Flotsam's first week sales...

Troublezone wrote:

krokus wrote:

Sad, even a demo band sells more. For exemple a Spanish band called WILD sold already 1000 copies of their first ep, only in spain.

1000 total or first week sales?

Bingo.

No demo band is selling 1000 copies in the first week of release.

How's the production. The last couple have seemed flat to me.

The production and songs on the new album are great. Definetly better than Dreams Of Death.

Temple of Blood wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

krokus wrote:

Sad, even a demo band sells more. For exemple a Spanish band called WILD sold already 1000 copies of their first ep, only in spain.

1000 total or first week sales?

Bingo.

No demo band is selling 1000 copies in the first week of release.

Nooo, i am sorry, not the first week. In two or three months. I forgot that FLOTSAM sold 600 the FIRST WEEK.

No idea this had come out and had no luck tracking down a copy in stores.

manny wrote:

detuned wrote:

Honestly, that's more than I would have expected. An album by a band with that low of a profile and no promotion, 300 copies would have impressed me.

Not to mention from a new label from a guy who called himself Head and left K orn because he found Jesus ( nothing wrong with that part) and released a solo album that was a commercial flop, so all things considered maybe 300 is not so bad.

People are wondering on the Blabbermouth why they'd sign to his label.

Flotsam & Jetsam did tour with Ko?n back in the mid 1990s. I would say they probably became good friends with Ko?n on the tour, regardless of what their opinions of Ko?n's music are. So I think that likely has something to do with it.

Required Fields wrote:

manny wrote:

detuned wrote:

Honestly, that's more than I would have expected. An album by a band with that low of a profile and no promotion, 300 copies would have impressed me.

Not to mention from a new label from a guy who called himself Head and left K orn because he found Jesus ( nothing wrong with that part) and released a solo album that was a commercial flop, so all things considered maybe 300 is not so bad.

People are wondering on the Blabbermouth why they'd sign to his label.

Flotsam & Jetsam did tour with Ko?n back in the mid 1990s. I would say they probably became good friends with Ko?n on the tour, regardless of what their opinions of Ko?n's music are. So I think that likely has something to do with it.

And the label's owner "Head" Welch also lives in the Phoenix AZ area... They are somewhat neighbors.

The more i play this record the more i like it.

My favorite songs are:

Black Cloud
Better Off Dead
Falling Short
Always
Secret Life

Required Fields wrote:

manny wrote:

detuned wrote:

Honestly, that's more than I would have expected. An album by a band with that low of a profile and no promotion, 300 copies would have impressed me.

Not to mention from a new label from a guy who called himself Head and left K orn because he found Jesus ( nothing wrong with that part) and released a solo album that was a commercial flop, so all things considered maybe 300 is not so bad.

People are wondering on the Blabbermouth why they'd sign to his label.

Because it's a label that is willing to take a chance on the band and release their album...

Let's be honest. Flotsam's only claim to fame is that Jason Newstead was their bass player on, what, one album? They're managed to ride that fact for 20 years now and, as good as some of their albums may be, they've never been a big name...even in the 80s/early 90s...

Kudos to them for sticking to thier guns and doing their thing, but 600 sales in a week on a new album by a 20+ year old band who never really made a huge dent anyway isn't really all that shocking.

I'm hoping to make it 601 real soon.

I lost track of Flotsam quite a long time ago (last album I ever heard was Natural Selection-and I haven't heard that in over 10 years), but I will order the new one once I have some money because I've always felt they were too underrated (Cuatro is still one of my favorite albums) and I hear good things about this one.

DallasBlack wrote:

I lost track of Flotsam quite a long time ago (last album I ever heard was Natural Selection-and I haven't heard that in over 10 years), but I will order the new one once I have some money because I've always felt they were too underrated (Cuatro is still one of my favorite albums) and I hear good things about this one.

It's called Unnatural Selection, actually.

Required Fields wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:

I lost track of Flotsam quite a long time ago (last album I ever heard was Natural Selection-and I haven't heard that in over 10 years), but I will order the new one once I have some money because I've always felt they were too underrated (Cuatro is still one of my favorite albums) and I hear good things about this one.

It's called Unnatural Selection, actually.

As I said, I haven't listened to it in over 10 years. It was one of many CDs I regretfully got rid of in 2000 after I became a believer.

Go ahead and add one more to the number of total sales. It should arrive by wednesday

Went and ordered mine from Amazon, awesome album cover!

My copy arrived today. I'm pretty blown away! I really like that they haven't really tried jumping on the retro thrash band wagon and just play their own brand of somewhat modern thrash metal. Sounds all around pretty solid, but so far my favorite tracks are Hypocrite, Take, and KYA.

Still waiting on my copy.

Arrived yesterday. Will be rockin' it tomorrow.

Played this twice already and not sure what I think of it. Might be a grower.

I listened to this. Its an ok album but still nothing special.

Bands should really start releasing better albums!

ultmetal wrote:

Played this twice already and not sure what I think of it. Might be a grower.

Not what you were expecting or just bland?

The samples I heard didn't do much for me but the production is great.

The riffs, lyrics, and vocal melodies don't particularly sound well-written to me.

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The riffs, lyrics, and vocal melodies don't particularly sound well-written to me.

I totally agree. They could have put more time into it.

I guess it sounds really good to me since it's my first Flots album since No Place For Disgrace.

I like it>