Hi everybody, and welcome to another episode of Metal Mastermind. I'm your host, Ken Candelas, and we have here today the lovely wife of Ken Candelas, Elizabeth Candelas. Hi. How are you, Ellie? I'm doing good, I'm doing good. I'm glad to be here. Yeah, things have kind of switched up here at Metal Mastermind and we're going to
get to that shortly. But Ellie, it's been a while since you've been on the podcast and you are actually our new Co host and I want to just invite people to know a little bit more about who you are. So why don't you just give everybody a little bit of a back story of who Ellie is, where'd you come from, all of that kind of good stuff so that everybody has an idea of what we're going to be talking about today.
Yeah, sure. So yeah, I've definitely, I've been on the podcast as a guest a couple times. Love just hanging out and talking with you and Jason. But yeah, I am the vocal instructor at Metal Mastermind. I have been since the very beginning. I have like my course on there, Metal Vocal Virtuoso and now working very closely with you, Ken. I am the operations manager and also instructor and coach and the full time customer support team.
That's me. Yeah, and you've been killing it, Ellie. Thank you. So much for really working hard. Yeah. Well, it's, it's really important that people get to know a little bit of who you are because I think in the context of what we're doing here at Metal Mastermind, it's a very personal relationship as we have tried to increase with our students and moving forward, everybody who's listening to the podcast, that's what you're going to get more of with Ellie
on board. She is going to be able to attend to, you know, a lot of the needs that everybody may have, especially during this time of transition, which really has sort of started since the beginning of November. So let me just preface everything by just saying that Jason walking away from mental mastermind has happened. That is official. It was an amicable, you know, separation. I I want everybody to understand that Jason and I, we have no bad blood.
Jason decided he wanted to do just do his own venture and that's totally fine. And so that left us, Elizabeth and I, with the basically the reins to do Metal Mastermind as we so see fit. And we're trying to elevate the platform in order to be a better service to you.
So you probably, if you've been looking at metalmastermind.com, you've probably noticed a couple of changes, and these are all really important changes that I also want to discuss today with Ellie here beside me. And I couldn't think of a better partner than my wife. Thank you.
Yeah, so Ellie, you know, let's let's really kind of talk about our vision here because Metal Mastermind, the entire slogan that we've been using for, you know, years now, it's like create your own sound and or it's really our tag and I'm really proud of that. And but we're we're trying to do this new thing which is being the ultimate resource for metal artists. And let's just kind of start with a little bit of your background as being a metal
artist. And how do you think, you know, Metal Mastermind is going to help you as a metal artist? Because I think if we talk about the story here, I think it'll be a little bit easier to, you know, relate to other folks who are listening on the podcast. So let's start with your beginnings and then we'll sort of talk about the vision that we have here. Yeah, absolutely. I'm excited to talk about this. I think it'll just give our listeners a chance to really understand who we are just as
partners in general. You know, Ken and I, we've been friends. We've known each other since high school and in our early 20s we reconnected, became friends because we both shared this common interest that we had these big visions for our music. We wanted to build an empire with their music. We had a a deep, complex concept and story and we we heard the melody swirl around in our heads and very passionate about it. And it's something that we related to, we understood about each other.
And I'm a singer, he's a drummer. And you know, if you have like a specific vision and like, like you hear the whole song play out in your head pretty much, but you don't play all the instruments. And you know, it's, it's important to learn what you can learn, what resources you can to make that vision happen because
it's our purpose, you know? So he encouraged me to go back to school to study music production, audio engineering, which is where I learned how to use Pro Tools and Sibelius and compose my own music the way that I wanted it to. Meanwhile, I was watching him compose Homeric and getting inspired by that. And as a singer, I felt like I had so much power. I didn't have to rely on musicians right away during my creative process.
I could just create this, build a, you know, with Sibelius, used stuttering with Sibelius. I could learn how to create musical scores and find musicians to play it, play my music, my compositions. And that was such a big, powerful moment in my life when I got to that point. And the Inner circle, we both just knew what it needed to be because that's who we are as a couple.
That's our our mutual understanding that artists, they have a vision, they have, they see a whole story, they hear the music in their head and they want to make it happen. And the Inner Circle is going to guide them through that because it's what we wanted when we were doing it. And now we want to offer that to you guys. So that's what the Inner Circle really came from with me and Ken's experience together. Absolutely.
