For our fans out there we are accepting header images submissions for the site.  The header images randomly load from a pool of images. If we like yours then we will put it up! Please use our contact form to let us know if you have an image for us.

Also, for our fans we are going to be doing more videos, recordings, and adding all kinda stuff to the extras and media sections.  Note that this content may be hosted on the Unbounded Productions sever due to server limitations here.  If you have any ideas for any extras or media content you’d like to see please let us know. 

Lastly, we are going to be closing down the forum that is here on our server.  Sometime later we will have a new forum hosted over at the Unbounded Productions server, but until then please feel free to use our Facebook page for all discussions. Also, don’t forget to like our page if you are a fan!

First off Blissful Misery and Black Misery are basically combining once again under Blissful Misery.  Black Misery’s songs will not become ours as well.

I, Michael, will be playing lead guitar, and maybe doing some singing.  Jessica from Black Misery is joining the band as the lead or maybe co-lead vocalist.  We will be using our notation and studio programs to create our complete songs and then using them as backing tracks for whatever we happen to be missing in the band at the time.  We use a combination of 3 main programs, Power Tab, Guitar Pro, and Sonar PE to do this. In Sonar we use the Studio Instruments soft synths also by Cakewalk to get realistic drums and bass tracks, as well as some strings an key tracks.  We also have a lot of other soft synth instruments at our disposal that we use in studio and as live backing tracks.  At the current time I, Michael, am writing all of the music and vocal melodies, as well as a lot of the lyrics.  Jessica will continue to write lyrics as well probably.

So what’s on the agenda?

Yesterday and today I cleaned up the studio really nicely, and worked a lot on the studio computer. I got the computer running much better again, but may still have to do a complete restart on it at some point to get things to working better.

As for the website I will be working on a customized version of either the Twenty Ten or Twenty Eleven themes for WordPress. I am going to try to get the site to look as close it’s current looks as I can.  The theme we are currently using I personally designed from scratch a few years back for the much older versions of WordPress. The theme has worked very well for us, but the advances in WordPress over the last 2 years has left the theme pretty much obsolete. By using customized version of one of these new themes we will be able to use many new features without having to have old obsolete plugins.  This may take us a few days or even weeks to finish. During this site development stage our site may go offline, look completely different, or even look completely screwed up.  In the end it will be worth it though.

Another change coming to our website is that we are going to be deleting our current forums located here on this server.  We may add or copy the forum over to the Unbounded Productions sever, but either way it will be gone from this server.  In removing the forums from this server we will be able to bring our fans more pictures and content even if they are streamed from the UP server.  As it is we are very very close to running out of room on this server.

E-Mail Updates. We do not use the blissfulmisery.com email addresses at all anymore.  If you for some reason get email from a blissfulmisery.com email address it’s most likely spam that we have no way of stopping.  The best way of contacting the band is via the contact form on the website in the community section.

Old songs and new songs will be played, written, and worked on. We have decided to not abandon anything we have done in the past, because we love playing and listening to those songs.  We may change up some parts of the songs, but we will still work on them.  However, our new methods may end up changing the site contents to only provide information on songs we’ve recorded, or contain information in different ways based on the song’s status. We are going to be working on The Demon Within, The Madness, Remembering, and probably one or two other songs. Also, we are going to be letting our fans pick 3 other songs that we don’t decide on to start with to work on as well.  We will give a list of the songs to choose from when we are at that stage.

Other things we are doing include fixing up equipment and getting things around the studio and office in better shape. My first project of this type is modifying my pedal board to include a second tier that will allow me to actually use the top row of pedals. As it is now the top row is lower than the back of my bottom row, and very hard to get to.  This will make things in practice and live situations much better.

For now that is everything I can think of.  I’ve had another great morning in the studio working on getting things setup, and can’t wait to get more rolling. I will be trying to post more updates and information as they arise.

However, today I am posting to let it be known that Blissful Misery is not dead. I really do not want to give out many other details at this time, but I wanted to let any fans out there know to be aware and watching for new updates to come from Blissful Misery. 

I can go on and say that Black Misery is merging back into Blissful Misery as it only feels right to me.  However, any old songs from either band or anything I’ve personally done in the past are currently going into the Vault Of Misery as I like to call it.  Weather or not we play any of these songs ever again will depend on our mood at the time. I have no idea if we will ever record anything else or ever get any shows to play at all. However, we are doing this for fun, and because my music runs so deep within the blood in my veins that I cannot live without playing.

If any fans out there make an requests we will hear you so don’t hold your requests for recordings or jam videos back.  If we can do it then we will do it, and I NEVER say that I cannot do something music wise… eh… Well except sweep picking… I just do it to damn fast for it to sound right. lol…

Oh by the way. Auditions? We are currently based in Hillsborough, NC. If you would like to jam on some covers (see list below) for an audition let us know. You must have your own gear, and be willing to travel to Hillsborough. We can also possible do a little traveling for some jamming, but we only go between maybe Burlington and Durham / Chapel Hill.  If you would like to audition or even just get together for some jamming let us know via our contact form or call / text Michael (me) at the Unbounded Productions number: 919 360 6268.

For covers to jam to we will play with some Metallica, Breaking Benjamin, 3 Doors Down, Black Sabbath, and Nightwish. If there’s something else you’d like to try ask and well see what we can do with it.

• Metallic: The Unforgiven, Enter Sandman, Master Of Puppets, Fade To Black, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Nothing Else Matters
• Breaking Benjamin: So Cold, Home
• 3 Doors Down: Here Without You, Be Like That
• Black Sabbath: Paranoid, Iron Man
• Nightwish: Nemo

Well I’m out, and planning on having one hell of a head banging rocking out time today with some covers and old tunes.

During this time some guitar tracks may be recorded as well, but it’s not the priority right now.  Also, the vocal melody for the song will most likely see it’s update this week.

Probably around the the beginning of July the Blissful Misery will be back in the studio to finish the song.

For more information on Blissful Misery’s studio ventures check the studio journal.

• Unbounded Productions: http://www.youtube.com/unboundedproduction
• Black Misery: http://www.youtube.com/blackmiseryband

We decided to split the accounts, because we wanted to be able to have the Blissful Misery account devoted to Blissful Misery.  This should of happened long ago before we ever posted any other stuff on our account, but at that time we didn’t have the plans that we do now.