everyone needs to check out news from verona! good stuff!

I know, Isaac did a good job.

Nodes did an EXCELLENT job. that is really good.

Thanks Len

Sorry for the spaces between a couple of the bands above. For some reason there is a weird block in wordpress and everytime I try to delete the space it just brings the cursor up to the line above it. There is no way to delete those spaces. I think you can all live with that though

brandon, did you try highlighting the whole list, clicking the bullet button and then unbulleting the list? sometimes that works to remove the spaces that wordpress adds

thanks for posting this…looks like another great compilation and more great music to fill my day with

dang you _pole for calling me out directly, haha! I was steering clear of commenting about the art…. um, I’m think I might have a Pepperoni Lean Pocket I found in my freezer for lunch. Looks pretty tasty.

he would comment on the artwork because he likes to comment on the artwork because he is an artist or something i believe

lean pockets are pretty good

i’ll be downloading this…um…soon

wooo! 3% done!

i’m gonna be making 5×7, 8.5×11, and 11×17 print quality PDF promotional posters posters featuring the artwork and the website to download the comp at. i want people to be able to print out the posters and promote it offline as well as online.

That would be cool to have physical posters.

Listening Now!

I know it’s a load of songs. It started with like 20 and then 10 more came along and 10 more and so on. I also contacted a couple of bands myself. I should split this into two files.

I really like the art, I think it looks cool. The Hearts Bleed Passion work that is.

i like the part that nodes used for the album art, not a big fan of the big blue letters part

Just so everyone knows, there are brand new studio tracks from Avery Pkwy, Amen. the Animal, Mendelson, Braveheart, Fairgreen, My Jeremiah, The Apprentice, as well as a new studio track from The Advantage, who were formerly known as Quick and the Dead. Most of the other songs are fairly new as well and unavailable till now.

Shhhhh…..You’re not supposed to tell the noobs that.

old or not at least there is some crimson thorn on there. good work on the artwork nodes.

why wouldn’t you download it, john wayne?

and the blue letters i was referring to the ivm logo not hbp4, in response to fusse #27. they’re just too big and awkward for me.

But I likes the digital sampler.

John, are you a designer?

i was into dinosaurs when they were still underground

I love these comps, they create lots of lively discussion. I honestly wish I had a background in web design/graphic design because there are so many cool things I could do. I guess I could always take some night classes or something. People like you John, Nodes, and others are so darn talented it makes me jealous.

It’s always hit or miss with some unsigned bands but it’s the potential that I see. You have to realize that most of these “signed” bands got there start somewhere. That’s the whole point of this, is to gather exposure for unsigned talent and hopefully get label’s attention. There is so much variety on these compilation that there is bound to be a few favorites with each person. You may not like the whole thing but you’ll certainly like certain songs depending on your taste.

I have always thought that the sampler sizes were too big, but hey… you’ve got a variety of tastes in music.

John, I have to agree with you fully.

I want to be able to do design, but that is not my thing, plus I do not want to do design just to do it, I want to actually know what I am doing …. with everything … and have a natural knack for it.

my take on the compilation:

http://www.joncampbell.ca/blog/?p=30

because it’s supposed to be low key.

oh. there goes the cat. i just saw it running away.

What’s cool about all this is that is generates discussion and gets more people interested in this site.

For the ones who keep ripping on the logo, sorry but I liked that one best out of the final 3 that were voted on. The logo was not modified from the original it was just enlarged. I didn’t ask the designer to change ANYTHING about the logo. All I asked him to do was to enlarge it so I could shrink it down if I needed to. When the new site is reworked, the logo will be chopped down and shrunk. It’s not going to look that big with the final design. Plus, the white around the edges has to go.

This is awesome. I loved the past 3 volumes, a bit of a bummer not to have a physical disc, but this is great with a lot more music!

Thanks!

and this whole time I thought The Advantage was Pennylane’s new name…. until I remembered that QATD was signed for a little while.

Pennylane has disolved into David Tamoaka (Canefield Hero), Sender, and Olivia the band. Though it seems only one of those artists is active, David Tamaoka. http://www.myspace.com/canefieldhero

I do agree with you Brad about Avery Pkwy. They are epic. Joel is a great drummer and singer. I wonder what their live shows are like?

best part of jon’s review.

- - crimson thorn - way too hardcore

really funny, and inaccurate besides that.

Is anyone else’s download freezing up around 35%? I’ve tried three times and no luck..but maybe it’s just the computer or something. All the other big samplers worked fine before though.

Just so everyone knows…The Advantage is the name of an electronic band…and it’s not a very good name anyway…bad bad move on QATD’s part.

I know I’m nitpicky, but I just don’t see how they could make such a dumb choice. Sorry.

Some of my friends told me their attempts to download ends up stopping somewhere at 10%, eventually becoming corrupted/incomplete.

But fortunately, mine succeeded in 5 hours.

Whoa… That’s fast. Well, at least for me.

i’m about a quarter of the way through this…its been a busy week.

is it just be or does avery pkwy sound a lot like the advantage (who sounds better then qatd did)?

Mine was a little slower then the others (previous two samplers), but yeah, the download manager works wonders. It took me about an hour and a half.

why was the buzzgrinder link comment deleted?

What buzzgrinder link? You mean the trackback thing?

Brandon, thanks for the split. Len and Jon, what download managers do you recommend?

ack. can’t let this drop off the latest posts!
there are some great songs on this. there are some okay songs on this. there is one really, really, really bad song on this. im hoping tomorrow i have time to put some kind of semi-formal review on my blog tomorrow or something, but we’ll see how tomorrow shapes up.

I myself and several other people i know have each submitted this compilation as news to absolutepunk and they have ignored our requests. I also submitted it to Decoymusic and they haven’t seemed to respond either. Oh well. Thanks to the wonderful people at Buzzgrinder, they graciously linked us up. I heard Thedailychorus.com linked us up too.

Morse posted a blog about this on MySpace. Mikal’s so cool.

I really reallllllly like Pedestrian X. Those guys need exposure NOW.

How to download this compilation??????????????????????????????????????

my uh…sort of review thing.

http://thebuffalochronicles.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/review-hearts-bleed-passion-4/

Me/Mw, just read the instructions above.

LenIVM and Jon, what free download managers do you recommend?

so how are the downloads going on this bad boy?

we are promotin’ it up like mad.
any chance that absolutepunk might still promote it a bit?

haha the last one said Tug Frok.

fairgreen reminds me so much of a cross between fall out boy and capital lights, they need to work with a better producer though or something like that

This is really awesome!!! n_n

Thanks to every band who made this possible

Glad you guys like this. It is pretty sweet if you ask me.

i’m definitely not bumping this.

Len and Nodes for the win!

I’m totally not doing what Nodes wasn’t doing.

YES! What do we win Brandon?