And with all that being said, Metal Mastermind as a whole always was seeking to create a resource for people in the metal community for them to empower themselves. You'll notice that whenever we talk about Metal Mastermind, it's always really about the independent artist, never really about record labels or things like that. Mostly because we are independent artists. This is our Forte, this is what we focus on.
And So what we've learned across, you know, multiple platforms of like educating ourselves on marketing or going to universities and trying to learn audio production and all this kind of stuff, these we found it to be a very disjointed way of learning how to be a modern musician. So Metal Mastermind became a focus point, especially, you know, for me and Jason in the very beginning. But you know, now it's sort of matured into its own entity.
Metal Mastermind is is sort of simplifying the process of being the metal artist that you've always wanted to be and having all of those resources in one place. Now the inner Circle is a brand new product that we have on Metal Mastermind. Anybody who's ever bought from Metal Mastermind before, you'll notice that you have your courses that you can still purchase. We we do not want to take away the power of you wanting to actually just buy a course one time fee upfront.
You totally do that. We still believe in you owning the product that you want to buy. But we also have another option, which is just to make it a little bit more accessible for folks who may not necessarily know if they just want to buy one product, but they want to become the total package. And that's the inner circle. That's what it's really all about. It's to give you a guide throughout your entire career.
And yeah, you, you know, you become a member that we update the courses that we have in the inner circle exclusively so that you're always getting the top notch value that you're, you're paying for. And so the inner circle, it became part of this venture as a way to help us sort of formulate in, in many ways, this is what I wish I was able to have when I was starting out is to formulate structure in in in our lives, in creating something that can hold us accountable.
I know, you know, maybe Elizabeth, you can help share your own experiences with us. But anytime I've ever bought a course and it was one time payment, it was very easy for me to just, you know, sort of forgo or let it, you know, oh it. Just sat on my dashboard. Yeah. Yeah, I would just gather dust on my dashboard. That's something that, you know, we don't want you guys to do as
metal artists. It's so easy and just not even metal, but I think in anything regarding music, it's so easy to just put your ideas on the shelf because you know, music is not necessarily something that it requires your immediate attention, right? It it's something like, oh, I have to do my chores today or I got to do, you know, groceries I got to do. I could always put this off.
I could always put this off and then before you know it, you know, 5-10 years, 1520, your whole life goes before you and you haven't really worked on the thing that you really were most passionate about. So that's why. That's something that we like understand. Well, yeah. Yes, and that and that's why the inner circle is is designed the way it is. It's because we want you to hold yourself accountable just as much as you know we're holding ourselves accountable, right.
So it's. Can I tell you my favorite kind of, Can I tell you my favorite kind of e-mail to receive from previous students? I love, I just, I love the e-mail that is like, hey, how do I become more disciplined with my learning? Like how do I like the things that you, you've taught me, the techniques you've taught me? Like how do I make sure I implement that every single day?
I love that because I naturally want to go above and beyond to like basically just create that schedule for you, even be like, hey, I'm available between this time. So do you have any questions I can answer you right away? Like you just send me an e-mail. And that's like the important thing of having that 24/7 customer support is that I'm right on the other side of the screen.
And you know, if you do need help, you know, setting, setting that discipline and trying to figure out where things fit in your schedule to make this course happen, that's totally a question you could ask me and I can help out. I can get to know like, hey, what do you got going on during the day? You know, and hey, I'm also available during that time. Feel free to e-mail me with any
questions you have. We wanted to make sure that we offer that with the inner circle because I've taken courses in the past where I had that like support and it made the biggest difference. So I was like, we need to bring this into the inner circle because this is helpful. Absolutely. I mean, having that resource again, I mean really that's what the inner circle's about, right?
