonauts or Los Straitjackets out there using that sound, but they aren't aiming at the pop mainstream).It simply sliced through the airwaves as a completely unique sound in its context, and those guys sold a fair number of records.So...Find something within yourselves to bring out.  Perhaps your axeman can borrow some ideas from his WSO teacher, melding some classical structures with extreme metal heaviness and become the Randy Rhoades of your genre.Or instead of doing that sonically, do it lyrically.  Nile had a fairly big song by simply reciting an ancient Egyptian prayer, right?</blockquote>

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