When Aaron Edge first hit me up to put out a CD by his band Roareth, I had barely given thought to starting a record label as an extension of what I was doing with The Obelisk. It was one of many passing ideas that, were it not for his “get off your ass and [...]

Aaron Edge has been in more bands than you and I can count — even if we use all our fingers together. One of those bands was Roareth, who just so happened to be the first band I ever released on The Maple Forum. Their Acts I-VI, which was excellent, is long gone, and so [...]

Location Domestic US $10.00 International $12.00 I’m thrilled to update that Blackwolfgoat‘s Dronolith sold nearly half my portion of the total 100 pressed in its first week. As of today, I have 26 copies left of The Maple Forum‘s third offering. If you want one, you can buy it using the Paypal button above or [...]

Location Domestic US $10.00 International $12.00 There are 100 hand-numbered copies of Dronolith — the second album from Massachusetts one-man outfit Blackwolfgoat. Half the pressing went to Darryl Shepard, the man behind the band, and half came to me. I kept one for myself. Four sold overnight since I put the disc in the Maple [...]

I wasn’t anticipating any snags from the press, but you never know, so it’s with some measure of relief that I report that the Blackwolfgoat full-length, Dronolith, is in-house and that it looks great. The digipak is the same style as the Roareth, for anyone who picked that up, but sturdier and glossy, and with [...]

You know all those other Frydee posts the past couple months where all I did was bitch about how much I didn’t want to spend the weekend doing homework? None of them even compares to this weekend. Unfortunately, that’s pretty much what I’ll be doing the whole time. To help me find some Friday inner [...]

Well, it happened. Roareth are done. All the physical copies of their album, Acts I-VI, sold out and they played their last show at The Comet in Seattle this past Sunday night, Oct. 24. The Maple Forum‘s first band is no more. The second Maple Forum release isn’t even out yet! This whole “starting a [...]

It’s one thing to put out an awesome CD — which Roareth did in the form of The Obelisk‘s in-house label The Maple Forum‘s first release, Acts I-VI — sell out of it and not make any more. It’s another thing to put out an awesome CD and then break up, and of the two, [...]

I’m happy to report that all my copies of The Maple Forum‘s debut release, Acts I-VI by Seattle doom juggernauts Roareth, are gone. As far as the label (and by that I mean me) is concerned, the pressing is sold out. You can still get the album from the band or at the All That [...]

Sure I’m sitting here, chewing Rolaids as I drink my beer after a long day at the office, but hey man, that’s working life. Sure it’s been busy as hell and I’ve struggled even to get a review up every day, and the thought of the semester beginning (which it does tomorrow, Sept. 2) has [...]

I just got back from the post office, sending out the latest three packages of sold Roareth CDs to New York, Illinois and France, so if you ordered it and live in one of those places, keep your eye on the mail. If you haven’t yet bought a copy of Roareth‘s Acts I-VI on The [...]

The countdown is on. I only have 9 copies left of the first release on The Obelisk‘s in-house label, The Maple Forum, Roareth‘s Acts I-VI. If you want one, select your location and click the button below to buy one via Paypal. The band sold a bunch of their copies at the Seattle Doom Fest, [...]

I figured given the comedown between May and June that there’d be a chance we’d hit 17,000 for the month of July, and sure enough, at the last possible moment, we got there. Nothing like a little suspense to keep things interesting. As usual, I watched the ticker tape roll in at three in the [...]

I have only 14 copies left for sale of Roareth‘s Acts I-VI, so if you want one, use the Paypal button below to make it yours. The band has informed me that Porchlight Coffee in their native Seattle is selling the album, and that they’ll be kicking ass on August 1 at the Seattle Doom [...]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. If you’ve ordered a Roareth CD in the past week, I’m going to be heading to the post office in a couple minutes to mail it out. I ran out of copies in Vermont, but I’m back in Jersey, which as anyone can tell you, is where the goods [...]