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SHAMRAIN
MALUMMEH
AGONIZER
MURENA
P.O. BOX 212
00181 HELSINKI
FINLAND
Tel. +358 9 454 2710
Fax +358 9 454 271 33
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spinefarm@spinefarm.fi
Spinefarm, Spikefarm, Ranch and Odor get nearly a hundred demos every month. All of these tapes are listened to, but only a few are listened from beginning till end, and only a very, very low percentage of the tapes lead to a recording deal.
If this hasn’t turned you off, then follow these instructions:
1. Make sure your demo songs are of good quality, but also make sure that you’ve got good songs. One good song with bad sound quality is worth more than 20 mediocre songs with superb sound quality!
2. Pick your best song, and make it the first track of your demo. In most cases we can only spare time to listen for the first one or two songs of a demo, so do keep you demos short and make your best songs the first tracks of your CDs!
3. If the demo isn’t already on a CD, burn the demo onto a CD-R. We only accept CDs and CD-Rs. No MP3s, minidiscs, cassettes or vinyls!
4. Write a short biography of your band. The biography must at least include your complete contact information (e-mail address, telephone number, mailing address, your website address if you have one), details about the genre of your music and details of your band’s lineup.
5. Take a photograph of your band. Include the photo in your biography-sheet if you so wish.
6. Since we do get quite a lot of demos, it never hurts to make your package stand out of the crowd. If you can make your package look special, or if your package includes something extra such as a good press-kit or a video of your band, you will inevitably draw extra attention (we are, however, quite a small company, so it really is not necessary to send us five copies of your demo, one is more than enough!).
7. Send the CD or CD-R together with the biography, photograph and possible extras to:
Spinefarm Records
Demos / **********
PO BOX 212
00181 Helsinki
Finland
Onto the ***********-space write down the label you think best fits the genre of your music.
The genres our labels represent are:
Spinefarm: Heavy Metal, Gothic Rock, Gothic Metal, Power Metal, Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, Death Metal, Classic Hard Rock
Spikefarm: Extreme Metal, Doom Metal, Industrial Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Folk Metal, Thrash Metal
Ranch: Rock
Odor: Pop, everything that’s weird and unusual but not metal or rock
Once you’ve sent us your demo, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope for the best. Although we'd like to answer each and every demo sender individually, we simply do not have the time to do so.
If we like your demo and want to sign your band, we will contact you. If we do not wish to sign you, we will stay as silent as ever.
Calling or e-mailing us in hope of a faster answer won’t do you or us any good, it will just slow things down even more. Don’t call us, we'll call you!
Bringing the demos personally to our office won’t do any good either, there is simply no possibility for arranging any "listening sessions", no matter how good your demo is. No! Non! Njet! Ei! Nein! Nej!
We also can not, and will not send any unsolicited material back to you.
Still up to it? Good!
Then off you go and send us your package!
Your demo just might make your band the next big Spinefarm-thing!