Q:
Oh, mighty Lord Gaz, plz explain teh edition-confusion to me, pleez0r, mkthx?
A:
Right. Here's the scoop.
There will be two editions of Redeemer. One isn't really called anything, and by default has been dubbed "retail" edition, and the other one is the "underground" edition.
Why 2? I'll explain.
You all know you've waited very long for this, and the reason for that was that we wanted to optimize the conditions of its release, make sure we employed the correct channels etc, and stayed free and true while doing it.
Eventually, we were approached by a record label (JMT-Music) who offered us initially a master deal for Redeemer (but when I sent Redeemer to Tomi at JMT, he changed the deal to a "normal" multialbum deal (3 albums, 4 years)). We turned it down, but another deal has been made, to make use if JMT's distribution channels while retaining our freedom to use our name as we please.
The drawback here was that the JMT release of Redeemer will lag a few more months due to preparations and whatnot. That's why Tomi at JMT suggested to us that we release our own version now, to get it out there to the fans instantly, while he in turn could modify the tracklist to optimize his version of Redeemer to a more "mainstream" audience (making the album shorter, removing some of the the more "difficult" songs, etc).
We thought this was a great idea, since that means we get to give you guys, the hardcore fans, the "director's cut" of Redeemer, as it was initially intended, while the mainstream crowd, the store people and those not yet familiar with machinae supremacy, get the retail version.