It's it's creating a resource where you can always have the answers that you're looking for, you know, and we're we're we're all human, of course, right. We're all we're all still doing our own thing. You know, Ellie and I, we have our own projects that, you know, we're using here in metal mastermind to help teach you, right. This is not like just some Joe Schmo stuff. We're we're we're really showing you the stuff that we're doing
as well. We're here in a sense in the trenches as well with you and that kind of concept of, you know, learning about how to go and navigate the music industry, which is always changing, right? There's there's literally something new that comes around like every two to five years that we have to be aware about so that we can. In. Our own you know in our own games right so we we're here to help you know you navigate that because we. Did the work and found the
answers. As much as we can, right? Because I mean here, here I am a university professor who's, you know, taught at four different colleges in New York City about music production and music performance and all this kind of stuff where I'm here to try and share the same knowledge. But really with the community that Ellie and I honestly are, are most passionate about, and that's, that's metal. I mean, we make metal music in our own way and we love sharing
and educating people. And that's why, you know, Ellie and I are here today to, to share this information with you. And, you know, beyond the, the scope of where metal mastermind used to be, right? Which I, I have a lot of love for, for Jason Stallworth. Don't get me wrong, but we were we were struggling to find path to help you guys further your development even more. And that's where, you know, Jason decided he he felt he wanted to do his own venture.
And because we had different visions for what we wanted for this to be. And so with Metal Mastermind today, we're really growing it to be as widespread as possible. You're going to see a lot of things come down the pipeline. I'm already working on stuff like Dolby Atmos courses. We have two guitar courses from Alfred Potter coming out this month. Really excited about that. We have other. Beautiful courses. I love that, yeah. And we also have like, exclusive
interviews. Muncie Ritchie from Skateboard Marketing is a good friend and he had an entire hour to discuss with me on what are the things that you need to, you know, think about for radio promo, you know, and advertising marketing. I've also had a good friend of ours for both me and Elizabeth, the Steve Selman videographer, cinematographer, brilliant creative genius on his end. And he shares.
But I have to just add like brilliant, but also like the sweetest, most humble, intelligent, empathetic person I've ever met. You know, like so smart, but not egotistical, like you, you. He wants to teach you. And you can really learn a lot from that guy. And he's a really good friend of ours. This. 100% And you know, Steve worked on our music video for Homeric's Godless. So if you haven't seen that, check it out. It's on homeric.org. You can find all the information about that there.
But Steve is the is the cinematographer, the video editor. He did the color grading and everything for that, which I am so proud of. And we did that in Dolby Vision and we did it in Dolby Atmos. So we're going to get a lot of. The Woods. Yeah, we're going to you're, you're going to see like with with that kind of conversation and that content you're going to see. How do you actually prepare to set up for music video? What does the documentation look like? What does it look like to get
permits? All these sorts of things that, you know, you may not think about as just an artist on your own. But I felt, you know, Ellie, and I think this goes for you too. But as you develop as an artist, you know, in the very beginnings, it's, it's very, very simple, very small in terms of the scope of what you're able to do. But over time, things grow. It's not just, oh, this is not pertaining to me, you know, now this could pertain to you in the future too.
And this is information that if I had started in the very beginning, I might have fast tracked a couple of things. So. Can I tell you how how small it started for me? Sure. One of my songs in my album, which is going to be recorded in a couple months and it's going to be mixed in Dolby Atmos and has like a beautiful music video for it. So much work went into it. It started off with me on my way
to work on the train. I was like a barista at the time and I was just like, I had this melody in my head. So I just took out my phone and my voice memos. I was just like, try not to be stared at like a crazy person humming into my phone because I was like, I will forget this melody. I need to just record it right now. I don't care who stares at me. And I kept that. And then I put it into Logic, turn it into MIDI. And that was the start of it. Very small starts off very small.
I mean, for Homeric, it was, it was literally a dream I had. And I woke up that morning and I did a voice memo, too. Your dreams are so cool, by the way. I wish I had dreams like that. Your dreams are so adventurous. Mine are always so like traumatic. And you're like, I was flying through space and then I don't know, Zelda, I don't know. It's always like super fun action filled. It makes sense my. My, my dreams are very adventure based.
That is true. Sometimes they, they eek into the horror realm, but they're usually very exploratory. So yeah. And but for sure, I mean, as you grow though, as a, as a musician, I mean, like, so does your, your scope of, for what you want in the project. And really a key part of being, you know, in metal mastermind is that we're giving you a map, we're giving you a Rd. path that you can follow in order to help do similar things for yourself
too. Because you know, we, we believe in that your journey doesn't start and end with you wanting to just make music in, you know, your base, right? It's it's, it's here that we're trying to help elevate you to get to the next level, whether it is that right now you need to just really either, you know, work on your guitar technique or your bass or your production skills. It might start there, but then beyond that it's don't, don't.
