''Mark These Words'' is the seventh studio album by

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band Odd Crew, released on 9 October 2015.

Promotion and release

On 27 December 2014 the band started a crowd-funding campaign on IndieGogo and announced that they're preparing to record their upcoming album ''Mark These Words''. The plan was to record the album with the American producer

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at his studio in

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, USA. When they reached 20% of the money for the campaign they released a demo track from the album called "Lay On Me" and 3 weeks later an acoustic version of the song. Shortly after that though the American embassy declined to give them visas for the project in the US and the band decided to record the album with Swedish producer

Daniel Bergstrand Daniel Bergstrand is a Swedish record producer, most notable for his work with bands such as In Flames, Meshuggah, Soilwork, Dimmu Borgir, and Behemoth. He is the owner of the Dugout Productions studio, which is based in Uppsala, Sweden. His wor ...

in Dugout Studios' (

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, Sweden) and then send the tracks to Jason Suecof for mixing at AudioHammer Studios,

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. The mastering duty was given to Alan Douches at West West Side Music,

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. The campaign was set to end on 18 February and shortly after that the band started the recording process. Through the campaign they managed to sell over 300 copies of the album in advance.

Touring

Odd Crew have announced they will be touring Bulgaria in support of ''Mark These Words''. If you're interested in dates outside

, check their Facebook page.

Track listing

Personnel

Odd Crew * Vasil Raykov –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or witho ...

* Vassil Parvanovski –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected string ...

* Martin Stoyanov –

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* Boyan 'Bonzy' Georgiev –

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References

External links

* * https://web.archive.org/web/20151014102859/http://oddcrew.net/ {{Authority control 2015 albums