Here's the latest guest blog from Demon Hunter, in which singer Ryan Clark talks about the art for the band's triple DVD "45 Days," which drops November 25.
For those of you that have been keeping up with these blogs by my brother Don and I, you already know the deal: Designers by day, Demon Hunter by night (or something like that). For this latest installment, we actually have the opportunity to show you something that combines the two.
If you’re familiar with Demon Hunter, you might already know that our fans have an incredible impact on what we do. For instance, the songs "Follow The Wolves," "The Soldier’s Song," "Thorns" and "A Thread Of Light" are all direct responses to emails we’ve received from fans. The intense, heartfelt stories that we’ve heard and read from our fans gave us the idea to do something unique when we set out to embark upon the Stronger Than Hell tour. We wanted to document some of these stories, so that we could share with the rest of the world just how inspiring Demon Hunter fans are.
As we began to flesh out this idea, we started searching out the perfect guy to shoot and edit the documentary. By random chance, I happened upon the website of a photographer/videographer named Cale Glendening. He was young and relatively new to his profession, but I could tell that he had an amazing eye for it. Cale spent the whole tour with us, filming and taking photos the entire time. When the tour was over, Cale returned home to Tulsa, Oklahoma to spend the next few months sifting through days and days of footage, and edit it all into one beautiful, cohesive piece. When Cale sent us the first edit of the full documentary, we were truly blown away. To see a trailer for the documentary, go here:
The documentary is the primary piece to a three disc set that we'll be releasing in November entitled "45 Days." In addition to the documentary, we filmed a full live show in Nashville, Tennessee and recorded an instrumental soundtrack specifically for the documentary.
This release is packaged in a three disc digi-pack full of photos from the tour. The inspiration for the artwork is taken from the classic live look of records and films like "Depeche Mode 101," U2's "Rattle And Hum," and Johnny Cash's American recordings. Photographer Anton Corbijn's beautiful monochromatic photography was also a huge inspiration. Simple and stark was the goal. Click "more" to see some photos from the package.
Also check out Glendening's site here and Corbijn's site.
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