Knock on the basement though, lot can get done in a basement. Lot can definitely get done in a basement because we have that technology we have that technology here today, right. So it's that's really important to understand. But as you're, you're growing, you're also, you know, seeking out how to do this as a real business.
And we want to provide, you know, Rd. maps for that as well, so that you get the most out of what you're trying to do and, you know, making something that's sustainable for yourself. I mean, how awesome would it be, Ellie, you know, to be earning even an additional $20,000 a year off of whatever your current job is just because of your music, right? That would be a really nice, you know, just bonus whatever you're already doing. And then? Building an empire. Over time, yeah, exactly.
Over time, you then can grow that to A to a point where maybe you can find your own financial freedom through the thing that you love. Now, nobody here is actually ever telling you and will never tell you in Metal Mastermind that this is going to be something that is quick turnover, get rich, you know, quick steam. That's not something that we believe in. That's not something that we breach things that require, you
know, a lot of effort for. You know, your music, the thing that you believe in the most, it requires a lot of time too. And so the expectations that we're trying to give you is to really think about why you're doing what you're doing, what you believe in the most out of what you're doing, and then focusing as much energy that you have at your disposal to make
your dreams come true. That's what we really want to do. And for us, we've been working at our music for, you know, over a decade, probably maybe even 2 at this point. For some of us, you know, it's just we've been artists for all of our lives and we're still here trucking away little by little, brick by brick, creating our own, you know, castles and our own futures.
So I, I, I feel like that's a really important message, Elizabeth, to really relate here for, for the inner circle and why people should might find interest in enjoying our our program. What I do like about The Inner Circle is that, you know, there's a lot of bands, right? So a lot of bands, they have a guitarist, they have a bassist, they have a drummer, they have a vocalist.
And if you know, a whole band decides like, hey, let's check out The Inner Circle, There's a little bit of something for everybody and plus more, we can learn extra things. You can learn production skills, you know, your drummer bait, maybe using Garage Band or Logic and maybe wants to learn how to use Pro Tools or use Sibelius. And you know, like everyone has a little extra something going on.
And what I like about it is, you know, if you're already splitting the bill for your rehearsal space, you know, $10 a month for each band member, probably less depending on how many band band members you have. You can get that education and basically learn how to manage your own band within the inner circle. Yeah, that's a really, that's a really good point that I didn't mention, which is that the Inner Circle was not just designed for, you know, one person to
take this. It's designed for all of your resources. It's you know, if you if you're running a metal band and you're not just a metal solo artist, Inner Circle's great. I mean, like you're, you're we we always see on like YouTube, you know, the bass is getting chucked on in in metal bands. But really, I mean, like if you if you really want to play into it, I mean, we have metal bassmaster and your your bases can learn how to play their
lines finally. But in all of in all do fun, you know, do respect really, it's that this is a more than just for one person. This is for your entire business, your entire band. Everybody can benefit from this even off of just one subscription. And that's so cool. I I don't know of any other place that's really doing what I think we're trying to do here. And I think for metal artists, because metal is such an underground type of genre, I mean, it's hard for metal to
break into the mainstream. We finally did something with that with Gojira and the Olympics. I mean like that's as mainstream I think as you can that. Was a moment. Right. So you know, I mean the only big giant artist that you can consider really are mainstream are like like the metallicas, the you know, the Megadeths and stuff like that.
But I mean, even when you start talking about bigger bands like Slayer, like Slayer still kind of falls a little off the mainstream, you know, So it's it's very hard for metal to get the same. Resource A lot of the times it is the first band that people learn about.
Like the first like rock band in general that I heard about was Nirvana. And like I saw Slayer everywhere, you know, it's like the first like metal band that people hear about and they dip their toes into it and they're like, oh, I like this, you know, So they're mainstream in that sense. They're out there, you know, and they've established their, their style and they've established their, their look and, you know, they draw people that way. Kelly, let me ask you a question for the audience.
You know, what was some of the first metal that you experienced in your life? Between the Buried and Me, I answer that fast because I'm just a super fan. I do like the technical progressive metal, maybe because I have ADHD and I like something that's constantly changing and simulating, and the music that I compose is very much like that too. But also I really love anything that Mike Patton does. Mr. Bungle was the first CD that I bought when I got my first car when I was like 17.
