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Published: 2010-08-02 19:32:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 1912; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 0
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Description "Above this Fire is a melodic hardcore band that I’ve played bass in since 2003. We’ve put out a number of releases, and technology has done a lot of damage in regard to the sales of actual CD’s, especially in our genre of heavy music. We needed to give people a reason to actually want to buy the physical album instead of buying it through iTunes or downloading it, so this was a perfect opportunity to go all out on an album package. The name “Last Ones” comes from the fact that most of the bands that we’ve been friends with have broken up.

After hours upon hours of concepting, I came up with the idea of having a die-cut graphic and liner notes as individual sheets so that people can create their own record cover through re-ordering the liner notes behind the die-cut. From there, I came up with the concept of using our equipment as the focus of the package. Our gear is beat up, but it has great character. We built the piles of gears (none of that is photo-shopped) and laid instrument cables all over so that the gear piles seem like a ruin, or a battlefield right after a fight ended."

– Oliver Barrett

More on the Go Media website . You can listen to the band on their Myspace .

^SBH
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Comments: 9

paullkalli [2010-08-16 12:47:41 +0000 UTC]

Amazing work!

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gomedia In reply to paullkalli [2010-08-16 12:54:12 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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unknowndesigner [2010-08-05 18:23:55 +0000 UTC]

this was so amazing.. when i first saw it on the gomediazine this really got me...the lay out of the spreads, fonts, everything, please tell me what software did you use? indesign and photoshop?
this looks so good as everything you do. thanks guy. keep the good work. could you put the spreads separate? sorry for asking too much.

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gomedia In reply to unknowndesigner [2010-08-09 14:26:35 +0000 UTC]

We just posted a better detail of the spreads

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unknowndesigner In reply to gomedia [2010-08-10 19:17:50 +0000 UTC]

oh man thanks... i know that you are very busy people. i didn`t think you have the time for posting. thank you so much for asking my question.

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gomedia In reply to unknowndesigner [2010-08-09 13:43:42 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I'll ask more details to Oliver is he has time. For the spreads, let me see what I can do.
^SBH

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gomedia In reply to gomedia [2010-08-09 14:29:59 +0000 UTC]

Okay, the tools used were photoshop and illustrator. And a lot of photos that the band took (Oliver's answer on Twitter ).

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reindas [2010-08-03 17:31:49 +0000 UTC]

great idea! yes i-tunes and stuff like rapidshare suck hard.

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gomedia In reply to reindas [2010-08-03 20:12:19 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!
^SBH

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