Saturday 11 August 2012

Blood

Today I received my copy of the new In This Moment CD , Blood; two days before its official release. It is another amazing album from Maria Brink, Chris Howorth and co but was let down by their record label.

The European arm of Century Media (the band's label) where unwilling to allow non-US fans to order the US t-shirt/CD combo pack which they allowed with In This Moment's previous release, A Star-Crossed Wasteland, instead forcing non-US fans to miss out on the t-shirt designed for the album release. No alternative method of buying the t-shirt or any similar promo offer was given to European fans who now starting to miss out as a result of the greed of one arm of the Century Media label. The same thing has happened with other Century Media artists and is likely to continue due to greed and the inability of these companies that expand across the globe whilst being unwilling to work as one instead of lots of small companies trading with the same name passing the buck to every other branch instead of taking collective responsibility under the one name.

No doubt the band had nothing to do with this it's just record label ethics to screw over the very people that are providing them with the money to survive.