And anything that Devin Townsend does, especially his new stuff, I really like his solo stuff coming out. I see the passion behind it. It's really exciting. So yeah, just like that was that was my realm of metal in the beginning and it and it carries me to this day and it is like a little bit of everything really. Yeah, and. How about you? Metal for me in the beginning was probably a little bit of Metallica, but also disturbed Godsmack saliva. Disturbed, yes, because I
watched. I watched wrestling with my brother growing up. We watched WWF back in the day with WWF, and the entrance songs were usually like Disturbed or like Jimi Hendrix or something like that. So that's how I learned a lot. I remember that metal too. Drowning Pool was another one. Evanescence. Oh, man, like 90s and early 2000s metal bands were, were really huge for my library. Yeah.
I think I was like on forums around the Internet and I would just always constantly listen to that stuff while typing out thoughts on, I don't know, Lego When I was a kid. I was like such a nerdy kid. I even like took my, my father. No, my brother's Windows 98 PC and I remember logging on to like AOL for the first time, Netscape, all these like what was your. Screen name. Stuff. Oh my God. My, my screen name I think was called Flames of Agony. Yeah, just. I know, right?
It was just like you. Good. I'm such a, I'm such a metal head, you know, I, I just oh, man, it's so, so typical of a kid. Do something like that. Yeah, like come on, bro. We didn't know what we had. Honestly, the millennials were the last generation to just grow up without social media doom scrolling. I mean, we had a little bit, we hadn't Zynga, Myspace, but it was cutesy in the beginning.
It wasn't like everything, but we had like a real childhood where we could just like discuss, you know, go into FYE and find a new CD and discover things that way and. You had a good FYE. Oh my gosh. Name drop. Tower, yeah. Times Square. Oh yeah, Tower Records. Yeah, that was an amazing. Say it wrong, Tower Records. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, No, it was amazing place to go and find new music and FYE was definitely one of those places as well. I mean, I guess.
Put on those dirty headphones and be like, oh, I like this. Ditto. I'll I'll buy this one. Cool. Yep, exactly. Yeah. They used to have those stations right at the corner of every single aisle. You'd get to scan your barcode, you'd get to listen to the track. It felt like sort of in a sense, like the early version or the in person version of what would have been like Apple Music or iTunes back in the day when it
was called iTunes. Yeah. All these sorts of like ways of experiencing music that we don't do anymore. That was the normal thing to do at the time. I mean, CDs who? Who who listens to CDs much anymore? In the car I do, you know. Right. And I feel like that's probably if anything, you know it's being phased out too, don't you think? Right, because everybody. Sometimes I can't figure out the Bluetooth.
I don't know. I get finicky in the car so I'm like all right, I'm putting a CD and calling it a day. Yeah. And I, I love that about, you know, some of the older cars because you, you would have the CD players just kind of inside them. I mean, like you get like a, if you get a newer card nowadays. I mean they don't even come with CD jacks. Any really. I don't even know that Yeah, I mean, laptops have still had Cd-roms like the little.
Yeah, they they got rid of those too, and now you have to buy a a specific peripheral in order to use them. Ken, I'm sad. Now let's change the subject. It's so nostalgic over here. So nostalgic for us, but that's OK. I mean like as we are, you know, really talking about all of this.
I mean, I think the whole reason why we talk about where we come from in all of our musical journey is because that when we're on metal mastermind, I mean, we're, we're just so passionate about music in general. I mean, growing up as a kid, yes, we're millennials, sure. But growing up and finding our own voice through music was a big part of our lives is what we're really getting at here.
And metal was at the center of most of our experiences growing up. And we're here to just like, I think, you know, Ellie, it's really just I love music tremendously from, you know, the bottom of my heart. It's something of a sacred duty to always make music, especially, you know, my project. Of course, to American your project Deosa, it's evident that our passion for what we do is present in those projects.
