CRIMSON GLORY Guitarist Jon Drenning - "There Are Various Demos That Have Never Been Released..."
March 18, 2010, 14 years ago
The following is an excerpt from Maximum Metal's interview with guitarist Jon Drenning on CRIMSON GLORY's 1988 release Transendence, and the possibility of new music:
As recently as 2006, the band had scheduled plans for an anthology box set to be issued on Black Lotus Records, as well as the possibility of a new, now long-awaited follow-up to 1999's Astronomica, just before the label went under, inevitably delaying those releases.
And, if you think the band at least receives some meager stipends for the back catalog, Jon explains:
"Companies that we licensed our materials to have never paid us any royalties, and then they re-licensed our materials to additional companies illegally, which we have never been paid for, either. It's a mess and a true disgrace for us to have been treated this way, and one of the main reasons why we haven't recorded more albums. We feel that no matter what we do, our materials will be illegally sold and distributed by companies that don't have the legal right to do so. It has been extremely disheartening for us and makes us wary of trusting anyone... There [are] various demos that have never been released, as well as a few unreleased songs that were demo'd as well. Hopefully these will all be released for the band's 25th anniversary in 2011".
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