Shant Hagopian's personal blog – Semantic Saturation
On Saturday, I also met Craig Blundell on the Steven Wilson tour, who’s of course the featured drummer on the upcoming album “Paradigms”.
Such a nice, talented, extremely humble, amazing musician and human being.
What a week, what a time to be alive!
Hey folks!
Craig Blundell has an update for you today.
Tonight I sent over the final stems and finished my drums on the staggeringly good Semantic Saturation album. Alongside Shant Hagopian and Kristoffer Gildenlöw there’s a whole host of great guests in this project, it was great to listen back to my drums with Derek Sherinian playing over them, here’s my final ‘production sheet’. The album was a HUGE challenge from start to finish and I can’t wait for you guys to hear it.
There’s a few videos coming soon, please check out their page
Yesterday, I finished painting the portrait of drummer Craig Blundell who is working with me on the new album “Paradigms”. Here’s the end result with a touch of creepiness and a bit of fantasy. Thank you Michael Giordano for the inspiration 🙂
If you want your own portrait digitally painted by me, check out the limited “Prog Legend” perk on the IndieGogo campaign
I also started working on the new album cover and artwork; you can watch the progress on my Twitch channel. I’m painting the cover myself and streaming the progress along the way. I’ll start streaming later today, so make sure you follow me on Twitch to get notified when I go live twitch.tv/metroprog
-Shant
Craig Blundell and I worked on this video all day, get ready to have your minds blown!