Yeah, that's why I felt really good about the inner circle and, and just, you know, the next phase of Metal Mastermind, because I know you and I can like how, I mean, our relationship was, you know, driven from our passion for music. And we just know what people want. And, you know, we've we teach it, we learned it ourselves where we are like a, a hybrid of all the music that we listen to growing up and the music that we create now. So yeah, that passion is very
apparent. And we we made sure to implement that in every step of creating the inner circle. Yeah. So, yeah, yeah, your, your involvement in the Inner Circle as our general manager is to essentially attend to everyone in their customer support needs. So anybody, whoever needs any help, you, you know, anyone who's listening on the podcast, if you're interested in, in joining the Inner Circle, you could always reach out to
support@metalmastermind.com. And that'll send a message directly to Elizabeth and she, she can help you navigate your, your, your experience. We also are providing again, like a new update pretty much every month. That's our goal. We want to create constant movement in the inner circle to give you guys value as you are moving forward in your development.
We're already lining up several interviews with people that we know that are going to give you things like, you know, business, marketing tactics, publicity, more advertising. We talked a little bit about Radio Chrome. We talked about music video creation. You're going to get more updates in, you know, Dolby Atmos and what is immersive audio and why does, where does metal fit into all of that? We're constantly just thinking of ideas like it's basically all kind.
And I talk about nowadays and we get excited about it like, oh, what if we do this? What if we do that? And then we, we make sure that we break it down, organize it because I want to make sure whatever we want to make sure that whatever we put on there is polished and, you know, just good quality and what you guys deserve to be honest. But yeah, this is a, a, a project, a, a product that's filled on passion and love. And I just want to also thank
you guys. I got a lot of emails and feedback supporting the inner circle. They really like what they're seeing. And you know, I am on the other side of that screen. So if you do reach out via e-mail, let me know what you want like like what do you want to see in the inner circle? And like we're going to take into consideration. We do love to hear from you guys. Just be, you know, just be nice. But I'll always. Listen to you just. Be nice.
Yes, let me know, you know, I mean, it's actually that's actually a really important topic to, to kind of come in on too, right, Because a lot of the time I noticed even with my own students outside of middle mastermind, like just in, in the colleges and universities, a, a huge part of your growth as a, as a creator of music and art is your relationships with people. I mean, that's what is going to help you propel forward in many ways that you couldn't do on your own.
So by you being a part of inner circle, that's your way of establishing a relationship with us. That's true. We want to platform your music. We want, we want people to see what you're creating. And yeah. I mean, in the in the future, and I'm just going to, I'm just going to talk about this Ellie, because I think. Go for it. For people to understand where, where we're trying to go with this. I mean, I want to, I want to turn metal mastermind into a force to be reckoned with.
Where, you know, in back when I was a, a, a, a student, I would go to metal festivals all the time. I'd hear about Mayhem or Oz Fest and all these kinds of things. Or Vodkan. Millennials. I want to go. I want to go, you know? Yeah, those are those are our festivities, right? But I want to bring that to Metal Mastermind. Imagine being able to go to a metal show.
But then there's also like workshops where you could learn about, you know, how this particular artist who's playing on stage today and the little interview live in front of an audience on talking about how do they go about rehearsing or practicing or, you know, what is their production style like?
Imagine having that experience of not only just paying for a ticket to see a show, but you are basically going there for an entire event that you can learn from and benefit from as well, while supporting independent music, as well as maybe having some guest artists who are more famous than, you know, the local indie band. I think that would be such an
amazing front to have. And not only that, but imagine all the resources and connections that we already have and growing that into something where Metal Mastermind can, you know, reach people in a larger scope in different ways all together. We'll fund our own, you know, record label, so to speak, making sure that we're putting out the best music that we can possibly find out there in the world. I mean, these are all things that Metal Mastermind, that's its trajectory, right?
You know, and I'm talking about, you know, in independent music and you're saying, oh, well, you know, record labels would Metal Mastermind has a record label. Well, here's the difference, right? Think about Metal Mastermind. What does it do? Right? It's it's an educational resources.
So we don't necessarily need as an institution to focus all of our money making efforts through the artists making music, which means that we could really fervor and grow, nurture the music for the artists by the artists the way the artists intended and not have to really be dependent on the product itself. That they remain independent. They get everything, you know. So this is a new type of approach and it's going to. Take like it.
But it's this is the long term goal of Metal Mastermind is to be that beacon for people to follow and for it to be as noble as it can throughout its process.
And it starts with you guys learning the ropes, learning how to get to the next level for yourself, wherever it is that you are, and committing to yourself that this is where you need to be. Because we want to make it to be your own hub, the place where you're like, I don't need to go into, you know, 10 different other resources to find the answers. I can just go to Metal Mastermind and that's where I'll find my answer.
I'm going to have the community. We have Discord, you know, our Discord is what is it like 600 members right now, you know, but it's 600 very passionate members in the mental community. So you'll find answers and we've got, I'll shout out to our moderators, Emily and Bryden. You guys are fantastic moderators. Thank you so much. Now they're awesome you. Guys are helping the community grow and you know, everybody is so engaged in. And helping to maneuver through the this change too.
Like I see you guys. You guys are just really out there. Yeah. 100%. And we, I was just going to add something there. You know, we got some people into the inner circle already with this Cyber Monday, but it's more of like a cyber month. So the month of December, it's basically going to be cheaper than it's ever going to be for this month. And people that sign up now, they get that price for a full
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circle has to offer so far. And you know, you guys are the Ogs and we appreciate that so much and just know that every day we're building new stuff to upload there and to put on there. And it's just going to continue to grow and grow. But starting off having access to all those courses that took years and many instructors to put together, there's already so much on there that you that you can stay busy with. Absolutely. And that's just the beginning, right.
So if you are even just curious about what the industry has to offer, there's actually free three day trial to join the inner circle and see what we have. And at the third day, that's when you get charged. You don't get charged upfront so. If you just look around. What that looks like, Yeah, yeah, it's on metalmastermind.com/the Dash Inner Dash Circle. You'll find your all your information on that page and what the inner circle has to offer you. I implore you to just discover
it for yourself. See what we have here at Metal Mastermind and what our vision is moving forward. I also want to just give one big shout out to Jason Stallworth. Thank you for everything that you've done for Metal Mastermind. It doesn't go unnoticed. It doesn't go also ungratefully noticed. It's we are so grateful for Jason. Jason, you really helped to bring Metal Mastermind up on its feet in the beginnings and moving forward.
We'll make you proud, brother. So thank you for all the effort and the love and the care and the dedication that you've shown Metal Mastermind before. And we wish you the best of luck in your new venture as to Jason Stallworth Guitar Academy. So thank you guys. And Ellie, before we actually wrap up our session today, typically we like to talk about maybe a a metal song of the week. And this is something that we like to just sort of share with
our folks. And is there something maybe that you've been listening to lately that you'd like to share? I got you one second. That's cool. Take a look you go first, you go first because like my good friend just recommended this one to me so I want I want to look it up I. I will share that I've been listening to the latest album of Opeth quite a bit, the last Will and Testament, the first track, which is I think a Del Segno symbol, and then a track number one.
They literally just put numbers on their tracks, which is pretty cool. Really, really great opening track. And I believe it was track #5 that had a really interesting like Latin beat going on with the Mozambique. I was kind of like geeking out a little bit about it as a drum. And I was like, Oh my God, they're actually like using Latin rhythms in metal here. And I was like, that's amazing. So Opeth, great job.
Your, your music is astounding. Phenomenal work on the mixed and the production value and the songs are. Great. So and the keep it up, the the theater presentation was beautiful. We we saw them, yeah, just in Kings Plaza a couple months ago. And you just stare. You're just like, wow, like it's beautiful music and the artwork, the digital art was so curated with the music. It's, it's such a moment and such an experience to see them live. Flip it. But yeah, I found I found that
album. It's a new one for me, so forgive me for not having it memorized to the top of my head, but I've really been digging it. The name of the band is Wild Run so WILDERUN. And the album I've been listening to is Sleep at the Edge of the Earth and it's beautiful. It's it's Froggy has like these like really heavy metal moments, but then just beautiful, like
orchestration. I've been really digging it while I was working so. Yes, you, you shared that with me the other day and I'm listening to a little bit of that too. And very, very cool. I like the music and they're a little bit on the folky side of things, which is cool. I like folky stuff.
You know my style. All right, well everybody, thank you so much for tuning into another episode of Metal Mastermind. Be sure to check out our website, metalmastermind.com for all your resources for metal artists. We are the ultimate resource for metal artists moving forward. And of course, don't ever forget that we are here to help you create your own.